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Show "yTil "HfTinj "iiQMnj njIiiimc"f"'tM" Times Newspaper Wednesday, October 25, 2000 Page 4 0 u TOSS Orews top seed desmte loss stefe sff?ir Ml By Patricia Knoell Times Reporter The championship game of the state 5A soccer tournament was a microcosm of the season for the Bruins. Faced with the adversity of losing a player before the game even started, the team overcame a 1-0 half-time deficit to beat Jordan 2-1 and win the state 5A championship trophy. This was a team that had lost the heart of its starting lineup from the year before and had only two seniors on the whole squad. Picked to be a middle-of-the-pack team in Region 3, the Bruins finished fin-ished third and swept their way through the tournament with the same determination that got them through the championship game. "It (the championship game) started out kind of curious," Mountain View coach Mike Lallargoue said. "One of our forwards, Rachelle O'Donnell, was injured in warmups. She pulled a hip flexor muscle on a kick. She played for about 10 minutes of the first half, but it really started to hurt and once she came out, it was cold and she couldn't get warmed up again." But, just as it had all year when faced with adversity, the Bruins rose to the occasion last Saturday to beat league rival Jordan, an upset winner over top-ranked Alta in the semifinals. semifi-nals. Jordan took a 1-0 lead into the half and held Mountain View scoreless until, with 13 minutes left in the game, Becca Roberts lofted in a perfect corner kick to Davia King, who headed the ball in for the score. After that, overtime looked like a distinct possibility, until Roberts split net with a free Kick with just over one minute left o o a a a o to Z UJ I O You're invited to attend the Women's Ice Hockey Four Nations Cup-a pre-Olympic test event featuring the best teams in the world! National teams from the USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland will participate. Date: November 7-11 Location: The Peaks Ice Arena in Provo Tickets: available at the BYU Marriott Center Ticket office (M-F 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and during events, 378-BYU1 or 800-322-BYU1) and the Provo Towne Centre service desk at Center Court (M-Sat,10 a.m.- 9 p.m., Sun 12 p.m.-5 p.m., 852-2401) Admission: Adults-$5, Youth 2-18-$3. For more information or free tickets for the Men's Under 18 Five Nations Cup Tournament at the E-Center, call (801) 212-2720 in the game. "It was a pretty even game," Lallargoue said. "They had nine shots on goal and we had eight and they had two comer kicks to our five. The difference was that their shots were mostly right on target and goalie Shannon Sh-annon Boyle had to make some great saves, while most of our shots were just a little off." Except, of course, for the two that really mattered. For Lallargoue, has already had one state championship to his credit in soccer, this title was even sweeter than the first. "This title came a total surprise," sur-prise," he said. "At the first of the year, I'd have given us about a 10 percent chance of winning, but as things went on, we got more confident and our chances Cowboy Poetry Gathering to be held If you ever wished you could step back in time, step on up to I Ieber City, Utah this November and enjoy a taste of the way it was before the West was won at the Sixth Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering and Buckaroo Fair. For November 8 to 12, there will be open doorways to the past all over the Heber Valley. The Gathering begins Wednesday Wednes-day the 8th in Midway, with a Dutch Oven Cook-Off Competition Competi-tion and a Poetry and Music Competition. Other activities will consist of clinics, demonstrations, film festival fes-tival and more! For more information and tickets tick-ets call 435-654-2352. 2002 HOCKEY PREVIEW Km fjmiiiA nil tim4 Mil-, i 1 iUJ IW w MW If got better." There was good reason for that confidence in the tournament. tourna-ment. After the Bruins beat Bingham in the first round, they went on to upset Layton, the top team from Region 1 in the second. sec-ond. After that, the semifinal matchup featured Clearfield, which upset Brighton and Viewmont before falling 1-0 to Mountain View. The Bruins' one goal in the semifinal came off the head of O'Donnel after King gave her a crossing pass behind the goalie. "From where we started to where we ended, there were miles of improvement," LaHargoue said. "We really came through when in counted." Full scale disaster exercise planned for CERT teams Paul, Smith a resident in the Northridge Community in Orem and recent graduate of Orem CERT program, has taken it upon himself to organize a full scale disaster exercise for the local CERT teams. Coordinating a full scale disaster di-saster exercise is a daunting task to say the least, however, Paul sees the need to better prepare his area of the city and make his neighbors aware of some of the devastating effects of disaster. He has coordinated the use of the building in which the exercise exer-cise will be held, he arranged to have 30 students volunteer their time to act as victims and invited in-vited the local CERT members north of 1600 North in Orem. The exercise will be held on Saturday, October 28, from 9:00-11:00 9:00-11:00 a.m. at the Northridge Elementary School If x m z () yi z H o z o c o m cn H 2 m O H Orem went into last Friday's season wrap-up with Brighton knowing that a win would sew up the outright Region 3 championship cham-pionship and a No. 1 seed in the state tournament. The Tigers didn't get the win, falling to Brighton 34-13, but .the top seed did come its way, thanks to a coin flip held earlier that day that determined seeding seed-ing should the possible three-way tie for the league title between Orem, Brighton and Alta take place. The No. 1 status leaves Orem hosting the fifth-place team from Region 2, Copper Hills, Friday at 5 p.m. "We have a great playoff seed," Orem coach Alex Jacobson said. "If anyone had told me at the first of the year that we could have only one loss in the region and have the No. 1 seed, I'd have taken it right then. I knew we were better than last place, where we were picked, but this is great." Jacobson also pointed out that the last time Orem won a state International Credit Union Day designated in Utah by governor Utah's Governor, legislators, and credit unions participated in the celebration for International Credit Union Day. Governor Michael Leavitt recognized rec-ognized Utah's credit unions with a proclamation for their service and commitment to consumers. con-sumers. In efforts to educate legislators leg-islators about International Credit Union Day, the League gave each legislator a stuffed donkey or elephant depending upon party affiliation. Each stuffed animal is wearing a T-shirt T-shirt with the Utah League of Credit Union logo. Attached to the animal is information on International Credit Union Day and credit unions. Additionally, the Utah League of Credit Unions is hosting a quilting bee at its office in Salt Lake City. Credit unions and legislators leg-islators were invited to participate. partici-pate. The League will donate all the quilts made to Primary Children's Medical Center, Utah's CMN hospital, as part of its ongoing efforts to aid the hospital in myriad ways. Primary Pri-mary Children's Medical Center gives a quilt or receiving blanket blan-ket to each child that stays overnight. over-night. The hospital relies on the community to donate the quilts. Earlier this year, five of Utah's credit unions donated over 200 quilts and 60 receiving blankets to the hospital. Collectively, Utah's credit unions will donate an additional $80,000 to the hospital hos-pital in 2000 28th ANNUAL PARK CITY AND SALE 1 PARK CITY HIGH SCHOOL SALE HOURS Friday night 10 p.m.-l a.m. Saturday 10a.iii.-5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. JO Sunday, championship, it lost to Brighton in the final game of the season. Turnovers, something that hasn't been a problem for the Tigers since a loss to Timpview in the first game of the season, plagued them in this game as they gave up two fumbles and two interceptions and a blocked field goal. "We gave them too many easy scores off our mistakes," Jacobson said. Also hurting Orem was the absence of star running back Troy Sheide. The senior tailback suffered a high ankle sprain two weeks ago and got in for just one play, as a decoy, against Brighton after sitting out all last week in a non-league game Timpanogos spikers remain unbeaten in Region 3 In an all-out battle last Tuesday, Tues-day, defending state champion Timpanogos defeated Orem 15-3, 15-3, 11-15, 15-8. The win, plus a 15-2. 15-3 victory vic-tory over Alta on Thursday, leaves Timpanogos undefeated in Region 3 play at 11-0. Orem, which had a bye Thursday, is 7-3. 7-3. "It was quite a showdown," Timpanogos coach Angie Roberts Rob-erts said. "The only teams in the league to have taken us to three games are Orem and Mountain View. We've just got good teams down here." That was proven Tuesday, as Orem came roaring back after Timpanogos dominated the first game to go up 8-1 in the second. It was Timpanogos' turn for a comeback then, and it pulled to within two at 9-7, but Shelly Hundley took some great sets from Kristy Barney and Lyndsey Phillips added a couple of timely blocks and Orem won the game. But despite the fact that Orem had two blockers on them all night, sisters Lauren and Kristin Richards had 11 and 13 kills respectively and led Timpanogos back for the third- Edge! F. Liechty UKAlNUrAl HtK, WAIL, MANTEL, ANTIQUE CLOCKS 1429 East 700 South Provo, Utah 84606 801-812-1749 SWAP ADMISSION $2 EQUIPMENT CHECK-IN Oct. 30th -Nov. 2nd at: Jans Mt. Outfitters, Park Ave. Cole Sport, I'ark Ave. Friday, Nov. 3rd: 4 p.m.-) p.m. at the High School EQUIPMENT PICK-UP Nov. 5th 3 p.m.-5 p.m. at the High School Great Selection of New and Used Ski and Snowboard Equipment and Clothing "One or the best ski swaps in the country" Ski Magazine Proceeds benefit the Park City Ski Team against Clearfield. "We hope he can play this week," Jacobson said of Sheide, "But he might be another week away. We'd love to be able to keep him for the second round, but there's no margin for error in playoffs. Of course, the main concern is Troy and we won't play him unless he's ready." Against Brighton, Alex Coombs and Jonny Harline both came up with some big plays for the Tigers, but it wasn't enough for Orem to overcome Brighton's potent attack. In Copper Hills, Orem will face a tough team that has challenged chal-lenged every team it has played this year. "We'll have our hands full," Jacobson said. "But we're excited ex-cited to face the challenge." game and match win. "With Orem shadowing Lauren and Kristin, we needed someone else to step up, and that someone was Beth Robertson," Roberts said. "She really stepped it up in the middle when Orem was double teaming them." While Timpanogos and Orem were duking it out, Mountain View was dropping its first match to a non-Orem team this year, losing to Brighton 1-15, 15-10, 15-10, 15-13. The Bruins rebounded to defeat de-feat Jordan 15-12, 8-15, 15-4 on Thursday, as Danielle Cheesman, Gilly Wiseman and Lindsey Henry logged eight kills each, Erica Lott had four solo blocks and Sara Anderson three aces. Mountain View is 8-2 In this, the final week of regular regu-lar season play, Mountain View traveled across town to Orem on Tuesday, while Timpanogos had a bye. On Thursday, Timpanogos and Mountain View will tangle at Mountain View and Orem will travel to Hillcrest. The state tournament will be played November 3 and 4 at Utah Valley State College. HIGHWAY 248 mi ? 4 1 M L O V. 33 Under 12 Free Under 12 Free Under 12 Free 31 mwmmmmm For more information. Call 435-649-8749 (poor |