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Show Wednesday. May 18. 1994 Page 7 State baseball playoffs: rem- i icaers c3irsiu Orem-Geneva Times y II Dim 0 Qin)ins 3 By Gina Clark, Sportswriter The Tigers entered the state tournament on a high note after wins over Bonneville and Skyline in the inter-region and quarterfinal quarter-final match-ups. The Tigers blew out the Lakers on Thursday, then topped Skyline 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning Monday night at Franklin Quest Field. Orem 14 Bonneville 5 The Tigers had the magic touch when they took on region one's number two team Thursday. The Tigers led off with a single run in the first inning, then amplified their lead with six runs in the second. Bonneville slipped in four runs of their own in their next at-bats, but Orem's 19-hit effort was too much for the Lakers to handle. Tiger pitcher Lance Erickson held the Lakers to six hits. 4 ; ?ftv wv' Baseball Tournament 8-5. UVSC win region baseball title It was a long time coming, but Utah Valley State College finally put an end to over 20 years of baseball futility Saturday. UVSC claimed its first ever Region 18 baseball title with a 9-3 triumph over defending champion cham-pion College of Southern Idaho. The Wolverines first began playing play-ing baseball in the early 1970s, and through they have won a host of conference titles, they have never been able to claim the elusive region crown. That is, until now. The victorious Wolverines came thrdugh the loser's bracket to win four straight games. After Thursday's first -round play it seemed they would be doomed to the same fate they had realized in 16 previous appearances in the region tourney--that of an eventual even-tual loser. They had just blown a seven-run lead and lost their opener in the double-elimination competition, 15-13 to this same CSI club. But then they whipped host school Ricks 9-3 and followed up with a 13-2 waxing of Dixie. The set up a rematch Friday against CSI; and the Wolverines responded with a barrage of home runs to claim a 23-17 victory and forced Saturday's finale. Saturday's hero was season-long season-long stopper Eric Boyer, who went the distance on me muuuu and limited the powerful CSI attack at-tack to just eight hits and two earned runs. The Golden Eagles were averaging 13 runs a game in 5 the tournament. They would come nowhere close to thaton this day. Boyer won his 10th game of the season, and established a new UVSC career record with his 16th career win. Boyer got plenty of t support Chad Hartley and Chad Newman were the hitting stars in Orem's defense made a single error in Thursday's game. Offensively, junior Shawn Peterson was the leader. Peterson Peter-son belted out a grand slam, and ended up with four RBIs and five hits. Jeff Jackman had four hits and four RBIs, while Justin Williams Wil-liams added three hits and two RBIs. Orem 4 Skyline 3 The Tigers' win over Bonneville Bon-neville landed them in a quarterfinal quarter-final battle with Skylinea team that beat the Tigers earlier in the season-Monday night. Skyline got on the board first, despite excellent pitching efforts from Ryan Bithell and then Seth King. The Eagles grabbed three runs early. Orem answered with two runs of their own. The score remained at 3-2 for Skyline until the top of the seventh inning, when the Eagles put two men on base threatening a vl?vlf 'i II this outing, as each had three hits. Two of Newman's were home runs. UVSC jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the first two innings. CSI trimmed the lead to 4-3 int he fifth, but then Boyer got though. He retired 10 straight hitters, and 13 of the last 14 as he completely com-pletely overpowered the Golden Eagles. UVSC stretched the lead to 6-3 in the bottom of the fifth on a two-run two-run single by Nate Smith. In the seventh the Wolverines added two more runs on a solo blast by Newman New-man and an RBI single by Hartley. Newman sealed things with another solo shot in the eight. 'It was a total team effort," said Gardner. "That's w;hat it ' take to win a title. You need people to step up and answer the challenge in the clutch situations. We got that all weekend long." One player to step up big-time was catcher Justin Carlton, who was selected as the tournament's MVP. He led the club with a .563 average in the tournament. He had nine hits, two home runs, a double and six RBIs. There were plenty of other contributions too. Ryan Hamilton led the team with ten tournament hits. Newman had the most home runs with four, and the most runs scored with nine. Travis Flint led with 11 RBIs. On the mound, pitcher Craig Smith had two wins and a save. By winning the title, UVSC improved to 29-16 on the year and earned the right to advance to the District Tournament this Friday and Saturday at Mesa College in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Wolverines will be competing against the region champions from Colorado (Trinidad) and Arizona (Glendale). to scorei Junior Jon Clark came into relieve King and pitched the Tigers out of the inning. Justin Williams led off with a base hit up the middle in the bottom bot-tom of the seventh. Shawn Peterson Peter-son followed and on the first pitch belted out a triple to right center field. Peterson's hit scored Wil-. liams, knotting the game at 3-3. Shane Belliston added a line drive that would have won the game had it not been for the shallow shal-low Skyline outfield. With one out, the Eagles opted to walk Orem's next two batters, Adam Brown and Jeff Jackman. With the bases loaded, Brett Daniel stepped up to the plate and was hit by a breaking ball-walking ball-walking in Orem's winning run. 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