Show Ute Chiefs T Take ol e Invitational T Tourney The Ute Chiefs led by Conrad Reed defeated the Intermountain Warriors Warriors Warriors War War- to win the 2nd annual All All- American Invitation Basketball Tournament Tournament Tournament Tour Tour- in Salt Lake City last weekend THE CHIEFS who were tourney pre-tourney favorites rites opened play Friday evening against the host Salt Lake Tomahawks and raced to a 92 win over the local local local lo lo- lo- lo cal team Lawrence with 20 points Conrad Reed with 26 and Randy McCook with 24 led the Chiefs high powered offense The Chiefs met their junior varsity the Ute Tribe Utes who had defeated the Salt Lake Roadrunners Thursday in inthe inthe inthe the Saturday morning semi finals The Utes Ules kept the game close in the first half but the numerical advantage of the Chiefs allowed them to pull away with the victory THE CHIEFS were led by record set ting Conrad Reed with 49 49 p points ints with Randy McCook also again scoring over over 20 points T The e rebounding record for a single game was set by James Reed of the Utes with 22 22 boards The Utes advanced to the finals against against a a- the Provo Skins playing for third place but were not able to pull the game out as most of the players fouled out Hubert Atwine scored 24 points to lead the Utes IN THE Championship game the warriors kept close and actually led the Chiefs with six minutes to play but were unable to hold the lead as a charge led by Reed and McCook outscored outscored outscored out- out scored the Warriors 12 0 to put the game out of reach In addition to winning the Most Valuable Valuable Valuable able Player award Conrad Reed was leading scorer in the tournament with points and received a basketball as an award James Reed of the Utes was also selected for the All All Tournament ment Team I |