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Show Devils Face Strong Lion Cagers Mere Friday Might Devils Can Tie for League Lead With Payson Victory The climactic game of the first half of league play in the Nebo basketball chase will be staged Friday nicrht on the Sprinc;ville floor with the league-lead- ing 1'ayson Lions and the Red Dev-, il.s. The game will start at 8 p.m., following the Jr. Varsity at 6:30. If the I'ay.son fivo can gain a victory over the Devils, they will practically have the Nebo" crown rested from the defending Devils since they have not lost a single game to date and Springville has one loss chalked up against them. Fresh from an upset 48-39 victory vic-tory over Spanish P'ork on the Don's floor last Friday, the Red Devils have been working hard to stop the visiting giants from Pay-son Pay-son come Friday night. Payson has . one of its tallest teams in years . and by all comparative odds, should win the game. However, Springville fans are not conceding any victory to the Lions because of the fine manner in which Coach Garrett has brought his club along in the past few games. Speed vs height will be featured in the Friday game. The Springville Spring-ville club has more speed with their smaller club, than probably any Red Devil squad has had in many years. Whether or not they can replace speed for needed height and come out with a victory, will be decided Friday. The Devils will be given a 50-50 chance of coming up with an upset victory, however. Wright Leads Oevils ... Phil Wright swung into high gear in the score column last Friday Fri-day night to come up with 15 points to lead his teammates to an upset victory over the Spanish Fork five. Spanish Fork was apparently ap-parently no warmer than the cold wintry weather outside , as they were unable to warm up to the occasion oc-casion after the first quarter ended. end-ed. It was a smooth working, speedy Red Devil squad that controlled con-trolled the game from this point to lead by 10 or 12 points to the end of the game. Duke Reid contributed con-tributed 11 points while Crandall and Holmes played well to garner 9 each. Bills played his usual fine defensive game and chalked up 4 counters. Edwards and Langford with 11 and 10 respectively led the Dons. In the Junior Varsity game, the Spanish Fork team swamped the Red Devils. Quarter Scores: Springville 10 26 38 48 Spanish Fork 11 17 26 39 Nebo team standings follow: Payson 3 0 Springville 2 1 Spanish Fork - 2 2 Juab 1 2 Tintic 0 3 In 1790, the present state of Illinois was divied into only two counties St. Clair which included includ-ed the wvstero side of the state, and Knox, the eastern half. |