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Show Devils end cage play with two Ioes: olav consistent ball - 1 " Coach Hal Jensen's Red Devils Dev-ils wound up the cage sport here Tuesday night with a 70-77 loss to Orem after putting put-ting up a determined battle to unseat the favored Tigers. The loss left the Devils with a 3-7 record. It was a case of too much of Allphin and a higher percentage per-centage at the foul line that spelled the difference. Allphin a great shooter and a tall boy which spelled out the difference differ-ence in the final results. Tast Friday the Devi Is lost 1 -ryh?tn l" Groneman and Reid hit K, cjpnior 12 Bird 13 each and Senior i for the Devils. Pays ed most of the game ut thJ Devils put on a final garter drive that left them 3 points short of victory. Quarter scores: Springville .... 1J 24 87 61 Payson ... who uses his height to advan- : tage, came out with 29 points for the Orem team as he con-sistently con-sistently scored and rebounded rebound-ed to keep the visitors ahead from 5 to 10 points all the game except for the first eight minutes of play. Peterson' ably ab-ly assisted with 22 and Lan-gager Lan-gager got 11. Roger Reid displayed his usual brilliant shooting for the Coach Jensen and his ooya have played consistently good throughout the season and with the return of the out standing sophomore players, Bird Thorpe, Nielson, Allred, nius the return of the leagues Sp long shot artist, Reid; and XerHarward and Strong all juniors; next year's team should prove to be the top club of the league. Devils and came up with a 21 c point performance. His defen- jj sive play was overshadowed II by the sparkling offensive drive. Bird came up with one of his better performances as he connected with 19, most of these on brilliant hook shots. Groneman played his usual stellar game and collected a respectable 11 points. Senior looked good with a last half drive that netted him 10. Thorpe, a promising sophomore, sopho-more, tanked 9. Quarter score: Orem 18 38 57 77 Springville .... 15 33 52 70 Springville actually lost the game from the foul line as they hit 10 compared to 21 for Orem. They outscored the winners from the field 30-28. Orem came to the foul line for 34 tries to Springville's 17 Mr. & Mrs. Harold Whiting spent the weekend at Boulder City, Nev., guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Mead. Also Maria and Zina Johnson have just returned from Boulder City, where they spent a week with the Meads, Mrs. Mead being their sister. An interesting part of their stay was a visit with the Meads to Death Val-ley. |