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Show Basketball Starts .... Union Hosts Duchesne In Opener Jan. 4; Altamont To Vernal The period of "fooling ' around" is over for five caaches and teams in the Uintah Basin as league play begins Friday, Jan. 4, for Class B schools of the Utah High School Association Associa-tion in the Uintah division of Region 5. The strength of Union High's Cougars and that of the Eagles from Duchesne will be tested at Roosevelt, when Union entertains enter-tains the lads from the county seat community in a game that is billed for 8 p. m. in the beautiful beau-tiful new school gym, that has plenty of room for all who desire de-sire to see the games. A preliminary pre-liminary game between the "B" squads will be on the agenda at 6:30. In the other game, Altamont Al-tamont travels to Vernal to meet the Utes in the opening games which will be held at 6:30 and 8 p. m. Tabiona draws a bye until next week, when they take on Uintah at Tabiona. Actually the Basin League is without a defending champion, since : the Rough Riders from Roosevelt High School, who won the title last year and entered the state tournament, have passed pass-ed out of existence with Roosevelt Roose-velt High now a junior high school. However, several of the boys who played on the championship cham-pionship team are wearing the Black and Gold of Union High. Their coach, Marcus Garrett, is now at Vernal, where he is drilling drill-ing a band of Utes for the '52 wars. Sports writers from the daily papers have sorta picked the Cougars from Union to win the title in '52, but this writer is prone to be a bit conservative, and predicts a torrid battle right down to the wire, with any of the five teams capable of upsetting upset-ting the other four to' cop the title. Preseason games have found the Eagles from Duchesne, the Utes from Verbal and the Cougars, all looking mighty impressive, im-pressive, and Altamont and Tab-ions Tab-ions can't be counted out not by a long way. n ihhwiwumi iiiimiiniwin Union's Cougars looked much more impressive as they easily took the measure of Park City on Dec. 26, 43-29, but the following fol-lowing Friday they dropped a 44-29 game to the South Summit team of Kamas on the latter's floor. Coach Glen Allred has the problem of finding someone some-one to replace Frank Snyder, who', after the second -game on Jan. 11 at Altamont, will become be-come 18 and no longer eligible to play. Two tall juniors, Johnny John-ny Perry and John Jorgensen, appear to be battling for the center spot both are over the 6-foot mark, but have a lot to learn about basketball; Two small but speedy kids, Rex Broadhead and Ronnie Robbins, lead the Eagles, while Garrett has Big Don Barr and Gary McCarroll, who were tough last year and have looked mighty migh-ty sharp in preseason play. Following are the box scores of two final preseason games for the Cougars. Park City 29 G T F P Cokins, f. 3 2 17 Martinez, f. 13 13 Olsen, c. .0 2 2 2 Berriochoa, g. 0 0 0 0 Taly, g. 3 3 17 Johnson 12 13 Ray Martinez 0 4 2 2 Sanchez 0 0 0 0 Cullen 10 0 2 Joffs 1113 TOTALS 10 17 9 29 Union 43 G T F P Nickell, f. 4 5 3 11 Bodily, f 3 3 17 Snyder, c. 10 0 2 B. Morrill, g. 0 3 3 3 Huber, g. 2 6 4 8 M. Morrill 12 13 Lamb 2 0 0 4 Perry 10 0 2 Hanson 0 2 0 0 Ross 1 0 0 2 Jorgensen 0 111 TOTALS 15 22 13 43 Score by quarters: Park City 4 10 21 29 Union ;.. 9 17 35- 43 Souih Summit 44 Walker 7 5 2 16 Christden 2 2 0 4 Louder 3 4 0 6 Frazier 6 2 1 13 Blascfngane 10 0 2 McCormick 110 2 Marchant 0 111 Atkinson 0 0 0 0 Horton 0 0 0 0 Page .0000 Gines 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 20 15 4 44 Union 29 G T F P K. Nickell 3 3 0 6 Hansen 0 111 Bodily 4 3 19 Lamb 10 0 2 Snyder 110 2 Huber 0 2 2 2 Benson 2 4 3 7 D. Morrill 0 0 0 0 Perry 0 0 0 0 M. Morrill 0 0 0 0 TOTALS 11 14 1 29 Score by quarters: South Summitt 11 23 33 44 Union 7 12 20 29 |