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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Sports Lynx sweep the Canyon 14 WEDNESDAY MARCH 21, 2001 age had been done. Grand Can- walked four and hit two more, The Fredonia Lynx took both yon had a 6-- 1 lead. getting charged with five runs. ball a Two strikeouts and fly Justin Anderson came in to pitch ends of a doubleheader against Grand Canyon High School. On took care of the Lynx in the bot- and struck out the first batter a cold, windy day in Fredonia tom of the fourth. The Phan- he faced to end the inning. Fredonia came to bat in the the Lynx proved that they have toms picked up another hit in bottom of the third trailing 12-benot score. did fifth from but the what it takes to come Fredonia struck for four runs They picked up three runs withhind and win. Marcus Begay pitched the first on three hits in the bottom of the out the benefit ofa base hit. The game and was credited with the fifth. The big hits were doubles clouds started rolling in and it dark. Grand victory. Neither team scored in by Andersen and Tait. That was getting pretty 12-1- 0 iri and the in favor Canyon led the first two innings of play. But brought the score to . weather was becoming as much with two innings in the books, of the Phantoms. team. of an enemy as the oposing In the top of the sixth a leadoff the Lynx had been unable to get In the top of the fourth, Grand a man on base, while the Phan- double and a one out walk had toms resembled a powder keg two runners on base. A pop-oCanyon loaded the bases on two ready to explode. They stranded to short and a ground out to walks and an error. With' one two base runners in each of the third left two more Phantoms out, Richard Wheatley snared a '& stranded on base. In the bottom line drive at first base and first two innings. went In the top of the third, Grand of the sixth, the Lynx picked up stepped on the bag for a double Canyon hit the ball well, but one run on two doubles to knot play and the Lynx were out of came up empty again. A pop out the score at 6-- 6 with one inning the inning. In the bottom of the fourth, in the infield was sandwiched left to play. two to leadoff Grand Canyons around hitter Justin Crandall led off with a long fly balls centerfieder Nate Tait. In the in the seventh walked, but a hit. Wheatley followed that with Cowboy Matt Pepper slides head first into home plate scoring a run against bottom of the third, the Lynx pop-u- p to the pitcher and a throw another single. After a strike Manti in the third place game of the Chuckwagon Classic held in Kanablast came to life to some extent, but to first completed a double play. out, Crandall scored on a passed weekend. they shot themselves in the foot That was followed by a strikeout. ball with Levi Whited at the The Lynx wasted no time in plate. After Whited struck out, with poor base running. After Richard Wheatley reached on scoring the winning run. Ander- Simmons walked and Marcus an error, a pinch runner was son drilled a 2-- 0 pitch into left Begay reached base on an error. sent in for him. With nobody center all the way to the fence Wheatley scored on the error out, the pinch runner, after al- for a double. Tait hit the first and the game was tied at 12-1The Kanab Cowboys took third run on two hits, with four most getting picked off, led off pitch offered to him down the Anderson walked to load the even farther and was easily cut third base line for another bases once again. Nate Tait came place in their own Chuckwagon strikeouts. conKanab lost the semi-findown. Justin Crandall followed double, scoring Anderson with to bat and was walked also. In Classic Baseball Tournament three Lynx run- held last weekend in Kanab by test to Juab, 8-- as they comwith a base hit and Amos Lofing the winning run. Marcus Begay Taits t, drew a walk. Levi Whited ripped did a workman-lik- e job on the ners scored on three wild pitches. beating Manti 10-- There were mitted eight errors. Juabs pitcha single, scoring Crandall. Kevin mound, picking up the win. A strikeout ended the inning eight teams invited to the Clas ers held Kanab without a hit. Noel threw three innings, allowSimmons also walked, loading Begay gave up four hits, struck and Fredonia was ahead 15-1sic. In the top of the fifth, the first The Cowboys won their first ing only one run on two hits, the bases.The next two Lynx out three, walked six and hit one two went down on strikes batter. batters Phantoms grounded out game of the season by pounding with three strikeouts. Mace Glaand a golden opportunity for a Kevin Simmons, who pitched right back to the pitcher. After Richfield 8-- Sam Noel led off zier relieved Noel and threw the a great game a week earlier issuing a walk, Anderson struck the bottom of the first with a final two innings. The fourth big rally was cut down. In the top half of the fourth, against Seligman, came on to out the final batter and the um- home run. After two outs, James inning was fine, but Juab exBy Kent Mason f m. 1 7. r 6-- 5, J. ut V rjjisnilB: JSti .Wran Cowboys take third in Chuckwagon Classic 2. al at-ba- 0, 7. 2. 1. the Grand Canyon powder keg pitch the second game. He was exploded. After the leadoff bat- victimized with three errors by ter grounded out, a base hit was the infield in the first inning. He followed by a walk. The Lynx got also gave up three hits, walked ' the next batter on a strikeout one and hit one batter. The inand they looked like they might ning ended with the Phantoms get out of another inning strand- leading The Lynx loaded the bases on ing two base runners. A routine to should short have walks in their half of the three grounder ended the inning, but the ball first, but could only manage to took a crazy hop and when the get one across the plate and dust settled, two runs had trailed 1 going into the top of crossed the plate. A dropped fly the second. bal in right allowed another run After holding Grand Canyon walked the to score. Begay next scoreless in the second, the Lynx batter on four pitches, putting came back with six big runs in two runners on base. The next their half of the inning to tie the In Grand Canyons batter hit a pitch just over the game at t, centerfield fence for a three run next Simmons had an homer. A ground ball to third inning he would like to forget. ended the inning, but the dam He only gave up one hit, but he 7-- 0. 7-- 7-- 7. at-ba- pires called the game because of the inclement weather. The Lynx will play this Friday at Ash Fork. Their next home game is on Friday, April 6 against Bagdad. They will be playing at home through most of the month of April. Kanab 49, Fanguitch 28 The Kanab seventh grade bas-ketba- Sign-u- p at Kanab High School on March 28 -- at 6 p.m. in coach Hal Hambliifs classroom! For more info, call Lyle Heybomo at Chss dates: March 28-2- 9, 644-558- 0. April 4, 5, 7, 10 & 11 . ll Panguitch team recently .and blew them out, Kanab came out blistering hot, outscoring the Bobcats 18-- 0 in the first period. Tyler Ramsay 49-2- 8. and Caleb Vincent each scored eight in the opening frame. They upped their lead to 0 in the second stanza as Jerace Glover tal- lied four apiece. Kanab kept the heat on in the third quarter, outscoring Panguitch 13-- 6 to take a commanding 47-1- 6 lead into the final period. ' Ramsay, Vincent and Chamberlain scored 12 points apiece to lead the Kanab offense. Matt Livingston added five, with Glover and Keith Howells each getting four. . I 3-- final two innings, allowing one Kanab 54, Bryce Valley 48 Kanabs seventh graders team hosted the picked up their second win in an and Tanner Chamberlain "tSS back-to-bac- Kanab 7th graders win two 34-1- uhter Sa Narramore and Matt Pepper hit k dingers for a quick 0 Kanab lead. Josh Blasdell pitched three innings of shutout ball, allowing only one hit, while striking out seven. Sam Noel relieved Blasdell and pitched the exciting 8 victory over Bryce Valley. The locals jumped out to a 0 lead after one period of play, led by Tyler Ramsays nine points. Bryce Valley played tough in the second quarter to cut the hklftime deficit to one, as Kanab led 4 at the break. A big third quarter gave Bryce 5 lead with one Valley a period left to play. The young Cowboys kept it going in the fourth, led by Caleb Vincents eight points, as they outscored their opponents 14 to 13, to get the win by six, 54-4Rainsay ended up with 18, while Vincent added 14 to lead Kanab. Keith Howells scored eight, with Jerace Glover andMatt Livingston netting six apiece. 54-4- ploded for seven runs in the top of the fifth to make a 0 pitchers duel a blowout victory for Juab. In the third place game, Kanab jumped out to a 0 first inning lead on one hit, with all the runs scoring on passed balls. After Manti closed the gap to the for seven runs Cowboys exploded in the bottom of the third to get the win. Sophomores Mace Glazier and Clay Greenland combined for the win. Virgin Valley went on to beat Juab for the championship 3 on Saturday evening. 1-- 3-- 3-- 1, 4-- 17-1- 25-2- 40-3- 8. ft |