Show Uintah Utes win cage war with Union The Uintah Utes swept the season with their the Union Cougars of Roosevelt when they garnered a 65 to 61 victory on February 14 in a game which consisted of hot and cold streaks by both teams in Uintah's win over Union Improved their Region Five record to 4 wins and S The Utes' overall record is 8 wins and 7 Uintah quickly gained a advantage on hot shooting by Derrin Ron Ron Gardner and Burke Free throws by Jay and a two-pointer by Clayton Truman cut Uintah's lead to 10 to Uintah outscored 9 to for a lead at the end of the first Counters by Derrin Burke Buckalew and Ron Eilis gave the Utes a nine-point lead of 25 to 16 early in the second but a two-pointer by Tracy and a field goal and two free throws by Chris Buxton cut Uintah's advantage to 25 to A field goal by Scott Kavanaugh Increased Uintah's lead to 27 to but Karl who was all alone by the flipped in a which narrowed Uintah's lead once again to three the Cougars staged a scoring drought in the final four minutes of the second and the Utes took full advantage of the situation as Ron Gardner and Burke Buckalew popped in pointers for a 33 to 24 Uintah lead at the end of the second Buckalew stole the ball with six seconds left and put in the final two points of the second It took Union four minutes in the third quarter to thaw out their frozen as Doug Chasel popped in a field with left in the Ron Ellis was the only who was able to hit the basket in the first four Ellis flipped in three field which gave the Utes a 39 to 24 Uintah outscored in the Cougar scoring Burke Buckalew and Ron Gardner tossed in field which increased Uintah's advantage to 45 to Union's Doug Chasel canned two free with Ron Ellis returned the biggest lead of the game to Uintah when he flipped in a two-pointer for a Ute The Cougars made up for their poor shooting show when they erupted for ten points in a row in the final two minutes which narrowed Uintah's lead to 47 to 42 at the end of the third Clay Harrison and Doug Chasel popped in field goals in Union's two minute which put them back into a that appeared ready to-become a slaughter for the Burke Buckalew gave the Utes a seven-point but Jay Lion two free throws for Derrin Gardiner popped in a field goal for another Uintah seven-point but then Clay Harrison flipped In a Jay Lion stole the ball and scored to cut the Ute lead to three with left In the Gardiner increased Uintah's advantage to five with a field but Truman swished the net and clipped the lead to three Uintah's Gardiner put in a field but Chasel countered that with two charity Ron Gardner and Kavanaugh hit for a Uintah lead with A free throw by Chasel and a field goal by Truman brought the Cougars within four points of the Union had a chance to cut Uintah's lead to but Truman threw the ball as he passed the ball to Derrin Gardiner of Both teams traded free throws as Kavanaugh and Buxton put in one Derrin Gardiner hit a crucial field with 1 Uintah a 62 to 56 Chasel fired in a two-pointer for but Buckalew popped in two free throws for a 64 to 58 lead with 29 seconds Jay Union and Derrin tossed In free Gardiner's was a technical Union's Karl made the final 65 and 61 when he bombed the net with a long outside shot with three seconds left in the ball The top scorer In the game for Uintah was with 18 Also scoring points for Uintah Derrin Ron Ron Scott 8 and Clark Gardiner hit 9 of his 15 points in the fourth Uintah hit 28 field goals and converted 9 out of 12 free throws for 75 Doug Chasel was Union scorer with 19 Also scoring points for Union Clayton Chris Karl Jay Clay 6 and Tracy Union flipped in 24 field goals and tossed In 13 out of 17 free throws for 76 Chasel hit 15 of his 19 points In the second He scored ten points in the third s UINTAH'S SCOTT leaps high in the air as he knocks the ball away from Union s Doug The Utes had a but Union scored ten straight points in the final two minutes of the third |