Show UHS basketball CHAMPIONS OF IN EASTERN NEARLY 1000 PEOPLE FROM NE NEARLY EVERY SECTION OF BASIN WITNESSED THE EACH NIGHT the uintah high school basket ball team saturday evening at vernal where the round robin was held became champions of the eastern division and will play in the state tournament march 11 to 14 at salt ake city the event was celebrated by the 1 1 11 1 1 S student body with an 1111 parade lasting for several minutes for three days vernal has been the center of attract ton lon tor for basket ball fans fang and nearly 1000 people each night witnessed the games A stude student tit body dance was given saturday night after the games in honor of the visiting teams on thursday night green river quint played perron ferron and the U H S Cast ledale kilpack right forward for perron ferron was high point man of 0 the game with 14 points to his credit the score was 40 to 23 in favor of perron ferron gillis lett left forward of green river secured 10 of the 23 points with sturgis ls 8 the game between uintah and Cast ledale was an exciting one although the score 51 to 33 would indicate differently 0 peterson their crack center was high point man securing 12 points and 6 5 baskets mccurdy was high point man tor for uintah friday evening before a somewhat larger crowd Cast ledale and ferron played the most th thrill rillina ins game of the tournament every moment of which was excitement the first quarter was 4 to 5 with the halt half ending 9 to 13 favor Cast ledale the third quarter was 14 to 13 in it favor perron ferron the splendid foul pitching of 0 peterson saved the day lor for his team the score ending 26 to 19 in favor of Cast ledale uintah and green river clashed in a 47 to 21 game again splendid team work was displayed by the visitors but were unable to keep the ball from the faster aster team sturgis sturges was high with 11 points and gillis and adams c each made 5 points saturday night was the battle royal and probably the best two games of the series at least they were the fastest Cast ledale and green river played a 32 to 15 game which was thrilling and exciting to me very last the U 11 II S and perron ferron played the final game uintah winning 61 51 to 18 again basket ball tans fans were given thrill after thrill as the game was tar far more exciting than the score indicates howard A jarvis and stanley wilson of salt lake city refereed rete reed the games ray done principal of the high school was the official in charge true sportsmanship prevailed throughout the series |