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Show Page 6 OREM GENEVA TIMES Thursday, May 25. 2006 C 0 M M U N ITY SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN TWoIves advance to semis Bruins soccer falls early in 5A state tournament Brian Hassler SALT LAKE CITY When it came down to it. AIL Bramwell had plenty left in the tank. Bramwell who kept Timpanogos ( 14-1) ain't king enough for the offense to get in gear, ily g stronger as the game went on to lead Timpanogos to a 4-2 victory over the Lajx;ers in extra innings in the championship Um ket of the Class 5A state Softball tournament tourna-ment at Valley Complex on Tuesday evening. The win pushed Timpanogos into the semjf inals of the championship bracket. It was yet another chance for a team to beat tlie I imberu-olves in extra innings, but again. I impanogos rallied for the win. "I've never let the tank run out," Bram-wt-lj said "1 was a little psyched out early in the game and allow ed a run. but after that I told myself that I had to step up and hit my spots belter " Layton 17-4 jumped out to the lead early in tlie game as Jasey Jensen and Jenny Jesjy-rson gave the Lancers a 1-0 lead in the first inning But Bramw elJ and Timpanogos shut down Layton's offense for the next six innings in-nings before allowing a run in the bottom of the eighth inning. While Timpanogos kept Layton off the board, ihe Lancers had all the answers for 7 impanogos' of f ease until the TWorves finally final-ly managed to tie the game in the top of the fifth inning on a Megan Bishop RBI single. " I liey got that first run and we could have easily folded," said Timpanogos coach frank Bramall. "But it was our kind of game and 1 knew that if we could just hit (Laylon pitcher Haili Squire) that we'd get on and beat her." Timpanogos did finally get to Squire but ' it wasn't until the top of the eighth inning. With a runner starting on second base under international tiebreaker rules, Bramwell Bram-well moved the runner over with a bunt single The runner scored on a bad throw from Laylon to give Timpanogos the lead for the first time at 2-1. But the TWolves weren't finished. A Layton error allowed Bramwell to score for a i- lead, and a Chelsey Brown RBI single gave the TWolves a 4-1 lead. "We have a good short game in those situations sit-uations w hen the runner starts on second," Bramall said. "It's our kind of game." Though Layton also started its half of the inning with a runner on second, Bramwell f' pi ROBB COSTELLONortti Count Timpanogos' Alii Bramwell pitches against Layton in the 5A state tournament Tuesday. never took her focus away from home plate. That runner did score, but Bramwell forced two ground balls then got the final out on a strikeout, her 10th of the game, to seal the 4-2 win. "I've thrown a lot of international rule extra-inning games," said BramwelL "I just focus on the first out and then work on the second out. It was OK that they scored be cause we had the lead and I was just trying to win the game." Next up for Timpanogos is a championship champion-ship bracket semifinal matchup against the winner of the Spanish Fork-Viewmont game at 7:15 p.m. today at Valley Complex. Trnipariooos BOO Old 03 465 LaIon 11X1 UOO 61 21 ttramwei! jnc hcot Squitt ano Higgins IWP b'amwell L-Squit Jacob Conde NORTH COUNTY Wild winds, gray skies and lightning strikes make a great backdrop for your run of the mill horror story. As such, it was the perfect weather for Mountain View's playoff soccer game. The Bruins got pushed around by an aggressive Viewmont squad, and even though they fought bravery, the game was truly the stuff of nightmares. No matter how many shots they took, the ball never seemed to its way into the net for Mountain View, and when the final whistle sounded the Bruins had lost the game, 1-0. Even more horrifying, with the loss Mountain View's playoff play-off run was over. "Viewmont played real well, but I thought we played well enough for the win," said Mountain Moun-tain View coach Mark Graham Viewmont coach Casey Lay-ton Lay-ton agreed with Graham's as-sesment, as-sesment, but also said his team earned their success after battling bat-tling through a season full of challenges. "We think a lot of what (Mountain View) has done, it was a pretty equal game," Layton said after the win. "We've had a lot of adversity this year, but I kept telling (his players) that it was going to make us stronger in the end, and it has." As No. 3 seed in their region, re-gion, the Vikings might have been intimidated to face the Region 4 champions on their own field. But if they were nervous it didn't show, as they out-muscled and gutted their way past the Bruins on several early posessions. "We think we have a shot to come in and beat anyone," Layton said. The Bruins had a tough time containing the attack, and it took some incredible leaping saves from Mountain View keeper Michael Chesler to keep the Vikings scoreless. Towards the end of the first half, the Bruins finally began pushing the ball they way they liked to and forced Viewmont goalie Josh Nordfelt to earn his keep. However, Nordfelt was up to the challenge and the teams were forced to settle for a 0-0 tie at the half. After the break, both teams took to the field again, but only for a little while. In the 15th minute of the half play was suspended when lightning light-ning hit nearby. Not wanting to risk an injury to a player or fan, the teams pulled their players and watched the skies. Ten uneventful minutes later, the coaches refs thought it was safe enough to start playing play-ing again. After the break, however, Viewmont charged out with a lot of momentum. They found Travis Richens in the lane and fed him the ball, which he then pushed it forward to teammate team-mate Jordan Davies. Mountain View's Chesler left the goal to challenge, and Davies put up a shot he hoped would get over the keeper. It not only went over, it dropped right in for the game's only goal "It's nice to get one of those," Davies said after the game. "I saw (Richens) had the ball it came to me, I went with it, it went in and I got hicky." The goal energized both teams, as Viewmont celebrated and Mountain View upped their intensity. A physical game got even rougher, and more players got banged up in the process. At one point, action had to be halted again when a player from each team went down after af-ter the two knocked heads with a thud so loud it could be heard on the sidelines. Prephally I NEWS AND NOTES FROM AREA ATHLETES Softball TIMPANOGOS - Pitcher AM Bramwn recorded 27 strikeouts in me first two rounds of the 5A state playoffs last week, against Brighton and Kearns, respectively She then added 10 more in a 4-2 victory vic-tory over Layton in the semifinals on Tuesday. Track OREM GIRLS The Tigers scored 110 points to capture the 4A state title. Timpview finished second at the meet held on Friday and Saturday at BYU. - . MOUNTAIN VIEW BOYS - The Bruins brought home the SA state title, beating out Viewmont (78.5 points to 71 points) on Friday and Saturday at BYU. Tennis OREM - A J. Young, a junior, won a three-set thriller, falling in a second-set tiebreaker, but coming back to be victorious in the deciding-set tiebreaker. The win came against friend and training mate Jason Johnson of Ttmpview. Contact u$: you have any information for Prep Rally or to nominate someone for the spotlight, send an e-mail to bbeatonheraldextra com or call 756-7669. 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The end result was a 6-2, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (5) victory for Young at LAerty Park. "We know each other extremely ex-tremely well, since we've many times." Young said, i Going into the tournament, ; some thought the Timpv iew team was a shoo-in to easily win its sixth state tile h the last eight years. While the Thun-derbirds Thun-derbirds ultimately did collect the championship, it wasn't that simple. The TBirds placed had two singles players and a doubles team in finals, but Timpview coach Rob Sperry knew it would be a struggle to come out on top, "I've been around tennis long enough to know that anything can happen,' he said, "A lot of people thought it would be easy for us. but I knew it wouldn't." The Thunderbirds totaled 18 points to edge Highland, which collected 16 points. Cottonwood was third (10), while Orem and Box Elder tied for fourth with nine points. The deciding match turned out to be the No. 1 doubles final which pitted Skylar Evans and Cad Larson of Timpview against West 's Nick Ermarth and John BurreH The freshmen duo from Timpview won in straight sets, 6-1.64 "It's amazing," Evans said. "It feels so good After the match. Larson spoke both of the significance 5.Ti VV.V,i'2i ! - .r '-rc -" fv MATT SMITH Norm County Orem's AJ. Young outdueled Timpview's Jason Johnson to win the No. I singles title at the 4A tournament last week. of their match and also of the weight on their young shoulders. shoul-ders. "We knew both of the matches were close," he said, referring to the No. 1 singles final and the No. 2 singles final between Timpview's Tanner Perry and Box Elder's Jordan Barlow. "A lot of the pressure (of w inning) is gone now." Sperry had high praise for Larson and Evans. "We call them the 'fab freshmen.' fresh-men.' " he said, "Tennis what a great sport that someone any size, any shape can compete if they work hard enough." And Sperry also had kind words for Perry (who fefl 5-7. 26 in No. 2 singles) and the rest of his squad. "It's not an individual thing; it's a team effort." he said. After Young whose game features powerful ground-strokes ground-strokes and a consistently accurate accu-rate backhand djminated the first set, 6-2, Johnson stuck to his game plan, which is a grind-it grind-it -out style. Johnson who was a semtfi-nalist semtfi-nalist in last year's state tournament tourna-ment continued to play long volleys and waited for Young to make errors. The strategy worked in the second set. which he won in a tiebreaker. 7-1. The third set was a classic. wfih Johnson taking a S4 lead and earning a match point. But Young, who lost in the quarterfinals quarter-finals last season, escaped and ended up winning that game and the next to take a 6-5 advantage. Now it was Johnson's turn, and he prevailed in a marathon game to tie the set at 6-6 and force a tiebreaker. It looked like Young would run away with it, as he took a 6-2 6-2 lead. But Johnson countered by winning the next three points, before Young closed out the match and clinched the state title when Johnson hit the baD wide. After the match of the day, an emotional Johnson was the epitome of class, even in a loss. "I expected it to be close because be-cause we know each other so wefl," said the senior. "I think it makes t a lot more exciting.' I Chris Peterson can be reached at cpetersonfitheraliextra.com. 4A State Tennis Results Saturday from the finaJ day of the Class 4A state tennis tournament at liberty Park in Salt Lake Oty. No. 1 singles: Semifinals, AJ. Young (Orem) def. Brad Weaver Weav-er (West), 6-L 6-1; Jason John son (Timpview) def. Mkhael Hughes (Woods Cross), 6-L 60. Final, Young (O) def. Johnson (T). 6-2, 6-7(1). 7-6 (5). No. 2 singles: Semifinals, Tanner Perry (Timpview) def, Daniel Lauro (Cottonwood), 4-6, 60, 6-3; Sutton Shakelford (Highland) def. Jordan Barlow (Box Elder). 2-6, 6-1, 60. Final Barlow (BE) def. Perry (T), 7-5. 6-2. No. i singles: Semifinals, Shawn Jones (Cottonwood) def. Adam Frederico (Timpview), OS, 6-3, 6-1; Tommy Behnke (Highland) def. James Collier (Bountiful), 7-6 (4), 6-3. Final Behnke (H) def. Jones (Q, 1-6, 6-2. 6-L No. 1 doubles: Semifinals, Skylar Evans-Cal Larson (Timpview) def. Colt on Brady-Zac Brady-Zac Robins (East), 6-1, 6-2; Nick Ermarth-John BurreD (West) def. Jar on Meyer-Chase Jeppsen (BE), 5-7, 64, 6-2. Final Evans-Larson Evans-Larson (T) def. Ermarth-Burrefl (W), 6-L 64. No. 2 doubles: Semifinals. Nick Vierig-Connor Richards (Cottonwood) def. Brett Bahme-Jeff Bahme-Jeff Gaufin (Timpview), 64, 60; Travis Tucker-Michael Thor-nock Thor-nock (Highland) def. Robbie Rasmussen-Alex Benin (Bountiful), (Boun-tiful), 6-2, 64. Final Tucker -Thornock (H) def. Vierig -Richards (Q. 6-2, 7-6 (4). T. '4 ' " lQQR |