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Show NEBO LEADERS I STATETHREAT Coach Thorn's Springville Team Has Great Scor ing Record. . Springville ii-0;i school will send a basketball team into the state high school tournament ttiat will be mighty tough to take out. Goach Paul "Slmba" Thorn's Red Devils won the Nebo division title with the loss of but a single game, the one at the hands of the Nflphl team. This season they, have won.; altogether 19 games and lost two, scoring 819 points to their opponents' oppon-ents' 502. The only other defeat they have suffered t'his year was at the hands of Dixie when the Devils made a barnstorming ' tour of southern Utah during the holidays. The exceptional offensive thrust of the Springville team is shown In the remarkable scoring average they have maintained, unusual for a high school team. In the 19 games they have averaged 43 points to their opponents' 26 points. Their defensive tactics have been eood considering that they have concentrated more on their offensive of-fensive play. Their style of ball is the long-and-short pass attack similar to that of the B. Y. U., with a man for man defense. The defense, while not as tight as some of the five-1 man style teams' defenses is faster I and effective in view of the speed of the Devils this year. In Max Senior, forward, the -il Nephi with two seconds remaining remain-ing the play. Nephi has been the jinx of Springville this season, the Jua'h team beating them once in the league, although both Spanish Fork . and Payson have beaten Nephi. Springville, in turn, beat both of these teams landily. The league season will close for them next Friday hI Springville where they play Payson. Nebo winners have a great scorer, tie rest of the outfit being exceptional ex-ceptional rustlers. Holly, Wilkins, Cherrington and Roland are all fast and have built up a style under un-der the tutelage of Coach Thorn that usually finds Senior on the tip in end of the ball. Holley sewed up the title for the Devils Artists in their semi-final ame last Friday when he sViot a Toal from past the center of the floor to break up a one-point lead |