| Show utes slip ohp past eagles friday to set up showdown Altamont at AIt amont by errol burns express sports sport writer i r A determined band of duchesne eagles swooped down upon the ute wigwam friday night and almost took home a ute scalp before the night was over however the surprised utes recovered in time to tomahawk the eagles by a 58 49 count 11 IT WAS evident from the very beginning that the eagles had come to play ball nd would not roll over and play dead while the utes ute notched their second league victory of the season in tact fact the visitors led during much ot of the first quarter before successive baskets by kirk jolley tennis oaks and gavle mckeachnie Keach nie gave the utes a 13 I 1 11 I 1 advantage at the end of the quarter OAKS then combined with jim veroon vernon as the second period opened to give the utes a 2013 20 13 lead but the eagles fought back w with etli anderton doing most of the scoring and began to close clone the gap arvel Tas then en the game fame for the utes and sparked them to a 2721 27 21 half time lead by success f fully u I 1 I 1 y anderton and scoring 5 quick points point of his own jim IV fin vernon and arvel Tas las sainer were the only utes to dwore re in the 3rd ard quarter which saw the utes pull away to a 9 point lead only to have it whittled to 04 4 as the period ended mckeachnie and ron we merkley entered the game for the utes at the beening bel nning odethe of of ethe the final finial a 8 minutes and proved to be beh a bli big help to we the utes cause as they their combined with er and oaks oak to stave off the eagles final bid for an up N rt set As aa the quarter the eagles hit bit toy for 3 quick bs basket baskets 0 to pull ahead by 38 37 with 6 0 minutes left inthe ilithe game dennis dennin oaks immediately hit a jumper to it un again and ahnie doing the shooting and ronnie merkley contributing assists on some aoma fine p alsing av a 48 16 leads lead ita a then lej I 1 senior forward forwar dl took teok t overt to toj I 1 score 4 alg I 1 buskeu J 1 10 aji f 6 final 3 minute art est 0 4 wp f basketball continued from page 1 hard driving lay ups to wind up with 20 points lor for his nights efforts and was then replaced by david roberts rm fi e DAVID ROBERTS was waa only in the game for 8 seconds but scored the final two points on a fast break with 2 seconds left to give the utes their final margin of victory high scorer for the night was the eagles anderton who scored nearly half of his team icam oats as he wound up with 24 ile he was ably assisted by lott lett who picked up 12 points most of which came in the eagles final spurt on saturday night the Dut budoi doZA from maffai county counte high school at craig cole x td fed and were handed a 51 38 loss tor for their efforts the vies utes jumped off to an early 50 5 0 lead before the bulldogs finally scored by john smith to tte tie it up the utes then hustled themselves to a 2010 20 10 quarter advantage with the scoring eyerly distributed among the five ute starters IT WAS NOT MOT until reserve forward david roberts hit a long one bander with one minute left in the half that ij ix s itei managed to score core from the field in the 2nd and quarter but they led at the half by 2822 22 as the visitors I 1 could not do much better after the intermission tha two teams exchanged points evenly right up until the end of the 3rd ard period when th tha score core stood 35 30 for the utes I 1 the utes had managed to score only two field goals in both the 2nd and and 3rd ard quarters after having started tl tha scoring lit at a blistering pace picking up 9 baskets in the tint first quarter alone T ai Z FOURTH quarter saw caw the utes resume ane scoring abilities to stead steadily liv pull away from th hupka although coach dart bart john on n cleared hi his bertch bench ai t A a final tour tally was 51 38 and rai ran the utes ates won lost record toi the season to 7 won and 5 lost 1031 THE UTES will put their 20 2 0 record in league play onn on the une line friday night when they tangle with altamonti Alta monts longhorns Long homa borns at af Alts altamont mont tha longhorn longhorns Long horna ore are also alo unbeaten in A league play having dumped union high school at roosevelt last week by a s 60 39 count As a 0 result the game this weekend cowd could make or break tho ute in their bid or ii a state tournament berth |
