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Show Page 14 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. December 20. 1994 Combine for 34 led Union to win over Carbon Dinos N ielsenN ielson By Aldon Raehde The "Similar Name Gang, Jenni Nielson and Jeanie Nielsen combined for 34 points and led a second half charge with several starters sitting on the bench due in foul trouble to give Union High win School, a 61-4- 7 over Carbon in Roosevelt, Tuesday. Nielson pumped in 19 to led the Lady Cougar team and Nielaen added 15. The rest of the "Similar Name Gang Julie Nielaen scored two and Jolene Nelson one. Union will battle Morgan on the road, Tuesday, December 20. A tough Union press gave Carbon hoop depression as steals gave the Cougars easy buckets and ignited rallies in both halves. "We played our beat defense all season because of our tough press, which was awesome. We worked hard to get the key buckets and steals to help us out," said Jenni Nielson. Carbon was in charge for most of the first quarter, but Union rallied in the second to taka a good sixe lead. However, the Cougars collapsed oiv. offense in the final minutes to fall behind 25-2- 4 at the half. The Dinos put the Cougar defense into extinction with free throws and the hot shooting hand of Julia Swasey for an 8--3 advan- tage. Carbon waa up by five with two minutes left in the first quar-- l ter, but the first member of the Union "Similar Name Gang"-N- o. 20 Jenni Nielson buried the Dino bunch in lightning fashion with a three-pointewhich waa quickly to tie up followed by a the game at 8--8. Carbon's No. 20 Ali Gressman delivered a knockout punch to a first quarter UHS rally by hitting a layup with three Dino seconds left for a two-poilead of 10-Union and Carbon were tied three times in the early minutes of the second quarter, and then the "Similar Name Gang plus Kim 23-1- 8 Gayler struck for a five-poibroke Cougar advantage. Gayler tie with a bucket and a 16-1- 6 Rebecca Riser fired a perfect pass to Nielsen, who added two free throws. Nielson popped in two and Jolene Nelsod converted oheoutbf two charity tosses. The Cougars lead was chewed non-leag- ESCAPING BALL-Uni- on Lady Cougar Julie Nielsen, left, battles with Carbon Dinos for control of the high flying basketball. Also in the picture is Jenni Nielson. Union beat Carbon in a nonleague game last week, but lost contests to Enterprise and Hurricane at the SUU Tournament. - - j Altamont conquer East Carbon ; By Aldon Rackdt The Altamont Lady Longhorn finally played a game with East Carbon that waa scheduled way back on November 18 and cancelled because of a snow storm, and the wait waa worth it with Altamont defeating East Carbon at AHS, 49 to 35, Wednesday evening, December 14. Three nights later, Green River nipped Altamont in the in overtime. Longhorn gym, 42-40, Altamont had a good start by jumping out to a 13-- 9 first quarter lead. The Longhoma scored only eight points in the second quarter, but the Vikings did the and Altamont led 7 at the half. The Lady Longhorns got their offense operating in high gear in the second half as they ropisd the hoop for 28 with 14 in each quarter. East Carbon scored ten, but Altamont scored four more to increase its lead to eight at 21-1- 35-2- 7. Altamont put the finishing touches on East Carbon with 14 counters as compared to only eight by the Vikings to win by 14 points, 49-3Fourteen was Altamonts lucky number as they scored 14 in both quarters and won by 14. 5. Wednesday, December 21 as they will host Altamont. Altamont led 6--3 and 26-1- 3 at the half. However, the Lady Longhorns scored only four points in the third quarter while Green River pumped' in 13. Green River in the Altamont, 11-fourth to force the game into overtime where they scored five and the Longhorns just three. Burdick was the top Altamont scorer at eight points and Jessen scored six. . out-scor- Heartfelt Thanks We appreciate your friendship and support. Merry Christmas to one and all. Basin Pawn Shop 7, two-point- er er "Our .attitude and desire to win was too strong to allow us to lose," said Jeanie Nielsen. "We had some players in foul trouble, but we regrouped and worked to pull through with the win." The Cougars were up by 13. However, the Dinos came back from the basketball death to narrow the with two gap to just five at minutes remaining. Once again the "Similar Name Gang phis a "Similar First Name" eager, Jenny Werry (Jenni, Jeanie, Jolene, Julie, Jenny) and Gayler ended the Dinos Just in ( ! ' the Dinosaur up faster thuT-Re- x feasting on a. bone 'as Carbon in the final t outacored Union, two minutes to take a 4 half-- . time advantage. Swasey connected bucket with 1:17 on the to go and then everyones game went into hoop extinction with aero points in the last minute. No. 00, Stacy lupo crossed out the double sens at the foul line ' and Swasey swished the net for a to put Carbon in 4 command at early in the third quarter. Union appeared to be in deep trouble as RLwr, Tina Osborne had four fouls and were on the bench. However, the "Similar Name Gang" came to the rescue with Jeanie 52-4- 7 25-2- two-point- er 29-2- ) TOP SCORER-Uni- on High Schools Jenni Nielson, center, fires the ball toward the basket. Nielson teamed with Jeanie Nielsen to lead Union to a win over Carbon last week. non-leag- ue .ALTERNATOR & STARTER i Eagles bury EXCHANGE Lady Miners I O 722-358- Alternators, Generators, Starters Farm, Industrial, Domestic & Foreign I 290 East 200 South Roosevelt, 9 Office Phone Located with.... 8 .1 mm mm mm u mm mm Utah Automotive & mm mm m 'Duchesnes Lady Eagles improved their record to 1 by schools, Park City defeating and Uintah last week. The Eagles 7-- 1 Rod's Mini Lube . Clarin D. 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It is not unusual to see 30 or more eagles in the same most tree, usually" large'cotton-woo- d. for Bald Or mail coupon to: The Uintah Basin Standard, 268 South Main, Roosevelt, Utah 84066 I I Open Christmas Eve Until Late Afternoon V-- I Name: 5, :. time for Christmas! Please send me copies of "Stephen, A Prophet's Friend" for each Total: $ postage and handling plus $3.00 1-- A 7--1, I I 9. nt, i By rt 8. . ( mid-cou- two-point- er Rebecca Lee led Altamont with Kammie Feildsted added eight. Chella Larson tossed in six, and Jesaen, Kerri White, four. Heather Burdick and Susie Atwood popped in two points each. The Lady Longhorns fired in 17 field goals and hit 5 out of 14 free throws. ' ." goals.'' The Vikings will get a rematch, nt 1. r, 11 points, and East Carbons top sewer was Abcyta at 18 counters. The Lady Vikings tossed in 16 out of 32 free throws and pumped . in 9 field ue comeback hopes. Werry pumped in a field goal and free throw to give lead late in the Union an eight-poigame. Following high semen Nielson and Nielsen were Gayler, 8; Osborne, 6; Werry, 5; Riser, 3. Swasey led Carbon with 16. Union was downed by one at half and by five early in the third quarter and Coach Mike Ross said, "I told our plqyers they were a better team and that it was up to them if they wanted to take control Our foil court press took Carbon out of their game. We stopped their fostbreak and then had trouble getting the ball acroaa line." the The Cougars dropped two games at the SUU Tournament with setbacks to Enterprise, 54-4- 5 and Enterprise led Hurricane, 57-325-1- 8 at the half, and a five point third quarter killed any Union comeback. Jenni Nielson led Union with 18. Union waa behind by four, 29-2but scored only two in the third and 12 in the fourth to lose to Hurricane. Jenni Nielson led Union with 11. Nielaen and Jenni Nielson leading a scoring parade to the hoop. Two buckets by Nielsen and Gayler put Union up by seven at 38-3Union continued its "Hoop with Jenny Werry hitting a layup, and "Similar Name Gang members hitting for "Hoop Paydirt". Julie Nielsen pumped in a and then Jenni Nielson rattled the with cage by hittinb a three-pointone second left for a 47-3- 4 third quarter Cougar advantage. I Address: & i Don't Miss Our New Location 280 S. 200 E., Roosevelt 722-237- 3 Daytime bakl eagle roosts are often high in remote mountain protected from humans where visibility is excellent. r! |