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Show Lions, Red Devils Play Here Friday In Last Home Tilt of Year Last nome Game Of Year To Start At 8 P. M. Friday; Will Be Preceded By Sophomore Game At 7; Forkers Win Springville's hapless Red Devils will battle the improved Pay-ion Pay-ion Lions here Friday night in the Red Devils' last home game of the year. The game is set for 8 p. m., and will be preceded by a Sophomore game at 7 p. m. Coach Don Fuller's team nasi upset both Tintic and Juab in their last two games and is favored fav-ored to take the lowly Red Devils into camp when they meet here, although the Red Devils have playd good ball and should give the visitors a tough battle. The Sophomore tilt will draw considerable consid-erable Interest Inasmuch as the Payson Sophs nosed the Red Devil Dev-il Imps by one point at Payson in their last meeting. Last Friday night, the local club Invaded the Spanish Fork gym and walked off with a 10-point 10-point deficit at the end of the game. Springville held a comfortable comfort-able 13-20 lead at the half, but fell short In the scoring column In the third quarter to go down to defeat. Joe Nelson, with 20 points for the winners, was the biggest factor in Spanish Fork's win. For Springville, Olsen and Reed counted 9 points apiece in the score column. Springville's Sophs downed the Spanish Sophs 35 to 24. The box score follows: SPRINGVILLE G T F P Eggertsen, f 2 3 2 6 Sumslon, f 13 0 2 Olsen, c 3 4 3 9 Reed, g 3 4 3 9 Bird, g 13 13 Childs, f 0 2 0 0 Totals 10 19 9 29 SPANISH FORK G T F P Jarvis, f 3 4 17 Larson, f 2 0 0 4 Nelson, c 8 9 4 20 Evans, g 3 10 6 Jones, g 10 0 2 Close, f 0 0 0 0 Hales, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 17 14 5 39 Score by quarters: Spanish Fork 5 13 29 39 Springville 5 20 25 29 Officials R. Jones and Warner In the other Nebo game Friday at Payson, the Lions gave the league-leading Juab five a sound 23-33 trouncing to throw the league race into a tie with Tintic, Spanish Fork and Juab sharing top honors. The other Friday game will be played at Juab when the Tintic Miners will attempt to take over the league leadership. A win for the Miners would go a long way on the road to the title since they meet the Spanish Fork club on their own floor the following fol-lowing week. Team standings for the Nebo division follow: W L Pet Spanish F 5 2 .714 Tintic 4 2 .667 Juab 4 2 .667 Payson 3 4 .429 Springville 0 6 .000 |