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Show tyevik fesf Cavemen a? l&merimn Fork Friday Springville will travel to Ctf-merican Fork Friday night battle with the Cavemen in u'rtiat is one of the most im-,Pi-'irtant region prep cage juries of the week. Tipoff will at 8 p.m. The junior var-aty var-aty team will play at 6:15. American Fork has not lost game to date and the Red yijvils can strengthen their isition in league standings nsiderably if they can pull i upset and whip the Cave-en. Cave-en. d0.)efeat Carbon John Averett, who has sat ' ! the bench most of the time , .ring previous games, worked 1 3 way into a starting posi-n posi-n for the Carbon game and "Joved that his type of ball orll.stling and shooting are eded by the Red Devils. John is near sensational as he , stled the ball down the 'lior to speed up the Red Dev-offense Dev-offense and give the club w life and new scoring op-rtunities. op-rtunities. He came up with m a highly respectable 16 points. Bird was sharpest in shooting, with one of his highest scoring scor-ing games, getting 29 points 15 of which were from the foul line. Averett hit 8 field goals to top Bird by one. Thorpe played one of his better bet-ter games to take second highest high-est scoring with 17 and played outstanding ball. Nielsen started the scoring with a foul pitch and Allred added one before Thorpe took over with some nice shots to run the score to 8-3. Bird and Averett exchanged point-makers as they held a 16-10 advantage ad-vantage late in the quarter Thorpe hit two out of three from the foul line as Carbon rallied to close the gap at 18- 16 at the quarter. Whiting sparked play in the beginning of the second quarter quar-ter with his offensive play and the Devils pulled ahead 24-17 midway in the quarter before Carbon closed the gap at 25-22 with 2:56 left. Bird tallied ev- ery point from there on in the quarter to give his Red Devils Dev-ils a 33-25 halftime advantage Bird continued the scoring pace with two buckets in the third period as the Devils tooh a 37-27 lead before Nielsor fouled out with 7:06 to go Thorpe hit and Averett swished swish-ed in a beautiful long shot tc move the Devils out 40-31. Bird and Averett ran the score to 49-37. Carbon hit five in a row and Thorpe got two foul shots as the quarter ended 51-42. 51-42. Averett started the final quarter, scoring with a basket, Carbon retaliated and then Thorpe, who was playing consistently con-sistently good ball, hit; Taylor dunked in two foul tosses and Thorpe hit a swishing side shot to bring the score to 59-45, 59-45, with six minutes to go. Carbon closed the gap quickly with five straight points before be-fore Bird, Averett and Thorpe and Taylor ran the tally to 70-50. Coach Jensen put in an entirely new team to finish the game with 2:24 minutes to go. Final tally, 74-56 for the Devils. Region Four Standings Southern Division Team W L Pet Provo 5 0 1.000 Springville 3 2 .600 Carbon 2 3 .400 Spanish Fork 1 4 .200 Payson 0 5 .000 Northern Division Team W I. Pet Am Fork 1 0 1.000 BY High 4 1 .800 Orem 3 2 .600 Lehi 1 4 .200 Pleasant Grove .... 1 4 .200 Last Week's Results Provo 73, Spanish Fork 52 BY High 60, Orem 48 Springville 74, Carbon 56 Pleasant Grove 80, Payson 65 Am. Fork 75, Lehi 35. |