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Show Moab Wins Close Contest Over San Juan Five Playing possibly the worst game of the season, seas-on, the Moab Red Devils barely slipped past the San Juan Broncos in a game played in Blanding. The final score was 54-53 for the Devils. Leading the way to the near defeat of the Devil squad was a record number num-ber of turnovers, 33, nearly twice as many as in previous games. Also a lack of rebounding power pow-er in the second half was another reason for the lack-luster performance. perform-ance. The Moab team had only one ten-minute hot spot during the game when they outscored the Broncos. During the last 2 minutes of the first quarter and all of the second quarter, the Devils Dev-ils nearly blew the Blanding Bland-ing bunch off the court. The Devils inability to hit on easy layups and close shots hurt and the inability of the team to hit each other on passes lead to the near defeat during the second half. Center Von Isaman, 6'1" senior, lead the visitors vis-itors in rebounds with 18 for the game, 11 of them coming during the first half. He also finished the game with 16 points, tied with Steve Wyatt for scoring honors for the Devils. Speedy Mike Steele came up with 8 points and his best game of the year as he hit on nearly every shot he took and pressed hard on the defensive assignments. Steele is the shortest player on the Red Devil squad at 5 '5". Moab left the game with 47 per cent of the field goals tried dropping through and 15 out of 22 free throws for 69 per cent. The host Broncos only hit 29 per cent from the field as they were forced to shoot from outside out-side and were unable to control the rebounds. |