Show Uintah Puts 11 Wrestlers Into Position for State Uintah walked away with Region Six wrestling honors Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- night at Roosevelt Um- Um ah tah placed 11 men of a possible possible pos pos- sible 12 into state positions the I most they have had for the past 10 years i Uintah Vintah will need this many manyo to o have a shot at the state title Uintah had eight first places Greg Wilkins Dave Broome Joe Gowen Glen Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray Lee Jee Bob Corbin Jim Miller and Ed Johnson and three second places Dell Hassey Massey Mas Has sey Greg Cook and Lamoyne Taylor ONE OF THE biggest upsets in n the tournament was in the lb Ib cla class class' 1 when Curtis Redd of Monticello beat Dell Massey of Uintah for Region champion champion- shin hin Coach feels that Redd is really clicking and did dida a fine job against Massey But still till he feels Massey will be the State Champ The Cinderella wrestler was wast t Gr Greg r r Cook wHo has come a long way this last part of the season Cooks Cook's first match was a heart He lost to Randy Hunt 54 5 HUNT TOOK Cook down in ina a five point take takedown down Cook came back with four points and was in a two point takedown when the buzzer sounded to stop the match Hunt went on onto onto to win the championship Cook then had a chance to came back through the backdoor backdoor back back- door to take true second He Johnson of Monticello lo 10 4 to 1 I and then the same night wrestled Mahon of of San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan for third place decision decision- ing him This gave Cook a shot at Bill Labrum of Union for true second Cook came from behind to go into overtime and decision decisIon decision ion him 7 to 4 earning the right to go to state If there was a wrestler in the tournament tournament ment who earned it on desire it would be Greg Cook Coach said ANOTHER match that went down to the wire was with lb Ib Davis of Union losing to Miller in the last three seconds of the match Determination again won the match Ed Johnson Johnson John John- son ended each match with three impressive pins through the tournament With three wins Ed goes into the state competition with only five individual points scored against him ANOTHER wrestler who looked looked look look- ed sharp and took first place was Bob Corbin who will be a strong contender for the state championship Bob has had only one loss this year at lb Ib at Steamboat Uintah scored and Union n 94 Numbers of wrestlers 1 going state on each team are are tin Uintah- Uintah ah 11 Union 5 5 Monticello 4 East Carbon 2 Du Duchesne l 1 1 and San Juan |