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Show : .. - . - t : v . ,! : ' -k.-wi,..,,,., " - ' . v ) " " ; 3. i ; ... J X lf C 4)-': j i .A"Z "IF YOU'RE A UTE, why are you hitting me in the head?" is what Uintah's Gary Galley, right, feels like asking his teammate. Randy McNamara, center. Also in the picture is Regan Hansen, 55, American Fork. Three Uiniah Uves are heros in overtime vriumph over Cavemen Usually there is only one hero in a basketball game, but as far as the Uintah Uin-tah Utes are concerned there were three heros in their 59-57 overtime win over the American Fork Cavemen Wednesday. Wednes-day. Feb. 17 and their names are Brian McNamara, Paul Hacking and Jeff Drollinger. McNamara fired in a field goal with a minute left in the game, which reduced American Fork's lead to one point and popped in a field goal for a 57-55 lead with 42 seconds left in the overtime period. "There was a little opening on the baseline and a guy came into the picture pic-ture so I stopped and pulled up for the jumper. I knew if I would follow through that it would go in and it did. One more win and we will get to go to state," stated McNamara. When asked to comment on the successful suc-cessful shot w hich cut American Fork's lead to one point with a minute left in the game, McNamara remarked, "They got me the ball and I was open under the basket." Uintah's Hacking pumped in a field goal with 34 seconds left for a 55-54 Uintah Uin-tah advantage. Hacking also pulled down a key rebound with 33 seconds left, but missed the front end of a one and one. American Fork put in one free throw to tie up the game at 55 points and forced it into overtime. "I was happy when I hit the shot. The ball almost went out of bounds, but I grabbed it, turned and put it in. I got the rebound on a missed shot by American Fork, but I came down and missed the one and one. It went in and out and I felt terrible, but we won it and that's what matters," stated Hacking Drollinger fired in two free throws to give the Utes a 59-55 lead with 13 seconds remaining and the points by Drollinger proved to be the winning points as American Fork popped in a field goal with six seconds left. "I just tried to make the free throws like in practice and they went in and put us up by four. I decided it was about time to put some in. The first one was kind of questionable about going in, but the second se-cond one I knew was going in," said Drollinger. The Uintah Utes had the last shot in the fourth quarter, but Handy McNamara failed to put the bail through the hoop "I rushed it with six seconds left. I didn't jump when I shot it. It hit the front of the rim, but we went i '"I I y , J 5 ' Lii - )L.J TWO CAGERS from American Fork, Dalian AUricle, left, and Clint Dallcy battle each other for the basketball and watching the action are Uintah Utes Gary Galley and Brian McNamara. into overtime and won. We played the best we have as a team in a long time. Everyone wants to go to state and we needed to beat American Fork to keep our slate hopes alive. The bench players came off and played great," stated McNamara. Gary Galley was forced to watch the game from the bench during the overtime over-time period due lo five fouls "Tin-bench "Tin-bench came in and did a good job. We had plenty of opportunities to score in the game, but we got them when we needed them. Uintah handled the bull well in overtime. We spread it out and we went for the last shot. I knew in the overtime that we were going to win," said Galley. One of Uintah's top scorers, Mike Johnson, spent a good deal of the game on the bench because a tw isted ankle injury in-jury was giving him problems. "It's a great win. I knew they couldn't take it away from us this time," said Johnson. Uintah had the winning shot taken away in the final seconds of the fourth quarter in the first game with American Fork when the official said a timeout was called before the shot. Uintah Uin-tah lost the game in overtime at American Fork "I take a w in any time whether it's by 20 points or one point. It's all the same. I'm just as happy. We played a very deliberate American Fork ball club. We had a ten point lead at one time and they pressured us in the backcourt and got back in the game. We missed three one and ones in a row." said Uintah hoop coach, Gary Weight "We win all the close ones which is a slogan we have. We got a steal and Brian McNamara hit a jump shot with one minute left to bring us within one point. Hacking's shot gave us the lead with 34 seconds left." Weight added. "American Fork uas playing a 2-3 zone and we told our kids to use more patience. We felt we could get the ball inside because they were playing behind us The post man was straight behind his man. We decided to attack the seams. We spread it out to bring them out of the zone and when they wouldn't come out we went for the last shot Brian drove to the hoop for the shot. We told him to take the shot at the wing Brian put the shot in for a two-point two-point lead and Drollinger added two free throws and we won by the score of 59 57." . . J l n I ! ;' ; V 7 u 1 Zl- T 5H r ' i - 1 1 7 K Or , . f ; ! , A FOOT to the chest is delivered by Uintah's Brian McNamara, 'ft left, to an American Fork eager, McNamara scored only tour points in a home loss to Timpview, but ripped the nets tor 22 in 1 Uintah's overtime victory over Amer ican For k in Vernal Feb. 17. . |