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Show jDWkTameVest Panthers Friday Smith another basket to give the Devils a 17-15 lead. Jordan led the Devils to a scoring spree in the third period per-iod as the Devils maintained a narrow lead 34-33 before getting get-ting into the final period. Mathiesen of West dunked 21 counters through and played play-ed a terrific floor game while Springville's team looking brilliant in spots came up with good performances by Black with 15 points, Jordan with 12, Smith with 8 and Al-vie Al-vie with 7. Springville's bank-board bank-board work and ball rustling by Smith and Alvie, kept the game a thriller. West was exhibiting ex-hibiting some of the finest ball handling seen here and employed a sticky defense on the Devils which caused them to lose many points through bad passes. Springville's Red Devils slipped slip-ped away from the speedy West high cagers in the final three minutes of play in the r recent contest here ' last JJ" day night to go out m front and win 47-40 before the largest lar-gest crowd of fans at a preseason pre-season game this year. The game was close and exciting ex-citing ' throughout. Alvey had dunked in a ringer to give the Devils a 39-35 lead and Wests mighty Mathiesen slipped in a quick two-pointer to narrow it down to 39-37 when Springville's Spring-ville's George Black came to life to sail in for a tip-in and then take a fast one for a setup to give the Devils a 43-38 lead. West's high scorer sank another basket and then Craig Smith made two tosses and Hjorth laid one in for the final 47-40 tally. The game started out . with George Black sinking a foul shot and throughout most of the quarter, both teams were exhibiting their better defensive defen-sive brand of ball. West led 3-1 before Alvey hit a foul shot and Jordan dunked a basket to give the Devils a 4-3 margin. Smith hit and West scored again to tie it up at 5-5 before Black put the Devils Dev-ils out in front at 6-5 at the quarter. The defensive battle carried on in the second quarter quar-ter with the lead changing hands until Jordan came thru with a basket and a layup and |