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Show Sports Flashbacks Uintah Ute cagers edge Cougars j in wild overtime encounter, 40-39 A story about the game of basketball which was written by Glade Sowards, follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on Jan. 14, 1960. Uintah's Fighting Utes look over the mountain to Manila this weekend after sneaking by Union Friday night in a slam-bang overtime basketball tilt 40-39 40-39 at UHS. This will be the Utes' first game in history with Manila High and will be the Daggett school's first home game since joining Region Eight in Utah high school basketball play. The Manila crew lost to Altamont Friday night on the Longhorn court 63-29. Union's Cougars opened fast in last week's game as Glines hit on two consecutive layups and they led 4 to 0 before Brian Wright put in the second of two foul tries for the Redskins. Horrocks hit a foul pitch and Roberts got a layup to tie the score 4-4, and then Glines and company started hitting again. The score stood Union 12 Uintah 8 at the end of the first quarter. Uintah came back strong in the second quarter and with Brian Wright getting a nice jumper and a soft left-handed left-handed hook, followed by some good foul shooting by Roberts and Lee, the skins sported a 19-16 lead. Yergensen let go with a beauty from mid-court just as the buzzer sounded and it split the strings perfectly to bring the Cats up 19-18 19-18 at halftime. It was again Glines of Union who paced the Cougars. He got some beautiful steals and completely baffled the Indians with his ball handling. han-dling. The third quarter ended 30-27 for Union. During this period Glines was aided in the scoring department by his teammates Swain, Hutchins and Bastian. The fourth period was a comedy of bad passes, flaring tempers and poor shooting. Each team missed five free throws. Horrocks of Uintah missed two straight with the clock showing 42 seconds to go. Neither team could score after this and the game ended 38 to 38. During the quarter a technical foul was called for the unsportsmanlike conduct on the part of Coach Haney of Union. George Lee tanked the shot and this conversion definitely aided the Utes in gaining the tie at the end of regulation play. , The overtime period was played as follows: Glines missed a free throw for the Cats, Lee failed to score on a technical, Glines blew another and Horrocks canned the first of two tries, missing the second. Swain bounced right back for the Roosevelt team and tried to score 39 39, but he missed on the next charity shot. Dick Roberts then tossed in the winning foul pitch, but also blew the second. However, time ran out and the Utes had the first of the two traditional games played yearly between bet-ween the schools. Glines was outstanding for the Cougars from outside as he hit 6 field goals, but he got only 4 of 11 at the charity stripe. Dick Roberts was high for the Redskins as he picked up 12 points, 6 of them from the lane. Another unusual feature of the game developed when one of the officials. Semkens, wrenched his knee in the first half and the other, Passic, worked the rest of the half alone. Uintah lost the service of reserve center Ronnie Merrell when he hurt his leg in the second quarter. Although the game was loosely played and left much to be desired as far as good basketball is concerned, it was a crowd-pleaser and each team fought valiantly, giving the fans their money's worth. The Uintah junior varsity won over the Kittens easily as they ran to a 49-29 victory. A wTestling story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express Jan. 14, 1960. The Uintah Utes met Rangely's Panthers Saturday night in the Indian's first WTestling meet of the season. Rangely won the grapple fest 29-17, but Coach Leo Conk had praise for his young wrestlers. Coach Conk has won two straight Utah State wrestling crowns for the local school and although he lost most of the veterans of last year, he feels that his youthful charges will develop and show strong as the season progresses Sid?o3fxrSr Rangely pinned AliST, 112 and Zeigler. RangetH Uintah's Dennis Massed ' Rangely's Sullivan, 127 oS, i20' Merkley of Uirtah W J?alR Uintah, 133, pinned t 2 Rangely. Uintah's 138 Smu.n, decisioned Schmidt rJ?1? and Uintah's Jim LubeTi drw Icochvetta of Range yc Rangely, 154, decisioned AUen S Uintah and Charles KnTghTSl0' decisioned Russel, Ran? iy' Rangely, 175, downed Charles ll' strong, Uintah. Raneelv's ,Z; wrestler Brumback ZLi Wilson of Uintah. Knst Coach Conk was high in his pra -Dennis Massey, a firet year man, also i for Kristen Wilson, Sjg basketball player who wrestled H heavyweight division. r - h Vtfy,' V f . i !. v? ' v-- 1 .A .... 5 ' I j (..' -; , u r?r V-;.v',f., '! . i r H T v v i v V ,J - l.. , .o'i.-. . .v-rpf,, n J fa , UINIAM'S MIKE JOHNSON, riht and Union's Greg Beilon try to tMui control ot the basketball. Also in the picture are: Dean Towiisend. Lonme Sammanpa. Bryan Snow and Cory De. left . to right. ' c |