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Show Devils lose to Forkers 19-20 in grid finale Springville High School's ?965 Wrte "nis t0 the 1965 grid season with another disheartening one point loss to tmhen,Can frk' 19"20 the third such loss by one point during the league play. American Fork opened the T nnfL ear'y in the game with a touchdown after a series of successful pass plays. Their extra point failed. The opening of the second quarter saw the home club strike again and this time they connected with a pass for the extra point to give them a 13-0 lead. Steve Wright made a nice run to the A. F. 18-yard line near the end of the second quarter. On the next play Haymond tossed a pass to Mike Johnson, who went in for the first score for Springville. Wardle booted the extra point to give the Devils 7 points to 13 for A. F. Van Patten recovered a fumble on the American Fork 10 with about four minutes left to the half. Russ Haymond, playing one of his most outstanding out-standing passing games of the season, hit Bob Liddiard with a touchdown pass to tie up the game 13-13. The extra kick was blocked. With only two minutes left, the Forker's Randy Hansen ran 60 yards to give the Forkers Fork-ers a 19-13 lead and then move it to 20-13 on a pass play. Haymond continued with his pass completions in the third quarter and hit Steve Wright for the touchdown to bring the score 19-20. The big tieing extra play was a drop kick attempt at-tempt by Wardle which failed and the score remained. Steve Wright intercepted an A. F. pass on the Forker 35, but the Devils were unable to capitalize on it and had to give the ball up after four attempts at-tempts failed to gain yardage. Another break went to the Devils when the Forker's Randy Ran-dy Hansen fumbled after a 20-yard run and Wynn Everett Ever-ett recovered at midfield. Ricky Orr did some fine yard gaining, gain-ing, but fumbled and American Fork recovered at midfield: where the game ended shortly after. The Red Devils picked up a total of 11 first downs compared com-pared to 13 for the winners. Final Region 4 Standings Southern Division Team W L T Pt Provo 8 10 .88 Payson 6 3 0 .661 Spanish Fork .... 4 5 0 .444 Carbon 18 0 .111 Springville 0 9 0 .00C |