| Show Duchesne rally defeats Tabiona in Union bows to Altamont three teams tied for first place spot in Basin Region Two close games and a runaway contest marked play In the Basin basketball race last Fr iday as Duchesne won a hair-raising overtime game from Tabiona on the Tiger Union lost a tough le to Uintah at Roosevelt and Altamont soundly thumped Manila on the Mustang's home COACH BEN NET kids lost another their second over-time contest out of four games as the Eagles from Duchesne came from behind in the first three quarters to tie things up at and then out a win in the extra period over the Two weeks before Union in an over-time period to leave the Tabby fans gasping for a Altamont rolled along with ease to hand Manila their fourth straight loss and remain in a tie for first AS PREDICTED the hassle on the Cougar floor was a thriller as Coach Paul Haynie's kids came roaring back the second half to make a ball game out of what looked like a rout for the at halftime as they had piled up a lead over a cold Cougar team The Utes were hot at the hoop and had a strong defense the Cougars were unable to solve But the second half was a different ball game came back fighting mad and for the next of poured through 31 points holding the Utes to a complete reversal of the first Final score of the game was for Uintah running score on the scoreboard indicated Uintah had won by but a of the official records showed the score to be only a 1 The Cougars the Utes from the but their inability to hit from the foul line cost them the ball Uintah hit 16 out of 26 and the Cougars made only 7 out of 15 free which was the As indicated by the score the were favored from the rule infraction phase of the Union lost its star Glen on personals when they had their big rally which hurt the Cats ALLEN junior forward was the Cougar's top scorer for the game with Dennis and Jim Vernon equaled Brown's score for the Utes The preliminary game between the Junior Varsity teams had almost as many thrills as the main event A former Union Glen who is now TV coach at had his little fired up to the extent they won from Phil Ellis's but not without a real battle NED ANDERTON again led the Eagles in their successful invasion of Tigerland as he dunked 17 points Robert Casper with 13 was high for Coach Rod used 13 players at Manila and all except one scored at least 2 points Ross Bleazard with 11 and Rex Han-berg with 10 were Actually what happened Friday left three teams tied for first Duchesne and Games played on last will change this situation story was written WHEN UNION travels to Altamont for their second meeting of the year on it Will be revenge the Cougars will be the will be out to prove their victory on 6 was no Anyway you look at it should be a ball Then there is the fracus scheduled for Duchesne at the same time-Thc Eagles will be attempting to make it two in a row over the from It will be remembered Coach Chad Or ton made his official debut at Uintah by trouncing the Utes something a Duchesne team hasn't done for more than a decade Tabby moves over the mountain tn meet BOX SCORES Altamont Manila 32 ALTAMONT G T F P Brotherson 2 8 5 9 Iorg 10 0 2 Miles 10 0 2 Oman 3 4 17 10 0 2 l 8 0 2 Case 1 0 0 2 Hanberg 5 2 0 10 0 l o 0 Johnson 12 2 4 Blezard 4 3 3 11 Goodrich 2 3 2 6 Thacker 12 13 Totals 23 30 14 60 MANILA O T F P 4 Risers 13 0 2 Cook 4 8 3 11 Johnson 19 3 5 2 4 0 4 Harrison 12 13 I Robinson 2 10 4 Hawkins 10 0 2 j Totals 12 31 8 31 Duchesne Tabiona 36 DUCHESNE G T F P 2 2 2 6 Hooper 0 0 0 0 3 3 17 7 9 3 17 0 0 0 0 R Stutz 14 13 Young 10 0 2 Archer 0 0 0 0 Bench 12 0 1 D Stutz 0 0 0 0 Totals 15 20 7 37 TABIONA O T F P Rhoades 3 2 0 6 Carlisle 0 0 0 01 Giles 3 7 3 9 Craner 0 0 0 0 Lee 14 3 5 Pace 17 13 Casper 5 7 3 13 Totals IS 27 10 36 Duchesne 6 13 23 32 37 Tabiona 9 18 25 32 36 UINTAH UNION 45 UINTAH G T F P Oakes 5 7 3 13 Blecher 14 3 5 Vernon 4 5 5 13 3 2 17 Shiner 12 13 Murray 16 3 5 Totals 15 26 16 46 UNION G T F P Jennings 4 3 2 10 Nielson 0 0 0 0 Brown 5 6 3 13 Rawlings 10 0 2 Gardner 4 Labrum 0 2 0 0 Wilkins 0 2 0 0 Jenkins 2 0 0 4 Spencer 3 Totals 19 15 7 45 Uintah 12 30 40 46 Union 10 14 29 45 |
