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Show a, ...iiiiiiii .ii. in i. milium mil The University of Utah in Salt Lake City will be invaded by ten Uintah wrestlers, Brett Brown, 98; Ron Hor-rocks, Hor-rocks, 105; Foston Chivers, 112; Jeff Good, 119; Matt Hacking, 138; Randy Smuin, 145; Kay Smuin, 155; Billy Bedell, 167; Art Daley, 185; Ken Cobbs, heavyweight; coaches, Chuck Henry and Monty Lee and countless fans from the city of Vernal as the Uintah Utes will defend their 3-A state title at the wresting tournament, Thursday, Friday Fri-day and Saturday. Uintah High School returned to the city ci-ty of Vernal Friday at 4 a.m., but the arrival ar-rival in the early hours was worth it as the Utes garnered another region championship, Thursday. Four Uintah Utes, Brett Brown, 98; Matt Hacking, 138; Randy Smuin, 145 and Ken Cobbs, heavyweight, placed first. Two Uintah Utes Kay Smuin, 155 and Jeff Good, 119, came close to taking first places, but had to settle for second places.. Art Daley, 185 and Foston Chivers, 112, nabbed nab-bed seconds. Billy Bedell, 167 and Ron Horrocks, 105, garnered third place. "Our athletes wrestled well. We will wrestle a lot better at the state tournament. tourna-ment. We didn't wrestle as tough as we can, but this week we will have to wrestle wres-tle as tough as we can in order to win the state tournament," stated Uintah wrestling coach, Chuck Henry. "Matt Hacking, Brett Brown, Randy Smuin and Ken Cobbs did a good job. Brown and Hacking pinned all of their opponents. op-ponents. Randy Smuin did an outstanding outstan-ding job in winning a region title as a sophomore. There are a lot of tough and good individuals in the 145 pound class." "Jeff Good was defeated by Kye Jensen of Tooele, 6 to 3, in the 119 pound championship contest, and a slip by Kay Smuin enabled Mike Meldrum of Jordan to pin his opponent in the second round for the 155 pound title." "Jeff and Kay had the takedown, but they stopped, got stepped over and Kay got pinned and Jeff got taken down, twice," remarked Chuck Henry. "The ten w restlers that we are taking to state are very good ones. Overall, we did all right in the region tournament. I'm very happy about the wrestlers we are taking to the state tournament," remarked Chuck Henry. Two Uintah Utes. Allen Huber, 132 and Cory McNeill. 126. won't be going to the state tournament. Huber en-. en-. countered some close matches as he wis defeated by Scott Gessell of Jordan, Jor-dan, 4-2, and was nipped by Murray's Dwayne Haskell, 3-2 Gessell ended up taking first place in the 132 pound class. McNeill was pinned in the first round and dropped a 6-4 decision to Brad Densley of Jordan Capturing first places in the Region 7 Tournament were: 98 Brelt Brown, Uintah, 105 -I-aiu-e Bushnell, Tooole. 11-6 decision over Gereth Hayes, Cyprus; 112-Aaron Coon, Cyprus; 119 Kye Jensen, Tooele; 126-Enos Lucero. Cyprus, 14 7 decision over Mike Smith. Tooele; 132 Scott Gessell. Jor-don. Jor-don. Il l decision over Drake Brown, Tooele; 138 Matt Hacking, Uintah 145 Randy Smuin, Uintah; 155 Mike Meldrum, Jordan; 167 Hal Cooper, Jordan, 9 4 decision over Doug Koehly, Tooele; 185-Scolt Brown, Murray and heavyweight Ken Cobbs . The basketball Utes snapped a two-game two-game losing streak, Friday, when they nipped C'prus in Vernal, 65 to 61. "We played good defense for mast of the game. A few times we let them come back," stated Burke Buckalew. "We needed this one." Brent Labrum was Uintah's leading scorer in the game at 19 points, and he hit a layup and a free throw with six seconds left in the game to give the Utes a four-point win. "Our foul shots toward the end of the game helped us a lot. Ron Ellis screened for me and after I nabbed nabb-ed the pass from Derrin Gardiner I drove in for the layup with six seconds left in the game," staled Brent Labrum. The Utes' manager, Kevin Campbell, remarked, "It's the best game Uintah has played this year. They played hard and didn't let them get a load in the second se-cond half. They (Uintah players) are mean units." Uintah eager, Derrin Gardiner, Gar-diner, said, "The win was a great team effort and we had a united crowd." "We had four guys in double figures, but for the first time we put it together defensively. We worked well together on defense and offense. It was a must win. We had our backs against the wall. We are tied with Cyprus for fourth place. The top four teams will go to the state tournament," staled Ron Moore, Uintah hoop coach. "We committed only on-ly 15 fouls. Cyprus didn't shoot a one and one in the second half and that was the big difference. Joe Gardiner came in and did n super job of rebounding. The win was a total team effort. We didn't lose our composure when it got close down to the wire. We looked for the good shot, and we kept them from getting inside after the first quarter due to a man to man defense. We used a . zone defense on out of bounds plays under the basket." The Uintah Utes won the region wrestling tournament, toppled the Cyprus Pirates In a basketball game mill the Ule girls toppled the Murray Spartans to make Thursday and Friday happy days, |