Show Moab Takes lakes Region 8 Lead Face Blanding Five Thursday Moab moved into the top spot in the San Juan division of ot Region Region Re Re- gion ion Eight Friday behind a he shooting hooting performance by Rust Rusty Davidson that brought a n 53 to 43 victory over Monticello on the Buckaroo floor Davidson working in and out of the pivot spot racked up 22 big points 8 as a feature of ot the Devil win Again support support support sup sup- port by the Jumping Jacks of ot Coach John Benson proved the i decider The rough contest saw i Monticello's David Adams repeat as as top scorer for Monticello with witt 18 points Mel Olsen was floored for or several minutes but stayed in the game The Buckaroos were out to prove that their win over Blanding was no fluke and they pressed Moab to the wire East Carbon back in the comforting comforting com com- forting confines of their own gym for tor the rest of ot the league e season manhandled Blanding to help push Moab into first place Monticello Monticello Mon Mon- visits Dragerton next The big game in the region this week brings San Juan to Moab Thursday night The game was moved up because of ot the Region Region Re- Re gion Rion Eight wrestling matches Friday at Monticello The Broncos Broncos Bron Bron- cos got their first region victory at tit the expense of Moab early Inthe Inthe in inthe the the season without much trouble and would like to repeat Since JInce that game the Red Devil offense has undergone an overhaul to correct the scoring balance A win for Moab assures the Devils DevUs of ot a share in the region championship A loss would put them in the unenviable position of t having to beat East Carbon at gerton for a tie There will Ie 10 loaB a R n team game preceding the varsity vanity contest The standings W L 1 1 u. u 3 1 East S Carbon A 2 2 San Juan 2 2 Monticello 1 3 The remaining two rounds of ot region activity will have ave San SanJuan SanJuan Juan JlIan at Moab an and Monticello at East Falit Carbon Thu Thursday ay February 27 n Moab U Ia at East Eat Carbon and Monticello at Blending Blanding |