Show s u a e t r rd d t if i ut wJ r e st a ae r 4 is Lis wr- wr L- L Lr w dr e 5 w wy y aea M i 4 r rW W c aM s yil THE RACE to the hoop Is won by Unions Union's Mike Dastrup left as he ashe jets through the air during a Also in the picture are Ken Jenson center Carbon and Mike Ross Union right Jen- Jen but son scored 40 points in the game but that enough wasn't-enough wasn't enough as Union downed the Carbon Dinos 80 to 67 Friday in Roosevelt A 6 j iy aj ra v t Q rr i a 9 Se 1 j r r r r F 1 a rw v 2 e 4 I 1 d P PM M i C l 1 jr its jt j t aw A i a e roro S k r 1 ro TWO Chris Randolph left and Unions Union's Scott Wilson tion is Unions Union's Rick Nielsen right and a number humber of Carbon Dinos battle for ownership of the basketball and also watching the ac ac- ac Rebounding power leads Cats Cat's to win The Union High School Cougars miss miss- missed ed many first shots at the basket but their mighty rebounding power enabled them to cash In on second and third chances at the hoop for an 80 to 67 win over A 3 school Carbon Friday In Roosevelt The win Improves Unions Union's record to 4 wins and 3 losses Union scored the first points of the ball game on two free throws by Lonnie Sam Sam- maripa and increased their lead to 50 5 on ona ona a three point play by Scott Wilson However Carbon gained a 65 6 lead of their own on three field goals in a row by Ken Jenson Duane Vasten and Richard Dimick The Dinos failed on their next time down the floor and Doug Allen AUen fired in a ashot ashot shot to give Union a 7 6 lead A rebound basket by James White increased the Cougar lead to three points at 96 9 but Carbon put in two field goals in a row to regain a one point advantage at 19 Allen AlIen put in a two pointer two pointer for a one point Union lead but Carbon acquired a one point lead once again on a successful shot at atthe atthe the hoop Wilson converted two free throws to make the score after one quarter Union 13 and Carbon 12 Carbons Carbon's Jenson scored only two points in the first quarter but he erupted for far 12 points In the second quarter to keep the Dinos within two points of the Cougars after two quarters of action A second chance was given to the Cougars on a missed shot as Allen snared the rebound and scored a field goal for fora fora a 15 to 12 Union lead However Carbon scored a field goal Unions Union's missed a and Jenson scored the Dinos a 16 15 lead Another field goal goalby by by Jenson gave Carbon a before Christmas gift lead of 18 to 15 Carbon owned other three point leads of 20 to 17 and 22 to 19 but a free throw by Rick Nielsen and a field goal by Mike Dastrup tied up the game at 2222 22 The small and the taU tall went to work to give the Cougars a 28 to 22 lead 55 guard Mike Ross scored a field goal for a 2422 24 Union lead and 64 Allen put in two field goals and one of the baskets was scored on a tip tip-in Carbon cut Unions Union's lead to two points at 30 to 28 after two quarters Carbon was behind by only two points at 38 to 36 early in the third quarter but the Union Cougars chewed up the Dinos with a fine display of offensive rebounding rebounding ding which helped the Cats to outscored the Dinos 17 to tog 9 for a third quarter ad- ad advantage advantage vantage of 55 to 45 SIx points by Nielsen and two field goals by White increased the Cougar lead to seven points at 48 to 41 41 Nielsen and White scored field goals a number of times on second and third shots at the put in n another field goal for fora fora a 53 to 43 lead and Dastrup stole the ball baU balland and scored for a 55 to 45 advantage Jen- Jen Jenson Jenson son scored 14 of Carbons Carbon's 17 points in the third quarter Carbon scored the first five points of the fourth quarter to cut Unions Union's lead to five points at 55 50 on a field goal by who else but Jenson and three points by new scoring power David Bate The Cougars were in a scoring slump and they went to small in size Ross at 55 but big in basketball talent for a afield afield field goal to shut down the Carbon hopes White put in a shot to give the Cougars a nine point lead of 59 to 50 Carbons Carbon's Jeff Bruno put In a shot to reduce Unions Union's lead to seven points at 60 53 but once again Ross put some juice in the Cougar attack with a field goal which was good for a nine point lead Union scored eight points in a row on counters by White Dastrup and Nielsen for a 70 to 53 to put the game out of reach for Carbon Union put in ten more points to make the final score Union 80 and Carbon 67 Jenson ripped the hoop for 12 points in the foUrth quarter Nielsen wasn't a starter In the game but he led the Cougars with la 18 points He field goals and put in four out of six free free throws Ross and White scored 16 points and Dastrup fired In 13 counters Allen scored ten points and Wilson put In five counters added two points Union put in 14 out of 19 free throws Jenson was the top scorer in the game at 40 points Carbons Carbon's Jenson scored 17 field goals and put in 5 out of 9 free throws Also scoring for Carbon were Vasten 10 Bruno 5 Dimick 5 Bate 5 and Chad Randolph 2 The Dines Dinos con con- connected connected on 11 out of 15 free throws Mike Ross tied with White with 16 points as the number two scorer Nielsen was the top Union scorer at 18 points I thought we Union played pretty good defense Carbons Carbon's one guy Jenson was wasa wasa a pretty good shooter We got good re- re rebounds rebounds bounds and got the going I got my outside shot going a little said Ross When asked to comment on the win over Carbon 66 Union center James White remarked We did a good job of getting second and third shots and that thatis thatis is the way I got get most of my points We just had to hustle and rebound missed shots Defense was the key to the win over Carbon according to forward Doug Allen We knew we had to play defense def ense to beat them We played a man to man defense We kept them off the board and put ourselves in the right place for the reo re- rebound bound We were boxing out and got where we should be Our inside rebound power is pretty strong this year and we dominated the boards during the game stated Allen Union received good scoring from their games especially on the the offensive boards Rebounding kept us in the game We missed first shots but we scored on second se- se second cond and third shots We played with In- In Intensity Intensity and with a little excitement remarked Union head coach Kim Peter Peter- Peterson Peterson son We had trouble hitting the outside shots early and then we got them going In the fourth quarter |