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Show Thursday, July 20, 2006 OHEM GENfVA TIMES Page 7 Tennis lessons Orem Recreation is taking registrations for its third session ses-sion of tennis lessons. Lessons Les-sons begin July 31 at Cher-ryhill Cher-ryhill Park, Windsor Park and Cascade Park. This is a three-week three-week session. Registrations are being taken at the Orem Fitness Center 580 W 165 S, or online at wwA.orem.org. For more information call 229-7158. SCOREBOARD Orem Owlz schedule, results OaU Oppommt tim jufte W 0m . Oyden 5 June 21 Ogden 14 Or I jjite ?? Orem 16. UytJeri? June 23 Oydtm 1 (jfein I Junt 24 Orrn 3 Camper 0 June 26 Oiein 13, Uipw J June 26 Orem 3. Casyei 2 June 27 Oyden 3 Ocein 2 Ju'ie 28 Orwn 10, Ogn 1 June 29 Ogden 13 0 4 juiie 30 Oiem 4 OyOen 3 juijr 1 Oiem 2 lOatw falls 1 jlK 2 Ocem 1 lOdiK I alls 1 juiy 3 IQatm lahb 10 Oiem 4 July 4 laaiiij I jus iij Oinm2 July 5 Orem 4 ulaiw falls 2 July 6 Oiem 3 mam fails 0 July 7 " Casoei 10 Orem I July 8 Or 14 Casuer 6 July 10 Oiem 2 Missoula 1 July 11 Missuula 4, Orem 2 July 12 W'ssuula 5 Oiem 4 July 13 Oiem ij Missoula 3 July 14 Orem 4 Helena 3 July 15 Oiem 1 Helena 3 July 16 rjieni 5 Helena 4 July 1 7 Missoula 8 Orem 4 July 18 Missoula 9. Orem 8 July 19 Missoula 7:05 p.m July 20 Helena 7:05 p.m. July 21 Helena 705 p.m July 22 Helena 7.05 p.m. July 23 Helena 4.05 p.m July 24 Cascade 7.05 pm July 25 Cascade 705 p.m July 26 Cascade 7.05 p.m July 27 IdaUo falls 705 p.m July 28 idatw falls 7:05 p.m July 29 Idaho falls 7:05 p m July 31 a Idaho Falls 7:06 p.m August 1 Idaho falls 7:05 p.m. August 2 Casper 7:05 p.m. August 3 Casper 7:05 p m August 4 & Caspei 7.05 p m August 5 ' Oyden 7 05 p.m August 6 & Oyden 4.05 p.m August 7 & Oyden 705 p m August 8 & Oyden 7:05 p.m August 9 Oyden 7.05 p.m August 10 Oyden 7:05 p.m. August 11 idaho falls 7:06 p.m August 12 Idaho falls 7:05 p.m August 13 fdalio falls 4:05 p.m August 14 Idaho falls 70S p.m. August 16 Billings 705 p.m. August 1 7 Billtnys 705 p.m. August 18 i Billings 7:05 p.m August 19 t Biuutys 70S p .m August 20 Great f alls 405 p.m August 21 & Great falls 705 p.m August 22 e Great falls 7:05 p.m. August 2.4 Mings 7:05 p.m August 26 Billings 7 05 p.m August 26 8rlimys 7:05 p.m. August 27 Great falls 4:05 p.m August 28 Great falls 7 05 p.m August 29 Great fans 7 05pm August 30 Gieat falls 705 p.m August 31 e Idaho falls 7:05 p m Sept 1 f Idaho falls 7:06 p.m Sept 2 fdatio falls 7:05 p.m Sept 3 Oyden 4:06 p.m Sept 4 Oyden 7:06 p.m. Sept 6 Casper 705 p m. Sept Casper 705 p.m. Sept 7 Casper 706 p.m. Sept 10-16 Pioneer League PlayoKs Owlz drop pair of NORTH COUNTY $TA After losing 84 to Missoula on Monday, the Osprey's John Hester hit a walkoff homerun in bottom of the the tenth inning in-ning that handed the Owlz a 9-8 ks Tuesday night in Montana. Mon-tana. Owlz couldn't produce anything in the top of the tenth with the score tied at 8 apiece. But in the bottom half of the frame, Hester, facing Owlz reliever Jared IncineUi, hit a 2-2 STEEL....SAVE 00 Tuba Plate Pips Get our Prices First! MEmiJfiarr 768-3332 MAt We OCCept f!P 181 South 1200 EosTlehi s - exilt-)5 77V a Wiffle ball Continued from Page 6 Over the last six years, wtffle ball has turned competitive. What kind of overgrown kids would pay $60 a team to play in a wiffle ball tournament? Meet the DeGraf fenried brothers, Jimmy and Phil. Oddly enough, both of the brot hers made a name f x themselves playing college basketball. bas-ketball. Jimmy played at Weber State and was inducted into the Weber Stale Hall of Fame in February. Phil was a standtxit at Utah Valley State College. They started their own wiffle ball league, complete with stats on pitching and hitting. "Basically, we're just reverting revert-ing back to our cMdhood days," Phil said. "We'd sit around and talk smack to each other. Finally, Final-ly, we took it on the field." Game oa Fliil created a spread sheet to keep track of statistics for their season. While there is some dispute as to who is the all-time leader in home runs and batting average, there is no argument about how much fun they've had playing the game. When they found out about Fast Plastic's tournament, the brothers juniiied at the chance to comjjete against others. The first game we played, we got no hit," Phil said with a laugh. "1 thought, 'Oh man, we're in for a king day,' but we came back and played that same team in the champkxiship game and alnvjst beat them" The DeGraff enrieds, who enlisted en-listed their other brother Bjnes for their team, made a quick adjustment. The Santaquin Sox took a first and two seconds in three tournaments last year. This year they replaced Bones and another player named Greg Gme with Jamon Taylor, a 1994 Payson High School graduate who played fastball and baseball at Dixie State College. Tve only played in one tournament, tour-nament, but it was a lot of fun," Taylor said. "As a hitter, there's a lot to adjust to in getting your timing dowa Some pitches that I saw 1 don't think they were hittable. I just hope they can't throw them for strikes." For those thinking a wiffle ball tournament would resemble a home run derby, not so much. Throwing strikes in a wiffle ball tournament is perhaps the games on road pitch over the left-field fence. It was Hester's second horn" er of the night. His first came in the bottom of the eighth off Felipe Arrendondo, and knotted knot-ted the game at 7-7. Daniel Perales of Missoula also delivered two homers. He hit a three-run shot in the fourth off Owlz starter Sean O'Sullivan, giving Missoula a 4-3. Orem ( 16-12) scored their run in the top of the ninth courtesy of a pair of Missoula errors. 1 V METAL ROOFING & SIDIftGt Uihi Heayy Duty - 26gauge - Span Farther! w mje Galvanized Kgg Brown or White 65 qft - $1.85 lineal LFT 79 tqft - $2.37 lineal LFT l WtO - NO WAIT, IN STOCK , 10', 12, 14'. 6 . 20'. 24 f. 10'. 12 , 14 16 if) 24 Shear Cutting to your Leogtha - Defivery AvsJtaijle 181 SoUti 1200 tad leH JAUDNSCOVE IMMfiMMfMrJ Monday - Wednesday during july pay only $30.00 for 18 t Muoday - WeOwMlar fill Basically, we're just reverting back to our childhood days. We'd sit around and talk smack to each other. Finally we took it on the field." Phil DeGraff enried . ON STARTING A WIFFLE BALL LEAGUE WITH HIS BROTHER JIMMY ( MATT SMITHNorth County Jimmy DeGraff enried grips a wiffle hull while giving a wiffle ball demonstration at Hillman Fields in Payson on Friday morning. single most important key to success. Walks are a killer. You must hit a sign behind the plate about the size of real estate siga If you do it's a strike, if you don't, it's a ball. Talk about pressure. In the last tournament in Provo, Jimmy FJeGraffenried took a one-hitter into the fifth inning of their sernif inals against a team called GJacks. The Santaquin Sox had a 4-1 lead, until fJeGraffetiried walked seven straight batters and, just like that, the Sox were bounced from the tournament with a 54 loss. GJacks won the tournament, the team's second of the season. GJacks is currently ranked fifth in the country. "One of the great things is there are no umpires. The stationary sta-tionary strike zone behind the plate is never wrong," HertJer added. "It's easy to make a wiffle ball move all over, but to Vi 'We have an Extensive Credit Program. We can help with a New or Used car and Reestablish your credit. No Hassle 24 hr. Credit Line. (801)492-1870 Or For Ooe-on One Help Call Jake at 492-0100 DOUG 6 Ml linli Family Owned i Operated 523 W, Main, American Fork, Utah Exit 281 801492-1110 L t fAfjt tij holes including cart ! tMOugti ulr 26h do it whh s)eed and accuracy is sometliing that takes a lot of skill." Skill and wiffle ball? Since when did that ha)en? About the time 1 lertJer began be-gan hosting tournaments. For tliose interested in playing play-ing in the final regular-season tournament on July 29, you can gotowww.fastplastic.net for tournametil uiformation and rules, ljearning many of Die unique rules before playing will lielp your chances. For instance, you can turn a double play, but you must field a ground ball (them are no gloves) in front of the infield line and throw to the second base area, where a player catclies the bail and must liit the backstop with tte throw. lle backstop is eight feel tall by eight feet wide. Ilie strike zone is 23 indies wide and 27 indies high. There are no base runners, liut you can tag up on a fly ball and score if yju have a runner at third, Ixit you must yell "Tag" wlien the ball is in the air, and if there is a rwmur on third and you throw a pitch that goes over or wide of the backstop, tlie run scores on an wild pilch. Perhaps of most interest to the hitters are the fences. Tley are reachable for anyone. 'J be fences range from 95 feet to 1 15 feet. Now all that's missing is the picnic. Actually, players and tlieir families often do make a day of it, complete with food, drinks, a blanket and a lawn chair. In tine breaks between tournament games, they pitch to tlieir kids. They sIkjw them liow to nukl the bat and feed them one pilch after another until a conned ion is made. There it goes. A smile surfaces on a young boy's face and another wiffle ball player is born K fjbJ l A m jl If . I Jbn Missoula Continued from Page i "The odds are in tlie pitcher's pitch-er's favor," Kotchman said. "It 's not so much t he out , it s how you're making tlie out, the swings that at e taken." For the visitors, the second straight narrow victory was a welcome improvement. "They make the game mote fun," Barnette said. " These are the types of games we live lor. It makes it all the more sweet when you're up a run and the closer comes out and shuts them down." leading the way for tlie Owl was Mount, who went 2-SorA with two KBI. Third baseman Shea McFeely paced the Osprey with four singles in four at bats and an KBI. t On Thursday, it was a case of good news and bad news for the Orem Owlz at the Home of the Owlz at UVSC, The good news was that the home team downed the Missoula Mis-soula Osprey 5-3, scoring all five runs in the liorne liall of the second inning Helena Continued from Page ti bunch if right -I landed batters to face." I lelena returned to its previous pre-vious ways, as the Brewers ojiened tlie holtom of the sixth inning an erroi ', then luttuig two Owlz, Tyler Jolmson and H'ttit, before anotlier error allowed Orem to jxjsIi ds lead to 7 2. Chapman continued to Ijeat up in Orem's pitching, giving the Brewers anotlier run with a king KBI triple to cut Orem's lead to 7-3 More Orem's defense de-fense and pitching shut down another Helena rally. Despite a single up the middle mid-dle by I lelena's lioucliie, tlie Owlz managed to dose iul the Brewers in I lie top of Hie ninth for tlie second win of the three game series. Orem faces Helena Uxlay at p.m. at UVSC for Hie final game of the series and tin; final game before tlie Owlz embark on seven game, week long road trip in which Orem will face Missoula and I lelena. "We still left t(jo many on Summer Public Ice Skating Mon & Wd I ! :30 1 :30, 3:30 nA), 7.00 9:00 Fri 1 1:30 I :"50. 130 5:30, 7:00 10.00 Sat 2:00 10:00 Monday Family Night Special Buy 1 admission & get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE!! ' (f Jot valid with any other offer) Ridiculously Cheap Ik'ginuinx Hockey Lessons ONLY The bad news for tlie Owlz had to lie tlie three errors that allowed the Osprey to plate tlieir first two ruas of the game. "I don't know how to cut down iii our errors," said Oiem manager Tom Kotchman. Kotch-man. "Maybe sacrifice a chicken, put lieads (ill our bats, sometliing lias to W(iik. "Our grass here at home is so tluck that it comes at the fielders like a change-up and it makes it hard on the inlield-ers." inlield-ers." In the carousel inning, designated des-ignated hitter Tyler Johnson lead off with the Owlz' fust lut ol the game on a single. After moving up on a balk, he then would score two batters later as third basemen AU'l Nieves lined an KBI single to light -center field. J join tliat xiii it the inning turned to the bizarre wlien Doug Keinhardt hit a grounder ground-er to Missoula third basemen Andrew Tie, who attempted to tag the advancing Nieves. When Tie missed the tag, he attempted to make the play at first, liut threw the ball past the first basemen. base Ixil at tlie end ol (he year tlie only thing lliat matteis is ii fl was a 'W' and we've only been live games over .!j)0 once tliis year," said Kotclmian. "We're trying to get tlie momentum for tlus next road trip." I A rare Sunday afternoon baseball game produuJ the typical Orem result, a 54 win against Helena, as tlie Owlz rallied late to gH good f'lings right lxf(jie vent tiling by bus on a seven game load swing through Montana. JVIer Bout jis delivered a tw(Hiiit triple in the seventh lliat scored (lie de( isive two runs. It was the fourth time Orem liad made relevant at-batsout at-batsout (if decisively pitdter'f, counts. Ikiurjos stniked a 0-2 pitch, just as a few teammates had done in key situations. 'Ibe Brewers nearly liad enough c(iol to persevere. Tliey put two runners on in each of the final two innings. But a pair of H -fii pitdiers who are no strangers to sweltering summers sum-mers T'loridians Aaron Giok and Ditrren O'Day - w(iuld never melt. $20 wvw.heralJelra.cxn yelWpages OPY i i i 1 '-"Hiliiliiiliiil iimim-.i.-:---, -- |