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Show The game of basketball is a fast game with plenty of action and Uintah's Sheryl Neal was a producer of plenty of action in junior varisty and varsity basketball games between Uintah and American Fork Thursday. American Fork jumped out to a 24-16 lead early in the third quarter in a junior varsity game with Uintah and then Kim Drollinger and Neal went to work for the Utes in the hoop scoring department. Drollinger scored two field goals to cut American Fork's lead to four points at 24-20. Now it was time for the Neal show as she scored three baskets in a row for Uintah third quarter lead of 26-24. She put in a fastbreak hoop to bring the Utes within two points and scored another field goal to tie up the game at 24-24. Neal snared a rebound, missed the first shot, but hit the second one for a 26-24 Ute lead. Neal had more in store for the American Fork JV cagers in the fourth quarter. She stole the ball to set up a two-pointer two-pointer by Drollinger for a 28-27 lead. A field shot by Tia Liebhardt gave the Utes a 32-31 lead and then Neal scored six points and Liebhardt three in the final minute and a half to lock up the win for the Utes. Neal hit 4 out of 5 free throws in the final minute and a half and stole the ball and scored a two-pointer. Neal stuffed an opponent's passing attempt at-tempt and scored to give the Utes a 43-40 lead in the varsity game with American Fork. The ball was heading out of bounds and Neal leaped forward and tapped the ball into the hands of Drollinger, who score to cut the American Fork lead to one point at 52-51 with 32 seconds left. Neal hit the floor and was taken to the Ashley Valley Medical Center. She was released Thursday night and was feeling pretty good, according to Uintah hoop coach, LoaKay Bowthorpe. American Fork ended up winning the game by the score of 56 to 53, but no one could say that Sheryl Neal didn't give 100 percent in the The Uintah Ute wrestling team defeated the Meeker Colorado Cowboys in tournaments and dual meets this past season and the Meeker crew pocketed first place in a district tournament in Colorado Col-orado with 175 points. Steamboat Springs, another Ute victim, placed second se-cond at 153 points. Ray Mazzola, 98; Dean Mantle, 105; Charlie Lockhart, 112; Eric Blanke, 155; Willie Rael, 126 and Keenan Turner, 138, placed first. Mazzola beat Archioeque of Battle Mountain, 1-0 and Mantle, 105, pinned Harvey of Steamboat Springs in 1:12 for first place. Rael, 126, thumped Snyder of Rifle, 11 to 3, for top honors and Meeker 138. pounder, Turner, pinned Martinez of Battle Mountain in 4:36 for first place. Clint Blanke, Meeker, thumped Martinez of Rifle, 11-5 and Lockhart of Meeker, 112, downed Manzanares of Roaring Fork, 14-12. Steamboat Springs' Miller, 119, deci-sioned deci-sioned Martin of Glenwood Springs, 11-3, for first place. VanHoose of Glenwood Springs won the 132 pound crown when he beat Schubert of Rifle, 8-2, in overtime. over-time. Forbey, Steamboat Springs, 145, placed first due to a pin in 3:58 in his match with Case of Rifle. Chambers, Rifle, Ri-fle, 167, pinned Phillips of Glenwood Springs in 2 : 49 and Shane Webb, Steamboat Steam-boat Springs, thumped Yoast of Rifle, 21-3, for the 185 pound title. Regan Rivera, Steamboat Springs, pinned Story of Battle Mountain in 57 seconds for first place at heavyweight. Meeker also netted two consolation champions in Erik Brown, 132, and Tom Bivens, 185. Brown thumped Doughty of Steamboat Springs, 10-6 and Bivens deci-sioned deci-sioned Soucie of Roaring Fork, 8-1. Meeker's Bill Anderson garnered a consolation con-solation title when he beat Moss of Steamboat Springs in a 167 pound match, 10-5. Quintana of Battle Mountain, 119, beat McFarland, Meeker, 10-0, in a consolation con-solation match and Call of Glenwood Springs downed Burke of Meeker, 145, 9-4. Schield, Glenwood Springs, downed Meeker's Ilgen, 4-0. The Uintah Utes topped the Meeker Cowboys in a dual meet Jan. 14 by the score of 36 to 22. Uintah's 98 pounder, Ryan Siddoway, pinned Mazzola in 5:55 . and Brent Morrill, 105, blanked Todd Morris, 15-0. Mantle edged Uintah's 112 "I pounder Leslie Gorman, 7-5 and Seymore Bedonie, Uintah, 119, decked McFarland, 15-5. Rael, 126, nipped Uintah's David Gentry, 54 and Torr McCurdy, 132, pinned pinn-ed Shannon Jackson in the first round. Ute 138 pounder, Kary McNeill, was downed by Turner, 12-1 and Gary Murray, Mur-ray, Uintah, 145, beat Clint Burke, 9-2. Blanke pinned Bucky Tingey, Uintah, 155 and Pat Jenkins, Uintah, 167 pounder, pinned Anderson with 38 seconds left in the first round. Bivens of Meeker won his 185 pound match on a forfeit and Uintah heavyweight, Shawn O'Brien pinned Dan Ilgen with 36 seconds left in the first round. ,r . . r ' A, - . ; . -. i a ; ' . i ' i-mmx- ... V v ; ; , , , v ',. S,- - : S I , 1 - l 1 ' " HANDS GRAB the basketball during the Uintah game with American Fork, Thursday and one of the Utes is Uintah's Sheryl Neal, right. THE PRESS greets an American Fork basketballer. Uintah Ute in the picture is Sheila Nelson, right. |