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Show Page A6 Thursday, January 13, 2005 Times Newspaper Excitement lifts T-wolves to rout of tAF LANDON OLSON Tim-N SfMrti Kditor "Whatever you j'ii did, do it That wa- coach Robert Louder' advice to guard Hnvli I)uke in the aftermath of Timpanoo-' S7-4 1 rout of American Fork Jan 1 "We were all m, excited fjefore the tfanie and so that helped, arid we had a litlle talk and 1 l!i,nk we all came out and pretty much ;u-t played as a team," Duke said Jt was enough so ihal the T-wolves 7-4 led 'Aiiv lii-wih' ruairitaiTiiriK a comfortable lead mo-t of the giinn-and giinn-and leaving their coach happy, especially espe-cially com inn off a t.vi-weck hiatus. "They phued well I have no complaints com-plaints about ihc i (fort and enthusiasm enthusi-asm they played with." Louder said. To start the arne, Timpanoos opened with a IM I run. scoring inside and on l.ivup- The defense was able to force turnovers and it rlt I rc T iff- ir&fEz'l I , L, a LI I I HI 4 lUrl . I " r. 1 took AF four shot off The Lady rally, sconnj.' within three. Nelson and ,-.(- ion to even 'et a Cavemen Parted to five -tiaijht to close ul a free throw by Call put hack by .Jennifer Harris extended the lead back to l'i-7 in the final minute Hut llien the final -econds of the quarter were a dark -pot for the T-wolves. T-wolves. Off a -teal arid on the break, Mandy Valora iiove m for a layup, but was hit bv an AF defender Valora took some of the blow on her extended extend-ed knee and wa- forced 1o leave the game. Fortunately for the Timberwolves, Karlan Kvans was up , the t.a.-k of filling m for Valora. Kvans subbed in. Jut the pair of free throws and would score five point - m ihe game. ''She did a nice job. She played well." Louder said "Karlan went in there and rebounded well, she made her foul -hots, played solid on defense and that'-- what we ask of her" Down a plawr with Valora out, TimpanojN. was forced to fro to the bench again early in the second quarter quar-ter aftei I)uke picked up her third foul ju-t t wo minutes in. "1 ju-t '. t out of control there. J think I was just mi excited." she said. "We were t eying to get our defense up and I thought I've got to be everywhere' every-where' and 1 think it was a little too much " While AF pulled within lfi-12 on a three point play, it wouldn't get. any closer. The T wolves used an 8-0 run to go up 2 2. and after AF answered with four points, another .s-0 run to end the (jiiarter had the Lady Cavemen duubled up, .'i2-b at the half During that stretch Jennifer Nielsen scored twice on lavups. Call Nelson converted inside and Chelsey Brown slipped between the defense to throw in a sweet off balance runner from the free throw line. In ihe third quarter Timpanogos continued to roll. With Duke hack in the game and the T wolves up .'-57-23, another huge run would finally break AF Duke got things rolling with a layup off a pass from lirown, then Harris scored seven straight with a jumper, layup and .'i point shot. Duke capped off the quarter with a .(-foot jumper to give Timpanogos a 4S-2'i lead. Pu1 the run wasn't over Hrown .... ''limijamgtsmmu I I i J 1 j f wn Iff a . . S 1 pholii In I.midim OlsnnrimcA Newspaper T-wolf Hayll Duke drives Inside against AF. Duke had a season-high 11 points. scored two more buckets and Duke converted on a 3-point play to open the fourth quarter. By the time American Fork finally scored, Timpanogos had been on an 18-0 run and was up 55-25. Through the remainder of the period. peri-od. Louder was able to play his reserves, and by the end of the game 12 different players had scored for Timpanopos. "We try to keep everything positive and we kept telling the bench, 'Be ready. Anyone can go,' and when it started happening they were just, ready." Duke said. "They came out and scored points when we needed it and they did the things they needed to do." Harris led the way with Jfi joints, while Duke and Brown each had 11. Nelson chipped in seven. But. it was the defense early that led to those hoops. On both the press and m the half-court, the T-wolves were able to grab steals that turned into easy points the other way. "That's one thing we had talked about. We knew defense was going to win the game." Duke said. "We were going to be all over the court and we were going to hustle our hearts out." Those lavups wouldn't have come as easy without passing, though. "When they got into the open floor they were willing to pass to people and go to the basket. That was very good to see," Louder said. "We were really trying to work on our passing and getting some assists and moving the ball." Duke said. "Chelsey Brown especially, espe-cially, 1 know she had lots of assists in the game. We all just really played as a team instead of a one-man thing. We were able to pass it up instead of trying try-ing to take it ourselves." The only downside Louder saw was sonne of the risky crosscourt passes his players attempted to make early, mainly from being in a hurry and playing excited. "We've been trying to convince them that crosscourt passes most of the time are going to get picked off unless you see where everybody is on defense, and most of the time we don't even look where the defense is, we just chuck it." he said. 'So when they stop dotng that, we stop having turnovers." Thursday night the T-wolves were at Sky View, and after taking an early lead saw the Bobcats fight back to claim the victory. Region VII played opened Tuesday with Timpanogos at Lone Peak. The T-wolves topped the Knight twice last season. Thursday Timpanogos" hosts Pleasant Grove then has a bye next Tuesday. 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In the final minutes it looked like the Bruin magic would still be there, as Mountam View cut a six-point six-point deficit to three, 61-58, and had two chances to cut it even further. Bates finally scored for Lrifan. nush- O ' I r ing the lead I back up to five, but Andrew B a t e m a n answered for the Bruins with a layup. Bryan Dickinson was able to cut the lead back down to two, drilling a 3 after Logan made a pair of free throws, and then a Grizz miss made it 66-63 with 4.9 seconds left, leading lead-ing to the final Bruin shot of the game. Early on, though, it would have been hard to guess lack of energy would be a problem for the Bruins. Diving after balls and chasing down rebounds, Mountain View began with plenty of energy, ener-gy, especially inside. Abe King, who led the Bruins with a season-high 18 points, seemed able to VLi7 V7 score at will inside, and Peter Tuitupou filled in off the bench, scoring eight points. Dan Morris added 13 points while Evan Astle had nine. Guard Bryan Dickinson had 10. "Our big guys have worked really hard," Young said. "They work in practice really hard on it and they're getting better and better. Credit Logan. They did a better job the second half of rotating and helping and took that away from us." That's when those easy baskets bas-kets started to disappear, and the Brums had trouble finding a rhythm and keeping up with the Grizzlies. "You could see our energy wane quarter by quarter. If you're going to win games and have a good season you've got to be in better shape than we are," Young said. Mountain View has one final non-region game before Region VII play begins next Tuesday at Lone Peak. The Bruins faced Timpview, one of the top teams in 4A on Tuesday. "They're the No. 1 ranked team and we're going to have to play a lot better to compete with them," Young said. FLASHES OF GOOD continued from Page AS she scored again on a layup to cap a 10-0 run that put Orem up 41-28. "I have to make things happen instead of just standing stand-ing there, so kind of change my attitude a little," Downey said. Up 41-30 going into the fourth, Downey scored to open a solid quarter of the Tigers. With North Sanpete pressing, Orem was able to consistently go over the top, getting easy buckets for Sagers inside, or scoring on layups by the guards. "Dftlvse IDriwTiPvl was f pushing the ball, Jenny Fiso was pushing the ball and it opens things up. I'm surprised North Sanpete stayed in the press. I thought they'd pull out of it," Reed said. Downey said, "When we get a good fast break we're a good passing team and we run the court well. It was a man press. Just dribble through and then hit the open person." A 13-1 run put the Hawks away for good, and the Orem defense made sure of it, holding hold-ing North Sanpete to only six free throws until the final minute of the quarter. It was that same defense that helped the Tigers in the first quarter, getting easy r baskets off of turnovers and forcing errant passes by the Hawks. But it also did lead to some foul trouble. In the opening two minutes there were five fouls between the two teams, and that trend carried through the entire game. "They we're calling it a little lit-tle tight, but once you find out what the refs are calling you have to respect it," Downey said. Boulter paced the Tigers with 15 points on the night, but it was a balanced attack by the starters as Fiso had 14, Sagers 13, Wilson 10 and Downey nine. Martin had three and April Nelson chipped in a bucket off the bench. With some of the starters in foul trouble throughout the game, it was Martin who filled in with key minutes off the bench, contributing con-tributing an all-around game. "She knows what her role and she does a good job," Reed said. 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