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Show Moab Clobbers Uintah 5:0; Enters State Semi-Rnals How sweet it is! Moab's Red Devils did Saturday, what no other team has done in six years. The Devils waxed wax-ed Uintan 5-0 behind Steve Wyatt s four hit chucking and dethroned the defending stale champs beiore an enthusiastic enthusias-tic Moab crowd and an unbelieving un-believing group of fans from Vernal. . The win gave Moab a 2-1 edge in the series and pushed push-ed thiTo into the state semifinals semi-finals against South Sevier at Salina at 3 p.m. Thursday. It was not easy. The two teams locked horns last Thursday at Vernal, in a pair of cliffliangers. Moab suffered suf-fered a heartbreaking loss in the first game 1-0. Scheduled Schedul-ed for seven innings, the contest con-test stretched into ten stanzas stan-zas before Uintah scored on a tlirow to third base that bounced off the runner and permitted the winning run. Steve Wyatt took the loss in that one so his coup de grace in the finale provided the revenge. In the second game (or third game if you add up the innings) Moab had to go eleven el-even innings to win 3-2. That one too was supposed to go only seven innings. With Paul Wyatt on third Mike Walterschied Walter-schied rifled a single to bring in the winning run. Coach Ward Curtis used Gene Roberts Rob-erts on the mound in the opening op-ening innings, replaced him with Eric Daniels, then brought Roberts back to hold . the Utes in the finale. The Saturday climax was all Moab. Mike Steele delivered deliv-ered two hits for 'Moab as d:d Sfcve Wyatt. Wyatt sent 13 Utes down via strikeouts and his mates again played a fine defensive game. Both teams played superlative super-lative ball in the first two games and both deserved to win, but the topper on Saturday Satur-day went to Moab and the Devils are on the march to the first state 'title the Moab school has ever captured. |