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Show Devils Edge Granfsville In January Opener by David Hasemyer Pre-season cage action ac-tion came to a close for the G.C.H.S Red Devils De-vils with a 60-55 victory vic-tory over the Grantsville Cowboys at Grantsville Jan. 5. A full court press and Devil turnovers along with a fired-up Grantsville Grants-ville team put the Devils behind 20-10 at the end of the first quarter. Grantsville continued to dominate the Devils in the second period as they extended their lead to as many as 16 points. With some substituting the Devils cut Grants-ville's Grants-ville's margin to 14 at the half. The Devils came out hot in the third period rolling up 22 points while holding the sputtering Cowboys to only 9. With the scoring outburst the Devils had pulled to within one point of Grantsville 46-47. With 6:31 remaining in the final quarter of the contest con-test the Devils took a one-point lead, their first of the game. The Devils stretched this lead to 6 with 2:00 of playing time left. Grantsville came back to trail by one point with under one minute left. However, an easy basket bas-ket and two foul shots put the game away for the Devils. Leading the Devils to victory was senior center cen-ter Von Isaman with 18 'points, Eric Daniels and Gene Roberts in double figures with 12 and 11 points respectively and Steve Wyatt adding 6 points. Mike Steele hit for 5 points, Kevin Hansen Han-sen and Mark Marks -berry made 4 each. |