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Show P-Jl Pi Page A5 Times Newspaper Thursday, January 13, 2005 aimdlwocllDod! ft M ( r photo hv I andon ()lin77m Newspaper Tiger Tina Martin (24) slips past a North Sanpete defender in Thursday's game. Martin played a valuable role, filling in off the bench and seeing time at almost every position. Tigers open, finish strong, to blow by North Sanpete LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor It was the same story for Orem: Open the game strong and finish the game strong. But the middle? "The last 10 minutes of the game and the first charter char-ter we played good basket-ball," basket-ball," said coach Ross Reed. "Then the wheels fell off the bus." But despite a stretch of getting outscored 16-3, the Tigers rebounded for a 66-40 rollover of North Sanpete Thursday. "We like starting out good, but we want to ie able to play that way the whole game," said guard Delyse Downey. "We always have flashes where we're good then all of the sudden we're not." The first flash was in the first quarter, when the Tigers ' 9-3 1 jumped out to an 11-3 lead. Ashley Boulter and Jenny Fiso each scored four points while Lindsie Wilson had three during that stretch. Wilson would then hit a 3 and Jamie Sagers scored inside to make it 16-8 at the end of the quarter, but it could have been more as the Tigers missed four free throws in the final minute. Fiso started the second quarter with a layup. Boulter drilled a 3 from the left corner and sunk a free- throw line jumper, then Fiso had scored on jumper. A 3 from Tina Martin made it 28-12. But during that span Fiso also picked up her third foul and joined Downey, who had two fouls, for some time on the bench. "The bottom line is, if Jenny Fiso is on the bench, our offense doesn't run as well," Reed said. That's when the Hawks took advantage. They closed the quarter with five straight points to cut the margin to 28-17 at halftime. "They didn't really say much in the locker room," Downey said of halftime. "They left it up to us. We just weren't playing hard." To start the third things didn't change much, though. Aubrey Poulson drilled a three and Jessica Aagard scored off a turnover to pull North Sanpete within six. Sagers answered for Orem with a shot inside and a free throw, but then Aagard scored five more points as part of a 6-0 run to cut the lead to 31-28. Then, as suddenly as things went bad, that flash of great play for the Tigers returned. Sagers scored on a short jumper and Downey followed with a 3 from the top to get things rolling. Minutes later continued on Page A6 Buzzer-beating bid falls short for Bruin boys LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor It was a familiar situation situa-tion for the Bruins, one they'd been in multiple times already this season. It was just the outcome that was a completely different. dif-ferent. Trailing Logan late in the fourth, the Bruins had a chance for a game-tying 3 at the buzzer. But unlike other times, it feel just short, giving giv-ing the Grizzlies a 66-63 victory over Mountain View on Friday. It wasn't the last miss that cost the Bruins (9-2), though. Instead it was a rough stretch spanning the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth quarter. With Mountain View ahead 28-21 to start the third, both teams started pushing the ball and scoring scor-ing in a hurry. A combined 42 points were scored in the quarter, and early it was the Bruins doing it. The lead went up to as much as eight, and was 46-37 46-37 in the final minutes before the up-tempo pace caught up with Mountain View. Logan scored the final eight points of the quarter on a three-point play, an inside bucket and a 3 by Dani Bates, cutting the Mountain View lead to one at 46-45. In the fourth the pace continued, much to the downfall of the Bruins. "They were just fine with it and we couldn't sustain any energy and they made us pay for it. They deserved the game,'' said Bruin coach Jason Young. "We were not in very good shape. They were in better condition than us. That played a big factor as well." The other factor was Bates. With Logan down by double digits early in the third, the senior guard shot the Grizz right back into the game. Back-to-back 3s cut the lead to seven, while his third 3 of the quarter helped trim the lead to one in the final minute. In the fourth he continued contin-ued where he left of hitting a 3 to give Logan a 54-50 lead, and another on the next trip down the court to answer a 3 by Bruin Taylor Williams, keeping the lead continued on Page A6 -A - f X ' V ' ' - ' ' I t - - f 0 - ' 4- r ft) I 1 1 I j QrJf. i , m ; - ' o c : I , ' " "'V 4 - " ' . b phiilo bv Landnn OhunlTimes New Bruin Abe King elevates to take a shot over the Logan defense In the first half. Effective inside, King paced the Bruins with a season-high 18 points. spuper 'i.A -y. v m -I j -' j j j " -4 ' i Xa Orem has it rough at American Fork phulii in l.andun OiwnTimn rwpuprr Orem's Blake Johnson (11) looks to pass Inside over the top of AF's defense. LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor AMERICAN FORK- AF. Not only parts of the word "frustration" "frustra-tion" but part of the Tigers feeling feel-ing it. Despite a valiant late game effort, Orem couldn't overcome a rough stretch midway through, falling the Caveman 65-55 Jan. 5. "Frustration was a big word for it," said coach Mike Conner. "We were frustrated because we had some shots that should have went in but didn't. We missed some foul shots we normally nor-mally make. We've just got to figure out a way to through the tough times. In the fourth quarter ligers (b-5) did finally through it, but bv then facing an uphill battle, down 48-34. Midway through the quarter the Cavemen were up 52-37 before Tanner Lamb scored five straight points for the Tigers to cut the lead to 10. AF came back with a layup, but a pair of free throws by Jordan Reid and a 3-point 3-point shot by Craig Cusick cut that lead to 54-47. fight the fight were "This group of kids will never quit. TheyH never ever quit" Orem had chances to cut further fur-ther into the lead, but as Conner said, some shots didn't go in and some free throws were missed. AF bounced back with a pair of layups by Clayton Searle to help close out the game. Cusick did drain another 3, and while the points at the buzzer only reduced the final margin, the effort showed the attitude of the Tigers. "This group of kids will never quit," Conner said. "They'll never ever quit. We're going to go to practice prac-tice tomorrow and try to figure out a. way to overcome some of our weaknesses. But they will never quit, that's for sure." In the opening quarter it looked as if the Tigers had things well in hand, going up 6-2 6-2 before AF battled back to take a 10-8 lead. But then the Tigers ran off six straight an inside bucket by Blake Johnson to go along with four points from Cusick to close the quarter and take a 14-10 lead. Alex Call and Lamb scored inside to put Orem up 18-12 in the opening minute of the quarter, quar-ter, but then Call picked up his third foul and was forced to take a seat the remainder of the half. Nate Lloyd had a putback keep the lead at six, but began Mike Conner Orem coach to AF to chip away. J n s l buckets S e a r reduced the margin to two before Lamb could score, then Rich Shoff I e by I e tl ead hit a pair of jumpers to tk game at 22-22. Orem would take its last at 23-22 on a free throw Johnson, while another free throw by Cusick tied the game at 24-24. To end the quarter, though, the Cavemen started to heat up. Brennan Davis hit back-to-back 3s in the final minute to give AF a 30-24 halftime edge That hot shooting continued into the second when David Olsen opened with a 3. He then scored inside to put American Fork up 35-24 before Cusick hit Orem's first shot of the half. But AF' would reel off another anoth-er six quick points to take the solid lead they held into the fourth. "Give them the credit. They played really, really well and we just went through a drought that we never recovered from." Conner said. Pail of the frustration and the drought arose from the physical nature of the game, though. Cusick hit the floor hard after being fouled on a fast break, and Lamb took a shot to the head battling inside. The Tigers couldn't seem to get a call and AF took advantage on the way to building its lead. "It was too physical I think," Conner said. "It was a good basketball bas-ketball game and they're a very, very good team and we've just got to figure out how to beat the good teams." The Tigers hosted Spanish Fork on Friday, and now have a week and half off before Region VII play begins. Their next game is Tuesday at Pleasant Grove. 2RCOPY, |
