Show Basketball season gets off To good start in the Basin Basketball got off to a rousing start In the Uintah Basin with all Duchesne County high schools including Union playing two games Friday and Saturday Duchesne won both their Union and Altamont lost their games and came through with a winning one and losing the THE EAGLES of Duchesne gave their brand new Rulan Carnahan a real good stall as they raked Tintic on Friday night and on Saturday night they stopped Notre Dame of Price both at The Tintic game was won in an overtime with the regular game ending The of who potted 25 points for the Eagles was the big reason the Eagles beat the team from Juab There were no individual stars in the Notre Dame contest it was a team effort with three Cowan and Bench getting 11 Tabby's Tigers clawed the Tintic team on Saturday night and the night before they bowed to Notre Dame Leon Jones with 16 was the heavy scorer in the Tintic game with Doyle picking up 13 These games were DESPITE AN outpouring of 27 points by Blake Rust the dropped their first game to Wasatch High at Heb-er They took on Green Utah on Saturday night and bowed to the team with the good big man It was Larry a six seven inch who proved the master of a fighting Union High team in the season's This big boy who was one of the top scorers last year in the Class B hit the hoop for 50 19 field goals and 12 from the foul line to give the fair sized Cougar crowd a pretty good demonstration of offensive power as GR won in a game that had its Lance UHS scored 26 points in a fine demonstration of UNION MET a fired up East Carbon team Saturday night which was led by a dark-haired kid by the name of Martinez who played a real floor game and spilled 23 points through the hoop for the Luck was again the heavy shooter for the Cougars as he came See page 8 Basketball from naff 1 through with The Viking-Cougar game was a nip and tuck contest with both teams sharing the lead about equal time during the game until the last minute when Martinez scored a couple of baskets to turn the The only coach who was con- for comment following the games was Coach Roland Bovell of and he was loud in his praise for his inexperienced kids They showed a lot of hustle and and also proved they can score as they accumulated 1 1 4 points in the two games they COACH GORDON Eld r edge of the Junior Varsity club displayed a classy little JV team that has size and speed as well as scoring power They won their Friday game against Green River and dropped a game to East Carbon Saturday This weekend the schedule of play for the local schools finds Tabiona traveling to Friday and Tintic on Saturday Altamont goes to Tintic on 7 and the next night moves to Price to meet Notre Union will be home against Rangely on Friday night and will host South Summit on Saturday The Standard has no schedule for Duchesne on this coming ALL HOME games will be at with preliminary games including the junior varsity |