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Show Red Devils Play Carbon Tonight In Next-to-Last League Game Carbon Expected to Give Devils Real Battle; Preliminary at 6:30 Springville's lied Devils meet the last place j' Carbon Dinos in their next-to-last season cage game here tonight beginning at 8 p.m. The game, more than Springville. The Devils Dev-ils hit 19 goals to Provo's 20. Devils Down Orem . . . At Orem Friday night, it looked as if the same fate was about to follow the Red Devils throughout the first quarter and even into the second when the Orem team held the lead as a seemingly listless Devil team was unable to click. Not till just before the halftime did they break loose to bring the score to 19-20 at the rest period. per-iod. A fruitful third quarter, with Elliott Jordan and George Black hitting from all angles, instilled the needed punch in the rest of the team to take over the lead 32-30. With the team feeding the ball to big George Black, who had things prety"much his own way above the smaller Orem. boys, the Devils took a commanding lead before turning the game over to the subs in the last two minutes. min-utes. Final score read 48-44. Black scored 21 points with Jordan getting 11 and Craig Smith, who played a fine game and sparked the Devil's drive hit for 8. Springville's Jayvees, who seem to fade out in the fourth quarter of every game, dropped both their week's contests losing los-ing to Provo 46-43 and to Orem 48-41. Springville's foul shooting was still below that of their opponents, hitting only 16 to Orem's 20. as others in the region, has I been scheduled tonight instead j of Friday because of the BYU ; home tilt with Colorado A & M j Friday. The Junior Varsity ! game will precede the main I game and will begin at 6:30. ; Although the Red Devils will ! be playing the bottom team in i the league standings, Carbon cannot be considered too slight-' slight-' ly since they surprised the I'rovo team on the Provo court last week and nearly upset the Bulldogs. Since the Red Devils and Bulldogs are now currently tied for top honors in the league as a result of the trouncing the Provo team gave the Red Devils last Wed- 57-46, 57-46, a loss by the Red Devils to Carbon would virtually give the Trovo club the championship. champion-ship. Springville (and Provo) must win their two remaining contests to end in a tie for first place. Devils Fall Short . . . In 'a return game on the Provo hardwoods last Wed. night, the Provo Bulldogs out-hustled out-hustled the Devils on the floor and on the boards to turn the game into a complete reversal of the form exhibited here in the two teams' first game. A fatal third quarter lapse on defense de-fense by the Red Devils sewed up the contest for the Bulldogs as they pulled away to a 14 point advantage. A final quarter quar-ter rally kept the game alive but much too late to overcome the winners. Black, while scor-f scor-f ing 11 counters was off his j' regular game as was Blanchard j and Fullmer in the scoring j parade. Jordan saved the Dev-. Dev-. ils from further humiliation in ' the score column with some nice shots, ably assisted by . Craig Smith who sparked the Devils in the final quarter. Further tale of the Devils plight showed up on the foul line where Provo rang up 9 |
