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Show Riders, Eagles Set For Opening Of League Cage Play The Roosevelt Rough Riders, favored to repeat their championship champion-ship performance of a year ago in the Uintah Basin Basketball League, will meet the Duchesne High Eagles, Friday night, in one of the feature games of the current cage season. A powerful team in its own right, the Eagles will lock horns with the Riders in the Roosevelt elementary gym in one of the three games that will officially open scholastic league play in the Basin. According to pre-season records, rec-ords, both teams appear to be evenly matched with the top scoring going to the team receiving re-ceiving the breaks. In any event, the Roosevelt-Duchesne game is expected to be a hard-fought affair af-fair with the final score being close. General admission tickets are on sale at the Uintah Sportsman Center in Roosevelt. Hereafter, all general admission tickets will go on sale at the local sports store the Monday preceding a game. Local ticket sales are for htme games only, school officials point out. Tickets remaining un- I sold at the end of the week, will go on sale at the door the night of each game. Reserved seat tickets were sold at an earlier date, with the thought in mind of eliminating much of the confusion experienced experi-enced in past years. The other two games which will head the District 5 Basketball Basket-ball League into its winter of play sees Alterra pitted against Uintah, at Vernal; and Altamont tangling with Tabiona, at Tabi-ona. |