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Show - V. ' t . . . ' , I I " ; ' " - . V -1 . . V.. ,; - ; . 1 . - --v 'j . ' i ! ' v .v : - Ro Johnson of the Moab Red Devils, stretches for a pass thrown during ,osmg cause o Wasatch. Johnson, one of the premier end I , ti e state faush : one earlier in the game for the Devils' onlv touchdown of the can e The IVm s c osed out the season by losing to Wasatch 20-8 T ev were undefeated in Region 1 en competition. y Devils Lose Bid for State At the Hands of Wasatch The Wasatch Wasps came to Moab looking for a victory and they were not to be denied as they forced the Devils to make mistakes. Mistakes and a tough Wasp line defeated de-feated the Moab crew. The defensive line of Wasatch broke through the Devil offensive unit time and again to throw the Devil runners for losses. Wasatch scored first in the second period as they pushed the ball across ac-ross the line. Big No. 36. Roger Tree, was a menace on offense all day as they constantly gave him the ball for the hard to get yardage. yard-age. He played a beautiful beau-tiful game as he picked up short and long yardage yard-age at w ill. The Devils came back during the second period per-iod and scored on a beautiful beau-tiful pass to Ho Johnson that went for 4S yards. The Devils elected to go for two points on the conversion and Stan Holland Hol-land carried the ball across ac-ross to give the Devils a 2 point lead. The Wasps again scored scor-ed before the end of the half to lead 13-8 going to the dressing room. During the first half, the visitors gained nearlv 170 yards to Moab's SO. The second half was more of the first half with the host Red Devils making mistakes that hurt and the Wasps taking tak-ing advantage of them. ; The Wasp defensive unit un-it was too much for Mo-1 Mo-1 ab Friday as they broke ' through time and time again. West, Holland and Cresswell couldn't break any long runs and Gene Roberts wasn't able to get rid of the ball on any long pass plays except ex-cept for the scoring toss to Johnson. Stan Holland and Jay West worked the middle of the line and loosened loosen-ed up the defense enough so that Cresswell could get an occasional run around ar-ound the outside. Wasatch scored again with less than three minutes mi-nutes to go in the game and it was all over but the shouting as far as the Wasps were concerned. concern-ed. The final scoreof20-8 was an indication of the good ball played by both squads and the team w ith the fewest mistakes won the game. Wasatch will now continue con-tinue on to the semi-finals next week. - |