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Show ' - . I ; - - . -w i ' .T : v" V- '' I a j . ' . , : ' - t X .r b i : rZ -; s M 4 ' v - -: i j ; 1 ;" v mJ ! . - - a a' . i P ! " I ' v' -I Mil f , ' v--,.s THE NUMBER ONE item as far as Uintah's Brian McNamara, left, is concerned is capturing the basketball and also stretching his arms toward the flying object is Timpview's Steve Farnsworth, Eg-gws destroy Utfe rally The Uintah Utes sliced the Timpview lead to four points with two minutes to go in the game, but bad passes by the Vernal team allowed the Thunderbirds to get off the hook as they increased their lead to seven points and went on to top-. pie the Utes in Vernal, Tuesday, January 4 by the score of 65 to 55. The Utes will host American Fork, Wednesday January 12. Temperatures have been in the cold category in recent days and Uintah's shooting from the field was ice cold as Timpview jumped out to an 8-0 lead before the Utes gained their first basket on a field goal by Jeff Drollinger with 4:10 left in the first quarter. Timpview grabbed a 2-0 lead on a field goal by 6'7" Steve Andrus and increased increas-ed it to 6-0 on field goals by Rob Ross and Will Sperry. Andrus hit a close-in shot to give his team an 8-0 lead. The Utes had countless problems in the first four minutes as one pass hit a fan in the stands, Kenny Mohar, in the head and traveling errors and turnovers were , committed. he The Thunderbirds' Andrus popped in is his third field goal of the quarter to give his team a 10 to 2 lead, but now it was time for the real Uintah Utes to come forth and they came across in blazing glory as they blasted the hoop with nine straight points for a first quarter lead of U to 10. Brian McNamara connected with Drollinger on a good pass and Drollinger fired in a field goal. Drollinger was fouled foul-ed and popped in the shot to cut the Timpview Timp-view lead to five points at 10-5: A field goal by McNamara arid two free throws by Cary Hamilton' harrowed " the'" Thunderbird lead to one point at 10-9. The Utes garnered their first lead in the game when Doug Bowen stole the ball from a Timpview eager and pumped in a field goal for an 11-10 advantage. Below zero temperatures were contagious con-tagious as Uintah shooting from the field turned cold as ice in the first two minutes of the second quarter and shooting by the Timpview Thunderbirds was as hot as a tin roof on the Fourth of July. Timpview's Timp-view's Paul Sagers fired in three straight field goals and Steve Farnsworth tossed in a free throw for a 17-11 advantage. The Utes finally gained their first points of the second quarter when Drollinger Droll-inger fired in a shot at the 5:54 mark. Kevin Montague added a field goal to cut the Timpview lead to two points at 17-15, but Sperry and Sagers swished the net for field goals and a 21-15 lead. Four free throws by Drollinger reduced reduc-ed the Thunderbird lead to two points at 21-19. However, the Thunderbirds outscored the Utes, 10-2, in the rest of the quarter to take a ten point lead of 31 to 21 into the locker room. TimDview's SDerrv struck for a field j r i I ' . -" i n , " PA -c.'"5. : i r ft t JTHE BASKETBALL says good bye as it escapes from the outstretched outstret-ched hands of Uintah's Mike Weldon. Also in the picture is Jeff Drollinger, right. right. Timpview toppled the Uintah Utes in the region opener, 65-55. goal to present a lead of 33 to 21 to the Thunderbirds, but Hamilton pumped in a field goal and McNamara scored one point on a free throw. Timpview grabbed grabb-ed a 15 point lead of 39-24 on layup baskets'by Sperry and Ross. Drpliinger,; snared a field goal for the Utes, but Farnsworth Farn-sworth and Ross fired in field goals of their own. McNamara faked out two Timpview defenders and scored a field , goal and Montague popped in two free -throws. Farnsworth scored two field goals to make the score after three quarters 47 to 30 in favor of Timpview. The Thunderbirds continued to blast the basket in the fourth quarter as they scored the first two field goals of the quarter for a 49-30 lead. Now it was time for the Thunderbirds to lose the thunder in the shooting department as the Utes became red hot in the scoring category as they pumped in seven straight points on two field goals by Drollinger and a free throw and field goal by McNamara to reduce the Timpview lead to 12 points at 49 to 37. Uintah turned in another amazing shooting performance in the fourth quarter with ten straight points, which topped any other previous streak by the Utes in the game. Mark Wilkinson fired in a field goal and Montague put in two free throws to cut the Timpview lead to ten points at 53-43. Field goals by Hamilton and McNamara cut the Thunderbirds' lead to six points at 53-47. McNamara failed on a free throw attempt, but made up for it with a two-pointer, which placed Uintah Uin-tah only four points behind Timpview at 53-49 with 2 : 19 in the game. Disaster struck the Utes in the next minute as three points by Ross on a free throw and a field goal gave Timpview breathing room at 56 to 49. A bad pass which resulted in a steal set up the field goal by Ross. The Thunderbirds went to , the foul line to lock up the game as they converted nine out of eleven free throws attempts in the final minute of the encounter en-counter to win by the score of 65-55. Sagers hit 5 out of 6 free throws in the last minute of the game and McNamara"-pumped McNamara"-pumped in three field goals for the Utes. McNamara was the number one scorer in the game at 22 points. He put in nine field goals and hit 4 out of 9 free throws. Drollinger scored 17 points. Also scoring for the Utes were: Hamilton, 6; Montague, 6' Bowen, 2 and Wilkinson, 2. Uintah popped in 19 field goals and hit 17 out of 31 free throws. Sagers led the Thunderbirds in scoring with 19 points. He popped in six field goals and hit 7 out of 8 free throws. Also scoring scor-ing for Timpview were: Ross, 13; Andrus, An-drus, 10; Sperry, 10: Farnsworth, 9; Kirk Denning, 2 and Nathan Warner, 2. Timpview Timp-view tossed in 26 field goals and hit 13 out of 24 free throws. Provo toppled Orem, 47 to 41 and Mountain View knocked off American Fork, 57 to 48, in other region games. Provo. Mountain View and Timpview own 1-0 marks and Uintah, Orem and American Fork are 0-2. Provo's top scorers in the game with Orem were Johnson. 16 ; Santiago, 9 and Houtz, 8. Orem was led in the game by Faldmo at 12 points. Provo owned lead of 14-10, first quarter; 28-22, second quarter; Mountain View's top scorer was Pollard with 18 points. Rasmussen added add-ed nine points and Rickenback scored f -eight points. American Fork was led by ' Gunther at 22 points. I i ft - ;v . ft i 1 v 4 1) V ... . P V; JU " v. Vr. p - x I . 5 t K K x ) HANDS BATTLE for the basketball during action near the basket by Uintah's Kevin Montague, left and Steve Farnsworth, right. V. ,f , I , r ' J if Si. : ,.6' . . -o - A LOOSE ball is attacked by Uintah's Kevin Montague, center, during a crash with the floor. |