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Show Homecominn Action Finds Reel DevilsTrying to Clinch i Title ; " : - By Danny Price The Moab high school Red Devils will be out to clinch the Region Six Southern Division crown Friday night as they play host to the San Juan Broncos Bron-cos at 8 p.m. on llcgran-dah llcgran-dah Field. It will mark the big event of Homecoming Home-coming week for the Red Devils. Moab is getting atop the division standings with a perfect 3-0 league record and a -mediocre 4-3 overall mark and need a convincing convinc-ing victory over Blanding to push them toward the state quarterfinals! up north. Moab is riding a two-game two-game winning streak at this moment, ' after consecutive conse-cutive victories over Class B foes Notre Dame ' and East Carbon and hope to make it number three tomorrow to-morrow and bring a happy hap-py climax to the week's Homecoming celebration. A loss to San Juan would throw Moab into a first place deadlock with Monticello, a team that has completed their league action with a 3-1 record their only loss being a 46-12 46-12 thumping by the Red Devils earlier in the season. sea-son. San Juan, 1-2 in division divis-ion games and tied with East Carbon for third position po-sition in the standings, dropped a 13-7 decision to Monticejlo last week, while Mojafo came from behind in Dragerton to trip East Carbon, 21-7 behind the running of halfback John Fossey and fullback Richard Rich-ard Green. Insouthern division statistics, sta-tistics, Moab is ahead of the pack as they lead in scoring with 110 points in three games, while Monticello Mon-ticello follows in second twith 83 points in four .outings. Defensively, Moab Is sharing the department Jeadi as the Red Devils have allowed league foes only 26 points, giving u;p 'seven points apiece to 'East Carbon and Notre (Dame and 12 markers Lo iMonticello. San Juan has klo al-fowed al-fowed opponents - only 26 points, but seem to Lack a high scoring offense as jthey have been able to (muster only 38 points the i entire season. East Carbon and their hard running quarterback (Jerry Howell gave Moab trouble for three quarters last week before the Red Devils pulled away for a (21-7 victory as fullback Richard Green tallied two times in the final period. Howell put the Viking-ahead Viking-ahead late in the second period as he scored on a one yard plunge. Benny iFlores booted the PAT and the Vikings held a 7-0 Jead at halftime. Moab managed to tie things yn with four minutes min-utes remaining ' the third period when D : . II end Randy Broome recovered recov-ered a fumble on the East .Carbon 29 yard line, but Moab was unable to capitalize cap-italize and gave up the ball on downs to the Vikings, Vik-ings, With five minutes remaining re-maining in the ball game, Jim Cowan, playing in hi.s first game since his shoulder shoul-der injury three weeks pgo, intercepted a Jerry Howell pass on his own 40 yard line, and ran it back to the Viking 39 yard Jine, setting up Moab's go-ahead touchdown. Moab drove on down the field as Green completed the drive with a plunge from the one yard line. It was a 39 yard drive by the Red Devils as halfback John Fossey collected 30 yards rushing in the big drive. Moab end Jim Dick-erson Dick-erson took a: quick pass from Cowan for the PAT and the JJ.ed Devils took the lead 14-7. v Richard Green jput the game out of reach with 39 seconds remaining, as he intercepted a Howell pass and ran it back 76 yards. Green ran past ten Viking players and ran ver one as he scampered vup the sidelines for the iinal score. Howell had a chance at Green near the mid-field .stripe, but the hard-driving fullback ran right over the Viking signal caller, knocking the wind out of i'y T-rterback. John Fos- sey plunged over on the point-after to give the Devils De-vils a hard fought 21-7 win. |
