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Show Fort Duchesne To Meet Vernal In Kids' Finals The two teams who finished 1 and 2 in the league standing of the' Kids' Basketball League, Fort Duchesne and Vernal No 1, will fight it out Saturday evening at 6:30 for the championship of the tournament that began Monday night at the Roosevelt Elementary gym. . Fort Duchesne eked out a close 24-23 win Tuesday night at the Ute Recreation Center at Randlett over the Floyd . Peterson - Orson Stevens team, and Vernal beat Modern Drug - Dr. Stringham's team 26-22 in the semi-finals. Both games -were thrillers with the losers los-ers leading most of the way until the final- quarter. Monday night Peterson & Stevens Stev-ens won a 24-23 victory over Whiterocks; Fort Duchesne defeated defeat-ed Memmott and Hullinger's kids, 36-22; Vernal No. 1 trounced Whiterocks 43-16 and' Modern Drug and Dr. Stringham's team defeated Bump's Western and i Steve's Cafe, 23-16. All these games were played at the Elementary Elemen-tary School gym. First Time Tried This is the first year a junior basketball league has been set up in the Roosevelt area, and under the joint sponsorship of the Ute Indian Tribe and the Roosevelt Kiwanis Club, fifteen teams from the' Basin joined to make a very successful program. The eight top teams as of March 31 entered the tournament. The finals will be played Saturday night as a part of the last day's play of the Ute Tribe Invitational Tournament that begins today at Randlett. Following the Saturday finals, an all-star team composed' of ten players representing all 15 teams in the league, will be selected and presented with certificates from the Ute Tribe. Some of the kids who have shown a lot of basketball possibilities possibil-ities during the tournament are: Virgil Namoki, Ronnie Phillips, Walter Sixkiller, Merlin Corn-peach, Corn-peach, Mike' McDonald, Steve Mal-nar, Mal-nar, Robert Reyos (who scored 22 points in the Monday game as a member of the Fort Duchesne team), Jim McNoughton, Vernal, Terry Huxford and Rodell Cess-pooch. Cess-pooch. Several other youngsters not entered in the tournament are listed among the better players in the 8 to 13 age class. |