Show Uintah Enters State Basketball Tourney The Uintah High School basketball team entered Class A state competition in an encounter with Millard Region Eight third place entrant Wednesday evening at Brigham Young University The results of the game were not known at press time The state tournament continues Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- Thursday day today I Friday and Saturday and the Utes are arc slated to play Thursday today to today today to- to day at 2 30 if victorious Wednesday night or at 1 p pm p.m. m if defeated THE UTES entered the tournament as the claimants of the Region Six first place title titre after battling for the spot with northern and southern division rivals A 91 tie record with Union High led to a playoff between the two teams in which Uintah powered by Union 75 Uintah then defeated San Juan 85 85 83 85 83 inthe In Inthe Inthe the region six round robin which determined determined determined deter deter- mined the region champion The Utes won the region title last year but were unsuccessful in state class A competition Ute coaches are Doug Moon and Gale Anderson Student manager is Dale Price The Ute team has been paced throughout through through- out the season by the balanced scoring of Tim rIm Hadlock Dale Allred and Billy lily Johnston Hadlock has averaged 20 points per game in the position of forward for for- ward Allred has averaged 1812 points playing both forward and guard positions and Johnston has a 1612 point average as a center UNION HIGH cashed in on a 9 91 9 1 regular regular reg reg- ular season record by turning the trick against Wasatch 77 77 57 57 in a playoff Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day at Uintah High School The competition competition competition was to determine the third and fourth place entrants to state from regions regions re reo gions five and six Unions Union's win gained the team the right to enter state competition competition competition com com- petition as number lumber three in region six Moab nabbed the number four spot by defeating Grantsville 58 56 in the playoff playoff playoff play play- off Friday Losers in the playoff were barred from state competition THE REGION six second place entrant competing at state is San Jaun North Summit Is number one from region five and Morgan is number two Class II B state competition held last week at Cedar City resulted in the defeat defeat defeat de de- feat of Tabiona by both Panguitch and South Rich Duchesne won one out of three games but the win was not enough to keep the it-am it in the tournament The Duchesne team topped but was defeated by Plute Piute and Enterprise When a young man who had just completed completed completed com com- his training as a policeman was asked what he would do to break up upa a hostile crowd he answered I Id d take up a collection |