MARCH 21, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER Wasps Survive Moab RUSS RIGGS SPORTS ack to EDITOR back games? That’s One thing Hermanson raved about, however, was the play of his young sophomores—in particular Danny Lahner, Curt Mcuwen, and Austin Hills. “lve been very happy with our Tournament Probst and Lahner walked and Hills reached on an error to tie the game at five. Then, with the bases loaded, centerfielder Ryan Kohler reached first base on a walk and Wasatch was able to easy. A doubleheader? Childs play. Three games in one day? Now that’s more like it. | The Wasatch baseball team trav- elled south to play in the Moab tourna- ment last weekend, and played three tiring games on Saturday—which turned out to be extremely tough on an already thin pitching rotation. third inning when David Gertsch scored on a Will Webster single to rightfield, and then the Wasps added two more runs in the fourth as Hills and Kohler scored on Price’s two RBI single. Carl Hermanson explained, the Wasps brought it all on themselves. “You never like to play three games in one day, but we put ourselves in that position by losing our first game,” he Hy one more run pionship game, there wasn’t a lot of fight left in us.” Wasatch lost to Parowan on Friday, from second on a Ross Francis single. pleased about the way his team per- i added before the last inning as Kohler scored on Saturday for the right to play Parowan again in the championship. The Wasps lost 8-0 in the final game, and Hermanson was none to | The Wasps said. “Once we got back to the cham- then defeated Grand and North Sevier | 4 McCluskey said. “We didn’t make too many errors and we hit the ball when we needed to.” Wasatch starting pitcher Wade Price pitched five innings, allowing only one run and striking out five Grantsville hitters. ‘I felt good. My fastball was working, and I had good help from the defense,” Price said... “Wade threw a great game—he’ S going to be there for us,” Hermanson said. a The game was scoreless until the However, as Wasatch head coach. lM ll SU played all year aa I couldn’t be more tickled,” Grantsville head coach Travis formed in the tournament. “We scored a lot of runs, but we made nine errors against Parowan. We really played lousy and made some silly mental mistakes,” he said. “I liked how we fought back into the tournament, but it was frustrating as a coach.” PHOTO BY RUSS RIGGS The Wasatch High baseball team put in a mediocre performance at the Moab tournament last weekend - sophomores, but I haven’t had a lot of upperclassmen step up,” he said. On March 13th, the Wasps battled a pesky Grantsville team that just wouldn't go away. Leading 4-1 at the top of the final inning, Grantsville made a furious comeback led by Kyle Hammond’s two-RBI homerun to take a 5-4 lead. In Wasatch’s last at bat, Wasps Brady Ne ae AUSTIN Grade Level: 107 Sports/Activity: Scout Team Other Sport/Activity: X-County, track, church ball, Favorite Music Group: AC/DC Favorite Movie: Gone in 60 Seconds Favorite Movie Star: Braden Duncan Favorite Athlete: Pre Favorite Sport: Running | ; Favorite Sports Team: Oregon University Favorite Food: Casey’s Pork Chops Favorite School Subject: Information Processing with Austin Person Who Has Influenced You the Most: Father — Géals for the Future: mission, running Car You Wish You Had: The O’brien pull out the 6-5 victory. “Tm a little disappointed we didn’t swing the bats well—we left guys in scoring position,’ Hermanson said. “But I was glad to see us come back and win.” | “This was the first game we've Wasatch begins region play this week after today’s game at Tooele, travelling to Judge on Friday and Uintah on Tuesday. “I'm excited for region to get started. Judge is improved and Uintah is always a tough place to win,” Hermanson said. “We'll be a good team if we can get things in place.” Today’s game begins at 3:30 p.m., and the Judge and Uintah games begin at 3:00 p.m. Wasatch Sports Update RUSS RIGGS SPORTS EDITOR convert any in the 2-1 loss. Down 2-0 late in the game, Dallas. occer: The men’s soccer team finished pre-season play last week by beating Waterford 2-0, and losing to Bear River 2-1. Goalie Hector Armendarez, who has been the surprise player of the year, was able to shut out Waterford— but not without the stellar defensive play of sweeper Aaron Probst. Although Armendarez only made two saves, Wasatch coach Dawain Wheatley said there’s more to goalkeeping than saves. “He (Hector) played another good game—communicating and cutting guys off. If a goalie is doing his job, he won’t need to make saves,” he said. With both teams going scoreless in the first half, Wasp Dallas Dean broke — the drought with a goal at the 10 minute mark assisted by German Ochoa. Then, at the 26 minute mark, Justin Banks scored with an assist by Chad Anderson to end the scoring at 2-0. However, a goal by Colby Remund late in the match was called off by an offsides penalty, but by that time the game was well in hand. : The Wasps played a big, physical Bear River team on March 13, and Wheatley said at times he thought he was playing against linebackers from the Chicago Bears. “They're a good, physical team and they move the ball well,” he said. The Wasps had three shots on goal in the last three minutes of the first half, and three more in the last few minutes of the second half but couldn’t Dean scored Wasatch’s only goal at the. A minute mark. However, Wheatley was pleased with his team’s hustle. “I was pleased because we could. have laid down, but we were there to win. We just weren't crisp,” he said. The Wasps finish pre-season oa and are ahead of Wheatley’s expecta-. tions. In addition, the freshman team . is 2-0 and the junior varsity is 1-0-3. ‘Im pleased with where we're at. We’re a game ahead of where I thought we would be,” he said. Wasatch begins region play today on the road against Lehi, and then travels to—Union on Friday. The Pioneers boast one of the best soccer players in the state, Andy Grimsley. “Lehi: is always tough—but we'll design a defense to. guard him tight, ee Wheatley said. “Union : doesn’t sive" up—they make you peels Ie =e Ss team you should beat.” se Both games begin at 3: 30 p. m. Tennis: The men’s tennis team bbe underway last week against Park City, falling to the Miners 5-0. In addition, a match against Carbon scheduled for last Wednesday was cancelled due to weather. Head coach ee Nordfelt said he’s still playing with his line-up, but here’s how the Wasps started against Park City. Singles: number one Todd Congeno, number two John Carpenter, number three Brandon Holmes. Doubles : number one Tadd Tuttle and Will Richardson, number two Tyler Edwards and Ryan Houch. “Park City is the best team in the state,” Nordfelt said. “Our kids did win UPDATE continued on A13 a