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Show Moab Meets Millard To Open Cage Season The Moab Red "Devils get' into the 1STO-T1 basket-tall basket-tall season with both feet Friday night, and they may well find themselves standing stand-ing on -a very hot spot. The S:CO p.m. game brings top-rated Millard to the Devil hardwoods and the Eagles have sharp claws. Ranked number three among A schools last year. Millard finisa-td finisa-td in jus: that spot in the itate tourney. It should be worth the price of admission just to tee one of the state's premier pre-mier athletes in action. That's Richard George, a three-way all-stater, who is also listed on several all-American teams. Among ether honors, the 6-4 inch 2."0 pound George holds the all - time record in the javelin throw for sophomores. soph-omores. Last year he threw the spear 241 feet, second J.ighest on the National Honor List. More pertinent to the Friday night encounter, the Millard senior averaged averag-ed 19.4 points per game as a junior and led his club in rebounds. He's a genuine genu-ine all - stater, having teen named to every "dream team". Moab will try to counter the Eagle star and team e'epth with a big front line and several combinations. The inside men will come from Mike Daniels, Von Isaman. Mike Barrett and Bruce Davidson all 6-3 inches or taller. However, only Daniels has any varsity var-sity experience and Isaman, Isa-man, tallest at 6-5 inches, is a soph pivotman. In early scrimages, Daniels has been the scoring leader lead-er for the Devils. Guards Don Taylor, Randy Ran-dy Zimmerman and Danny Robinson have done most of the ball handling in practice providing some depth at the position, but they do not have a single minute of varsity experience. experi-ence. Two players who have been injured and ill. Paul Cox and Brent Williams, may provide the catylist. Mcab needs if physically able. Both are quick 6-0 seniors who can shoot and have some experience. Coach Ward Curtis is in his 4th year at the Moab helm, said he wouldn't know until Friday, what combination to start or how long he would stay with any five men. A junior jun-ior varsity contest wiil start at 6:15 Friday. The script for the last two years in class A foot-tall foot-tall title games has been for Judge Memorial to play Payson. The two schools have dominated Class A since the new system sys-tem began. It's not hard to understand as both play only Class AA schools and both are always contenders contend-ers in their regions. Have hopes! Judge has added girls to their enrollment with the closing of St. Mary's of the Wasatch and probably now will go AA in Class. It's only fair. If Moab or Blanding counted ,ORly boys in enrollment, they would be Class B. |