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Show Red Dei!s Lose-- Win on Rood Trip Emery High School stormed stor-med iruin bunmd 111 the linal three ni. nines to hand iloab its second Ueieat of the young season, but the iced Devils bounced back with a big 77-53 deieaL of AAA power Montrose Saturday. The ball hawking of Scott McArthur of Emery was the ditlerenee in the 'J-i35 loss i'.ioab took at Castle Dale. Moab led through three quarters and i.ppe.aed on its way to trie first win of the season. Three quick turnovers to the speedy McArthur changed chan-ged matters in the last three minutes. McArthur led all scorers with 21 points. Forward Mike Daniels Dan-iels topped Moab with .14 points. Moab lost starting guard Dan Kobinson in the first two minutes when he hit a wall and sustained sustain-ed an eye injury requiring six stitches. The Devils managed to put it all together against Montrose. The big forward for-ward line dragged down o'j rebounds in the first half alone and combined for 54 points. Coach Ward Curtis used his starting five for only half the game and the bench added to the Devil margin. Von Isaman, the sophomore sopho-more center, and Daniels were the big gunners for Moab with 17 points each. Daniels hit a hot streak of four straight to open the second half to break the game open. Danny Robinson Rob-inson scored eleven and Bruce Davidson 10 to put four Devils in double figures. fi-gures. Mike Barrett added nine more. Moab continues its tough pre-season state next Saturday, Sat-urday, when they travel to Durango to meet the undefeated un-defeated Demons. Durango Duran-go has one of its best teams in years and boasts three 6-5 men up front. The Moab junior varsity varsi-ty stayed unbeaten with two close victories. Steve Wyatt hit for 21 points as Moab upended Emery 60-56. 60-56. At Montrose, Moab had to come from behind to eke out a 45-43 victory. Vinnie Camberlang scored 17 points for honors and Greg Holland stole the ball for the winning layup in the final two seconds. |