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Show 6 Vernal Exyrcs! Fridoy, Morch xpress f Y 1 5 if, - i - i 5-4 r ' ,..--' " ' CAGERS STRUGGLE to get the basketball under control and Uintah Utes in the pictujgare: , left to right, Cindy Anderson, Tia Liebhardt and ShellieBelcher. Liebhardt scored ten points I 1 1 1 1 ,,, -,u(!iii .tJJajjt; The Uintah Ute girls varsity basketball team finished with a dreadful mark of 0-20, but there are Mime highlights of a zero win season. The Ute girls, twice, lost games by one point. The Uintah girls lost 32-31 to Altamonf and 52 to 51 in overtime to Moffat County of Craig, Colorado. A win in cither one of those games could have knocked the zero out of the Ute win column. Uintah's team before the season began had very little experience, but now after 20 games under their belts the Ute players have a great deal of experience to help them in ball ' s i : - t i V S -Mr! i i; . V I Z-J. .U LJ .u Ik I -v- i 15, ms games next season. Many times during games the Uintah Uin-tah varsity team was way behind , but they never gave up and kept on hustling after loose balls. They fought tooth and nail for rebounds and although they didn't score many points in their games they kept on fighting for the ball. The Ute varsity team was short in the height department with their tallest girls being June Anderson, Shellie Belcher and Andra Pope and toward the end of the season these girls started getting more and more confident about driving to the hoop for points. They battled with the taller and bigger girls from opposing schools and did their best Anderson, Belcher and Pope are only juniors. A basketball team has to have size to compete against the big schools like Provo, Mountain View, Orem, Timpview and American Fork. The Ute girls played well at times, but couldn't keep it going for a whole game. One example was the Uintah game with Provo in Vernal. The Uintah Uin-tah team played well in the first quarter as they grabbed a 7-4 lead, but Provo took over and won the in Uintah's loss to Timpview. The Ute varsity girls finished with a record of. 0-20, but should have a lot of players back for next year. game by a large margin. The Utah County schools had too many players, to throw at the Utes and many of the Uintah players were just getting the basketball skills fine tuned. The Utes had good outside shooters in Cindy Anderson and Tia Liebhardt, but had problems getting other players to score consistently in double figures. The good news is that the Ute varsity varsi-ty team should have a number of players back with a lot of game experience. ex-perience. Seven players saw action in the varsity game with Timpview for the Uintah Utes and only two of the seven, Cindy Anderson and Tia Liebhardt, are seniors. Juniors, June Anderson, Jennifer Huber, Shellie Belcher and Andra Pope and sophomore, Laura Camigie, should be back next year. Many other players on this year's varsity and junior varsity teams were juniors and sophomores. Cindy Anderson turned in a fine season ending game for the Uintah Utes against Timpview, Tuesday. She led the Ute team with 17 points. She fired in seven field goals and hit 3 out of 3 free throws. She had only two points in the first quarter, but came alive in the point scoring world with four points each in the second and third quarters and seven points in the fourth quarter. Another senior, Liebhardt poured in ten points for the Uintah Utes in the game against Timpview on five field goals. She pumped in two field goals in the second se-cond quarter and three in the third quarter. Non-senior players, Anderson, Ander-son, Huber, Belcher, Pope and Car-nigie Car-nigie combined for 15 points in the game. Anderson had five points, Belcher; 4 and Huberr Pope, Car-" nigie,2. - . The Uintah Utes lost by 29 points in their game against Timpview, but the good news was that they had seven players score in the ball game. The two seniors combined for 27 points and the juniors and fine sophomore hit for 15 points. The hope for next year is that the five can increase in-crease their point scoring production. produc-tion. Playing teams like Provo, Timpview, Timp-view, Mountain View, American Fork and Orem is tough, but it is even rougher for an inexperienced basketball basket-ball crew as there is no mercy shown in the basketball wars. The Utes would play well at times, but scoring droughts just doomed them to defeat. Uintah scored only two points in the first quarter against Timpview and quickly found themselves behind by 18 points. The Utes scored 14 points In the second se-cond quarter, 12 in the third and 14 in the fourth quarter, but could never recover from the first quarter disaster. If the first quarter was destroyed and only the Second, third and fourth quarters counted then the score would have been a clwer SI to 40 for Ttmpvirw. However, the game Of ba.vkclhatl ComUU Of four quartrrs and Ihrre good quarter and one terrible quarter doesn't help much in the winning world. J-A Towney f tnUh's Region ? buddies have been doing well In the 3 A boys Mate tournament so far. Mountain View and Provo advance! into ih Semifinal and TirnpvieW just barely tni.Med reaching the emifinaU Mountain View, fourth place team from Itegion 7, Hprd tlen Lomo?id, Wednesday and Pfovo thumped Pfilen. fAM Judge Memorial niptd Timpview, 70 3, In double overtime, t'leacanl Grme, a Nfttef Rrgiafl J mird-fr, vp1 t-'Sf l.nrf, y I'l 41 Judge'i prnnl guard Tony Cofd'na f it a jump jh4 ilh t o Mf ond left in the ?en. pvetlime to lift the t iUd tJ a nno point in nrf Tirnpvirw. The P-uUdM were tW4 Ml lat rw4 Ma in IN Njrifi rj iarirf and l.rM metlime, but the I'lird tsfr.e Jm? cfcartn ertre U the U"? rd Ml a 12 biret v in te game. Tom I i!e. Jn 'ce i $ ? imgti cd j t 'ga Jk?mnffl 32 pnsnU d"in H ff fwj'vl? T;" jni s I ave P.pvr$ firH in 21 p t ff kl a el -.o mr- l.-no t'l h''.'h in the fj ;ar'f- Jf-p i,-jHa-;n Vr Pry. cff fi9. 5 4 6 1 frt 1 d.r;n'H t-e in fvn r'i f -;r1 lo a '' r-- ;h p"'t rn t.-r-d UTE CAGER Tia Liebhardt attempts to move away from a number of opposing hoopsters during a recent ball game. The young Utes gained a great deal of game time this year. The Uintah Ute varsity girls ended the season just like it began with a loss as they dropped a 71-42 game to the Thunderbirds at Timpview High School in Provo, Tuesday to end up with 0 wins and 20 losses. Uintah opened the season with a loss at Union High School in Roosevelt. Uintah suffered scoring depression right off as Timpview snared a 20 to 2 lead in the first quarter. Cindy Anderson scored Uintah's only two points in the first quarter on a field goal. Andrus was the number one point gainer for Timpview in the first quarter with ten points on four field goals and two free throws. Raisor was sharp in the first quarter with eight points on four field goals. - Williams added two counters. - The Utes recovered in the second quarter as they outscored Timpview, 14 to 11 to slice the Thunderbird lead to 15 points at 31 to 16. Anderson and Tia Liebhardt led the Uintah team in the second quarter with four points each on two field goals. June Anderson, Shellie Belcher, Andra Pope and Carniage added two points each. Andrus was the number one point producer for Timpview in the second quarter with five points on two field goals and one free throw. Gardner scored four points on two field goals. The Uintah team scored 12 points in the third quarter, but Thunder-birds Thunder-birds exploded for 21 points to lake a 24 point advantage of 52 28. Liebhardt had the hot hand for the Utes in the third quarter with six points on three field goals. Cindy Anderson added four points on two field goals and tklcher flipped in two counters. Andrus and Cardnrr led Timpview in the third quarter with six points on three field goats each. Lines fired In three points, llaisor, Clark and Williams added two counters. The finish team scored 14 points in the fourth quarter, but 19 points by the Thunderbirds made the final store 71 to 42 in lavor of Timpview. tCP SCCPL? C-'lf :Vt:n, tcti'l. A:n hi hs J r' r ' 1 t : , . . 1 . .. , ' - i : . - . I t '"Swrf- "ZZymm " , ... - I 'A, ft' IV drop C. Anderson ripped the nets in the fourth quarter for the Uintah crew with seven points on two field goals and three free throws. J. Anderson added three pointson one field goal and one free throw. Jennifer Huber popped in two points. Williams and Andrus led Timpview with six points. Benerth scored four points and Raisor added three counters. C. Anderson led the Uintah Utes with 17 points. She poured in seven field goals and hit 3 out of 3 free throws. Liebhardt fired in five field goals for ten points. J. Anderson added add-ed five points. She flipped in two field goals and hit 1 out of 2 free throws. Belcher scored four points. Huber, Pope and Carnigie popped in two points. Uintah converted 6 out of 10 free throws. - Timpview's Andrus was the number one point producer in the ball game with 27 points. She poured in ten field goals and hit 7 out of 10 free throws. Raisor added 13 points. She fired in five field goals and hit 3 out of 4 free throws. Gardner and Williams pumped in five field goals each for ten points. Benerth added four points and Lines flipped in three points. Stonely and Clark tossed in two points. Timpview fired in 11 out of 19 free throws. Uintah's junior varsity team lost to Timpview by the score of 48 to 27. The game was close after one quarter as Timpview owned only a one point lead of 10 9. However, a two point performance In the second quarter by the Utes and a 13 point showing by Timpview gave the Thunderbirds a 23 to 11 lead. The Ute JV team continued con-tinued to have scoring problems In the third quarter as they scored only two points and Timpview poured In 15 for l 38 13 lead. The Utes outscored Timpview, 14 to 10 In the fourth quarter, but lost the game by 21 points. Andy Cntton was the top f intah scorer at 13 points, Murl Ward pumped in five counters and Pc ad-d-d four points. Harmon cored three points end Katy Wclr flipped In two counters. r t-M. frl fc f- t?'l d:n -e U'ss 17 r-r' iii |