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Show FagtIO OREM TIMES Thursday. April 17, 2008 Almond helps Flash end season on winning note NeHIMtfamer In case Morris Almond doesn't come back, he thought he would leave Utah flash fans with a little vmvhm to remember him by. What to give Flash fans for a going away present? Score. Shoot the 3. Drive the paint. Spot -up jumper. Burn the defease. Almond went all Kobe on LA. on Saturday night in the McKay Event Center. Me cored 43 points to help Utah close out the season whh a 130-1 18 win over the m Angeles An-geles D-Fenders. The 130 points was a season sea-son high and left Utah whh a record of 24-26. Utah finished four games behind the sixth and final playoff spot in its inaugural in-augural D-League season. "It was a good way to go out, to beat a team we haven't beaten in the last couple of games," Almond said. "I was excited to play, that's been the biggest thing. There's really no substitute for playing time and getting experience. It's been a good thing (playing in the EMjeague). I'm grateful for the Flash and the organization organi-zation that I could stay here at home and be in contact whh the Jazz at the same time." Almond made A-T5 shots from the field including four 3-pointers. 3-pointers. He scored 21 points in the first half to help Utah take the lead at intermission. As a team the Flash shot 67 percent from the field, but led just 64-63. Almond helped Utah open up some breathing room midway mid-way through the third quarter when he banked in a 12-foot er to give Utah its biggest lead of the game at 82-74. Almond scored on a reverse lay up and was fouled whh 122 left in the quarter. He Prep standings Baseball REO0N4 School Region record Overat record Sptrwhftirk M VZ kwt Ftrt 2-1 10-5 Tknpanoaat 2-1 12-2 Lone 21 94 fVsnart Grw 0 3 9-5 Left 0-3 e REO0H7 . School Beaton recor d Overai record Mountain View M 7-4 Oram 4-1 S-3 S((pft 4-1 10-5 Toot 2-3 8-6 Par" 1-4 5-8 Pr-wo 24 8-8 TrvW 0-5 3-8 Softball KB School Region record Overaf record Stan For 54 Ift-fl U 41 11-4 lxr Pe 2 3 6-9 1-3 M tX.lTlJIXl Q(? QCi II R wauu added the free throw to convert con-vert the three-point play and gave Utah a 96-H8 lead. When Almond wasn't scoring, scor-ing, Kevin Kruger was. He sank a 3point- with 1052 left in the game to push the lead to 10341. 1Tie IFenders came back to make things interesting. Coby KarL who led LA. whh 20 points, hit two free throws to trim the lead to 108-105 108-105 whh 6:50 left, but Utah promptly went on a 9-0 run to close out the D-Fenders. Almond started the run whh a 3-pointer and then sank a free-throw line jumper to put Utah up 1 13-105. The Flash then hit the glass. Brian Hamilton Ham-ilton scored off an offensive rebound and when Utah came up whh a steal and started a fast break. Hamilton missed, but Almond was there to put h back in to give Utah a 1 17-105 lead whh 4:50 remaining that effectively put the game away. "I challenged them at half-time half-time to go out and f inLsh whh pride and I think we really did that," said Flash coach Brad Jones. "I was really proud the way we came out and executed execut-ed both offensively and defensively defen-sively in the second half." Prior to tipoff. Almond was awarded the first ever "Impact flayer of the Year" award by Shawn Respert, D-League D-League Director of Basketball Operations. Ihe newly created cre-ated award goes to the most outstanding player who joins the D-League following the start of the season. Almond's impact on the Flash has left hot h Flash and Jazz fans hopeful for the future. He led the league in scoring whh 25.6 prints per game and set the fLeague single game scoring record whh a 53foint outburst against Bakersfield. He is now back with the Jazz. American Fort 13 96 Pleasant Owe 1-4 5-7 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Twete 64 10-2 Stxojyils 5-0 9-4 Tmpne 3-2 6-8 Payssn 2 4 8-7 Mountain View 1-3 2 8 Oram 1-3 2-10 Prow 05 4-10 Boys soccer REGION 4 School Region record Overai record Urt 344 7-14 Tmpanogot J-14 4-5-0 lowPie 314 3-5 2 Pteaart Grow 2-24 7-34 Scar Fork 0 34 0 8-1 American For 0-44 1-80 REGION 7 School Region record Overai record Oram 4-1-1 M-1 Mountain View 4-1-2 S-3-2 Springy 5-24 9-24 Prow 4-3-0 6 44 TimjMew 3-3-1 7-3-1 SAVE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS OMNEWCMTRALAXL SYSTEM SAVE ON ALL HIGH EFFICIENCY AIR CLEANERS The Earlier You Bum. The More You Savel -6 months No InterestNo Payment financing Today For Harvey Heating Bruin baseball team getting hoi Neil K. Warner D&ar he paid 41 Mountain View Ls a different team than the one that opened the season with a pair of losses by a combined score of 27-3. And these aren't the same Bruins who were beaten soundly by Springville 11-1 in the preseason. Now teams can't get Caleb Loveland out. Tanner Young and feeling h and Sam Roden is dealing. Mountain View has put it all together and in case there were any skeptics, the Bruins turned in a convincing 12-7 win over Springville on Wednesday afternoon to take over first place in Region 7 whh a 5-0 record. "We came out flat last time (we played Springville). We've taken care of a few things since that time. That's what the preseason is for. We feel like we're ready to play," said Mountain View coach Chris Cooper. They got the bounces the first time we played them and today we got the bounces. The reality is that we're pretty evenly matched." Mountain View effectively put the game away when h got to Springville starter TJ. Whiting in the fourth inning for a 7-run inning. Whiting beat Mountain View in the Dixie Sunshine Tournament in March. He struck out 10 and gave up just four hits in an 11-1 win, but Whiting found the Bruins lineup much more potent the second time around. Mountain View was clinging to a 2-1 lead when the Bruins erupted for seven runs. It all started whh a perfect bunt single from Caleb Loveland. Mountain View theij perfectly executed a hit-and-run. Travis Jack man drove the ball to second base, but Band's clutch two-run single helps Orem get past Springville Neil K. Warner r0TH COUNTY You are Colton Baird. What would you do? You have just watched Springville make a pitching change after its starting pitcher walked four straight batters. Now you're up to bat. What do you do? Be patient and take a few pitches, or jump all over the first pitch? Is this a trick question? Hitters hit. That's just what they do. Baird ripped a two-run single on the first pitch from .Springville reliever Corey Maclvlurdo to give Orem the biggest hit of the game and help the Tigers score a clutch 5-3 win over Springville on Friday Fri-day afternoon. "He wasn't throwing a lot of curveballs in his warmups I was seeing a lot of fastballs, getting the timing down. He came right down the middle and I just hit it up the middle," Baird said. "It was a pretty momentum shift because we biakaway '.'.:."jt.s jpecalvr St Geo4fafi27.&7 5 Special Gifts with Purchase! Artiste 730 NEW! Aurora 430 Featured SPECIALLY for Fashion! PRICED! Fgp Bemina Embrodiery Software rCjT DesignerPIusV5 ..Vx-T. V m CwMr N A FreeNo Estimate end Air Ccnrfitls: v.t: f. sSfc ----- - c . 0 CRAIO DtLOERNorth County Mountain View's Wes CJegg rounds second and against Springville on April 9. Springville's Colt on Ramon broke to cover second, leaving runners at first and third Spencer Riley then beat out a bunt to load the bases. Kyle Kendall followed whh an RBI single. Whiting battled back to strike out Marcus Draper and got Mark Garrett to hit a sacrifice fly, but the Bruins Bru-ins weren't done. Tanner Young singled in two runs to chase Whiting from the game. Sam Roden followed whh an RBI double and Loveland got his second hit of the inning when he singled in a run to give Mountain View a 9-1 lead. didn't score any more runs in the inning." Springville starter Brian Whatcott was a handful for Orem early. The Red Devil ace gave up just one run through the first four innings and that came when Baird singled and scored on a Jordan Johnston single in the second inning. But in the fifth, Whatcott hit Jeff Mella to start the inning. Goose Kallunki and GJ. Harrison Har-rison both walked to load the bases. Jordan Sargent drove in a run the easy way when he drew a bases-loaded walk that gave Orem a 2-1 lead After the phching change, Baird hit a line drive to center field to push the lead to 4-1. MacMurdo then got out of the inning without further damage and gave up just one hit and one unearned run for the rest , of the game. Meanwhile, Springvile's task was a daunting one - try to rally on one of the region's top phchers, Nate A damson. The Red Devils scored a run in the third when Jeff Boyd NO INTEREST IF PAID WITHIN 15 MONTHS! Choose One FREE GIFT! My Label Software OR Design Collection CD with 500 Embrodiery Designs I rwj. I iave oou 174468 mrurtttUMt Available ix w singled and scored on a Ben Doxey single. Springville had the bases loaded whh one out in the fifth, but all the Red Devils could get out of the inning was a Brandon Bran-don Miller sacrifice fry. Springville had one more chance in the seventh when Doxey doubled to lead off the inning. MacMurdo hit a ground ball that Johnston couldn't handle at second that allowed Doxey to score. Isaac AUred grounded out and Miller singled, leaving runners on first and second. Colton Ramon then fisted a soft ground ball to Sargent at shortstop. He charged in, scooped it up and fired to first. Ramon was called out on a close cafl. A damson then enticed Trevor Trev-or Jeffers to fry out to Baird in right field to end the game and help A damson improve to 7-1 on the year. "To his (Adamson) credit, Jordan Johnston probably hasn't had a ground ball go through his legs since he was Got Celebrate the FABULOUS ieople in your life! Tell us about accomplishments and them into these durable, full color, personalized RECOGNITION yard Here's how rt works: 1 .Co to www.fcsut2i.ccr. 2.Persond!zs your s: n. I 3.W3 will deliver your to you in dbout 2 we;! First CLASS Signs It's all about YOU! 801-361-0986 www.fcsutah.com ANY SCHOOL Sport.pieer, The Arts, GRADUATIOB, Academics, dubs, Mision-aries, Mision-aries, little League, Scixjts... To Springville's credit, the Red Devils charged back to make a game of it instead in-stead running for the nearest heater to find some relief from bitter cold temperatures tempera-tures that featured a biting wind. Springville came back whh five runs in the fifth inning that featured RBI singles from Ramon and Brandon Miller. Cameron Schmidt relieved Roden and got the Bruins out of the inning. He pitched the final two innings, allowing just one run. Mountain View then finished off Springville whh three more runs in the sixth. Loveland doubled in a run and Jack-man Jack-man came up whh another hit and RBI to close out the Red Devils. Loveland went 3-for-3 for Mountain View. Young, Roden and Jackman all had two hits for the Bruins. Springville's Corey MacMurdo went 2-for-3 for the Red Devils, who dropped a game behind Mountain View at 4-1. "I thought they outphched us, they played better defense, and they hit better bet-ter than us. They just played better," said Springville coach Willy Child. "I was impressed im-pressed whh the way we kept battling, got guys on base, scored some runs and didn't give up. We've got to just get better." I Mountain View 9, Tooele 3: At Tooele, the Bruins (11-5, 6-0) used a ninth-inning rally to steal the win in extra innings. "It's big," said Mountain View coach Chris Cooper. "The way we won is really what's big." Mountain View survived a seventh-inning push and got out of a bases loaded-jam loaded-jam thanks to the pressure pitching of Cam Schmidt. The Bruins tacked on six runs in the ninth, whh Caleb Loveland recording two RBI, to get the Region 7 victory. two. He's just a great second baseman and he makes what could have been an uh oh,' but Nate's there to pat him on the back and say 'so what,' " said Orem coach Gary Miner. "Nate's just a competitor. Everything Ev-erything is around the dish. He mixes it up well I'd like to have about 350 of him to coach." Doxey was a handful for Adamson. Ad-amson. He had three of Springville's Spring-ville's 11 hits and Jeffers went 2-f or-3. Orem had just six hits, , but the Tigers took advantage of nine free passes. Baird was the only Tiger would multiple hits. He went 2-f or-3. I Orem 11, Payson 6: At Orem, 'GJ. 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