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Show Roosevelt Team Wins Ute Basketball Grown , A new champion of the third annual Ute Indian Tribe Basketball tournament was crowned last Saturday Sat-urday night when Bump's Western Sports Wear of" Roosevelt hung an 80-41 score on the St. Steven's Mission of Wyoming, in the' finals. fin-als. Consolation honors went to Occidental Life of Vernal, who beat the Ft. Washagie Indian team, 59-57. The Ft. Duchesne Huskies were the defending champs. A team of rugged veterans, some with a lot of college experience, proved too tough for the Catholic sponsored Indian team. With Leon Ross and Gordon Eldredge, members mem-bers of the Union state champs of '56, along with Dick Owen of BYU fame a few years ago, Bump's Western came through the three nights with convincing wins over Ft. Washakie, Fort Duchesne Huskies Hus-kies (defending champs), and the Chiefs to win the trophy that was presented to Elmer Eldredge, sponsor spon-sor and manager, by Jason Cuch, chairman of the Ute Tribe Business Busi-ness committee. An LDS Indian team from Bannock Ban-nock Creek, Idaho, which represented repre-sented the Bannock Branch on the Fort Hall Reservation, won the sportsmanship award, which was presented by Junior Cuch, member mem-ber of the Tribal recreation committee. com-mittee. Occidental Life received the consolation trophy from Henry Cuch, and Ouray McCook awarded the St. Steven's Chiefs with the' runner up trophy. Another Champ Hailed The Fort Duchesne Kids' team became the first Uintah Basin champs in the Junior Basketball league', when they won a 25-20 contest earlier Saturday evening from Vernal No. 1 team. Orson Stevens, president of the Roosevelt Kiwanis Club, co-sponsors with the Ute Tribe' of the kids' league, presented the trophy ,to the kids from the Fort. Homey Secakuku, the assistant recreation director, awarded the runners-up with their trophy. Two all-star teams were announced an-nounced andwere given citations for their achievements. An outstanding out-standing player award went to Hugh Friday, 18-year-old Wyoming Wyom-ing high school all-stater three years, who played with the Ft. Washakie team. He was presented with a gold basketball by Mr. Secakuku. The former Lander, Wyoming high school star is reported to have received bids from Michigan State, University of Michigan, Wyoming "U," Utah, Colorado, Illinois and BYU to. play basketball. basket-ball. Ten players were selected on the Ute tournament all-star team and received medals from Francis McKinley, "director of community housing for the Tribe. They are as follows: Gordon Eldredge, Leon Ross, and Dick Owen, Bump's Western; Wayhe Pope, Occidental Life'; Dale Womack, Recreation All-Sars; Bud Oldman and Lloyd Jenkins, St. Steven's Mission; Charles Denver, Huskies; Hugh Friday and Oakie Hereford, Ft. Washakie. Junior All-Stars Mr. Secakuku presented certificates certifi-cates to the following twelve boys who were chosen as members of the all-star team: Virgil Namokie, Mike McDonald, Terry Huxford, Bobby Killian, Terry Bastian and Chris Groves, representing the eight Roosevelt teams;. Merlin Cornpeach, Darrell Shavanoux, Walter Sixkiller and Robert Reyos, from the Ute Tribal teams, and Douglas Phillips and Bob Mc-Naughton Mc-Naughton from Vernal. |
