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Show .Page B2 Thursday, February 10, 2005 Times Newspaper uuiCdLidd picnic iiigii iiiuiviuucany cai itsgiuii LANDON OLSON Times Sport Editor HIGHLAND - Pleasant Grove ran away with the team title, but wrestlers from all three Orem schools claimed individual crowns at the Region VII wrestling championship Thursday. Orem's Tyler Belnap and Matt McCoy each won titles, while Mountain View's Austin Boles and Timpanogos' Bo Beckman were also victorious. At 103, the Timers had a pair of wrestlers who were in contention, with Belnap and Mario Tolayo meeting in the second round of the tournament. Both had won their first round matches with quick falls, but this time it was Belnap winning with a fall at the 3:37 mark Belnap would defeat PG's Keola Goodman in a major decision in the championship, cham-pionship, while Tolayo picked up two more victories victo-ries to finish third. In the next class, another anoth-er pair of locals again performed per-formed well, as Beckman and Bruin Bryce Florea cruised through their matches to meet in the championship. There it was Beckman who'd pick up the win, earning a fall 1:04 in. At 130, Orem's McCoy faced a stiff test in the final. After winning on falls in his first two matches, McCoy was taken to double overtime by Lone Peak's Thomas Lamb. McCoy finally picked up the winning win-ning point to earn the 2-1 decision. Mountain View would get its individual championship champi-onship at 135 when Austin Boles won with a fall against Lone Peak's Jacob Tebbs. Boles won with a fall in his first match, then battled to an 8-5 decision in the second to earn the spot in the final. While the Orem schools had some success in the lower weights, above 140 PG dominated, winning every upper weight class except 275, where Lone Peak pulled out the win in an all-Knight final. For .Mountain View, Kevin Bauer earned a second sec-ond place finish at 140. Third place finishers were McKay Upstill at 125, Jesse Fisher at 215 and Tua Fonohema at 275. Among the Tiger wrestlers, Ben Shurtz finished fin-ished second at 125, Clint Pyne earned a second place at 152, Levi Lewis was second sec-ond at 160 and A.J. Pope was the runner-up at 171. In addition to Tolayo, Travis McClure (140), Patt Judd H45) and Owen Nuttall (171) earned third place finishes. In the final team standings, stand-ings, Pleasant Grove finished fin-ished with 305 points, outdistancing out-distancing second place Lone Peak's 219.50. Orem was in third at 180 and Mountain View was fourth with 105. Timpanogos, which only had nine wrestlers competing, finished fin-ished fifth at 58.50. The state tournament will be held this Wednesday through Friday at UVSC, with the top three wrestlers, or four depending on weight class, from region qualifying. 4 - " . - . -J , ; . ' Vi ; - ! . ' ' I "f ' - " .. ..")" r - :...;::'.:: ? , ... v '" ' 11 i mi mum m-vimmivrntimj f vmmim 1 Sna 1 "t" , f , - '. j&Z . X -n,.,-r JT'Nsf V photos by Landon Olsonrmcv ewspaper ABOVE: Bryce Florea of Mountain View tries to pin PG's Cam Denboer in his second match at 112. Florea won with a fall at the 3:24 mark. LEFT: Timpanogos' Bo Beckman locks up with Viking Colt Thaxton in 112 weight class match. Beckman went on to win the region title. TOP: Tigers Tyler Belnap (left) and Mario Tolayo grapple during a 103 class second round match. Belnap won the match and eventually the title. Bruin boys look inside to upend PG in region play LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor Preparation paid off for Mountain View. Expecting a zone defense against Pleasant Grove, the Bruins were ready, taking a 13-point lead into halftime and hanging on for a 67-62 region victory Feb. 2. "The last two days we've been working on zone defense because we knew they'd zone us," said Bruin forward Evan A.stle. It took Mountain View (13-3, 3-1) a couple of minutes min-utes to score, but when they did, the points came in a hurry. John Bclliston got things rolling inside and A.stle followed, giving the Bruins an 8-4 lead. The Vikes8-8, 1-3) came back to tie the game, but Astle started a run that Abe King continued. The Bruins ran off 10 straight and took a 20-1 1 lead at the end of the quarter behind eight points from King. The good looks inside continued into the second quarter as the Bruins scored the first two buckets and would go up as much a 29-13 midway through the period PG ran off seven straight points to cut the lead back to nine, but by the end of the half the Bruins led 35-22. To start the second, though, Mountain View got a different look from PG. The Vikings switched to man-to-man defense and it seemed to work. "I think it's their defensive defen-sive pressure," said Bruin coach Jason Young. "They got up and they played tremendous defense. They crashed the offensive boards very, very hard and got a lot of second and third chance opportunities and played a tremendous game." Over the course of the third quarter, PG would slowly chip away at the lead. A 3-point shot by Trent Wood cut it to four, prompting a Mountain View timeout, but the Vikes just kept closing. When the lead dropped to 44-41 with a minute lft V 11 ISIf X "" - If"4 " "' " ' ." :.-J- "' ' ";"" "-"iatj. pbolo In Liodon Ohon! Times Sewspaper Bruin Andrew Bateman (21) races ahead of PG's Greg Thurgood to track down a loose ball. in the quarter, the Bruins called another timeout, but Pleasant Grove would get to within one before Mountain View could stem the tide. Mike Barraclough scored on jumper off an offensive rebound to make it 44-43, but then Dan Morris hit his only shot of the night for the Bruins, drilling a 3 from the left corner to push it back up to four. Bryan Dickinson then scored on a drive to keep it four, 49-45 going into the final quarter. That's when the Bruins Btarted pounding it back inside. "We just took it at them," Astle said. "Abe King was taking it at them hard. Our coach said we're not going to get any fouls, bo go out and go at them." Young said, "Early in the fourth quarter we just executed exe-cuted well and got decent looks and they went down." Andrew Bateman start ed the quarter off with a layup, then Astle and King hit back-to-back inside shots to push the lead up to nine. Once more PG would close to four, 62-58, off a Wood 3 in the final minutes, min-utes, and then a steal and layup Brady Atkinson would make it 63-61. But King made a pair of free throws with 20 seconds left to put the margin at four, and Bateman finished off with another pair of free throws to seal the win. King led all players with a season-high 21 points, while Astle had 12. A.J. Millet was also in double figures with 10 points. Dickinson finished with six points despite some woes at the free throw line, but also picked up seven rebounds and five assists for the Bruins. "He plays hard. You know what you're going to continuecLou Page B4 T-wolves a cinch for state with win over Lone Peak LANDON OLSON Times Sports Editor Cali Nelson is becoming somewhat of a nemesis for Lone Peak. The sophomore center's efforts in overtime over-time earned Timpanogos a win earlier this year, and Feb. 1 she did it again, scoring scor-ing a career-high 18 points and pulling down 15 rebounds as Timpanogos defeated defeat-ed the Knights 60-43. "I didn't want to lose the first game and I definitely didn't want to lose the second because I knew they were out for blood," Nelson said. "And if they were out, I was out." "I thought, for a sophomore, I thought she played very, very well," said Timpanogos coach Robert Louder. "We're still trying to convince her not to foul every time down the floor, but she's learning learn-ing how to score inside. She' s learning a little bit better on defense and she's athletic ath-letic enough to jump up and get some rebounds. And then there's the matter of the qualifying qual-ifying for the state tournament, which the T-wolves (11-7 4-2) are now in a position to do as they have secured at least a third place region finish. But did the team know of those implications? "Heck yeah. State here we come," Nelson said. "WTe want to go to state so bad and we knew this was the game to win to make it there." Through the first half of the first quarter, quar-ter, the teams stayed even, with Nelson edging the T-wolves out to a 5-4 lead on a pair of inside shots and a free throw. Early fouls plagued the teams, though, and both squads had players sitting out quickly. For Lone Peak (6-10, 1-4) that loss came only two minutes in as center Amanda Prestwich picked up her second foul. That left Timpanogos even more room and the T-wolves started going inside. "She's one of their strongest players. She's tough inside and rebounds well," Louder said. "They're not quite as strong when she's out so that hurt them a lot when they lost her." Jennifer Harris, recently returned from an ankle injury, scored inside, and then Chelsey Brown converted on a pair of free throws. As the frustration mounted for the Knights, they were hit with a technical techni-cal foul and Karlan Evans drained both free throws for Timpanogos. Harris would score on a pair of free throws and Amy Weitzeil converted inside to cap a 13-0 run that left the T-wolves up 17-6 at the end of the quarter. "The kids played hard. I thought our trap was effective at times, especially in the first quarter," Louder said. "It helped us get a big lead, then we kind of had to hang on for dear life after that." Prestwich returned in the second for the Knights and scored six of Lone Peak's i 't Wv y f I , h - f V - , . t it'' - , j p: V. photo by Landon Olson77nt'j Sewspupcr Call Nelson (33), Timpanogos' center, goes up for a shot inside against Lone Peak last week. Nelson had 18 points. first eight points in the period, helping to keep pace with the play of Nelson and WTeitzeil. But with 3:05 left in the half, Prestwich picked up her third foul, having to sit and giving the T-wolves more room inside. Nelson scored eight points in the quarter before picking up her third foul and going to the bench. Lone Peak started to mount a comeback come-back behind the outside shooting of Mari Larsen, who hit a pair of 3s, but Harris answered with a 3 arid the T-wolves took a 32-22 lead into halftime. continued on Paje B4 |