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Show Red Devils Seek Tourney Berth Tonight With Victory Over Carbon Dinosaurs 5 Coach Alma Garrett and his Springville Red Devils can cinch a tournament berth and the Nebo B charrmionshin tonieht bv winning over the Carbon better ball game, hand the Carbon five a defeat. Devils Whip Lions . . . Calvin Thorpe, Jackie Canto and Marvin Fullmer led the Red Devils to a 59-49 victory over the Payson Lions at Payson last Friday with Thorpe taking high scoring honors with 15 points. Canto got 11 and Fullmer 10. Gary Crandall spurred the Devils on in the last half of the game after somewhat of a cold first half and with Marvin Fullmer Full-mer coming into the game the Devils found the hoop and went from a 26-26 halftime tie to a ten point victory. high school cagers in the final home game of the 1956 basketball season. The game,1 along with all other region contests, has been moved up from Friday night because be-cause of the Utah-BYU game at - the Y tomorrow night. Tonight's prep contest will begin at 8 p.m. and will be preceded by the Jr. Varsity game at 6:30. Springville moved into second place in the Nebo standings by virtue of Provo high's 57-43 victory vic-tory over Carbon Tuesday night. The Red Devils now hold a two game lead over their nearest B team rivals, Spanish Fork and Lincoln, Lin-coln, both of whom are tied for second place. Should the Devils lose tonight and against Lincoln the following week, they would possibly end in a tie for the league championship. Since tonight's contest is the finale fi-nale for home town fans, and since Carbon handed the Devils a humiliating hu-miliating 62-45 defeat at Carbon after the Devils held a 29-20 first half margin, Coach Garrett's five should have several reasons to win the contest. The Devils have won every home game to date and should, if they are playing their |