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Show w ! i I ' - - , - ' , V , ft . ' " ' , . ' . ' 1 I i 1 - 1 ' t ' "i . ' i. s THE ROPES are visited by Hayden's Steve Cless, right, and forcing for-cing Cless on a trip to the ropes is John Culpepper, left. CulDeD- per downed Cless on a unanimous decision Saturday at Uintah High School. SPORTS FLASHBACKS Uintah captures 4th place at Class Bstate tourney Uintah competed in the 1966 State Tournament and the story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on March 24. 1966. UTES RATE FOURTH IX STATE TOURNEY Uintah's Utes, coached by Doug Moon and Asst. Coach Chad Orton, captured fourth place in the State Class B Tournament held in Provo Wednesday Wed-nesday through Saturday of last week. The Utes beat Delta, Saturday afternoon, af-ternoon, 54-35. in their final game of tournament play. The Duchesne Eagles finished eighth in the tourney and gave the fans a fine display of offensive basketball. They were the highest scoring team in the points in four games. The Utes had their highest scoring game of the tourney when they faced Delta Saturday. They started out slow-but slow-but were leading 10-6 at the end of the first period. The Delta Rabbits fought back gamely and tied the score at 21 at the half. Delta led the Utes three times 23-21. 24-23 and 28-26 with Uintah tying the score at 28 all on John Shumway's field goal and were never behind afterwards. af-terwards. Score at the end of the third quarter was Utes 36 and Delta 30 with the final score 54-35. The crew from Uintah would have to be rated as possibly the best defensive team in the tourney. They only allowed Delta five points in the last period of play. Gary Tassainer and Richard Walker shared high point honors with each netting 15 and John Shumway got 11. In the game played against Valley Friday, the Utes came from behind to defeat them 48 to 44 with John Shumway Shum-way leading the way. Valley had the smallest team in the tournament in size but what they lacked there they made up for in spirit. They were fast and classy ball handlers. Jumping to an early lead they led Uintah 17 to 12 at the end of the first period and 30 to 20 at the half. Coach Moon had his Utes put on a full court press the last half and at the end of the third quarter had cut Valley's lead to seven. 41-34. Once again Uintah's Uin-tah's fine defense came to the surface and they held Valley to but three free throws the entire fourth period, with John Shumway dumping in nine of his 11 points in the fourth quarter. Richard Walker and John Shumway each tallying 11. The only loss the Utes suffered w as to the Manti Templers Thursday by the score of 49 to 45. Manti took the lead at the end of the first quarter 12 to 9 and increased it to five points at the end of the half 31 to 26. Manti started out the third period as if to make a runaway and lead at one time 40 to 29. Coach Moon used his full court press and the Utes crawled back to only nine points down at the end of the third quarter 42-33. Once again the Utes showed the crowd their ability to play defensive ball and came back to within two points with the score 47-45, Mantis favor. The Utes then got cold and as a result lost by four points. 49 to 45. Manti went on to place first in the tournament. In the last 1:04 seconds the Utes had seven shots and could not get the ball in the hoop. These four points might have been the difference between a fourth place and a first place for the hard fighting Utes. Gary Tassainer was high man with 16 and Richard Walker got 13. Every' Ute played a good defensive game with Gary Tassainer doing an outstanding job. In the first game played on Wednesday Wed-nesday the Utes beat Gunnison, coming from behind. 51 to 49. The Utes had the lead at the end of the first quarter 17 to 13 but a tough hard fighting quintet from Gunnison tied the score at 31-31 at the half. Gunnison took the lead in the third period and it looked as if they had their sights on a state crown and they led the Utes at the end of the third qurater 44-38. 44-38. The Utes, with their full court press, were able to come back and take the lead and scored 13 points the last quarter while holding Gunnison to five points with Uintah winning 51 to 49. High man was John Shumway with 14. Gary' Tassainer with 13 and Richard Walker got 12. In the four games Uintah played they scored 198 points while holding their opponents to 177 points. The Utes can be justly proud of their record and of their coaches. Other Uintah team members not mentioned above are Bruce Nelson, guard, playing main string most of the time and stealing the ball several times keeping his team in the game; Barry-Hatch, Barry-Hatch, Doug Olivers, Doug Jensen, dermis Jones, Brent Jones and Keith Murray and manager Ron Oldson. (Sports Editor's Note Uintah placed first at the state meet in 1967.) A basketball story follows as it was printed in the Vernal Express on March 17, 1966. Uintah found a much-improved East Carbon five Saturday at Price when they battled for the district championship. cham-pionship. Gary' Tassainer started the Utes out with the first four points. East Carbon had the lead at the end of the first quarter 13 to 12. They were able to stay ahead of the Utes by one or two points until midway in the second period when the Utes grabbed the lead and were able to pull out in front by seven points at halftime 32 to 25. The entire contest was hard fought with the action getting rough at times. It appears Gary Tassainer has recovered from his injury and is ready for the state tournament. The score at the end of the third period was 49 to 39 in favor of the Utes. The East Carbon Vikings started out the final period as if to overtake the Utes but the closest they could come ' w as within four points. The Utes caught fire again and pulled out to an 11 point lead at the buzzer to win 67 to 56. Gary Tassainer was high man with 18. Richard Walker got 17, John Shumway Shum-way chalked up 12, Robert Walker had 10 and Bruce Nelson had 8. The Utes showed the fans a good defense as well as a well-balanced scoring team and should represent us very well in the State B. Tournament. |