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Show Regional Games Switched as League Tie Looms; Devils Meet Lehi in Finale Thr!i tnama In Region 3 are tied for top honors In the football title charm and there i.s a possibility possibil-ity of the league ending in ju.st that way. There Is also a possibility possibil-ity that up to f clubs could end up with top honors. For this reason, officials have begun to switch gurnes ahea.il, anticipating a possible pos-sible play-off. All games for this week were moved up, with Springville playing play-ing at North Sanpete, yesterday and the I'.Y high at Wasatch Academy, Aca-demy, I'leasnrit Grove at Lehi, American Fork at Lincoln and I'aysori at Spanish For k games to be played today. Springvillc's final scheduled game with the strong Lehi team will be played next Tuesday or Wednesday rin the lied Devil field. Tin! date will be determined by the outcome of the other games today. The three tied teams for top honors, Springville, 1'ayson and Lincoln are favored to win this weeks round of games, but should one, two or all three lose, the Nprinjrvlllo high school ICed Devils romped to a S2-B victory over the smaller North Sun-pcte Sun-pcte 1 tin i is at 1VU. Pleasant V'elnelay. The win ut them on lop of league standings with Payson and Lincoln no-ding a win loday to tin the Devils for (lie league lead. scramble would be. even more perplexing. per-plexing. The Devils, who should have had little trouble disposing of North Sanpete, will find one of its very toughest opponents in the Lehi club. The Pioneers drubbed Spanish Span-ish Fork and BY high while Springville beat them only by a touchdown or two. They have been improving each game and if they can beat Springville, could end up in a tie for top honors should I'ayson and Lincoln drop one of their two remaining contests. The game will begin at 2:30. Devils Win Over Dons . . . Thanks to the running of speedy . Donald Watts, the line play of the Red Devils and a rejuvenated cheering section spurred 'on by the welcome music of the high school band, the Springville eleven chalked up an important 12-6 victory vic-tory over visiting Spanish Fork last Friday. Spanish Fork drew first blood when they recovered a fumble on the Red Devil 42-yard strip and on the following play, Ostler took a hand-off and went the entire distance dis-tance to score. The plunge for the extra point was stopped cold. With a six-point deficit staring them in the face, the Devils went to work with renewed determination. determina-tion. Starting on their own 34-yard line, they rolled goal-ward with Bird making yardage and Watts eating up 44 yards for the score around left end. Good blocking and the deceptive play completely caught the Spanish Forkers off guard. Friel's attempted placement was wide. After holding the Spaniards on downs the Devils took over again i on their own 39 and Watts and Bird made downs to the Don's 36 from where Watts again made a beautiful right end run to pay dirt. He was assisted by good line play and blocking. His try for a line plunge was short and the score stood at 12-6. In the second half the outstanding outstand-ing run of the game came when Watts took the ball from his own 20 and ran to the Don 20 before being pulled down by Ostler. Springville got to the 8-yard line but was held on downs. Both teams battled scoreless for the second half of the game although Spanish Fork threatened with pass attempts at-tempts which were thwarted by Friel, Carter and Graves. Beardall, Burt and Haymond looked particularly partic-ularly good on the line with Carter playing an outstanding defensive game. Warren, who made a nice 15-yard gallop, played well but Bird and Watts were the consistent consis-tent ground gainers during the game. Region 3 Standings: W L Springville 5 1 Lincoln 5 1 Payson 5 1 Spanish Fork 4 2 Lehi 4 2 American Fork ..,3 3 Was. Academy 2 4 BY High 1 5 Pleasant Grove 1 5 North Sanpete 0 6 |
