Show I Uintah remain j deadlocked for lead J Uintah Basin's two larg- J cr Union and X just about clinched first and in the local basketball scramble and a trip to the Class B Tournament at Provo early in n as trimmed Tabi- ij ona and Altamont last Friday night Altamont's third tills one to Uintah just about removed all chances for a piece of the pie for the Longhorns who until two ago were in a three-way tie with the Utes and UNION TOOK care of in a very uninteresting and poorly played game on the Cougar Coach Hay-nic pulled his starting five midway in the second period and kept them on the bench the rest of the night to give his juniors and sophomores a chance to play a ball They definitely showed the lack of experience or were struck with a case of as they made dozens of mistakes and were cold on their Coach Bennett Josie's kids t from were also a long way off on their ball as 1 they too made a score or of Mike Craner led his mates with 11 points and Terry Bastian who played only about 12 minutes was high for Union with 12 Doyle Wilken with came in PLAYING ON their own floor the Utes of Uintah stopped but not without a real The Utes just plain carried too much scoring punch for the smaller Long- horns who now hest in third place with little chance of overtaking 1 cither the Cougars or Utes who ax-e again tied with 7 and 1 records for Duchesne was pushed by Manila who was playing at home and had to settle with a victory Steve Lott 20 points and Ned with had too much size and scoring power for the hapless Mustangs who have lost all 8 games to THE TWO leaders this week should win going away as the Mustangs from Manila come to Union and Uintah goes to Tabby for their The March will wind up the league's schedule with no chance for a un-Jess Manila or Tabby pulls an this Uintah will host Union for a tie-breaker which be a one the Utes will want to win to avenge their only loss of the year at i UNION TABIONA 36 UNION G T F P Glines 12 0 0 Jennings 0 0 0 0 I 4 2 0 0 4 Nielsen 0 3 0 0 Harmston 0 0 0 0 Labium 0 3 11 Larson 10 0 2 i Bastian 2 2 12 Crozier 15 4 6 Dart 0 0 0 0 Wilken 1 4 Jenkins 2 0 0 TOTALS 20 24 13 53 TABIONA G T F P Peterson 2 4 2 6 Moon 0 6 2 2 Giles 2 4 3 7 Craner 2 12 9 13 Jensen 0 2 11 UINTAH DIVISION W L Pet Union 1 Uintah 7 1 Altamont 5 3 Duchesne 3 5 2 6 Manila 0 8 Friday's Results Uintah Altamont 48 Union Tabiona 36 Duchesne Manila 41 FRIDAY'S SCHEDULE Duchesne at Altamont Uintah at Tabiona Manila at Union Blaine 2 4 2 6 Hatchett 0 2 11 Carlyle 0 0 0 0 Rhodes 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 8 34 20 36 Score by Tabiona 6 17 20 36 Union 22 37 48 53 DUCHESNE MANILA 41 DUCHESNE G T F P N. 5 11 7 17 Lott 7 7 6 20 Wright 2 10 4 Brown 0 2 0 0 1113 10 0 2 TOTALS 16 22 14 46 MANILA G T F P 4 6 4 12 Schultz 15 3 5 Johnson 2 7 6 10 Cook 0 3 11 Grimes 3 5 2 4 4 8 TOTALS 10 30 21 41 Score by Duchesne 6 24 36 46 Manila 6 15 33 41 UINTAH ALTAMONT 48 ALTAMONT G T F P lorg 5 8 4 14 Swasey 1113 Case 2 5 4 8 Tidwell 3 9 4 10 Hanberg 6 2 1 13 Brotherson 0 0 0 0 Bleazard 0 0 0 0 UINTAH G T P P Vernon 4 7 2 1 15 4 6 Oakes 4 Shivers 3 3 3 9 Merkley 0 0 0 0 Roberts 2 7 5 9 |