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Show 4 i , . ; i i - ' Vi t ' -V vMu L... ' i. ..i.. . -J ... .1 : ' " ' ' i 1 w x 'V S t 1 h i , . ... AN ELBOW in the back and a rebound is acquired by Union's Dean Townsend, 42, center and trying to regain the basketball is Uintah's Brian McNamara, 33, right. Waiting for a pass, which will never arrive is Uintah's Paul Hacking, left. Also in the pic ture is Union's James White, 50. Uintah pocketed its first victory vic-tory of the season with a 75-57 triumph over Union, Friday in Vernal. UDontflh) Utfes enpDdle foir 75-3)7 iTDyinriiplhi ec Ugddoqh Union High School's Cougars were only behind by three points. 13-10 with 1:33 left in the first quarter, but 12 successful free throws in a row. plus numerous Uintah steals of Union in bound passes enabled the Utes to blow the game wide open and post their first win of the season by the score of 75 to 57 over Union Friday in Vernal. The Cougars collected the first lead in the game with a field goal by Dean Townsend with 6:55 left in the first quarter. However, Uintah tied up the game with a shot from the top of the key by Brian McNamara. The Utes blocked 6'4" center Bryan Snow, but a few seconds later Cory Dye popped in a shot to give Union a 4-2 lead at the 5:49 mark. Uintah's Mike Johnson dropped the ball through the hoop to tie up the game at 4-4 and a three point play by Randy McNamara, which was set up on a steal by Fioger Walker, gave the Utes a 7-4 lead. The Utes grabbed a seven point lead on field goals by Brian McNamara and Gary Galley. Uintah's Jeff Drollinger popped in two free throws for a 13 to 6 lead, but Union scored four points on field goals by Lonnie Sam-maripa Sam-maripa and James White to cut Uintah's Uin-tah's advantage to three points at 13-10. Now it was time for the Greatest Free Tin ow Show on Karth as far as the Utes u (-re concerned. Drollinger missed the first of a twoshot foul, but connected on the second and the Utes added six more free throws on double chanty tosses by Brian McNamara, Drollinger and Walk'T to make the score at the end of th" (ii-.t quarter Uintah 20 and Union 10 The I'les forced Union to commit thrw errors on in txiund passes in the final minute. Twice the ball was stolen and the third time the in bound pass sailed out of bounds. Uintah continued to delight its fans with its amazing free throw show in the second quarter as the Utes fired in five charity tosses in a row and Drollinger added a field goal for a Uintah 26 to 12 lead. The Ute streak was broken when Mike Johnson was unlucky as he missed the first of a one and one situation during Uintah's shot at 13 in a row. Uintah outscored Union 20-9 in the rest of the quarter to take a 4fi to 21 lead at the end of the first half. Devin Wright connected on a field goal for the Utes with one second left in the second quarter. Galley swished the net for two field goals and Brian McNamara pumped in a field goal to give the Utes a 52 to 23 lead. Union cut Uintah's lead to R2 to 2fi, but the Utes poured in ten points as compared to five by I'nion for a f2 to 31 lead after three quarters. Johnson popped in two field goals and Handy McNamara tossed in two free throws and one field goal. Paul Hacking ripped the net for a three-point play and a field goal by Brian McNamara delivered a 33 point lead of 67 to 34 to the Uks. Union offense of-fense came alive as they outscored the Utes 21 to 3 to narrow the Uintah lead to 15 points at 70-55 with 1 :35 remaining in the game. Union had a chance to reduce I intah's lead to ten points, but the Cougars' Mike Dastrup missed 3 out of 4 technical fouls on the Ute bench and Uintah coach Gary Weight. Union was called for traveling n few seconds later. Hamilton scored the final five points in I ho game for the lies and hit a shot at the buzzer to make the final score Uintah 75 and Union 57 Drollinger came off the bench and scored 18 points in the game for the Utes. Drollinger put in four field goals and hit 10 out of 11 free throws. Starters in the game for the Utes were Walker. McNamara brothers, Johnson and Galley. Brian McNamara was the number two scorer at 16 points and Galley popped in 14 points. McNamara put in seven field goals and was 2 for 2 from the foul line. Galley tossed in six field goals and hit 2 out of 2 charity tosses. Also scoring points for Uintah were Handy McNamara, 7; Hamilton. 6' Johnson. 6' Hacking, 4' Wright, 2 and Walker, 2. Uintah fired in 25 field goals and was 25 for 36 from the foul line for 69 percent. Randy McNamara hit 3 out of 3 free throws and Walker was 2 for 2. Dye was the top scorer for the' Cougars with 13 points and Sammaripa scored ten points. Also scoring points for Union were Townsend, 9; White, 8; Snow, 6; Pour Allen, 3; Greg Bellon, 3; Past nip, 3 and Lynn Johnson, 2. The Cats put in 21 field goals and hit 15 out of 35 free throws. The Utes connected on 12 free throws in a row during action in the first and second quarters and Uintah's coach Weight remarked, "We told our athletes that we need to make the free throws. Free throws win ball games. Our patience caused us to gain gocxl shots on offense. Pefensively we need to play with more intensity and do it every lime down the floor We had six or seven steals in the first quarter due to our trapping defense where we put a lot ill pressure on the inbound pass. We put a man right on the hall and trapped the first pass." Uintah's bench and Weight were called for technical fouls in the fourth quarter. "I didn't want anybody to get hurt. Hamilton had about four guvs on top of him and a jump ball was called. I felt it should have been a foul," said Weight. The Uintah Utes hit 25 out of 60 field goal attempts for 42 percent and put in 25 out of 36 free throws for 69.4 percent in the win over Union, Friday. Uintah nabbed 42 rebounds in the game and committed 28 fouls. Field goal marks for Uintah were: Cary Hamilton, 1-1; Devin Wright, 3-1; Randy McNamara, 7-2; Nekton Seitz, 2- 0; Gary Galley, 96; Roger Walker! 3- 0; Mike Johnson, 8-3; Jeff Drollinger, 7-4; Brian McNamara, 13-7 and Paul' Hacking, 7-1. Nabbing rebounds for the Utes were: Brian McNamara, 9; Hacking, Hack-ing, 8; Galley, 6; Drollinger, 6; Johnson, 5; Walker, 3; Randy McNamara. 2; Wright, 1; Doug Bowen, 1 and Mike Weldon, 1. Uintah pocketed 13 steals in the game. Galley and Walker had three steals and Wright and Brian McNamara pocketed two steals. Drollinger Droll-inger and Hacking nabln-d one steal each. The Hies posted 15 assists in the game. Brian McNamara and Handy McNamara had five assists and Walker nabbed three. Wright collected two. s 1 ? r if I sf :' ! , l-s all! SIX HANDS owned by M.ke Johnson, Uintah, loft and UnW James White, 50 and Dour Allen, right, teach toward the n the high flying basketball. I he Utes have a perfect mJ'' |
