Show i r GARRY COUGAR TITLE HOPES This group of Union High Cougars Is currently playing in Ihn Utah I Class It High School tournament now in progress In tho In They canie through with a win over Pleasant yesterday to advance to tho second round of They meet tonight at Overtime victory over Altamont gives spot Utah class Gordon Bascom hits winning basket with long shot Gordon elongated Cougar grabbed off hero last Friday night as he hit a jump shot in the sudden death overtime to beat a Altamont five and win the sixteenth place in the class B tournament that opened at Union had taken the tip-off and missed one shot before recovering the ball to give Bascom his Needless to report Gordon was just about the most popular boy on the campus after his two-pointer which the Region 8 play-off held in the Union The Cougars storied with a vengeance the first quarter to roll up an But that wasn't the way the Longhorns had it and as resumed Alan Iorg and Larry et began to bombard the hoop and control the and when the half was over run their total to 23 and held the to The rest the game was played on very even Union out in front at the end of the third and the old ball game was all knotted up at the final buzzer Period After a short rest period these two determined teams who finished the season with Union In second and Altamont in took up where they left off during the fourth Beal who had been elected captain of Cougar the night scored Ten Top Scorers In League Play GA G T F P Duchesne 8 68 31 17 Larry Tabiona 7 45 58 34 John Uintah 8 53 30 25 Grant Uintah 8 39 51 Alan Altamont 8 42 25 16 Gordon Union 8 34 38 26 94 Larry Altamont 8 37 23 15 89 Arvel Altamont 8 37 19 14 88 Gary Uintah 8 33 28 19 85 In tho photo arc Coach Ted James Clarence John Gordon Homer Coach Glen Fred Earl Terry Lynn- Neil and Bob student-team first In the but Captain Alan Iorg retaliated immediately with one of his effortless long and the score was all even again at to it into the sudden-death Evans Leads Cougars the Cougars in third win of the year over the Longhorns was the kid who came into the lineup the week before to pull the Cougar chestnuts out of the fire and win undisputed second place in the Uintah division from Altamont and the right to be hosts to the Region Eight playoff between two teams of the Emery-San Juan lit was Fred Evans who ridden the bench most of the season gave the Cougars the spark they needed to carry on to a thrilling This youngster played beautiful floor game and was high scorer for the Cougars with Everyone Who saw the Longhorns in their two games during the play-off was loud in singing praises for the fine team their new Dale has developed at the Longhorn school Leading in scoring was Hansen who sank 19 points for high Iorg had 14 in the Union On Thursday the latter scored playing only the second and who only played the last collected 4 John Anvel Tidwell and Paul Hislop all added power to the Altamont team during the Were Outclassed North and South Emery were outclassed the first night as the Ferron kids bowed to Altamont and Huntington lost a to hot and cold The two Emery teams played the first game Friday purely for fun and to settle a tie they came up with for second North Emery came out on the long end of the Leading Scorers Clarence who was honored Thursday night before they met North Emery by being elected the 1958 Cougar scored an even 30 points during the two nights to snare top scoring He was followed closely by S. Peacock who potted Following are the top ten scorers for the fg ft fm pt I 13 6 4 30 S. 12 8 5 11 7 4 26 11 7 1 23 9 7 5 23 S. Emery 9 6 2 20 9 2 1 19 7 11 5 19 N. Emery 9 3 1 19 The Box Final Union g ft fm p 0 0 0 0 Cook 10 0 2 B. 2 Bascom 6 2 0 12 Evans 7 2 1 15 J. 0 0 0 0 Beal 5 5 4 U Malnar 0 3 3 0 TOTALS 21 13 D 51 Altamont g ft fm p Iorg 3 4 2 Tew 2 8 4 8 Hislop 2 0 0 4 1 3 4 Hansen 7 7 5 IE 0 0 C 22 13 49 Score by 9 23 37 47 49 Union IS 47 49 51 |