Show Grand Junction Cage Team Snares Snores Moab InVitational T Tourney Du ney Title b zY t 7 4 1 r f s l ii v 1 I IRon I j Ron Bon Trimble goes goe over Roy Yamaguchi of Carbon to totally totally tally taUy two of seven straight points that sparked Moab to an opening night 44 43 win over the Dinos Dines Trimble ca came off oft the bench to rally the Red Bed Devils DevUs and win him self Belt a spot on the tourney all-tourney team Photo by Randy Rand Spencer The Tigers of Grand Junction Junction Junc June tion cold as the weather had hall enough claws left to wallop Moab's Red Devils 62 26 Inthe in inthe inthe the title game of the Moab Invitational Tournament and take lake home the crown In their first year of tourney lourney compe The game was strictly no contest as the tired Red Devils Devils De De- vils were colder than the Tigers Ti gers at the outset and never nevel warmed up Moab connected on only five of 70 shots and could muster but one field goal poal in the entire second half Junction gradually warmed to its task Bill Huff scored 15 to keep them ahead 3 10 at the quarter and 22 12 11 it arthe the halt half When he cooled and both teams went scoreless tor for three minutes Jerry Ball poured in 11 counters to swamp i Moab For Moab Wayne Leystra hit hll 10 for 11 at the foul line Une and totalled 14 Ron Trimble gave Moab a momentary lift liftIn liftIn In the second quarter with two fine tine shots In the race for third and fourth Durango downed Car Car- bon In a real barn barnburner burner The Demons led 67 66 in the last las 20 seconds before salted away a close one and nt the ball game Byron Dyron led the Demons with 24 and Jim Hatfield got 21 For Carbon Ernie Banash had a hot 16 In the first half halt and a game mark marl marlof of 21 He got cot lots Jots of help from Steve Chubbuck who tallied 19 Moab entered the finals by winning a squeaker from Irom Carbon Car Car- bon 44 43 Thursday The DevUs Devils De Do vils trailed 25 20 at the halt half but seven quick points by byRon byRon byRon Ron Trimble sparked them then into a dead heat in the final quarter after atter they had been behind as much as ten points Moab oab raced ahead by five in the last stanza and tried to nurse it through the final three minutes However with 30 seconds to go Dino Steve Chubbuck stole the ball ban and tied Jt It up at 43 That set the stage for tor Sam Grubbs' Grubbs heroics The tall center cen cent ter was fouled and hit the first of at a one and one situa lion tion Carbon had one try missed d and the crowd went wild with a victory Grand Junction and Durango Durango Dur Dur- ango met in the tourney opener open er and the tallent deep Tigers fIgers played Jt It cool all the way Led by Ken HlaUs 15 and 14 H by Jerry Ball they won It 53 |