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Show ; , J I i U ;, fill rli , Drew Pierce (12) goes for the block Utes win Dinos and Bulldogs come The Uintah Utes boys basketball bas-ketball played their final preseason game on Jan. 3 before beginning region play on the 5th. The Wednesday night game ended Uintah 59 to Carbon's 53. Coach Scott Mansfield said that his team was a little rusty after the one week break. "I thought we took some quick shots that were not very Carlyn White (10) dishes off the ball Lady Utes take In sports occasionally a game takes place that everyone cringes when one team has to lose.' Friday, against Judge Memorial, Me-morial, the Lady Utes lost such a game. Although it was Judge and not Uintah who came out victorious, no one can say that it was because of a lack of effort. ef-fort. The game took four quarters quar-ters and then four overtimes to finally decide that the final score would be Judge 45 to Uintah's Uin-tah's 36. In the history of Utah eirl's basketball onlv one other I 4 against Carbon. and lose games smart in the first half. We were out of sync offensively and missed a lot of shots and free throws that we usually make." The team was 9-37 from the field during the first half. Defensively the Utes had a hard time staying out of foul trouble. Curtis Hatamaki fouled out in the fourth. Mansfield thought the team never really caught up with during the Judge game. game lasted as long, a 1994 State Playoff game, Alta vs. Davis. . Coach Shannon Johnson, in the true character of a sportsman, sports-man, said, "I tip my hat to both teams for their competitive spirit and determination. The' crowd was tremendous and we appreciated the support There were a lot of players from both teams who made big plays .. . In the end it came down to what I said at the first of the year, it's all about possessions, taking care of the basketball, and do the Dinos defensively. Drew Pierce and Brandon Beech each scored 11 points. However, it was Pierce's ability to get the ball inside that contributed con-tributed the most, finishing the night with 4 assists. Scoring close to half the team's points, Griffin Brady was unstoppable unstop-pable from his post position with 25. He added 9 rebounds, 4 blocks and 2 steals. The near ios In ing the little things." He then added that, "in the end it was Judge who did the better job in these things." : The game kept every member mem-ber of the audience on the edge of their seats, silent at times and screaming at other times. The Utes kept it close throughout, through-out, but it was in the fourth that the tension began to build. With 2:44 left on the clock Uintah was down four, 30-26. By 1:21, Uintah had tied the game at 30, the final score coins into the first over- 'towtri 1 A? WAS ; J r '.' I Goalie Dustin Holmes watches while Boedy Searle and Easton Murray line up to stop the goal. PeeWee Raptors take two wins Vernal PeeWee hockey players hosted the Craig, Colo. Cougars Saturday, Jan. 6. The Vernal Raptors bested both games with scores of 3-1 and 8-1. In the first game Craig shot their only goal in the first minute min-ute with a comeback from Kayla Richardson assisted by Chad Whitmire. Brenton Stewart made goal number two unassisted unas-sisted and also number three with assists from Jarrett Urban and Beau Polya. ' , ; ' In the second game, again Craig made their first and only goal in the first minute. Stewart scored, assisted by Urban and Easton Murray. At a face-off in the second period, Urban scored with an assist from Stewart and 22 seconds sec-onds later repeated the move for goal number three. The next three goals were also made by Urban, all in quick succession during a power play. He received assists from Chad Whitmire and Pua Rasmussen and one unassisted. Brenton est to Brady's 9 rebounds was a tie between three Utes with 2 rebounds apiece. Mansfield explained, "It was good for us to play so poorly and still find a way to win." He believed the game to be a good learning experience and hoped that it would help them prepare pre-pare for Friday's game against Judge. Unfortunately, Uintah Nicole Brady (15) prepares to take a time. ' .: ;,- . Four minutes and the first overtime later the game had changed only by two points, the scoreboard how reading 32-32. The second overtime ended with a repeat, Judge scored their two with a pair of foul shots and Uintah made a tough shot, but the score still showed a tie 34-34. The third overtime copied the first two recording four points, and ending 36-36. In the fourth, Uintah began to tire and Nicole Bradv alona with Cris Cochran when totown 1 1 " r II il M - record tvina . a - - 4? a 'J V Stewart scored next and Urban brought in the 8th and final goal, assisted by Boedy Searle and Stewart. Other team members inlcud-ed inlcud-ed Kirk Batty, Zachary Moore, Pua Rasmussen stretches out for the looked far from ready for their Friday night game. Instead, it was "Judge r who- showcased why they are picked to win the region and ran away with the game 74-47. The game featured much of the same poor shooting shoot-ing for Uintah, but Judge was far superior at taking advantage advan-tage of mistakes. Mansfield stated that some missed shots, that should have been easy baskets, hurt the Ute's confidence. confi-dence. The result for the Utes was a failure to take advantage of defensive breakdowns and poor patience in shot selection. shot against Judge Memorial fouled out Uintah was unable to score a basket, allowing Judge the opportunity to finally jump ahead by 9 points. Amy Parkinson led the scoring scor-ing with 11 points and Nicole Brady had 9 points. Brady led the rebounding with an astounding 14 rebounds and Parkinson scooped up 5. On the defensive side Brady and Parkinson led with Brady collecting col-lecting 6 steals and Parkinson getting 5 blocks to go with her 3 steals. Marissa McKeachnie hit V f w- - ' ' W Wednesday, January 10, 2007 CI Carson Parslow, Ashley Luck, Austin Anders, Denim Simper and goalie Dustin Holmes. The PeeWees are coached by Wayne Simper and Dwayne Richardson. puck. Mansfield believed his team to have been very poor -on defense, giving Judge easy- . breakaway baskets. Mansfield attributed the fast break points to the fact that Uintah committed commit-ted too many players inside, hoping to stop the Bulldog's big man. Griffin Brady led the scoring scor-ing with 19 points, Brandon Beech had 11. Brady neared a double-double with 9 rebounds. However, the remaining Utes continued their poor rebound: ing with the nearest to Brady grabbing only 2 rebounds. two three-pointers. . Region 10 is the region to watch in girls basketball, with four teams ranked in the Salt Lake Tribune's top 10. Every game has the potential to become be-come a four overtime deadlock. This weekend Uintah willmatch up against Morgan. Morgan is undefeated and ranked first, but Johnson doesn't count his girls out He hopes to end Morgan's 41 reeion wins streak. |