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Show Wednesdoy, Morch 28, 1984 Venial ExpfBSS 25 Plainsmen becaf Provo Blazers """ """ limn i.mnn i.iMMiMMMMMwi.muii,ij)i,ii 11,1)1 id jmamMn.ma.w- iwilujiiwiiiu .HUM 4 y x r wannfiniBi ' - MMii.ii .rii i iiiiiji iiif.iiriii ri il - jm V NJr,ll''WMfflmiii THE PACERS' Smiley Denver, left, Lornie Pinnecoose, right, in a clash '" 1 """ mil ii ii. ijmmmmmmutimmj'tiy,jMjiimmJlmfmM,mtm m9immmfm9mmmmi '"' rttr,.. j. "IiiiiH11I-Hi)H1- " . p.4H'lm. i rtmtll refill. If I A a"M)iJe IWt itiirlll AlilWIIrf l.i.iill I ill A MISS occurs as th6 ball darts between Ron Wopsock's legs and out of bounds in a first round contest against the Pacers, Thurs- MBMiiMWailLIJLUmCT-wmi imfMi .tiMpi'MHii1"'''1 r Kf lffliP "IT i),n,:i""iir"Tri rr HANDS UNDER the direction of Rocky Boy's Jay Eagleman, left and Eric Henderson, right, attempt to get the basketball under their control. The Salt Lake Indian Health Center team beat ' battles with the Plainsmen's for the basketball in the Tour v ) I "A 7 nament of Tribal Champions game the Pacers, 75-24. day. The basketball-capture-failure didn't hurt the Plainsmen as they beat the Pacers by 51 points. Rocky Boy in the first round and ended up placing third in the Tournament of Tribal Champions. Also in the picture is Leo Ramone, 4. Thursday. The Plainsmen beat t 5 . 8 i I 1 ! The Provo Blazers were undefeated going into the first championship game, but an 81-57 loss to the Plainsmen of Oklahoma in the Tournament Tour-nament of Tribal Champions in Ft. Duchesne, Saturday forced the Provo team to join the defeated ranks. Monte Daney pumped in four points on two free throws and a field goal for a 4-2 Plainsmen's lead. Five points on two field goals and a free throw by Rocky Cuny gave the Provo Blazers a 5-4 lead. The Plainsmen team scored another field goal for a 6-5 lead, but a two-pointer by Cuny returned a one point lead of 7-6 to the Blazers. Four points in a row by Steve Daney and Marvin Shade put the Plainsmen ahead by three points at 10-7. Johnny Beck struck for two points to bring the Blazers within one point at 10-9. The Plainsmen grabbed a lead of 14-11, but four points by Beck on two free throws and a field goal gave the Blazers a 14-13 lead. Eleven straight points gave the Plainsmen a ten point lead of 25-15. Field goals by Vince Rock and Jackie Lucas sliced the Plainsmen's lead to eight points at 27-19, but the Plainsmen outscored the Blazers, 18 to 8 in the rest of the first half for an 18 point lead of 45-27. Monte Daney led the Plainsmen in the first half with 15 points on four field goals and seven free throws. Shade added 12 points and Obie Taveapont scored ten points. Steve Daney scored six points. Cuny led the Blazers in the first half with 11 points on four field goals and three free throws. Two field goals by Monte Daney and a free throw by Steve Daney increas DWR ends emergency game feeding program After a massive three-month emergency feeding effort to save thousands of starving deer and elk in northern Utah, Divison of Wildlife Resources officials have called a halt to the unprecedented program, calling it a "qualified success." Division spokesman Grant Jense says no more deer will be fed after stockpiles of feed are gone. Jense says the feed should be gone in about a week. He added that some elk in Cache and Rich counties, hardest hit by the winter's near record snow and cold temperatures, will be fed another few weeks to keep them from moving into agricultural areas. Jense, the Divison's big game program pro-gram coordinator, says most of the deer along the Wasatch Front in Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties were saved. "Although some deer died of malnutrition before we could get to them, we feel the feeding program was succussful from Nephi up to Weber County," he said. The veteran wildlife biologist added that many more deer would have died without emergency feed. Divison of Wildlife Resources Director Direc-tor Douglas Day called for help in January, after starving deer descended descend-ed on foothill suburbs and valley agricultural areas in a desperate search for food. Driven by hunger to unnatural behavior, the deer wandered aimlessly through neighborhoods, devouring ornamental shrubs and bedding down in backyards. By Christmas last year, hundreds of deer had already been lost hit by cars, run down by dogs, caught in fences or gunned down by poachers. In some agricultural areas, stockmen and fruit growers sustained heavy damage to haystacks and fruit trees from marauding deer and elk. Though most landowners were willing to take the losses to help the starving animals, some resorted to drastic measures to get animals out of their fields. One report of an alleged Christmastime slaughter of deer in a Utah County orchard is still under investigation, in-vestigation, and charges will likely be filed. Ironically, the Utah Legislature in January appropriated an additional $100,000 to the Divison of Wildlife Resources account which pays for big game damages sustained by ranchers and farmers. Day ordered the emergency feeding effort even though there was little money to buy feed. But after the plight of the snowbound animals made na HELP ed the Plainsmen's lead to 22 points at 51-29, but the Provo team outscored the Plainsmen, 14 to 6 on two field goals by Sonny Brown, Jackie Lucas and Terry Goedel plus two points by Gary Manual to come within 13 points of the Plainsmen's lead at 57-43. Four points on a field goal and two free throws by Shade plus a charity toss by Steve Daney returned a 17 point lead of 62-45 to the Plainsmen. Two field goals by Goedel and a two-pointer two-pointer by Al Blackbird enabled the Blazers to trim the Plainsmen's lead to 11 points, but that was their last gasp as they were outscored in the rest of the game, 15 to 2 to make the final score: Plainsmen, 81 and Provo Blazers, 57. Highlights of the 15 point explosion for the Plainsmen were a three-point bomb by Ron Wopsock and a hook shot by Steve Daney. Shade led the Plainsmen team with 22 points and Monte Daney added 21 counters. Shade fired in seven field goals and hit 8 out of 14 free throws. Daney fired in six field goals and hit 9 out of 10 free throws. Steve Daney popped in 16 counters and Taveapont added 12 points. Wopsock scored six points and Lornie Pinnecoose added two points. The top second half scorer for the Plainsmen were Steve Daney and Shade at ten points. Brown led the Blazer team in the second half with eight points. Brown was the topvBlazer scorer with 12 points on six field goals. Cuny added 11 points. Also scoring for the Provo Blazers were: Beck, 8; Lucas, 6; Goedel, 6; Rock, 6; Manuel, 4; McDade, 2 and Al Blackbird, 2. tional news, donations poured in from all over the country, as well as from Europe, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Donations nearing $300,000, coupled with an emergency legislative appropriation ap-propriation earmarked $172,200 for feed, paid for the tons of high protein deer pellets distributed to feeding stations sta-tions throughout northern Utah. Farmers, ranchers and businesses from across the U.S. also donated hay and other feed for the animals, including in-cluding boxcars full of hay from Georgia and several tons of feed from Ralston-Purina. "We've spent almost all of the money, and there are only a few bags of feed left," says Jense. "In Febraury we were hauling in three semi-trailer trucks full of feed every week to deer in the Morgan, Echo and Coalville areas, where the problems were the worst." According to Jense, that represented about 72 tons of pellets a week. Wildlife conservation officials also hauled in several hundred bales of hay for hungry elk. The larger elk were pushing deer away from feeding stations and eating pellets intended for deer. In spite of heroic efforts by local residents and volunteers in Morgan, Summit, Weber, Cache and Rich counties, Jense suspects that losses were heavy. He says 80 percent of the deer fawns may have been lost in some areas. Many mature bucks, weakened weaken-ed by the November rut, also died when heavy snows blanketed critical winter range. But Jense says most of the does in the area survived, and many are expected to bear fawns. The biologist explained that this is nature's way of compensating for losses, not unusual in any winter. But wildlife officials are quick to point out that some northern Utah deer herds would have been virtually wiped out without the emergency feeding program. Director Day says he and others at the state wildlife agency were "overwhelmed" by the response to pleas for help to save the animals, citing unprecedented national news coverage as evidence of people's natural concern for animals. Day and Gerald Gordon, president of the Utah Wildlife Federation, have writtci a letter to all contributors thanking them for their contribution to the emergency big game feeding fund. The letter reads, in part, "Your con-tributuion con-tributuion to Utah's emergency big game feeding program is greatly appreciated.. ap-preciated.. .(it) made survival of many thousands of deer and elk a reality in this unusually cold and snowy winter of 1983-84." HIIUG CALL 1 (8001 S62.3337 TSfv f,: I |