Moody gets overtime win over Springville to become area champions

By Johnny Sanders Sports Editor

SPRINGVILLE – If Gene Stallings were a basketball coach, Friday’s 5A Area 11 game would have been his type of game. Good defense, not a lot of scoring, chippy, aggressive. Just two rivalry teams battling it out for the right to call themselves the area champions. At the end of the night, battered and bruised, after 4 quarters and an overtime of beating and banging on one another, the Moody Blue Devils prevailed over the top-seeded tournament host, and heated rival, Springville Tigers, by a final of 35-30.

Starting the game with a bang, the Tigers came out and jumped on Moody 5-0 in the first quarter and the crowd was deafening early on, getting behind their boys. But Moody would answer with two quick scores, a three-pointer by Caden Helms and a monstrous dunk by Davion Dozier, tying the game at 5. Dozier would come back down the court and hit a jumper plus the andone and put Moody up 8-5.