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Show t ick Corf ez Wallops Moak Cortez muscle and Moab miscues turned a defensive game around and gave the Panthers of Cortez a 20-0 revenge re-venge win over the Moab Red Devils Friday night, at Mograndah Field. The victory was the first game of the season for the Panthers and sweet revenge for a 34-12 lacing they re.' ceied last year at Cortez. Moab saw its win streak end after two games. Moab resumes re-sumes league play this week with a Friday game at East Carbon. The teams struggled to a 0-0 standoff during the first quarter before Cortez turned a Moab fumble into a score. The Panthers recovered ihe ball on the Moab seven yard line and big fullback, Blair Pyle drove it in for the score from the two on the very first play of the second quarter. quar-ter. It was the first time Moab had been behind in a ball game this year, but the Tjevils showed promise of coming back when Gray's kick for conversion went wide. The going proved to be very rough for Moab against the big defensive unit of the Panthers. Anchored by 250 pound Gary Rogers, the Cortez Cor-tez defensive four averaged out at 212 pounds a 42-pound 42-pound per man deficit for Moab. Rogers, abetted by 210 pound Rick Spangler, stifled the Moab ground game. Cortez got the clinching TD when Ken Brengle intercepted intercept-ed Danny Robinson's pass at the Moab 37 yard line. With Pyle doing most of the work, the Panthers drove to the eight yard line. Rocky Thompson Thomp-son blasted in easily from there and Gray toed the conversion con-version to give Cortez a 13 0 lialftime lead. ; Defense dominated the opening op-ening of the second half as the teams exchanged punts. After a scoreless third quarter, quar-ter, Moab moved on a pass from Robinson to Stout on the Cortez 23 yard line. Len Walterschicd picked up six yards and Robinson got 13 to give Moab a first down on the Panther four yard line. Robinson went 'to the one yard line on a sneak, but three more tries with the same play netted only a foot as the big Cortez line turned in a great goal line stand. That, it turned out, was the ball game. Moab came back once more when Gregg Holland grabbed Robinson's pass on the Cortez 25 yard line, but two dropped passes the last one in the end zone ended the threat. The final Cortez score was only icing for the cake. Moab elected to go for a score 'g a"d C the final minute rather tlVcarW kick the ball away and Panthers took over in gr' passed t field position. Three plays iff a' 11 ter, with only 17 seconds to fl Pyle got his second toi - to ol down from two yards (he Gray made the kick good je The the 20-0 margin. main Moab coach, Glen Riche jj used a lot of new persoi' in the game and stated Al J was proud of the way (JIG Red Devils came back in " second half. Although Mc'jfj Q absorbed a whitewash, y Devils demonstrated 'mi ient depth than they have had:iuunters several years. Moab i;t ffeSt hits the road for three ga.upon to test out a new lineup La ainst league foes. :,8orv, |