Viking 17-Under Squad Drops Home Game to Layton Lancers In UBAL Play by Dean Von Memmott In a Utah Baseball Academy League game for the 17-under division at Viking Field on July 18, the Layton Lancers defeated the Pleasant Grove Vikings 9-8. Layton scored a run in the top of the first, but the Vikings answered with a four-run rally in the bottom of the inning. A lightning storm interrupted the game in the top of the second. Play could not be renewed until 45 minutes after the storm had passed. When the action renewed, the Lancers played with a strong desire to keep the game from becoming a repeat the loss that Pleasant Grove had dealt them at Viking Field during last month's preseason tournament. On two outs in the top of the second, Layton's Weston Hyde singled in Jaden Trujillo. Shortstop Braden King grounded out Frankie Aguilar to keep the Lancers from catching up in the second. Pitcher Kaleb Harper held the Vikings scoreless in both the second and third innings. Those two rounds proved to be the turning point in the game. During the top of the third, a Logan Greenhaulgh single resulted in Layton loading the bases on no outs. Greenhaulgh soon stole home, touching off a six-run six-run rally, powered by singles from Cody Moss, Quinton Marcellin, and Dexter Piaz. Pleasant Grove attempted to make a comeback on singles from Braden King and Jake Barnhart, but shortstop Aguilar turned up a double play. In the fourth, a Moss sacrifice fly scored Marcellin. That turned out to be the last run that Pleasant Grove let the Lancers make. In the bottom of the fourth, the Vikings sought to a make a comeback. Doubling into right during the inning's lower half, McKay Lewis soon came home. Walked by Harper, Parker Bullock scored on an error. A tough Lancer defense in the .fifth kept the Vikings from capitalizing on an Easton Walker single hit into left. On one out in the bottom of the sixth, Rylan Peterson doubled in Micah Merrill and Zac "Fighting Chicken" Hicken, putting the Vikings within 9-8. However, the Lancers didn't let Pleasant Grove go on a long rally like it had done in the first.