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Show PG Vikings Outlast Lehi Pioneers 5-1 in 17-Under UBAL Game by Dean Von Memmott In Utah Baseball Academy League action at Pleasant Grove on Friday, June 29, the Pleasant Grove Vikings defeated the Lehi Pioneers 5-1 in a 17-under division divi-sion game. The contest went down as a preview of the tight games expected ex-pected to occur between the two schools in the 5-A league that they would be playing in this coming Spring. In the first inning's top half, for instance, Lehi's Nolan Padilla hit a one-out single off pitcher Jake Barnhart, only to become ensnared in a double play turned up by shortstop Colt Sheriff. Lehi shortstop Kade Evans turned up a double play - of his own right after Viking Bryce Jones had singled off Cam Lux in the bottom of the first. Lux's pitching left Viking Vi-king Coach Darren respectful of him. The coach said, "He kept us guessing what kinds of pitches he would throw. He struck out two straight batters of ours in the second inning. Jake Barnhart did a good job at the mound, too. He always threw strikes on the first pitch. A lot of his pitches were fast balls and knuckle balls." Because of the pitching duel between Lux and Barnhart, Barn-hart, no scoring could occur in the first two and one-half innings, even though Lehi's Taylor Nelson whacked a triple in the top of the second. sec-ond. In the bottom of the third, Payton Simpson singled into center, and an Easton Walker single brought him home. Lehi tied the game at one when Cody Webb singled sin-gled in Andy Paul in the top of the fourth. The game stayed tied until the bottom of the fifth. Its lower half opened with McKay Lewis singling into left. With a Walker double moving Lewis to third, Simpson Simp-son doubled in two runs. The next inning, a Lehi error let Barnhart and Sheriff Sher-iff race home. Webb tried to revive Lehi's cause by hitting hit-ting a left-field single at the start of the seventh. Webb became ensnared in a double dou-ble play turned up by Sheriff. Sher-iff. Even though Nielson and Ryan Absher each singled sin-gled right afterwards, Clint Christofferson grounded out to second baseman Bryce Jones, ending the game. |