Show Altamont Downs Cougars In Thrilling Overtime Contest As Nyberg Uintah Takes Lead By Dumping Tabby In a thrill-packed hour of baU last Friday night the favorite Longhorns from dumped the Cougars from Union to set up the Utes from Uintah as possessors of first place in the 2 week old Basin cage They beat Tabiona at Vernal-It took a regular plus a ii-minute overtime period for Altamont to do something they had never been able to do before beat Union on their home Those 35 minutes of actual playing were filled with chills and side-line excite Two individuals stood out vividly in the and both were from Altamont A blond-haired dynamo named Pete Nyberg literally ran the Cougars to death as he dropped 21 points through the hoop for high scoring honors The other stand-out in the contest was Pete's who kept and fans pretty well up during the entire contest with his constant protests of game Deserved To Win Pete Nyberg and his Altamont kids deserved to win Friday's game as they out-fought the taller Cougars all the way After trailing the first Pete began a display of hustling and the likes of which hasn't been seen in the Basin since the days of Packy His floor-work was beautiful and his shooting was sensational he was just about perfect The climax of the game was a single foul by Pete in the last 30 seconds of the over-time that broke a and gave him and his team a win they were entitled to After trailing 5 points with about 5 minutes left to and never able to close the Coach Glen who had played a zone defense all the sent in Shirl Rawlings with instructions to throw a full-court press against the This sudden change of style did the trick Shirl stole the bal-l in mid-court and drib bled in for a and Kenny Benson hit a beautiful side shot to tie the game up at 39 as the regular contest After the brief rest the Cougars drew first blood as Clarence Beal hooked a beauty for a brief PauL Hislop tied it all up again with a pot shot from Then Kenny Benson was charged with his fifth and Pete Nyberg calmly sank the first shot from the foul which was enough for the Defensively Strong The smaller Altamont kids did an excellent defensive job against Union as they repeatedly came off the boards with the allowing the Cougars one shot which spoiled the tap-in work of Beal and Gordon who have been effective in this f TEAM STANDING W L Uintah 2 0 Union 1 1 Altamont 1 1 Tabiona 0 1 Duchesne 0 1 Last Week's Results Altamont Union 41 Uintah Tabiona 31 THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE Duchesne at Vernal Altamont at Tabiona Union at Manti Union at The loss for Union and win over little Tabiona left the Utes atop the with Union and Altamont tied for This week Duchesne travels to Vernal and Tabiona will play host to the Longhorns Union travels I to Manti for a game with the Tem-I piers on then back to Heber City Saturday to play the Despite the heavy score Uintah ran up on the hushing Tigers from the state's smallest I made a pretty good ball game out of Their Nolen Giles I with 19 was high scorer I in the contest He was followed by j Phil Ute who dunked 16 from the field Uintah comes to Roosevelt on January 25 for a contest that might tell a lot of the story of Basin Basketball The box ALTAMONT G T F P Iorg 0 10 0 Tew 0 10 0 Hansen 0 2 11 Hislop 3 0 0 6 Maxfield 15 3 5 Drollinger 3 4 3 9 Nyberg 9 5 3 21 TOTAL 16 18 10 42 UNION G T F P Dye 13 3 5 Moulton 0 0 0 0 Belion 0 0 0 0 Bascom 6 5 3 15 Beal 2 3 15 Benson 4 2 2 10 Ross 0 3 2 2 Curry 10 0 2 2 McDonald 0 2 0 0 TOTALS 15 19 11 41 Altamont 7 19 30 39 42 Union 9 14 25 39 41 TABIONA G T F P Ivie 12 2 4 Carlisle 0 0 0 0 Giles 8 11 3 19 Casper 14 13 Pace 0 10 0 Webb 0 0 0 0 Sizemore 1 11 3 5 TOTAL 11 29 9 31 UINTAH G T F P Grimme 2 0 0 4 Stone 14 3 7 Labrum 3 2 17 Caldwell 3 2 0 6 Had lock 4 5 1 Bryson 8 0 0 16 Campbell 2 2 15 M. Lee 4 4 3 11 L. Lee 2 2 15 McCarrel 0 10 0 Sutton 2 0 0 4 TOTAL 31 22 10 72 Tabiona 3 15 25 31 Uintah 11 32 50 72 |