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Show Page SPORT 16 - December 14. 1999 Uintah Basin Standard volleyball honors. They are: Wyann Duchesne County girts recently pocketed TOP NETTERS-Loc- al Weidman, No. 44, Altamont; Janae Van Tavell, Tabiona: Lisa Stringham. Tabiona: Jackie Labrum. Jackie left is Morrill, Katy Fieldsted. Union, left to right Not pictured is Kerri Jo Skewes. Duchesne. The girl on the far from Manila. all-st- ar DHS Lady Eagles nip Braves on field goal by Ivie in final minute By Aldon Rachel Duchesne High Schools Lady win Eagles pulled off a one-poilast week when they nipped North The Summit in Coalville, 48-4Eagles led 2 after one quarter, but North Summit had advantages of 31-2- 2 and 39-3- 2 before Duchesne rallied by outscoring tha Lady Braves in the fourth quarter, 16-to take the victory. nt 7. 13-1- 8, AHS Boys 3-- 0 first prints at the game. A few minutes later, Karri Jo Skewes fires the ball to Amy Bleazard and the Eagles get another basket. The North Summit Braves cause the ball to go out of bounds; Wight tosses it in to Tiffany Ivie and the score ia 4 Duchesne. The Lady Eagles are on a roll when Jennifer Nielsen throws the ball to Skewes for a 10-- 4 score in Duchesne's favor. Then a cold chill invades the court as Duchesne's coach, Clel Robinson, receives a technical. North Summit methodically fights back to finish the quarter 13-1with Duchesne barely in the lead. In the second quarter, fouls allow North Summit to pull ahead 21-1- 3. Good defense stops the Eagles raid until Wight finds Carrie Hill for a basket Nielsen goes up strong for two and is fouled but the Braves and Jennifer Ivie, Allen one each. quickly respond with a basket of Duchesne tossed in 17 field goals their own. "By halftime, both teams are in and was 12 out of 29 from the charfoul trouble and the North Summit ity stripe. 31-2North Summit's Altamonts Male Longhorns led team leads 36-151-2- 6 19-and 70-4- 5 vs. point guard, Julie Morrill, plays an North Summit Altamont'e great excellent game and challenges the start of 19 prints guided them to the Eagles. The Eagles don't warm up until near the end of the third quarvictory. of Altamont ter when Ivie charges down the court Tate Sorenson burned the net for 23 pointa and and whips the ball to Nielsen who finds the basket Duchesne starts to Joey Meeks and Oman added 12. narrow the gap but the buzzer ends tossed 11. scored in Dastrup Taylor 39-3nine and Burton two. Stansfield the third quarter 2 North Sum- Jennifer Nielsen led Duchesne with 18 points. She had two assists and nine rebounds. Karri JoSkewee tossed in 11 points, five steals and four rebounds. Tiffany Ivie added 10 pointa for the Eagles. account of the A game by Eagle fan Sue Wight follows: "The pace is set at the beginning of the game when Johanna Wight steals the ball, drives it down the court for an easy layup and the play-by-pl- 7-- ay 2 Altamont topples DHS, in wild one-poigame nt By Aldon Rachel Altamont High School's Lady and Male Longhorns picked up their third wins of the season last week, but the ladies had a tougher time. the They just nipped arch-riva- l, Fart in Duchesne by one point, 1 Friday. Duchesne took a one- it lead, but Altamont hit a shot with two seconds left to win the game. The men hoopsters breesed win over North to an easy 70-4- 5 Summit in Coalville on the same The Altamont Lady day to go Longhorns are 3-1 owned a Duchesne (2-edge after one quarter, and then Altamont outacored the Eagles, 13-to lead 24-2- 0 at the end. The Lady Longhorns pumped in 12 and held Duchesne to nine in the third quarter for p : ije. However, 3-- 0. 1. 12-1- 8, Duchesne rallied back. They 1 outacored Altamont, in the fourth quarter to lose a wild game to the Longhorns by only one point Kenna Fisher hit a jump shot from the side with two seconds to go. The only time Duchesne led was with 14 seconds left ADuchesne girl made a five throw, missed the second one, but Skewes got the rebound and threw up a ahot while sitting on the floor. She hit her falling down basket to put Duchesne up by one." said Altamont coach Brent 17-1- 12-fo- ot 2. 5, scored one print. Gardner and Louder did most of the hoop noise for North Summit with ten counters s each. Oman and Taylor hit three-printer- for Altamont. Altamonts Male Longhorns were n ranked No. 4 in a Region 16 ranking by the Salt Lake Tribune. Altamont will hoat Union's JV, Tuesday and South Summit, Friday. Altamonts girls will battle Carbon, Thursday in Altamont Duchesne will battle the Lady Rebels at Rich Tuesday and will host Tabiona Thursday. pre-easo- mit "The Stockton-to-Maloteam of Ivie and Nielsen dominate the fourth quarter and bring Duchesne within four points of North Summit The game becomes a he arts topper as the Lady Braves lose two of their key players to fouls and the Eagles quickly turn it to their advantage. Nielsen goes for two and brings the with Eagles within one print, 47-41:30 to go. Bleazard blocks a critical Braves shot and Ivie makes the final basket for a final score of 48-4- 7 in favor of the Duchesne ladies. ne 6, nt 3. three-printer- 6 McCairns 3-Poin- ters Union great finish ruined by slow start in first quarter last second shot; but they By Aldon Rachel A poorbeginning killed offa great finish and wasted tha "Half Dozen Three-PriBombing Attack by Union's Brayden McCaims in the Male Cougars 65-6- 3 overtime loss to highly ranked Emery, Wednee-da- y in Roosevelt. The Cougars fell behind 9--0 end found themselves in a deep 20-- 9 Grand Canyon size hole at the end of the first quarter. Emery was still in command with a 29-1- 5 edge, but then McCairns performed some hoop magic for Union. Ho burned the in the Spartans four three-printefinal two minutes to dose the gap to seven prints, 38-3at tha half to remind Emery that their net work wasn't going to be easy. It still appeared the game wes going to be a breeze for Emery. They entered the fourth quarter with a nine-priHowever, edge of 49-4- 0. Union Mew away the Spartan advantage with B. McCairns creating a hoop wind due to a three-printand then two free throwa to knot up the game at 51-5Jeese Fieldsted and Cody Fisher hooked np some two-prigems for a Union lead of 55-5- 2, which had Emery asking, Who are those Guys?" Some poor ball handling and a or two caused Union lead to vanish, and Emery took advantage at tiie foul line with Brad S til son and Brad Roundy putting the round bell through the net three out of four times for a Spartan lead of 58-5However, Union wasn't ready to click on the TV for highlights of SportsCenter or check out tha latest Clint Eastwood movie. B. McCairns showed off his gunslinging skills by bomb to tie firing up e three-priup the game at 58-5- 8 with 29 seconds left. Union had an opportunity for a nt rs 1, Brotherson. He added, --Altamont led by aa much as 12 points in the fourth quarter, but we had three starters foul out Both teams played hard for the game. We (Altamont) were lucky to come out ahead. Duchesne made some and we missed some good shots, which enabled them to catch us. Duchesne kept coming back with . a point here and a point there. nt er 1. Thayne and Sorenson led Altamont with 11 points. Tew pumped in nine, Fisher eight and Weidman seven. Altamont fired in nt 14 field goals and was 17 for 32 from foul line. Thayne and Fisher the tossed in one three-pointeach. Jennifer Nielsen was the top Eagle point gainer at 11 prints and Johanna Wight pumped in 10. Tiffany Ivie tossed in nine and Karri Jo Skewes and Amy Bleazard added six each. Laura Wight scored two Three-PoiLOOKOUT BELOW-Unio- n's Bomber, Bmyden McCaims, No. 10, decides to go for an easy shot but sadly an Emery player gets his body in the way. No call was made for a charge or block. McCaims struck for s, but his Union team lost to Emery in overtime, 6S-6hoop gold with six no-ca- ll er SHOOTING HOPES-Unio- ns one. which he did with a Cody Fisher, right hopes he hooks a big three-poi- nt gem. Men's Basketball Fee: $200 (per team) Limited To The First 12 Paid Teams. You Must be 17 years or older to play in this league. Deadline: December 31, 1999 Play Begins: January 4, 2000 Contact Roosevelt City for More Details 722-500- 1 5. nt 1 SMsteessseesas turned-th- e bell ever with Emery taking, and missing a half court shooting attempt with only seconds remaining to put the game into overtime. Emery muscled its way to a 61-5- 8 lead behind an offensive move by 6-- 8 Roundy. Terrel Denver and Brad Whits fouled out trying to atop the biggujr. This time it waa tha other brother's turn to shine. Kason McCairns hit a turn around jumper that placed Union within one at Nick Behunin put Emery up by three again at 0 on a shot from the top of ths key. However, Union refused to quit with B. McCairns popping in two free throws that had Union hack within one at 2 and making Emery more nervous than Kan Malones motorcycle repairman. Emery gained help from its best friend-t- he free throw. They hit 2 61-6- 0. 63-6- 63-6- i it 65-- t Union was fouled and still had hoop life. Fisher was at tha line and netted one free throw to make the score 65-6- 3, and then he miaeed the second one on purpose. However, Union's dream of a game tying field goal died with Emery's Roundy bagging the rebound to hold on to a 65-6- 3 win. B. McCairns led Union with 24 t prints. Besides hie six gvmi he connected on a and was 4 for 5 from the foul line. Denver and Fisher finished with ten counters. Denver scored all nine of Union's first quarter prints. K. McCairns added seven and Matt three-prin- two-point- er Wenry six. Fieldsted Beared four and Dye two. Union pumped in 21 field goals and was 14 for 18 from the charity strip. Roundy led Emery with 28 points. Ha hit just aix field goals, but hurt Union tha moat at tha foul lint by Jordan assttmsstssssssssttssseeississsMSM ' going 16 for 19. Stilson added 10 from-th- e was for 25 35 Emery prints. foul line. Union will compete in the Green River Tournament in Wyoming, December 17-1end will host Grantsville, December 21 and Snow Canyon, December 30. 8, Union athlete shoots herself in the toe By Aldon Rachel BasketballArolleyballsoflball tar, Jackia Morrill took up a new sport, Saturday, December 4, and shot herself in the toe while rabbit hunting in the local area. She was warded a scholarship to play volleyball for the University of Utah. Morrill, one of only two seniors, missed the Cougars second basketball game of the season, and will be out for two weeks. If any problems develop she might not return to the court for more than a month. She was treated at a local hospital and is taking antibiotics. Jackie thought she had the 22 rifle on safety, but it wasn't, and when she put it back in the truck it went off. She didn't know she shot herself in the foot The bullet hit the bone in her large right toe, said Jackie's mother, Michelle Morrill. She stayed off her foot for a couple of days and ia being careful while trying to make sure the toe doesn't get inflected. The hole in her toe should heal up. Although the accident ia a serious matter, there ia a humorous aide to the story . Her mother added, Students are razzing her about the incident, and they want to change her uniform number to 22. ttststsMSsaaistttsesssssssieits Roosevelt City Recreation Boys Basketball Utali Jazz Grades 7th - 12tli ' f -- r j wr V In.? i Fee: $35.00 . Sign Up Now! Deadline: December 17, 1999 Coaches Needed! |