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Show OREM TIMES Page 11 West All-Stars come back for win over East stars Thursday, June 5, 2008 Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY In postseason All-Star games, it is often the players who made long runs in the playoffs and who only recently re-cently finished playing who dominate. That wasn't the case at Tuesday night's Utah Valley All-Star Baseball Classic at BYU's Miller Field. Despite having not played for three weeks, Lehi pitcher Josh Sw-enson Sw-enson was at the top of his game as he led the West All-Stars All-Stars to a 7-5 win over the East All-Stars. Swenson went 2-for-2 with two RBI and a walk at the plate and also threw three shutout innings on the mound to earn the game's MVP award. "I hadn't pitched in three weeks and it was pretty fun to get out there on the mound again, and I hadn't swung a bat for awhile but maybe not seeing anything for a while helped me out," Swenson said. "The goal was just get out here and have a lot of fun with these guys." Early on, it looked like the game would be yet another all-star game slugfest when the East squad opened with five runs in the top of the first inning. Bret Lopez and Corey MacMurdo each had RBI triples in the inning and Jordan Cooper added a single to put the East up 5-0. However, that would be all the scoring the East would muster. Meanwhile, the West team began to chip away at the lead with a run in the third. They then scored three runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings to take the lead for good. West starter Devin Nelson helped set the tone for the West team's win. After giving giv-ing up the five runs in the top of the first, Nelson came into the dugout, apologized to his teammates, and redeemed himself over the second and third innings as he tossed the first two of eight straight shutout innings for the West team. Swenson, Tyler Hanks, and Kyle Valgardson also contributed to the shutout streak. "Devin came off mad at his (first inning) performance," said the West team s coach Pat Day from Lehi. "He went back out and fired the team up with his actions by shut uvsc Continued from Page 10 The wrestling program continued to build and based around freshman sensation Ben Kjar, who Finished his first season with a school record 39 wins and is also the current Division I leader. "We have a good, young team and we're going to keep improving. We're excited about our progression," said coach Greg Williams, who just completed his second season sea-son at the helm of the young Wolverine program. The Wolverines beat Portland Port-land State 35-9 in the final dual meet of the year to finish at9-lloveraIL Spring Sports The baseball team may have finished with a 17-35-1 record, but ft came on strong. The Wolverines took the season sea-son series from BYU (2-1) and notched wins over Oklahoma State, Oregon State and Hawaii Ha-waii The Wolverines even had the state's top pitcher in Locally Hand Made GENUINE LEATHER GUN BELTS & HOLSTERS Pack Saddles t Panniers Wafl Tents . T Stove ' - ' ( Covers , 1274 Went 300 South Lmdon. L'tah 801.922.4234 vr,9 ' " CRAIO OILOERNorth County Above, Timpanogos first baseman Jordan Mehlhoff tries to outrun a tag during the Utah Valley All-Star Classic on Tuesday. Right, Timpanogos' Gentry Croft pitches during the Utah Valley All-Star All-Star Classic on Tuesday. ting them down the next two innings." Trailing 5-0, Adam Law put the West team on the board with a sacrifice fly to drive in Nelson in the third. Mountain View's Caleb Love-land Love-land and Spanish Fork's Damon Da-mon Ward got things going in the fourth with back-to-back singles to start a rally that Swenson helped finish with an RBI single. The West team scored three more runs in the fifth by drawing four walks in the inning. The MVP for the East team was Timpanogos pitcher Gentry Croft who pitched two scoreless innings. Brian Whatcott also threw well and didn't allow any runs to score. The outstanding hitters hit-ters of the game were Lopez for the East team and Spanish Span-ish Fork's Damon Ward who went 2-for-2 for West squad. Springville's MacMurdo was chosen as the gold glove Marcus Moore, who won a school record 10 wins. Moore ended his career at UVSC with a 3-hit shutout of Hawaii He finished the season sea-son 10-5 with a 2.86 ERA. Much like the baseball team, the Softball program finished with a 17-34 record, and also finished with a kick. The Wolverines ended their season winning nine of their last 14 games, including a four-game and a five-game winning streak. And for the first time in program history, UVSC beat the University of Utah. "I think the girls grew up a lot and played with confidence confi-dence towards the end of the season," UVSC head coach Todd Fairbourne said. "That's half the battle. It makes me feel good that we're going in the right direction. Now we need girls The men's and women's track and field teams finished an impressive 2008 season as each were crowned the National Athletic Conference 2008 Outdoor Track and Field Champions. Combined, the two teams won 22 of the 48 lit- f award winner for the game. Although the game was played in a competitive atmosphere, at-mosphere, it was mostly a celebration of the great high school careers of all those who participated. One of several sev-eral examples of camarada-rie camarada-rie occurred when a Tyler Hanks pitch struck Lopez on the hand. Hanks hurriedly went toward home plate to make sure Lopez was ok. "Kind of an honor to be part of a game that has so many great players," said East coach Mike Lallargoue of Lone Peak. "It's kind of cool to see their personalities. personali-ties. They're all just normal kids, they're great kids, and it's nice being a part of this whole game." I Coaches 8, Players 5: At Pro-vo, Pro-vo, in the game between the coaches and players it was the 4A coach of the year who showed he can still play a total events held at the five-team five-team NAC Championships and set eight new school records re-cords on the year. Wolverine head coach Scott Houle won National Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors for both the men's and women's teams. Senior sprinter Mariama Salifu was awarded the NAC Female Athlete of the Year, and freshman runner CheLsea Baker earned the NAC Female Fe-male Newcomer of the Year. "It was a good year for us," Houle said. "We met our goal to win the National Athletic Conference Championships and we were also able to continue to set multiple individual indi-vidual records throughout the season. It was good to see our young talent step up and produce pro-duce when needed as well as have consistent contributions from our mature athletes." But perhaps the biggest win of the spring came when UVSC received notification from the NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification that the school successfully completed its first NCAA certification peer 1 i f Qwfifwhrlftltjf j j VTJJ-! i no inter i 1 sUngAugust200g i ''ri'1'' little bit too. Mountain View coach Chris Cooper returned to where he played his college col-lege baseball and went 2-for-3 with a homer and three RBI to lead the coaches to an 8-5 win over the players. After the players drew first blood on Brandon Miller's RBI single in the top of the second, Cooper tied the game with one swing in the bottom half of the inning when he drove a home run over the right field fence. The Daily Herald's own Kyle Flanagan nearly made it back-to-back homers but his shot to deep left center hit off the top of the wall for a double. The coaches broke the game open an inning later. Spanish Fork's Ryan Chambers Cham-bers and American Fork's Rick Lyman drew walks and Cooper picked up his second and third RBI of the game with a single up the middle. Flanagan followed review. Peer reviews are required re-quired of each NCAA Division I institution on a 10-year basis. "This is a huge step forward for-ward for the university and will facilitate as moving into a conference and competing nationally," said Utah Valley University President William A. Sederburg. "It is also a statement on the quality of our athletic program." "We passed without any exceptions, which is a great indication of the progress that we have made in a very short period of time," Utah Valley Director of Athletics Athlet-ics Michael Jacobsen said. "The certification process is a two-part evaluation of both the athletics department and university. We had great support sup-port from our academic community." com-munity." There were enough impressive impres-sive performances in the 2007-08 season to consider the year a success and to hope the momentum the athletic programs have created can continue into next year which will be the final year of the school's six -year probationary probation-ary period. Lifetime Guarantee Energy Efficient I Quality Installation Wasatch Vinyl Products i 877-922-7283 I or 7335633 s 1 with his second double of the game. After Orem coach Gary Miner singled, Lehi assistant as-sistant Pat Day finished off the six-run rally with an RBI double to deep left that put the coaches up 7-1. The players battled back with three runs in the top of the fourth. The big hit of the inning was a home run to left center by Spanish Fork's Gentry Mitchell. Cooper was named MVP for the coaches, but Flanagan Flana-gan wasn't far behind with his two extra base hits. Miner added a pair of singles sin-gles and Utah Flash owner Brandt Andersen had a double to left. Chambers, an Stories Continued from Page 9 It began in a first -round playoff game where some students let a pheasant loose onto the field and an opposing coach stepped on it. The worst, however, came in a quarterfinal victory over Hunter that ended in a bench-clearing brawl. Officials Offi-cials elected to end the game early and the ramifications included suspensions and some criminal charges. I.Utah Valley boys basketball dominates state competition again Provo and Lone Peak placed themselves on the pinnacle pin-nacle of the prep basketball world in 2007 as they won state championships. The question coming into the 2007-08 year was whether they could return to the top. Both teams w on their respective regions, but the path through the state playoffs play-offs would not be easy. O ',n . , , tin ! i -t O'ilHs limit rlfr ' il'tK . Mjfi O aMi Mill UlM,i O '-"H , it tttt'l ti f tl Q il' tl u . 'V I ! ' v . ': f ..V : assistant coach from Spanish Span-ish Fork picked up the win on the mound after giving up one run in three innings of work. Coooper came on in relief of Chambers and Lyman pitched the final inning of the game. Mitchell, who went 1-for-l with a home run, was named the MVP for the players squad. Bret Lopez had an RBI triple while Mountain View's Marcus Draper pitched a perfect first inning and went 1-for-l from the plate. With the win the coaches improved im-proved to 7-2 against the players play-ers over the game's nine-year existence. Lone Peak and Davis met in a classic double-overtime thriller in the 5A semifinals with the Knights eking out the narrow 57-55 win, and then went on to win the 5A crown. Provo's big test came in the finals as they squared off against Bountiful in another exciting game that came down to the final possession before the Bulldogs earned the 55-52 win and the 4A title. It's unclear which of the two teams holds the bragging brag-ging rights, However, Provo was one of only two teams to defeat Lone Peak. The other was nationally ranked St. Anthoney's from eycese Other memorable stories: Springville boys win 4A swimming title; Springville girls basketball experiences complete turnaround; American Ameri-can Fork girls basketball reaches 5A state championship; champion-ship; Lone Peak baseball surprises with win of Region 4; girls golf has its first season sea-son as its own sport; teams prepare for next realignment possibilities. |