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Show SPORTS Page 6 December 5. 3XX) 1 f i Uintah Basin Standard SURROUNDED LONGHORN-Ahamon- t's top scorer, T ate Soreiuen, left has plenty of company while attempting to get close to the basket. All the pressure didn't work as Sorensen poured in 33 points in the Longhorns four-poiwin over Panguitch, which gave Altamont revenge for two losses (first and List of the season) to the Bobcats last year. nt UP AND A WA Stevenson jets upward on his way to the basket for a high fly ing layup for his Ahamont team, which opened the season with a win over Uintahs JV and then beat Panguitch, Saturday at home by four points. Altamont was ranked No. 2 and Panguitch No. 3 prior to the matchup. lint Tate Sorensen Scores 33 Altamont whips Uintah Utes quarter rally gives AHS 57 to 53 win over Panguitch 4th By Aldon Rachele By Aldon Rachele It waa only a game after d three quarters, and then team, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, Altamont hit one-poi-nt Last year, Panguitch had Altamonte number by giving the Longhorns their first loss in the second game of the season and then their final setback of the second-ranke- A 21 in the fourth with Uintah'a JV team out ofluck on a 67-5- lose to the Longhorns in Vernal, Tuesday, November 28 in the season opener for both teams. Altamont led 2(M 1 afterone quarter, and then both scored 17 in the second for a 37-2- 9 Longhorn lead. However, Uintah came right back to outscored Altamont, 17-- 9 in the third quarter to close the gap to one at 46-4No problem-Altamo- nt hit the jackpot as they outscored the Utes, 21-1- 4 in the fourth quarter to win by eight points. Hot shootingsoorer.Tate Sorensen waa on target once again with 26 points. Jake Oman added 13 and Joey Meeks 11. Burton added eight and Das trap aix. 1999-200- 0 9 5. nTnrvu.lv " battle for a ... . s Tate Sorensen powers his way to the top m two-point- SKI PROGRAM 2001 The Uintah Recreation District is now accepting registration for the 2001 Ski Program. This winter the ski program will be traveling to Sundance Ski Resort. The program will begin Saturday, January 20, 2000 and will run for four consecutive weeks. V Lessons and rentals w ill also he available. Buses will leave each Saturday from the Vernal Middle School at S:30 a.m. (Roosevelt particiapnts will he picked up at the Davis Jubilee parking lot at 6:00 a.m.) and will return to the school at approximately 7 :00 p.m. Cost of the program varies from S 170.00 through $260.00 (including rentals). Registrations will he accepted on a first come basis and will be taken at the recreation office located at 1 34 West Main (Chamber building). For more information please contact the Uintah Recreation District at (435)781-098- 2 Girls'cagers drop games By Aldon Rachele Both Duchesne and Altamonta lady hoops ten came out on the short end during their season opening games with Intermountain Christian and knocking off the Eagles, 54-3South Summit whipping the Lady Longhorns, Tuesday, Novem5, 62-4- ber 28.. ICS kd 20-1- 0 after one quarter 30-2at the half. The Lady Lions led 39-2- 9 going into the fourth quarter and ended up winning by 19. Tiffany Ivie was the top Eagle scorer at lSpointaand Nielsen added 12. J. Ivie and Stansfteld scored four counters. Hill added two. Newhouse led ICS with 1 1 and Armstrong scored and 1 10. SoufhSummit led of the first quarter, and tossed in 17 more in the second for a 7 edge. A. Gilbert was the top AHS scorer at 13, and Mower, Fisher added 10. Mecham scored seven and C. Gilbert four. Burton toesed in two. Mower had two and Fisher one. Tapp poured out 21 counters for South Summit 31-1- three-pointer- s Roosevelt City Recreation Boy's Basketball Utali Jazz Grades 7tli - up taking seventh. However, this time around the Male Longhorns had the Right Numbers" behind TNT scorer, Tate Sorensen's 33 point plus super defensive play in the second half by the whole team to rally Altamont to a 57-5- 3 triumph over the Bobcats, Saturday in Ahamont to shake the Panguitch hex. It was bad news for Panguitch in Duchesne County aa the night before the Bob- -' cats dropped a 54-5- 2 lots to Tabiona. Panguitch led by as much at ten points, 44-3- 4 midway in the third quarter before the Longhorns shut the don to the basket by mainly Bracken Englestead and Acey Bumingham, and then went up 52-5- 1 with 3:07 to go on a Sorensen bucket and increased it to three at 54-5- 1 on e tip in. The Bobcats scored on a layup with 59 seconds left to come within one at 54-5and the Longhorns had no fear with Sorensen hitting three out of four free throws in the final seconds to lock up a four-poiAltamont win. The Bobcats owned a 44-4- 2 advantage going into the fourth quarter, and then Sorensen showed off his reboundingacoring moves and Joey Meeks hit a layup to give Altamont its first lead at 50-4- 9 since back in the first quarter. Sorensen scored his 33 points on nine one three-pointand a 12 for 14 showing at the foul line. We (Altamont) came out flat in the first half, but we did whet we had to do to get the win, said Sorensen. As far aa rebounding goes, 1 just watched where they were shooting from and got the right angle to get the bell. Panguitch proved to be a pain for the Longhorns by jumping out to an early lead in the first quarter. Buckets by Sorensen and two free throws but put Altamont ahead 13-1Englestead had the hot hand and the right angle for three buckets with one s, er . - p - Fee: 2 2 2 a 2 2 1 Sign Up Now! Deadline: December 15, 2000 Coaches Needed! m jj&gSgigi tmttt 2 2 a 2 2 2 MiMtmm mit in Kamas. Ahamont 's next home , game will be against Rangel-- Colowill 16. boat Union December rado, Altamont, December 20. rs .Classifieds' whip SanJuan Deadline: The Altamont Longhorns picked bx defeating San Juan VP.pq 41 23. and just missed a second tri-- umph when they lost in overtime to the North Summit Braves in Altamont, Thursday, 42-4North Summit led 8-- 22-128-2- 3 before Altamont outscored them. 12-- 9 in the fourth quarter to put the game into overtime. However, the Braves scored the point they needed as they pumped in seven and held the Longhorns to six in the overtime session to win by one. Mower was the top scorer for Altamont with 13 and A. Gilbert added 11. Burton scored six and C. Gilbert four. Fisher tossed in three, and Mecham plus another Fisher, two. Mower hit 3 for Altamont. AHS fired in 10 field goal and was 12 for 34 at the foul line. Ahamont bed better luck ve. San Juan, Friday atAharooct. The Long-- a grabbed 10-- 3 lead in the first quarter and led 15-1-1 at the half. Altamont pumped in 1 1 in the third for a 28-- 9 edge and then took three-painte- 1 an controMuglime-byoutacoringS- 15 to 4 in the fourth quarter. Amber Gilbert led Altamont with Juan, 23 and Burton added eight. Ames scored seven end Mowertwo. Fisher bed one point. Altamont fired in 18 field goals and hit 9 out of 14 free throws. San Juan Ripped in 10 field goals and had a rough time at the free throw lane by going 3 for 14. Altamont waa scheduled to play the Eagles in Duchesne, Tuesday, Decemb 5 and North Summit in Coalville, Thursday. The Lfy Longhorn will have three home games in a row vs. Uintah. December 12; Range!y.Docemberl6nd Tabiona, December 21. Limited To The First 12 Paid Teams. You Must be 17 years or older to play In this league. December 29, 2000 Contact Roosevelt City for More Details 722-500- ? By Aldon Rachels ' 1 I' 44-3- 4, nt 2-- Teams that have played in the previous 2 years will have st option. .T 1 t LadyLonghorns Fee: $275 (per team) 5; A er 15 when they face South Sum- BtaslteSballl 2 2 $35.00 bar 9. The Longhorns will square off against an "Up North school. Msn's 2 2 y ten-poi- 2, 2 12tli coining at the buzzer for a 21-1- 5 edge. Next it was Buminghams tum to burn Altamont at the basket with nine second quarter points for a 29-2- 3 Bobcat sdvxntage. Clint Stevenson came offthe bench to rope some points for the Longhorns with athree-pointe- r and ajet to the hoop to bring Altamont within one at 31-3- 0 late in the first half. Panguitch scored five unanswered points to take a 36-3- 0 lead at the half. Bumingham was hotter than milk on high in the microwave withathree-poin- t lead of bomb for a and then Sorenaenjolted his team awake with (wo threes, one .the old fashioned wsy (field goal ana free throw) end the other the long range type to do the job on the Bobcats, who saw their lead drop to two and finally disappear with Altamont grabbing its second straight win to go (Ahamont beat Uintah'a JV team, Tuesday, November 28.) We passed the ball a lot better in the second half and got the rebounds k put them backin for points, said Ahamont guard, Danrin Burton. Another starter, Garrett Daatrap commented, We got revenge on Panguitch for losing to them twice last year. We played better D" and got it going in the second half. Also scoringbeside Sorensen were Stevenson, seven; Garrett Dastrap, Meeks, Darrin Burton, five, and Jake Oman, two. Altamont fired in 16 and was two three-pointe19 for 27 from the foul line. Bumingham led Panguitch with 22 counters. "We finally woke up in the second half, and changed our defense e bit," aid Altamont coach Mick Fieldsted. "I told them in the second half we had to be more intense on defense and go to the basket more on offense. We forced Panguitch to play some "D. Altamont likes playing those "Down South" teams so much that they hit the road for games this week ' against Escalante, Friday, December Sand Bryce VaOey.Saturday.Deoem- - 1 Poor L I i f I 4 |