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Show Bed, Devils, Lions play familiar role in bottom-rung battle Friday Springville points. The d . hit only seven for 16 al ' charity line while Provo ged 20 out of 26. The vnr'. hit 51 In the first half . ended with a respectable t of 46 per cent. The Ei defense kept the Red j.' from getting but 16 fieia -10 of which were in th half. Billed as the top game on the bottom rung of the ladder, the one-time winners from the Red Devil hoop court will meet the winless Payson Lions in a game here Friday night that will pretty much decide who will remain on the bottom rung for the 1962 season. These two teams have shared this situation now for the past three years and the unenviable record of both schools this year places them in the same battle stations. From all indications indi-cations the game should be a real thriller while the play may or may not be what one would desire, the closeness of the game should overshadow other deviations. Payson will be out to revenge an earlier loss to the Springville team and may just do that if the jumped to a 4-0 lead against the Provo Bulldogs on the Provo court last Thursday, their heartening beginning was only to be a short lived margin mar-gin as the more talented Bulldogs Bull-dogs soon erased the lead and began their merciless drive that ultimately netted them 86 points to the Devils' 39. Even the reserves of the winners win-ners who played as much or more than the main string, kept the net swishing all night. Senior with 14 and Reid with 13 for the Devils and Strong with 8 counted nearly all the i Garrett boys are not primed for the cellar-dwelling contest, Devils lose n .. |
