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Show ,r tnt 'i V " f : " x . ,J : ""vJ ' r ' I - J v Ill - r - -. V ., ' VI':,; , - f ' THE UTES' Joe Gardiner pounces on a Central dribbler, right. The Uintah Utes will invade Roosevelt, Friday for an encounter with the Union Cougars and will take on Green River, Wyoming, on the road, Saturday. Uintah Utes to clash Nith Union, Friday ie second chapter of the Uintah-m Uintah-m basketball rivalry will be played lay at Union High School at 7:30 , Uintah will be attempting to even ecord at 4 wins and 4 losses with a jryover the Union Cougars, and the ;evelt crew will try to make Uin-its Uin-its first victim of the year after n setbacks in a row. ntah High School started 6'2" Ron Iner and 6'4" Derrin Gardiner at forward spots, 5'10" Burke salew and 5'11" Clark McClellan at rds, and 6'3" Brent Labrum. um jumped center for the Utes. Ellis, 6'4"; Joe Gardiner, Marty arrel and Dave Stone came off the :h and turned in outstanding per-lances per-lances in the 90 to 75 win over id Junction Central. The win im-ed im-ed Uintah's record to 3 wins and 4 s. Uintah has toppled Lehi, Union , Grand Junction Central, but has :red losses to Sky View, Box Elder, :on and Bear River. ie Cougars started two juniors and e seniors in their 72 to 53 loss to Ben iond High School, Friday. Coach i Monks started juniors, Danny 'lings, 5'8" guard; junior, Steven b, 6'2" forward and seniors, Kary edge, 6'2" forward; Tracy Neilson, guard and Kyle Mansfield, 6'4" er. Clay Harrison, 6'0" forward, :y Dye, 6'2" guard-forward and e Ferguson, center, saw action in loss to Ben Lomcnd. Clay Harrison Tracy Dye were the top scorers in game for Union with ten points. had a real cold night from the I. We shot a real poor percentage. I e never seen us miss so many easy 5 10 foot shots before. It was just one hose things. The kids were trying umu iu snap our six game losing ak. We were a bit tight and that was big difference," stated Union hoop A, Brad Monks. "We hit the boards erand o itrebounded them by six. Lomond has a big team with itgomery at 6'7", Woodruff at 6'3", another forward at 6'3". intah's hoop coach, Ron Moore, 'arked, "Union will probably play r best game of the year against us Jnion. The game will be the last nee for their seniors against our ;and they will be up for the game. (Uintah) will have to be ready to I them. We will have to play our je and force them to do things they 'twant to do. We will have to take n out of their game plan." Uintah lWd Union in the first game in H 70-55. he Cougar's coach, Brad Monks, ' "We are starting to get things etber. We are hoping to put a full ne together. We are starting to do a ot things better. A lot of kids are into the ball game and players the bench are doing a good job." '"jn has an 0-7 record due to losses Payson, Carbon, Spanish Fork, llah, Richfield, South Sevier and Ben nond. "it's been a long preseason at e games with Spanish Fork and "ah were close until the last few tes. Carbon toppled us by only two ls 52-50. If we would have had a "8 in or a steal we could have won those ball games," said Monks. "Clay Harrison and Tracy Dye came on the bench and they were our high scorers. They saw a lot of attion. 6'0" sophomore guard, Brandon Draper came in and did a good job in the game with Ben Lomond. He scored 8 points, had 4 rebounds and a couple of steals. Steve Ferguson came in and did a good job for us." Monks added, "The game with Ben Lomond was pretty close in the first half. We were behind by 12 points at the half, but we cut it to ten points early in the third quarter. "However, three bad passes gave Ben Lomond a lift and they went on to win the ball game as they started going to the big kid, Montgomery. Mon-tgomery. Kyle Mansfield and Steve Ferguson played good defense in the game as they held Montgomery to 17 points..'.',- (,.. j J , ,.;,...,., When asked to comment on Uintah's win over Grand Junction Central, Ron Moore, said, "We played a pretty good game against Grand Junction Central. It was the first game where we really worked the ball around and looked for the open man. Ron Ellis probably played his best game of the year. He hit the boards well and did a good job coming off the bench. Joe Gardiner, Marty McCarrel and Dave Stone came off the bench and turned in good performances. per-formances. McCarrel had a good number of assists. We had our best field goal percentage of the year." Uintah's sophomores will take on Union at 3:30 p.m. at Union High School, and the junior varsity game will begin at 5:30 p.m. The Utes will battle Green River, Wyoming, Saturday on the road at 3:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. games. |