| Show uintah basketball squad saiad prepares for crucial union battle F friday by glade glad M vernal express sports writer it its do or die for Uinta hs utes this friday as they meet the cougars of union at roosevelt in a game which will in all probability decide who goes to the state basketball tourney from the uintah division each team has lost only one game in league play and the two are tied for top spot uintah defeated union earlier this year in an overtime contest but lost to the duchesne eagles in duchesne each team had a warm up game last friday as the cats swamped manila and the redskins Red skins breezed past lablona 67 47 coach dart bart johnson left his starting in only long enough to run up a 22 5 load lead at the end of the tint first quarter and then substituted freely as his team led 39 33 21 at half time and maintained its advantage 07 67 47 at the final gun george lee was extremely effective with his sniping from outside and the tabbies set up a zone on their tiny floor which completely bot tied up the center george picked up 21 points and play ed only part of the game ile he also did an outstanding job of passing and setting up the plays for his mates dick roberts showed a lot of hustle and canned 15 points for the evening again brian wright did a fine job on the boards and chalked up 8 points to his credit gayle mckeachnie also got 8 0 points for the utes craner was high for tationa tabiona with 17 while his team mate wadsworth got 14 the indians face union to morrow friday with some gome apprehension since they have been bothered with the flu bug all week and brian wright and jim mcnaughton are still hobbling on bad ankles brian injured his ankle last week in practice and big jim has sustained in 1 l juries to both of his ankles in past play f v coach johnson Is hopeful that their injuries will heal i for this all tilt but Is still doubtful about the h et t of 0 bli tw two 0 starr gar 1 since they will be bo ft favoring i their hurta burts aw I 1 1 US K F |
