Show Uintah open Region 6 warfare at Springville friday The Uintah High basketball team bounces into Region Six competition this Friday at pm p.m. with a game against the Springville Red Devils at Springville Last Saturday the Uintah Utes blasted Fruita Colorado for a 88 to 56 victory ABOUT SPRINGVILLE Uintah head Coach George Hughes stated staled They are talland tall talland talland and big Were We're going after Springville Uintah opened the game with Fruita Fruits by scoring well and posted a large lead which they never lost At the end of the first quarter the Uintah h Utes were ahead of the Fruita Fruits squad 21 to 14 but they increased the lead 50 to 32 at halftime The Uintah Utes ended the third quarter quart r with a 66 to 46 lead as the Ut Utes s were able to shoot well inside and outside The entire Uintah team team played in the con contest lest and the Utes ended the thega ga game me with a 88 to 56 victory WHEN WilEN ASKED for his comments on the Uintah-Fruita Uintah game George Hughes said It was ragged Our defense was a little bit better at times but we have a ways to go A win for us was good right now The Fruita team played free lance ball and had no real pattern Uintah was able to score from the inside with Larry McKinney McKinney McKin- McKin ney and blazed the basketball hoop with countless outside shots by Garth Allred Gary Huber Robert Nelson Dave Duane Merrell Mike Phillips Jan Goodrich a and d Daryl Colton TilE THE UINTAH Utes will have Payson High at Vernal on December 19 as their next opponent A few weeks ago Payson lost to Union High of Roosevelt by a close margin in ina a game played at Payson Uintah defeated Union a few weeks ago for its second win vin ot of the season Uintah has a record of 3 wins and 2 g losses The Uintah Utes have posted wins over Jordan Union and Fruita Fruits The two Uintah losses came in close games against Hillcrest a A 4 school and Murray Larry McKinney had 19 points for Uintah against Fruita Garth Allred had 17 points Dave Van Wagner and Daryl Colton had 12 points each IN TilE THE Uintah assist department Garth Allred had 7 Gary Huber 5 Jar Jan Goodrich 3 Robert Nelson 2 Dave Van Wagner 2 Daryl Col Colton ton l 1 and Shane Mayberry 1 McKinney pulled down 19 rebounds in the game with Fruita Allred Alired picked up 10 rebounds Duane Merrell had 8 r rebounds bounds and other Uintah players had a number of rebounds |