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Show Page A4 Times Newspaper Thursday, January 6, 2005 ID Timpanogos reserves play key LANDON OLSON Time Kportu Editor A fresh Ktart to the New Year arrived a couple days early for Timpanogos. With strong play off the bench, the T-wolves are heading in 2005 off a victory after edging Spanish Fork 53-49 Thursday. "We were starting new today," said T-wolf Ricky Norton. ' Kv ryone was ready to go and we're just ready to take off." Norton himself was a hip part of the victory, providing energy off the hench to help Timpanogos (3-6) overcome a slow start. " thought Kicky gave us a great big spark tonight," said T-wolf T-wolf coach Mark Hardman "He ciirne in, he got some rebounds, played nice and solid defensively, defensive-ly, got some buckets for us. That's Ricky's best game." In only nine minutes of play, Norton had eight points, but says he just did what anyone else of the bench would have done given the opportunity. "We didn't know how much time we were going to play, hut we just want to win and we all just have tons of heart," he said. "I just wait until I'm called on and do whatever I can to help this team." Early on the T-wolves needed help, as Will Roach hit back-to-back 3s for the Dons and Spanish Fork took an 8-0 lead. But the rest of the quarter was all Timpanogos as a 3 by Matt Lisonbee sparked a 14-3 run. The T-wolves would take a 14-11 lead after Josh Halls hit the first of his th'-ee 3s to end the quarter In the Hecond the T-wolves started getting that big boost from the bench, especially from Chris Burr, who went inside battling bat-tling for rebounds and loose balls Burr had two buckets in the game, but also hauled down six rebounds "Chris Burr has been hampered ham-pered by injuries since football, and bless his heart he gives everything he's got," Hardman said. Up 33-22 at the half, Timpanogos saw that lead shrink in a hurry in the third quarter as the Dons opened with a 5-0 run. But finally, after nearly lour scoreleHS minutes, the T-wolves got some offense from Matt Hardman, who Hcored twice to Bruins spark to life in LANDON OLSON Timet. Sport Editor Blah It's not how a team wants to come out after Christmas, hut it's exactly how Dave Houle described his Mountain View team Thursday. "J just felt like our team was just hluh," he said. "At timeout I said. "Now you know what it feels like to he in u morgue." There's no life here." But life or not. the Bruins pulled uwuy in the third quarter, outdistancing Copper Hills by 14 in the second IihH to pick up the 64-45 victory Curried by Michelle Harrison's 13 first-quarter points, the Bruins tlO-2) were able to hold onto a 17- 1 Michelle Harrison (45) pressures the ball on defense. She led MVHS In the first quarter with L3 points. I 1. - - f MtT&- 1 h i - 5 Jjl 1 J f is, 44 I 1 y L ti o v" i . , .v. i c fin X! ' lii - 4, - X ' ..It J d - , W1 ' 4 - v - - - f, r-i-n rr " " '-a '- 8 photo by London Olson Timm Newspaper Chris Burr (center) battles Inside through a pack of Spanish Fork defenders to get a shot away. Burr came off the bench for Timpanogos, scoring four points and leading the team with six rebounds. keep Timpanogos ahead. Three points by Norton at the end of the quarter left the cushion at Five, 40-35, entering the final period. Matt Hardman scored again to open the fourth, a free throw by Norton pushed the lead up to 1 4 lead going into the second. Harrison not only scored inside, but hit junipers as well as a pair of 3s to cam' Mountain View through its slow start Finally, in the second she got some help as Lacie Titmus and Nubia Garcia both converted from the free throw line. After three points from Garcia - a layup and free throw the Bruins went, ahead 26-18 before the Grizzlies stormed within two after a puthack by Jori Donaldson. But as time wound down, Lindsay Moore drilled a 3 from the top of the arc to put Mountain View up 29-24 going into the half. In the third quarter, the Bruins continued to hit from outside, following fol-lowing the half'time advice of their eouch "At halftime I said, (ELadies, if we're moving it and moving it and moving and you find yourself wide open, shoot the ball," Houle said. "They came out the second half, late in the third quarter we sturted hitting the 3s and that kind of opened up the inside and all of the sudden you look up and we're up 15." It took most of the quarter, but 3s by Hoku Holdcraft, Vanessa Kiggs and Maylene Ornelas led to a 44-29 lead for the Bruins. Copper Hills scored twice to end the quarter, hut the Grizzlies wouldn't get any closer than 11 the rest of the way. Garcia said the Bruins pulled motivation from their coach at halftime. leading to the big lead and eventually the runaway victory vic-tory And while she said she felt the team played Hteady, Houle is looking for a bit more in terms of consistency. role in team s I eight, Spanish Fork cut it with a three, but Hardman scored again on a baseline juniper to make it 45-38. Then Spanish Fork made its run. The Dons ripped off nine straight points to take their first lead, 47-45, since midway the third, puil away from Grizzlies "We have got to learn to be more consistent offensively and defensively. We gave up some shots defensively because we just went to sleep," he said. 'When we took shots in the flow of the offense 1 thought we looked pretty good. I think sometimes kids get in a rush. They thing they're in their groove, which sometimes they are, but I'd like us to be a little lit-tle bit more consistent." Part of that early was the Cooper Hills defense and the Bruins inability to consistently Bcore. While the Grizzlies stayed close once Harrison slowed down, the barrage from the outside in the second half proved to lie too much. "They were liitting their shots and taking us out of our game. I thought they did a good job," Houle said of Copper Hills. "And then we kind of got into the flow of things, but it was a much closer game than 19 points." Harrison led all s-jorers, finishing finish-ing with 21, 15 of those in the first half. "I thought she had a pretty good game," Houle said. "She made some big baskets out of the timeouts when we really needed some big baskets." Titmus was the only other Bruin to make it to double figures as she finished with 10. Garcia had nine, Riggs chipped in eight, including a pair of 3s, and Ornelas added Beven. The Bruins played their final non-region gume Tuesday when they traveled to Kearns. Region play kicks off Tuesday at PleaHant Grove, then Mountain View hosts cross-town rival Orem on Thursday. new beginning through the first quarter. But with the T-wolves struggling, strug-gling, Halls picked the perfect time to rip the net with his third 3, putting Timpanogos back up by one, a lead that would quickly quick-ly turn to three after a fastbreak layup from Cole McWhorter. j- . jy 'jr i 4I -J U ' U st- t u I l - XI mmtmm -''mmmS H 11111 " "mmm'l'"''m""m" jjnfmm, jj photos by LandoD-OlsonTunet Newspaper Nubia Garcia knifes through the Copper Hills defense to take the ball to the basket. She finished with nine points for Mountain View. against Dons Spanish Fork cut the lead back to one, and then was forced to foul with 27.5 seconds left, sending Shawn Yeats to the line. Having some shooting woes from the stripe earlier in the game, Yeats missed the first free throw, but calmly sank the second sec-ond to put the T-wolves up 51-49. 51-49. He then grabbed a defensive board on the other nd and was fouled again. This time he'd nail both to seal the game. "I have a lot of confidence in him. 1 wouldn't want anybody else at the line for our team," coach Hardman 6aid. "He shoots 80 there. Give v.s the same opportunity and Shawn Yeats shoots it." "While the two halves played out very different, Hardman. attributed that to perimeter play. In the first half, the T-wolves T-wolves were 4-for-6 from behind the 3-point arc, while they struggled somewhat in the second. sec-ond. "We might have shot a few too many in the second half," he said. "Their zone was good, it took away our big guy. I think perimeter-wise we didn't shoot the ball as well as we can. "We had good looks all night long. So on a given night, maybe with the same scenario we win by 20, but tonight we didn't shoot very well from the perimeter," perime-ter," Hardman said. The defense was also much more active for the T-wolves in the first half, deflecting balls, grabbing steals and keeping the tempo up. Center Ken Donakey also took away the inside game for the Dons, blocking three shots in the first half. "Ken has come a long ways. He's just developed into a nice player," Hardman said. The team'6 leading scorer, Donakey was hampered somewhat some-what by foul trouble and the Spanish Fork zone which denied some of the entry passes to him, holding him to only two points. Matt Hardman paced the team, finished with 13, but behind him were a pack of players play-ers with similar numbers. Halls finished with nine points while Yeats and Norton each had eight. Burr and Cory Kellogg each chipped in four. Timpanogos was at Mountain !Crest Wednesday, then returns home Friday to host Provo. Next Tuesday the T-wolves are at Pay son in their only game of the week. POOR |