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Show Thursday. Mardt 9. 2006 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 7 Basketball Continued from Page $ t the Miners. But the Cavemen prov ed once again that they never surrender without battling until the end. American Fork bounced back in the last 16 minutes from the tough beginning to the contest, getting dose enough to make the Bingham faithful nervous. "I feel like we got outplayed in the second taajf," Miner head coach Mark Dubach said. 'American Fork come out physical phys-ical and did a fine job of turning the game around. Fortunately we made a few free throws at the end and did what we had to do to win." Much of the energy for the Cavemen's surge came from senior forward Jeff Toone, who gave everything he had to get his team back in the game. Ve felt like thev wanted to Where Continued from Page high school but he's now adapted adapt-ed to playing almost aU from the outside," he added. "He's a great leader by example," ex-ample," Judkins said. "He leads by toughness, going for loose balls on the floor and in many other ways He helps our team defensively too. He's so aggressive aggres-sive and so physical he fights through screens and will do -whatever he has to do to stop you. He just drives people crazy." The coach added that when his minutes have been limited in a game, it's mostly been because be-cause of f oul trouble, but as the season went on. Shoff learned how to stiD be active without drawing so many whistles. "Teams hale him because he just goes and goesj-and doesn't stop," Judkins said "He's won some games for us late when the score was close. He'd go get a steal and score or get fouled. We've won two or three this year with him doing 'feL "He's a fierce competitor. He not only wants to win every game, but every single drill too. U shows in everything he does on the court. I love cciadhing him." 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Toone finished the game with -team htgfis in points (16) and re bounds (11. and didn't turn t he ' ball ov er the entire game. "He was thinking attack, whichis what we ask him to do Meacham kaid "He's a . skilled player and has performed per-formed well in games weVe -done weB in. He did a good job tonight. He played his guts Out" The turnaround began halfway' half-way' through the third quarter, when American Fork trailed 34-21. First. Oisen found a wide-open Mason Porter at the back door for an easy score. Porter then forced a turnover at rnidcourt with his defensive . 4- Winter 200t!3) ASKETtAU. 29) Men' H7i) Drviskmll (8) Sam Burgess. 6-3 Jr..iLone Pea(t Jackson trmrrv 3 Fr., iLone PeHk On TO,"! "i WlarcWacffieid '6-f So..J.hi l' :'M0er State tM - ? DanHnr.6l4.,.,MouirttfimView Uahe Stated1) - Tim Wpnrl, 6 4 Sr., MowrTtaimWiewi f University t5f Sm Diego (I1) Michael Shepherd. f-B Sr., Timpariogos Kennesaui Stale (2) " olflen l fPTT 11 Jr.. Timpanocios " irBraei Incite $-10 Sr.. 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Another underhand pass down low from Oisen to Toone opened scoring in the fourth, and a steal by senior guard Austin Haws produced a pair -of Toone foul shots that cut the Bingham lead to just four points at the 634 mark. It appeared that American Fork was on the brink of taking control but the Miners put in five of the next six points in the game To prov e they weren't giving up, the Cavemen once again closed the gap with a 3 -pointer by Haws. Thev had other Jm College (SI Dixie Stale (Zl Hie Shoff, iS-3fir.. American For iLoctan Magnussom. 6 fr Wasatch Snow College '(II) Wes eirge ,6-3 fr.. Timpariogos Sa Lane Commnrin College HI Brandon Cnighi,6-8 Fr., taw feat iBJortHwuest College. Wy. m WesSnell.6-7rV.,Timpanogos f Women 1(12) rvmionl 16) voii) Wlaltary Gillespie. 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The American Fork loss meant that no Utah Valley 5A team challenged for a title in the first year after reclassification, but Meacham has no doubt they can compete with the other big schools in the state. "The Valley teams just didn't shoot well this week," he sakL "I dont think they were outplayed, out-played, but there was a lid on the basket. The basketball gods decided the shots wouldn't fafl." Bingham went on to win the 5A title Saturday night. Befey Beaton contributed to this report. tHI Snow College 44!) 6mllee(WbswriPaliirw,S-OSo,,liomeeak Amy White, S 6 So., Mountain View Andrea Medler. 6-0 F ietii ILaoie Tirmus, 6-2 frr., Mountain View wnUIUHW uvscwi Jesse reiniidH, Sr Ml, Mountain View Rodney Sager, Sr. 133. Lhi Marie South, ft !6S, Mountain View 'Garret Stor, (fir 17 IS, Mountain View SMflMMBJIG ABB) f99 Ok.iwo.lir) BVUdl Oavidl Fellmghann, 6- So,, ILehi Utakldl Paul Wanson, ft.. ILone feek was Whitney Larscm, Ft., ILone feUk Carty Smith, So. An'iei'ioan For Sandra Yooom, So.. American Fork UtaMU ICrBiidlall Sififlffti, Sr., ATTUfficwi fcotfk lege Not too many freshmen have a season like he's had" The team finished 19-11 overall over-all and 10-8 in conference play, entering the league tournament this week as the third seed. Track Continued from Page 6 among the top 10 finishers in the state 5A bcryscross country championship race last October. "Mike and Ben both should do weD in their events this year, Taylor said. 'Another long distance runner we have on the boys side is Geoff Harmon. Last year be took third in the 1.600 " Taylor said that a! of the members of last season's 400-meter 400-meter relay team are back as well The coach said, The guys on I are Tyler Beinap. Dave Oisen, Paul Oisen and Matt Harvard. Har-vard. ' "Two of them are going to be Jumping for us. Dave Oisen Soccer Continued from Page to borrow a tradition from the school's other soccer team. "For a long time, the girls have played an alumni game every year. This year, we've decided to have an alumni game for the boys as wel." That contest is scheduled for 5 p.m. on March 17. "Al American Ameri-can Fork alumni are welcome to come play in i," Hundley said. The Cavemen wiB spend this whole month playing exhibition games. Their last non-league game wiB be at home agamst Lehi. At the st art of next month, American Fork will participate in its first season of 5A league soccer in eight years. Hundley ssud, "The schools we're going to be playing in our new region aren't strangers to us. We've played them bef ore when they were 4A schools." Region t foes this season include in-clude Lone Peak, Timpanogos, Spanish Fork. Mountain View and Pleasant Grove. "We've played PG and Moun-tainView Moun-tainView in preseason games," Hundley said. "Spanish Fork was with us in a 4A region last year. The region we've been placed with them in is a tough one. "Lone Peak and Mountain View are considered to be the two strongest teams in the region." re-gion." Hundley said. However, he said his team shouldn be overlooked. "Because of the amount of experience we have back this year, we should be competith'e with any team," he added. Prep! I NEWS AfS fSOTES College track FOGT SET TO UFT THE WOLVERINES -Chris ' Fogt made some nose during the indoor season and is being counted on to help fuel the UVSC track team in th6 sprints this spring. He broke broke a ' 5 i" schootrerrnVj open 300 virrt'Ul'ttsW.H'V; C seconds in Januerjr. At the Mourrt rJs j5afrs"5i Katet Idaho, in February, ogt and Tim Rowberry. Peter Holm and Mark Lott set a record in the distance medley with a time of 10:03.31. UVSC track coach Scott Houie expects his team to make great strides in the 2006 season because he has athletes that can compete in every event this year. "As a team I think we made a step forward, Houle said. "Last year we were really good in what we had but we also had nothing noth-ing in some events. We had to go and fill those spots and strengthen the whole team." Houle added that Fogt has really improved and should be competitive in the finals in each meet he competes in. In Ogden on Feb. 18. Fogt was second in the 200 and 4O0m races He ran a 22.45 in the 200 and 50 47 in the 400. College soccer. SCHNEIDER SIGNS WITH WOLVERINES - The Utah Valley State College women's soccer team signed 12 athletes to national letters of intent on Feb. 14. Among those joining the Wolverines for the 2006 season is Adrienne Schneider of Amer ican . Fork. Schneider was named Second Team All State by the Salt Lake Tribune and played sweeper and midfielder for the Cavemen. The 12 incoming players join a Wolverine team that already has 10 starlets and 15 players returning off last year's team. Contact us: you haw any information for Prep Rally or to nominate someone for the spotlight, send an e-mail to bbeatonr heraldextra.com or call 756-7669. Town Eye Cortffnued from Page 6 Monday through Thursday. American Fork Recreation is beginning registration for spring sports: Tee -ball and coach ptkrh. ages S8. register March 6-29, $20. Boys machine pitch, ages 9-12, register March 6-29. $30. Girls softball ages 9-17, register March 6-29. $30. I Bovs baseball, ages 13-14. register March 623. $&5. Boys CoJt League baseball ages 15-18. register March 6-Apnl 6-Apnl 5, $85. Mens slow pitch softbal, registration is limited to 24 teams, call office for registration registra-tion date and time, $550 team $20USSSAfee. is back as a long jumper. Matt Harward will be doing the high Jump. He placed in it at region.'" The coach added. "We have a lot of new athletes this year. A large number of them are sophomores soph-omores Just learning the ropes. "Two of them are throwers. 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The girls are offering the Omegabght emergency flashlights, flash-lights, the battery -free, shak-ab5e shak-ab5e bght that was sold by the junior high last falL Order forms and a sample are available at the high school financial office, or contact any member of the softball team. - For' more information about the sa5e. contact Mrs. Mffler at 756T75S 'We have several football players who'll be doing sprints for us." The gridders include Austin Cooper. Mike Row ley and Tony McGeary. Taylor said that when region competition commences. Spanish Span-ish Fork is expected to emerge as the top team on the girls side and Lone Peak in the boys events. Briqht Red Cam bean Blue V - iiS ii a i fli - fii. f MkiiT J metalmartbir Savings!! COPY |