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Show Uinvah Utfes suffler losses Jo T-Birds and Geavewor&ien The Uintah Ute girl hoopsters continued con-tinued to hustle all the way as they refused to give up, but hustling wasn't enough as they were toppled by the Timpview Thunderbirds in Vernal, Feb. 16 by the score of 37 to 34 and were downed by American Fork, Thursday, 65 to 46. Uintah jumped out to a 9-3 lead in the first quarter in the game with Timpview Timp-view and had a 17-12 advantage after two quarters. Uintah owned a three point lead of 25-22 in the third quarter, but the Thunderbirds outscored Uintah, 15-9 in the final quarter for a 37-34 triumph. Kim Hamblin scored 12 points for the Uintah Utes and Mari Green and Michelle Green scored five points each. Pennie Murray tossed in four counters and MaeLynn Gray popped in three points. Lynnette Merrell and Susette Cooper scored two counters. Chantae Julius added one point. The Utes were in trouble right at the start as American Fork grabbed a 6-0 lead on two points each by Erickson and Barney and a free throw by Price. Hamblin scored Uintah's first points in the game on two free throws at the 5:01 mark to narrow the Cavewomen's lead to four points, but Price darted down the floor for two field goals and a 10-2 lead. Price added four more points on a field goal and two free throws for a 14-2 advantage. Uintah gained its first field goal in the game when Mari Green popped in a shot with 2:33 left in the first quarter. Hamblin pumped in three free throws and Murray put in a two-pointer to reduce the American Fork lead to five points at 14-9, but the Cavewomen tossed in four points for an 18-9 advantage. ad-vantage. Murray stole an inbound pass, missed the field goal, was fouled and put in one out of two charity tosses. Green stole the ball and put in a shot to cut American Fork's lead to 18-12, but a Cavewoman ripped the net for a shot at the buzzer, which made the score after one quarter, 20-12 in favor of the Cavewomen. American Fork grabbed a 27-14 lead early in the second quarter, but Uintah cut the lead to seven points at 27-20 by scoring six points in a row on two field goals by Murray and two free throw Hamblin. The Cavewomen outv!i Uintah, 8-3, in the rest of the quart, i a 35 to 23 lead at the end of the firsth ' The Cavewomen poured in 13 i in the third quarter as compared tn I by Uintah for a 48 to 33 advantage V Utes narrowed American ForkV lea 10 points at 52-42 due to a six n, scoring tally that included two? goals by Murray and a two-pointer Gray. However, American Fork w, on to win the game by the score of 65. Murray was the number one Uini scorer at 19 points. She popped in eh field goals and hit 3 out of 6 free thrJ Hamblin and Merrell scored s points. Also scoring counters for Uim were: Gray, 5; Mari Green, 4; Miche Green, 2 and Cooper, 2. Amerit Fork's top scorers were Price r ' Erickson, 20. a '$ i : M i : - fit A TRIP ;o the hoop is taken by Uintah's Lynnette Merrell. A'sc r the pic:ure are Uintah's MaeLynn Gray. 15, and Pennie Murrav ,c 14. , |