Show North Emery Defeats Moab Monticello Grabs Loop Crown The Grand County High School Red Devils faded In the homestretch home homestretch homestretch stretch Friday night at North Emery and skidded into the secand sec sec sec-j and end division on a 65 45 dunking from the Yankees Yankees' Elsewhere over the Coun Tri ty League Monticello High School took over undisputed possession of first place by winning the battle bat battie tie tle of the giants Friday night by dumping San Juan County High I of DI Blanding ding 37 to 30 In theother the ilie theother other league activity South Emerys Emery's Emerys Emerys Emery's Em Em- erys ery's sharpshooters handed Green River Its third straight loss with witha a 65 24 landslide The Red Devils stayed within range of North Emery for three quarters of the game although trailing But the roof caved in during the final stanza and Emery Em ery try ran up a 19 to 4 edge In InthIs inthis thIs his period Three men accounted for 58 of Emerys Emery's points Therold Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- ard and Junior Christansen Leon Leon-I blis bUs blistered blistered the nets for 20 points each and Willlard Williard Young flipped in 18 more Rusty Donoghue set the pace for Moab hitting the hoop for 12 points and Monk Bailey found the range for 10 more to pace the On the Scoreboard North Emery Emery Em Em- ery rry led 1812 18 at the first turn and 33 26 at halftime At the end of three quarters Emery held helda a slim 46 41 edge Te To league spotlight was on th the San Monticello-San Juan game where I both clubs were unbeaten in two starts Monticello was forced to come from behind to keep Its Us record clean as San Juan got off to a 6 10 edge in the first stania Monticello pulled un up even at the th ha halftime e at at 20 20 2020 and moved Into the home stretch with a 28 24 lead and hung on until the final gun Every man In the Monticello lineup contributed points to the win but it was Nielson who set the pace with 12 points San Juans Juan's Kartchner Kartch- Kartch ner was breathing down his neck with 11 points South Emery was never pushed In n coasting to an easy win over Green River in the remaining game on the slate The rebels stacked up a 6 20 lead in the first quarter then coasted in The advantage ad ad- advantage vantage was 44 14 at the half and Emery led 55 19 as the clubs moved into the final stanza Snow and Kilpack paced the winners with 18 and 17 points respectively while King was hIgh point man for Green River with 11 The box score MOAB FG FT hT TP Murphy 2 4 8 Bailey 4 2 10 Donoghue 6 0 12 Burr 2 2 6 Powell 2 1 5 Walker 0 2 2 I Palmer aimer 1 0 2 TOTALS 17 11 45 NORTH EMERY FG FT Fl TP Young 6 6 18 Leonard 7 6 20 Christensen 7 6 20 L. L Wall 1 3 5 Collard 1 0 2 TOTALS 22 21 65 |