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Show ;j$ Opens Conference loop Season j lh 42 - 27 Massacre Of Uintah Riders Surge Back In Second & Half To Build Commanding Lead chovving the same brand of H S basketball that enabled vi. Zm to defeat Moab here in to ; velt, the RHS Rough Rid-1 Rid-1 '- Friday night out-hustled, out " and massacred a er Uintah five, 42-27. The win enable Roosevelt to D .-re the Region Five top spot Lh Altamont and Tabiona, Elmers over Duchesne and Al-3 Al-3 Tra respectively. Friday the jiders meet Alterra there. I jjer leaving the floor at v-Sime on the long end of a "ender 18-16 score, the locals ;jrf.ed back in the second half "take a commanding lead that "as never relinquished. They "awly built a 27-21 three-quar- mark lead, and then me- Medically increased it as time j uked away. 1 The Utes were undoubtedly ! finding the going difficult ' -.jainst the stiff man-to-man de-, de-, 'i-.se RHS Coach Clint Nelson frevp at them. Uintah's sharp-footers sharp-footers were usually being r-shed everytime they tried to .1 t .? 111 Nelson's starting quintet Jack McLea, Ron Duncan, Hugh ! ; "rav, Don Snyder, and Brent . ;;;ckell built up a commandos command-os lead before giving way to 1 crtitutes Frank Peterson. Ray i Erodrick. Frank Snyder, and :.iv Jensen. And the substitutes i retained the lead until the i Tae Riders showed a remark-,, remark-,, ! sUe ability to clean the backwards back-wards and steal the ball from tsr bigger opponents. Jack y.Lea proved a tall center for j i.V fthile'Don bnyoe't, i.T-ius j b usual shooting form, on of-I of-I Vie and defense was in the l a' hair throughout the game. j Incan, Murray, and Nickell 1 ! :;.e their usual smooth per-!::r.ances, per-!::r.ances, hitting when " the points were needed and out-jumping out-jumping taller opponents. D. Snyder again was high man for the Riders with 11 points, even though his shooting was off. McLea. Nickell, and Peterson each garnered seven points, while Duncan and Murray Mur-ray were garnering five. Peterson didn't get into action until late in the game, but while in there he was red hot. Within a few minutes he had his three field goals and a free toss. 1 1 i Roosevelt's "B" squad convincingly con-vincingly defeated Uintah, 23-17. 23-17. Uintah didn't get a point during the first half, and had only three at the end of the half. The Utes threatened at times during the second half, but never nev-er came too close. Starring for RHS were John Benson, Don Killian, and Ken and Scott Nickell. Others to see action in the game were Clifton Moore. Lyle Snyder, Clark Morrill, Mor-rill, Billy McLea, Jack Burgess, Larry Mitchell, and Norval Hansen. Han-sen. 1 1 1 Nelson plans to open the Alterra Al-terra game with the same men he first sent against Uintah. Alterra Al-terra coach. Tom Fullmer, will counter with Wade Curry. Leo Jorgenson, Harry Dahlberg, Merlin Huber. and Clyde Bart-jlett. Bart-jlett. Neither Curry, Dahlberg, or J Huber saw service in the Tab-j Tab-j iona game. |