| Show WS N PoTt NN r n u M b N w It A it A at r 1 h hE E t 14 t i M t tM i R k kR kr i l r iJ f t i v 14 f lt ft 1 it t t J Af r r tK W fJ L 1 Pe f t r W t N I 1 iii j Ii f tf 11 t t h ti y e lJ THE BASKETBALL tries to escape from the hands owned by Kevin Montague Uintah Russ Nielsen Union Mike Weldon Doug Bowen Uintah left to right in a game Friday between the ar arS tw S J r 4 55 S f fd ft d S fJ a t a a 1 t a i y r s a aUTE UTE CAGER Mark Wilkinson left soars to the hoop for a shot at a field goal for the Uintah basketball crew Also in the picture Is Rick Nielsen Union right Union Cougars and Uintah Utes The Cougars had a two point halftime lead but the Utes rallied in the second half for an triumph j I Re t t Nf S 1 4 A d S r 55 1 Ii r 4 UINTAH UTE Kevin Montague jets to the hoop and hoping that Montague misses is Unions Union's Lonnie Uintah Gagers thump Union Cougars 85 to 63 in foul plagued encounter Technical fouls early departure by head coach Gary Weight and a two two point point Union halftime lead were overcome by bythe bythe the Uintah Utes Friday with a second half explosion of 46 points as compared to 22 points by Union for an 85 63 first round win in the Basin Tournament at Altamont The Utes were called for a technical foul before the game began when a referee said that a Ute dunked the basketball during head basketball coach Weight lefty the game with left in the firs first quarter when three technical fouls were called on him The bes best thing hing that happened all night was to get me out of there and let our athletes play ball I was disagreeing with lith the officials as Brian McNamara had four fouls called on him in the first four minutes of the game We felt the officials were watching him too close Union owned a lead of 22 to 14 after one quarter of action The Cats were led by Lonnie with 11 points in the first quarter Doug Bowen led the Utes in scoring in the first quarter with four fourpoints fourpoints points on two field goals The Utes Ules toss toss- tossed tossed ed in only three field goals in the first quarter The utes tied up the game at 39 points late in the second quarter but two free throws by Wayne Gingell with four seconds left gave the Cougars a two point half time lead of 41 to 39 Jeff Drollinger burned the nets for 13 points for the utes in the second quarter and Cary Hamilton scored eight points Union owned the first quarter and bad bada had hada a two point lead at the end of the second quarter but the third quarter was wa's all Uintah's as they bombed the Cats 22 to 8 for fora a lead of 61 to 49 The third quarter started on a bri bright ht note for the Cougars as con con- connected connected on a shot for a four point 43 to 39 lead McNamara put in a two pointer to cut the Union lead to two points but Rick Nielsen answered McNamara's hoop with a two pointer of his own for a Union lead Unions Union's happy smile became upside down as the Utes erupt erupted d for 16 straight points and a 57 to 45 point lead with two minutes left in the third quarter Field goals goals by Drollinger and Doug Bowen tied up the game for the Utes at points 45 The Utes scored 12 more points for a 12 point age advantage and then ended the Union scoring drought with a field goal at the mark of the third quarter Mike Weldon and Drollinger fired in two two- pointers for a Uintah 12 point lead Drollinger turned in a good move at the basket and scored a field goal for a Uin- Uin Uintah tah lead of 63 to 50 Union cut Uintah's lead to ten points but six points by McNamara on a field goal and four free throws plus two points each by Droll Droll- Drollinger Drollinger inger and Bowen delivered a 16 point lead of 75 to 59 to the utes The Utes outscored the Cougars 10 to 4 in the rest of the quarter to win the game by the score of 85 to 63 Toward the end of the game a technical foul was called but this time around t the he utes were on the rewarding rewarding ding end of the call Drollinger kept the scorekeepers busy as he led the Utes in scoring with 31 points Drollinger put in nine field goals and hit 13 out of 18 free throws McNamara Hamilton and Weldon scored 11 points and Kevin Montague added ten points Bowen scored nine ninepoints ninepoints points and Mark Wilkinson added two points McNamara hit 5 out of 6 free throws and Weldon was 3 for 4 Union was led by bv with 20 points fired in five field goals and hit 10 out of 13 free throws Rick Nielsen put in 13 points and Doug Allen AlIen and Gingell scored eight points Mike Ross scored six points and Russ Nielsen added four points Mike Dastrup and James two points Union hit 21 out of 38 free throws and Uin- Uin Uintah Uintah tah put in 35 out of 55 charity tosses When asked what he told his Uintah at halftime Vic Anderson assistant coach who took took over over for Weight in the game remarked We told our athletes to get tougher on the boards Union hurt us on the boards in the first half and we were getting only one shot at the basket We started getting more than one shot in the second quarter We changed to a zone defense and that slow slow- slowed ed Union down and we got a lot of tur We controlled the boards in the second half |
