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Show Red Devils lose thriller to Murray, 67-63 k - fA T - - . i t V V I i . - . z - i j. i .. - I 1 . I 'i Jm' i ' - : .. if 4 -f t. , -f f J ; fJ : r - I c 1 1 1 Coach Hal Jensen's Springville Spring-ville Red Devils lost a heart- breaking opening game to 1 Murray, 67-63 in the first game of the Class A Tournament, Tourna-ment, Tuesday night, after the Devils had seemingly pulled pull-ed out of a 12 point deficit and was up 6 points with 4 minutes to play, and apparently apparent-ly on the road to a victory. Bill Allred, playing one of his best games of the year, and hitting 15 counters, ably assisted work horse, Ron Bird in sparking a drive that saw Springville come from behind in the last of the third quarter quar-ter and pull to 62-56 with only 4 minutes to go in the final quarter. The Devils had connected con-nected for 15 points to Murray's Mur-ray's 6 to do this and then just as surely as Bird was actually ac-tually the hero of the game, counting 20 points, he missed a 1 and 1 foul shot with only a minute left to go which would have given the Red Devils Dev-ils a three point lead, after Murray had pulled up to within with-in one point. The shot was missed, and Murray tanked a basket to go ahead and then added foul shots as the Devils fouled in an attempt to gain a chance at the basket. Allred had a couple of free throws with only 45 seconds remaining and hit one, which gave the Devils their 63rd point. Murray's Jensen tossed in two more to give them the victory. The game was the most exciting, best played game of the opening round. ACTION SHOT Ron Bird, who played outstanding ball in the tournament game between Murray and the Red Devils Tuesday Tues-day night, lets fly one of his hook shots as Mike Taylor (30) and Bill Allred (14) move in for a rebound shot. Bird hit for 20 and Allred for 15 to lead the Devils in their thrilling battle with the Murray team, but came out on the short end, 67-63 to move into the consolation race in the tournament. Murray led at the first quarter quar-ter 16-10 and then added one more point margin at the halftime, 34-27. The Devils! rally cut the lead to 49-47 at the three quarter mark to set the stage for the thrilling finish. fin-ish. Bird got 20 points, with Allred 15, and Roger Reid 13. The Devils met Granger in the second round game Wednesday. Wednes-day. They will play in the University Uni-versity of Utah fieldhouse, Friday, Fri-day, provided they won over Granger. |
