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Show An athletic team at Uintah High School has won five games in a row and has a perfect record of 4-0 at home as of December 15, and the name of that team is Uintah High School girl hoopsters. Many of the present Uintah cagers were on last year's team, which suffered suf-fered a losing season that consisted of many lopsided losses. However, the 1979-80 version of the running girl Utes has turned from losing games to winning basketball encounters as they have a 6-2 record after eight contests. The Uintah Utes dropped their season opener to the Longhorns in Altamont, 52 to 51, on November 23. Since the loss to Altamont the Utes have won six out of seven games, and have won five contests con-tests in a row. Uintah defeated Steamboat Springs, 47 to 35, in the Meeker Tournament and were thumped by Palisade, 50-40. The Utes downed Basalt High School, 47 to 30, for third place in the tournament. The Utes returned to Vernal for a four game homestand against Union, Green River, Grand Junction Central and Meeker. Uintah made the home crowd happy as they blasted Union, 48 to 22, and bombed the Green River Wolves, 54 to 28. The wins over Union and Green River were happy massacres for the Utes as both teams crushed Uintah last year. Uintah's Darian Abegglen was the high scorer in the game against Union with 33 points. She put in more points than the entire Union team. Kristy McNeill at 23 counters was the high scorer for the Utes in the win over Green River, Wyoming. Kristy had only five less points than the entire Green River team. The games with Union and Green River were easy wins for the Utes, but encounters with Grand Junction Central and Meeker were battles royal. Uintah had to work, sweat, and fight for every point as they nipped Grand Junction Central, 50 to 47 and edged Meeker, Colorado, 43 to 37. Uintah had a 15-5 lead after one quarter of action, but Grand Junction ripped the Utes for 20 points in the second quarter and 16 points in the third quarter. The Warriors had a 41 to 40 lead going into the final quarter, but the Utes put in four more points than Grand Junction in the fourth quarter to win the game by the score of 50 to 47, Friday. Uintah had three cagers, Darian Abegglen, 19; Rhonda Rhodes, 11 and Chris Mott, 10, in double figures. The game with Meeker on Saturday was figured to be an easier contest than the battle with Grand Junction Central because the Cowgirls lost all three games in the Meeker Tournament. Uintah downed Basalt in the Meeker Tournament, 47-30, and Basalt bombed Meeker, 52-39. So it appeared that Uintah would have little trouble defeating Meeker. However, that wasn't the way it was to be as Karen Seely, Tina Nye, Cheri Stagner, T. Young and other Cowgirl cagers made the Utes work for every point. Meeker overcame a Uintah lead early in the second quarter and went into the lockeroom with a three point, 27 to 24 advantage. The Utes had a 34 to 31 lead at the end of the third quarter and had a 38 to 33 advantage late in the fourth quarter. However, Meeker put in two quick baskets and the Utes had only a one point lead of 38-37 with 1:42 left. The Utes won a jump ball near Meeker's basket and a traveling call killed another Cowgirl scoring threat. Darian Abegglen put in a layup and connected on two free throws to deliver a 43 to 37 victory over the stubborn Meeker cagers. Uintah tussler, Matt Hacking, toppled top-pled Ron Stassinos and Fred Bath of Rock Springs downed Ken Cobbs in a dual meet with Rock Springs on December 5. However, the Kock Springs Tournament was a different story for the wrestlers. Ken Cobbs downed Bath for first place, and Stassinos thumped Hacking for first place honors. |
