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Show PG Reds Win Timp Colt League Tournament by Dean Von Memmott The Pleasant Grove Reds won the Timp Colt League Tournament last week. The Reds were supposed to have played the American Fork Cubs in the championship round. However, the American Fork team forfeited the championship game, which was to have been played at Pleasant Grove's Discovery Park on July 21. Showing up for the forfeited game, the Reds received awards for their winning the league's post-season by default. Red Coach Eric Jensen said, "In the two games we played at Discovery last night July 20, we defeated the PG Cardinals 11-4 and Herriman 5-4. In the game against the Cardinals, the score was tied at 4-4 in the fifth when we made seven runs. In the Herriman game, we had Jesse De St. Jour and Cade Wilkes pitch. Cade hit a two-run triple that tied it at four, and then he raced home for the winning run." In TCL action at American Fork's Rotary Park on July 19, the Pleasant Grove Cardinals defeated the Pleasant Grove Dodgers 12-5, and the Reds eliminated the American Fork Yankees 20-8. Spurred on by a Branson Carter double and a Jeb Smith triple, the . Cardinals pulled 7-0 in the top of the first. The bottom of it did see Bronson Lewis and Sam Norton each score a run for the Dodgers. The score stayed at 7-2 until the top of the third. The Cardinals tacked on three runs that inning. In the bottom of the third, Bronson Lewis singled in a run on two outs. Dave Stevens homered him to cut the lead to 10-5. In the fourth, Brendan Ivie and Smith each hit a one-run triple to give the Cardinals a 12-5 lead. They then held the Dodgers scoreless for the rest of the game. In the other July 19 game at Rotary, the Reds posted a 5-0 during the first inning's top half through singles hit by Jared "J-Dog" Jensen and Tee Hatch. In the bottom of the first, Pleasant Grove kept American Fork from capitalizing on Colton Hale's one-out single. Holding the Reds scoreless in the top of the second, American Fork got a triple from Todd Healey. Adam Tate singled him in, only to get forced out at second. Doubling into left during the top of the third, Connor Albrecht came home on a Hatch single. As soon as Braxon Jex had hit a left-field double in the bottom of the third, Healey tripled him in to start a five-run rally which tied the game at six. In the fourth, a Taylor Allred sacrifice groundout scored De St. Jour, and Albrecht singled in a run to improve the Red lead at 8-6. Doubling in the bottom of the fourth, Tate soon came home on a Carson Buckner single. Hale knocked in Bucker to the game at eight. American Fork soon loaded the bases on two outs. Healey came up to bat at that point. Yankee fans anticipated that he would register a game-winning game-winning RBI. However, he struck, and the game's outcome was decided until the top of the seventh. "That inning, we scored 12 runs," Eric Jensen recalled. "Everybody on the team got a hit that inning." |
