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Show Traditional Devil-Don Battle Set Friday i At Spanish Fork; Thriller Expected Coach Alma Garrett and his Springville Red Devil cagers travel to Spanish Fork Friday night to battle with the highly improved Don aggregation m played beautifully and chucked in 23 points. Blanchard got back in the score columns with a nice 12 points. Fullmer counted 8 with Cook 7 and Jordan 6 to top the main scoring for the Springville club. Springville held a 19-7 first quarter lead and after a second quarter Dino rally, led 28-19 at the half. Eight points separated the two teams at the third period, 42-34 before Springville poured it on in the final canto to win by 14 points. the final game of the first half schedule of Region 5. The game is a marked one, especially since the Devil cagers will be endeavoring to chalk up their fifth consecutive consecu-tive win and thus maintain their first-place ranking in the Regional Region-al standings. The task will not be an easy one. Springville will go into the fray as a slight favorite on the record of their past four victories. However, How-ever, in the Spanish Fork gym, any advantage a team may have on paper is quickly discredited and the game looms as a toss-up. Spanish Fork will likely throw an air-tight defense against the Devils and probably use a fast break to overcome the Devil's height advantage. If the Devils' shorter boys, Rex Blanchard, Craig Smith, Marvin Fullmer, come through in the scoring columns col-umns as they have done, and if the three stalwarts, George Black, Klliott Jordon and Kaae Cook can sweep the defensive boards as they did in the Provo game and score equally well, the Devils should come out the victors. On the other hand, a game like the Orem-Spiingville contest might spell out quite a different story. Friday will tell. The main game will be preceded by the Junior Varsity,contest at 6:30. In their three game schedule of last week, the Red Devils came up with a clean sweep defeating Provo, Orem and Carbon in that order. In the contest here last Wed. night with Orem, the Springville club looked like anything but the team that defeated Provo. Passing Pass-ing was ragged, timing was poor and tempers dampened better play. George Black and Kaae Cook gained some semblance of their better selves long enough to lead the Devils to their 48-34 victory after a fairly close battle up to the final quarter. Black collected 18 counters and Cook dunked in some real timely counters as did Elliott Jordon and Marv Fullmer. Springville led 9-8 at the frst quarter, pulled to a 17-14 half-time half-time lead and then widened the third quarter lead to 30-24 before pulling away in the final canto. Devils Whip Dinos . . . Carbon's Dinos fell before the Red Devil onslaught at Price Friday Fri-day night in a . somewhat easy victory when the Devils commanded comman-ded the game throughout and end-' end-' ed with a 59-45 margin. Black |