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Show Thjniaf. Fftrjay 2. 1'.: C O M M U tJi T Y SPORTS, PEOPLE A !j D OUTDOOR FU'J Timberwolves promote assistant to head coach Neil K. Warner After 15 years. Brad Molen "s commut e is finally over Last Thursday night Mo-len Mo-len was named the new fxrtd football coach al Timpanogos High School which means his commute to Taylorsville High School will he ending m May. Molen ts currently the head cross country and track coach at TaylorsvjJle as well as an assist as-sist arit basket ball coach "I was really excited when 1 got the call, i ve really enj yed working with these kids." Mo- I've coached these kids for the last two years so I think it's a good fit for me and I think it will be a good fit for the kids." Brad Molen km said "! think it will be fun to coach Frank BramalL who re- have the chance to continue to work with them." For the last two years Molen worked as an assistant coach at Timpanogos under former signed shortly after Christmas. While coaching with BramalL Bra-malL Molen continued his coaching duties at Taylorsville that included cross country, track (head coach; and assistant assis-tant basket ball coach. Perhaps no one was happier than Molen "s wife and four children with the news that be will now longer have to make the drive to Sah Lake City after 15 years of coaching at both Granger and Tavlors-viUe. Tavlors-viUe. "I've coached these kids for the last two years so ! think a s a good fit for me and 1 think it will be a good fit for the kxis for us to cont inue to work together," Molen .said. "Frank (BramaB) ran a great program I just hope we can strive to cont inue to improve on what he did." Molen was actually hired as the head football coach at Reams in December, but just three weeks after he accepted that job. the Timpanogos position posi-tion opened up and he asked K earns if he could pursue the T impanogos job. "They Reams j granted me the right to talk to Timpanogos and were great to work with me." Molen said. "They knew of my situation and knew t would be better for my family." See MOLEN. Page 7 it n n raaiancea u Wo Three different players score in double figures as Timpanogos picks up important Region 4 win tared Lloyd a .!frA . If Pleasant Grove and Timpanogos had been playing a hand of showdown poker, the Vikings would've been fairly pleased with the pair of queens 1 hey were dealt . But it wouldn't have been good enough. The TimberwoJf girls basketball team pulled up a straight Tuesday night at home, getting players to score 14. 12. 10, 8 and 6 points as it chalked up the solid 63-50 Region 4 win. "F.very girl we bave is an offensive threat," Timpanogos head coach Elizabeth Darger said "We preach to them to go out and be confident . No matt er who has to come out , we know we will still have people on the floor who can score. That's very comforting as a coach." The players feel enjoy the luxury as well, knowing they can play hard without having to worry about the team going into the tank if they pick up a couple of fouls. "It's so good to know that we have such a deep team," junior center Call Nelson said. "Anyone on our bench could come in and pick it up anytime. That's nice to know if 1 need to come out for a rest or because of fouls." Nelson didn't start the contest with Pleasant Grove because she injured her ankle against American Fork , but carne of f the bench to score 12 points and pull down a game-high 14 rebounds "You could tell ihat Cali (Nelson) had been out for a few days." Darger said. "She came out w ith a kit of energy and played awesome, especially doing a great job on the boards." Junior guard Jennifer Nielsen put up the team-high 14 points, while sophomore forward for-ward Amy WeiizeiJ was the other T'wolf in double figures with 30. "We've been telling her (Nielsen; to shoot the dang ball," Iiarger said. "Maybe she took it too much to heart when 1 told her to distribute distrib-ute t lie ball, but she's a great shooter. We've been very pleased with her play this year. She never played point guard before, but she's really re-ally stepped up to the challenge." Timpanogos started the game strong, going go-ing up by as many as seven, but the Vikings charged back in the second quarter to take a 25-24 lead. But the Timberwolves simply had too many players playing well, going on a 22-10 22-10 run to take back control of trie contest. Pleasant Grove refused to go away, staying just dose enough to make tlie T'wolf faithful faith-ful nervous, but it could never put together enough good possessions together to catch up. Only two Viking scored more than four points, junior center Kailee May who poured in 20 and junior forward Kristy Giles who See TIMPANOGOS, Page 7 V o O M ?A . f l,. - ; 'i V vl I I i ; '-a --i hll Y 1 f --'J MARIO RUIZ North County Timpanogos' Chelsey Brown tries to get past the Pleasant Grove defense during Tuesday's game in Orem. Payson boys beat up on Tigers Neil IC Warner The first priority for Orem on Tuesday night was to do something with Payson forward Josh Perry, who scored seven points inside on Orem in the first quarter. In the second quarter. Orem had to switch its focus to McKay McK-ay Massey. who w as everywhere every-where and in the third quarter it was two guys. Jordan Buys and Si even Broadbent. who were killing the Tigers from behind the 3-poira line. In the fourth quarter ... well forget it. By the fourth quarter, the game was ov er. Payson came at Orem from every direction. The Lions used a season-high 1 1 3-poinlers from five different piavers as Pavson crushed Orem 90-67. "At halftime we really stressed to the kids that the game would be decided either way wch whoev er took control of the game in the third quarter." quar-ter." said Payson coach Dan Lunt . "The kids carne out in the third quarter and did what v.e asked and the kids knocked down some shots. It was exciting." excit-ing." Payson took a 37-30 lead into the third quarter and in three and a half minutes pushed the lead to 17 points. Broadbent and Buys each hit a pair of 3-pointers. Buys later converted on a 3-poinl play and a 3-pointer and when Spencer Nielson canned a 3-poimer. Payson 's lead ballooned to 6044 with 35 seconds left in the third quarter. Orem used a Mike Hall offensive of-fensive rebound basket, a Timo Valimaki 3-pointer and a basket and free throw from Craig Cu-skk Cu-skk to cut the lead to 68-59 with 5:10 left to play. But just when it looked like Orem might shoot its way back in the game, Payson finished off Orem with a hoop from David DeGraf Jenried. a Massey layup. followed by a steal and lavup from Broadbent to push the lead to 74-59 with 4:30 left to play. "I was most proud of how we responded when Orem cut it to nine." Lunt added. "They could have easily let that momentum continue to go to Orem and they stopped it and got it back up to IS before we subbed everybody ev-erybody out. To me this shows us w hat we're capable of. We're capable of being a pretty dog gone good team if we show up to play." Orem kept the game close for most of the first half. The Tigers used an in-bounds in-bounds alley -oop dunk from Cusick to Tanner Lamb to close out the scoring in the first quarter and trim the Pay-son Pay-son lead to 17-15. But midway through the second quarter. Payson pushed the lead to 27-20 after a Massey 3-pointer, but a basket from Lamb, an offensive rebound bucket by Adam Wardenburg See TIGERS, Page 7 Drill teams show off their talent at state competition Jared Lloyd For a couple (if hours on Friday, the floor of the McKay Events Center at Utah Valley State ColW-ge became a race track, foosball table, an Egyptian Egyp-tian desert, an airplane, a 1950s bowling alley and New Orleans. And for a few minutes, it was even a basketball floor. Class 4A and 5A drill teams created settings of their choosing choos-ing during the fun and diverse novelty division, striving for the best possible scores at the a ate tournament competition. "State is the highlight of the competitive season," said senior Erika Gibbs. captain of the Lone Peak drill team, 'he Chevaliers. "We go to three invitational before region, then compete at region for the chance to go to state." All of the hard work that the girls on the eight Utah Valley drill teams did came down to one day of performances. Each of the squads perf earns a military mili-tary routine, a dance routine and a novelty routine. Unlike any other high school sport except diving, results are determined by a panel of five judges. While the general public-may public-may not notice a mistake unless one of the girls falls down the judges have a much stricter criteria cri-teria in what they look for. "Judges watch for facial expression, ex-pression, they look at form, at technique, at the choreography and at the timing of the movements," move-ments," Chevalier head coach Nikki Asnton explained. No matter what the judges were looking at, they liked what they saw from the Lone Peak team. The Chevaliers finished fin-ished fourth in a tough 5A classification, clas-sification, the best finish of any area squad. "Our goal was the top five," Asht on said Friday "I'm so happy, I feel like we won. 5A is so tough, so competitive and has so many good teams. In my eyes, we were perfect. I couldn't expect anything more from these girls." Even though the squad won the only drill team state title for Utah Valley in the history of the competition by finishing first in 4A last year, the girls said they didn't feel disappointed for not finishing as high in 2006. "You can't compare years because each team is so different," differ-ent," Gibbs said. "This year we peaked at the right place. All See DRILL TEAM, Page 7 MARK) RUIZNorth County The Orem drill team performs intne4A stale drill team competition at UVSC Friday. ! k t . 1 r i 1 . ' k 4 - I r - - fl feiivi 4&-i .L..d- - - - - -. -j"" " ' : poor |