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Show p - . ' . T 1 I -S) t ; a - 1 w y -v - ' r j e t ; " - RffA-O'.---- - . .- .... .... r . TRACY NEILSON, right, Union, collides with Morgan's Ken ; Hunt, 22, as he tries to put the ball in the hoop for two points. Union Cougars garner trophy vvitih 50-0 win over Morgan The Union Cougars garnered their first state tournament trophy in six years when they knocked off Morgan High School, 50 to 40, Saturday at the Marriot Center in Provo for the 2-A State basketball consolation championship champion-ship crown. Union also won the fourth place consolation title in 1974. Union's Kary Eldredge put in the first three points in the ball game as he gained gain-ed a three-point play on a field goal and a free throw for a 3-0 Union lead. Morgan's Dave Durrant and Dana Russell popped in field goals for a 4-3 advantage However, Eldredge came right back and put in a field goal for a 5-4 Cougar lead. Tracy Dye fired in an outside bomb for a 7-i Union advantage. Ken Hunt connected on a field goal and Dave Durrant put in two free throws for an 8-7 Morgan lead. Dye struck for a field goal, but a two-pointer by Durrant made the score at the end of the first quarter, Morgan, 10 and Union, 9. Union's Brandon Draper fired in the first points of the second quarter and gave the Cats an 11 to 10 lead. However, Dana Russell and Ken Hunt blasted the hoop twice for two-pointers to deliver a seven-point lead of 18 to 11 to Morgan. The Cats called time out and then Union hoopsters, Kary Eldredge, Clay Harrison and Tracy Dye popped shots through the hoop to cut Morgan's lead 21 to 19. A field goal by Hunt increased Morgan's lead to four points, but a two-pointer two-pointer by Steve Ferguson, who had just barely entered the game for Union, made the score at the end of the second quarter, Morgan, 23 and Union, 21. Tracy Dye, with his outside bombs and Kary Eldredge were the top guns for Union in the first half with eight and seven points. However, Clay Harrison, who had been held to two points in the first half on a field goal in the second quarter, became a wild uncontrollable basket blaster in the second half as he burned the hoop for 16 of his game high 18 points. Clay Harrison put in two free throws to tie up the game at 23-23 with 7:09 left in the third quarter. Morgan's Scott Stenberg fired in a field goal to break the tie, but then the team of Stephen Robb and Clay Harrison ripped the net for ten points and a 33 to 31 Union lead at the end of the third quarter. Robb scored three field goals in a row and Harrison popped in two straight two-pointers. two-pointers. Harrison continued to terrorized the Morgan defenders as he fired in Union's first six points in the fourth quarter on three field goals for a 39-34 Union advantage. ad-vantage. Morgan cut Union's lead to three points, but a field goal by Kyle Mansfield and two free throws by Tracy Dye increased the Cats' advantage to seven points, 43 to 36, with 2:36 left in the contest. The Union Cougars started playing keep away in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter as they went into a stall and forced Morgan to foul. Two free throws by Morgan cut Union's lead to five points, 43 to 38, but four free throws by Clay Harrison, a steal and a field goal by Tracy Nielson and one charity toss by Kary Eldredge made the final score: Union, 50 and Morgan, 40. Union placed fourth and Morgan nabbed sixth place. Clay Harrison was the top scorer in the game as he fired in 18 points. He put in six field goals and was 6 for 7 from ' the foul line. He scored 16 out of his 18 points in the second half. He was held scoreless in the first quarter. Tracy Dye fired in ten points. He put in four field goals and hit 2 out of 4 free throws. Kary Eldredge scored eight points and Stephen Robb put in six points. Also scoring counters for Union were Tracy Neilson, 2; Steve Ferguson, 2; Brandon Draper, 2 and Kyle Mansfield, 2. Union put in 20 field goals and hit 10 out of 15 free throws. The top scorers for Morgan were Dana Russell and Ken Hunt with 12 points each. "Clay Harrison came on in the second half. When Clay starts hitting he sparks the team," stated Union hoop coach, Brad Monks. "We made an adjustment at halftime. We were playing two feet out more than we needed to. So we came in a couple of steps and that got us back into shooting range." The game wasn't a fast break affair as the Cats played ball control and took only the good shots. "Tracy Dye hit from outside and that pulled their zone out and helped us get inside. Kary Eldredge played a super tournament. Stephen Robb hit six straight points in the third quarter and that was the ball game. That was the spark that got us going. Steve Ferguson came in and quickly put in a field goal. Tracy Neilson, Kyle Mansfield, and Brandon Draper and everyone did something super that helped us win. We had a complete com-plete team effort in the win over Morgan." Union's high scorer at 18 points, Clay Harrison, remarked, "It's great to capture cap-ture the consolation championship. We just came out and decided to take it to them (Morgan). We didn't want to come out here to the state tournament and get beat." PETROLEUM LEAGUE Team Standings W L Woehrmans 33 7 Hatch River Grand Can. 28 12 ParrishOilTood 27 13 High Series GeneGurr 602 AlWoehrman - 591 Jim Steinfield 572 Whit Hammond 550 High Games GeneGurr 223-202 Jim Steinfield 219 Jim Oaks 217 Al Woehrman 210-201 |
