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Show Springtime Snow and PG Greets Beetdiggers at Hoover Field by Kent Allen Springtime on the Wasatch blossomed in all its glory on Tuesday afternoon as the Jordan also pulled off a mini rally in the bottom of the seventh by scoring four more runs, but Jordan also put an insurance run across the plate for the final score 18-16 after af-ter three hours of play. This was a hard fought game with not a lot of defense as evidenced evi-denced by the score, but there are two more games to be played with these two teams and anything can happen. Bear in mind, this is the team that gave Lone Peak its only loss so far this year. They are currently sitting in third place in region behind Lone Peak and AF because of overall records. After Af-ter having beaten American Fork twice last week and battling Jor-, Jor-, dan this hard today, PG should be proud of their game. There are always improvements to be made and a bit more sunshine couldn't hurt. At least three points worth! High Beetdiggers came to town to play the first of three games with the Vikings. On my way to work that morning, I went through two blizzard episodes and two blue-sky blue-sky episodes. That should have been enough to let me know that conditions would be just fine to play baseball by the time game time would roll around that afternoon. af-ternoon. And right on cue, as the National Anthem finished playing, play-ing, the sun was shining, the wind started blowing and the snow began be-gan to fall. Plus, this game just wouldn't quit. At the end of seven full innings, in-nings, there had been 43 hits and 34 runs scored. It was a very active ac-tive game with no lasting down time. The Vikings did have three up, three down in the fifth inning. Junior Rylan Peterson's fly ball was caught in the outfield, junior Riley Erickson did get on base with a walk, but was picked off on a good move from the mound by the Digger's pitcher then senior Court Iorg struck out at the plate. Senior Broc Starr easily took home the player of the game recognition rec-ognition as he went 4 for 5 at the plate with three homeruns and a single. Senior Court Iorg also had a stellar day with his bat as he too went 4 for 5 with three doubles and a single. At the end of four innings, the Vikings tied the game up at 1 1 apiece thanks to a double by Iorg, single by Hooley and. a home run by Starr. Neither team scored in the fifth, but the dagger fell in the top of the sixth. Cade Hooley on the mound got the first two batters out and the Vikings were looking for their first 3 up, 3 down for the game. Unfortunately, after 1 1 9 pitches, Mr. Hooley began to let Springtime and fatigue take over and the next six batters brought their big boy bats to the plate and hit four singles, one triple and one home run before Hooley was returned to the bench and junior Sage Peacock came in as a relief pitcher. Not to worry if you are a Digger fan. He walked the next three batters and was quickly replaced re-placed by senior Josh Scoresby. He took their last batter to a 2-2 count before finally striking him out to end the inning but not before be-fore the Diggers had scored six more points to their talley. By this time, the fans started to thin out. There were not that many Digger fans anyway, but some die-hard PG fans decided that dinner and a good fireplace held more appeal than Springtime baseball in Pleasant Grove with no good ending in sight. With another double to his credit, Mr. Iorg zipped home on a hard hit single by junior Zak Hicken in the bottom of the sixth bringing the score to 17-12. PG ,m,-.. I Mil CI? T 1 Shawn Jacobson slides into second base against Jordan. Photo courtesy of Tinipanogos Times |