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Show Pago B2 Thursday, February 5, 2004 Times Newspaper Lady Bruins ff ighi off Tigeirs; clinch state tournament spot LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor A key run here, an offensive spurt then1, and a region title possibly pos-sibly decided. The Mountain View Lady Bruins used big second and third quarters to distance themselves from Orem, secure the J54-30 victory vic-tory Thursday at home and remain undefeated in Region VII. "The region championship basically basi-cally could have been decided today," said Mountain View head coach Dave Houle. Instead of falling into a tie with the Tigers, the Bruins (5-0, 16-2) clinched a state tournament spot and remained ' firmly in control of the region, two games ahead of both i V 111 1 4l , 11 I mm and Timpanogos It didn't look that way at first, though. Neither team could get its offense going and the score was deadlocked 4- with barely two minutes to play in the quarter. quar-ter. It was then the Tigers unveiled a surprise Heather Keith. The star guard had been out for two weeks after tearing her ACL Jan. 13 against Mountain View, but returned to action to for the first time amidst cheers of "Heather. Heather," from the Orem faithful. Mountain View greeted her with Tiara Bowman promptly draining a three, but Marsha Heimuli answered for Orem, making mak-ing it a one-point game at the quarter break. In the second, though, it seemed Orem was reliving a bad dream. Keith, like in the previous Mountain View game, went down. After colliding with a Bruin in the. corner, she was on the ground clutching her already damaged knee. She was forced to leave the game after barely four minutes of action. Then things went from bad to worse for the Tigers. "I think losing Heather right off the bat again sort of knocked us for a loop because we weren't expecting that," Orem coach Scott Houle said. The Tigers couldn't score on II IV. J J VL J 7 easy shots, and Mountain view, already up by six, began to extend its lead. The Bruins held a comfortable 20-12 halftime lead, then blew that open in the third, outscoring Orem 20-9 - 10-0 at one point -to go up by 19. During that run, the Bruins scored inside and out, converting on layups, post play by Ashley Cheesman, and treys from Bowman and Amy Mack. "I think we made two runs. That really helped us," Houle said. "If it weren't for those two runs, we'd still be gp X? 6 rigM ine iourm quarter was fairly even until, witn Orem fouling in desperation, des-peration, Mountain View went to the line and hit 7-of-8 free throws in the final minutes, pulling away for the 54-30 win. "We showed some guts to stay in it and at least keep fighting," Scott said. "If you can get a positive out of it, there it is." But that was about the only one he could find. While the execution was fine, Scott said the Tigers just couldn't finish shots, and once they started start-ed missing, things got away. "That first quarter we missed a lot of those gimme layups," he said. "We got the ball where we wanted, we just couldn't hit them. Then it just started steamrolling from there." Some of that was probably a result of the Bruin defense, though. Dave Houle said he wanted want-ed to make sure he team stopped the Orem inbound plays and put the clamps on the inside game to take away easy buckets. "We tried to work a little bit so they wouldn't go post to post on us," he said. "We really had to work on trying to take that part out of them and just hope they didn't get hot from the outside." The Tigers didn't, and as a result, in the second half started getting tentative. Not looking for the shot, they began overpassing and stopped attacking the basket. Something Scott said is death for his team. :.- w TV v X - r photo by Landon OlsonTimes Newspaper Bruin Lora Mitchell (35) stops Orem guard Aubrey Stay's drive to the basket while Tiara Bowman (21) looks on during the second half Thursday "I think they got a little nervous nerv-ous and we started just over passing pass-ing instead of attacking, and that hurts us because we're not a team that can do that. We have to attack to get points," he said. " I don't know what it is. If I could figure it out, we wouldn't be playing play-ing like that, that's for sure." Marsha Heimuli led the Tiger offense, scoring 10, while Aubrey Stay added seven. For the Bruins, Tiara Bowman led all scorers with 14, while Cheesman, Mack and Lora Mitchell all had 11. Orem is off until Friday when it plays at Pleasant Grove. The Bruins played at PG on Tuesday and will be at Lone Peak Friday. Mountain View 54, Orem 30 Orem 6 6 9 9 30 Mtn.View 7 13 20 14 54 Orem Marsha Heimuli 10, Aubrey Stay 7, Nichole Dahl 6, Jenny Fiso 3, Ashley Boulter 2, Kristine McConkie 2. Totals 13 4-12 30. Mtn. View Tiara Bowman 14, Ashley Cheesman 11, Lora Mitchell 11, Amy Mack 11, Mallary Gillespie 7. Totals 18 13-20 54. 3-polnt shots Mtn. View 5 (Bowman 2, Mack 2, Gillespie). Padfield honored in pregame ceremony Glenna Padfield was a big factor in Thursday's match-up between the Lady Bruins and Tigers, but not for anything she did during the game. Instead, it's what she had done in the year prior to the game, teaching teach-ing players from both teams during their younger years. Padfield coached girls' basketball at Lakeridge Junior High for more than 25 years, and this year's senior class is the last to play under her. She also taught and coached track, volleyball, volley-ball, tennis, and gymnastics. gym-nastics. As a basketball coach, she compiled an incredible incredi-ble 235-17 record. But not only that, she coached girls who went on to be all-state and Ail-American players. Although no longer coaching other sports at Lakeridge, she still is over the track team, helping get the track built there. She has never had a losing season sea-son as a track coach and usually her team usually usual-ly finishes at the top during Alpine Days. Padfield grew up in South Summit and went to South Summit high school, going on to participate partic-ipate in both basketball and track at Brigham Young University.. , In track, she ran relays, the 400, 800 and also threw the shot. Padfield is now an-instructor an-instructor at Brigham Young University, as well as continuing to teach at Lakeridge. Prior to tipoff Thursday, both Mountain View head coach Dave Houle and Orem head coach Scott Houle, as well as Mountain View principal princi-pal Richard Clark, spoke about and honored hon-ored Padfield. 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The Timberwolves got a good start, going up 15 in the first half and holding on to pull out the victory. Amber Nielsen led all players with 18 points, while Candice Martin added 10 for Timpanogos. Lauren Francom paced the Vikings with 11. If Mountain View defeated Pleasant Grove on Tuesday, and Timpanogos won on the road, the T-wolves T-wolves clinched a spot in the state tournament. Timpanogos 45, Pleasant Grove 34 PI. Grove 8 4 7 15 34 Timpanogos 15 12 9 9 45 Pleasant Grove Lauren Francom 11, Ashlie Giles 10, Carr 6, Danielle Sargent 4, Lell Fotu 3. Totals 14 5-11 34. Timpanogos Amber Nielsen 18, Candice Martin 10, Kristen Louder 9, Dara Grob 4, Chelsey Brown 2, Mandy Valora 2. Totals 15 15-22 45. 3-polnt shots PI. Grove 1 (Francom). Back on the road, the Timberwolf boys' basketball basket-ball team earned its first Region VII victory, coming from behind in the fourth quarter to edge Pleasant Grove by two. The Vikings have yet to win , in region play, although barely, as their three losses are by a combined com-bined five points. They lost to Orem by two and to Lone Peak by one. Mac Nelson led Timpanogos with 14 points, while Chris Burr (12) and Shawn Yeats (11) each hit double figures. Nate Clement led all players, scoring 16 for the Vikings. Timpanogos 53, Pleasant Grove 51 PI. Grove 6 14 17 14 51 Timpanogos 7 16 12 18 53 PI. Grove Nate Clement 16, Landon Hallman 10, Jay Helquist 9, Chad Evans 6, C. Bilbro 5, Trent Jeppson 2, Jason Bond 2, Jesse Wilde 1. Totals 18 11-17 51. Timpanogos Mac Nelson 14, Chris Burr 12, Shawn Yeats 11, Was Snell 6, Ricky Norton 5. Totals 17 15-20 53. 3-polnt shots PI. Grove 4 (Hallman 2, Helquist, Bilbro); Timpanogos 4 (Yeats 3, Norton). ' my i - 1 ixM rl photo by Landoa OhunlTimes Newspaper Timpanogos forward Josh Halls drives In against Mountain View Ira home game earlier this season. I |