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Show o Thursday, February 22. 2007 0 R E M TIME Page 9 Prep SCOREBOARD Boys basketball Results Orem 66. Springvtlte 55 Timpanogos 66. Mountain View 34 Lone Peak 87. Timpanogos 52 Spanish Fork 77. Timpanogos 62 Lone Peak 65. Mountain View 40 Pleasant Grove 64. Timpanogos 51 Scoring leaders Skyler Haltord. Timpanogos 1 8 7 Taylor Russell. Mountain View 14 8 Hoiden Jasper. Mountain View 1 4 4 Timo Valimaki, Orem 12 8 Daniel Hockersmith. Orem 12 6 Mike Hall. Orem 10 8 Nate Henshaw, Timpanogos 9.9 Ryan Clark, Timpanogos 9 5 Colton Willman. Timpanogos 7 6 Girls basketball Results Timpanogos 52, Kearns 49 Orem 56, East 32 Scoring leaders Call Nelson, Timpanogos, Jessica Sali by. Orem Amy Wertzeil. Timpanogos Jaimie Strostune. Mountain View Jamie Sagers. Orem Megan Bishop, Timpanogos Oelyse Downey, Orem Natasha Martin, Orem Bnanne Larsen. Orem Chelsea Tressler, Mountain View Jennifer Nielsen. Timpanogos Alyssa Olsen, Mountain View Upcoming schedule Girls basketball 4A state tournament At Salt Lake Community College Orem vs Bountiful. 4 10 p.m. 5A state tournament At UVSCSLCC Timpanogos vs. TBA Boys basketball 4A state tournament At Weber State University Monday, Feb. 26 Orem vs. TBA 134 123 117 10.9 105 10.4 10.4 10.2 9.2 82 Basketball standings Reported results to 220 Boys REGION 4 FINAL REGULAR SEASON School Region record Overall record Lone Peak 9-1 20-1 Spanish Fork 7-3 13-7 Pleasant Grove 6-4 16-5 Amencan Fork 5-5 14-7 Timpanogos 3-7 9-10 Mountain View 0-10 1-20 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Payson 7-2 14-6 Orem 6-3 11-9 Provo 6-3 10-9 Timpview 4-5 12-8 Lehi 3-6 9-12 Spnngville 1-8 7-13 Girls FINAL REGULAR SEASON REGION 4 School Region record Overall record Lone Peak 10-0 15-6 Timpanogos 7-3 10-10 American Fork 5-5 15-6 Pleasant Grove 4-6 9-12 Mountain View 3-7 3-17 Spanish Fork 1-9 4-17 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Orem 9-1 16-5 Timpview 7-3 10-9 Provo 6-4 14-6 Payson 3-7 9-12 Lehi 3-7 7-13 Spnngville 2-8 3-18 T'Wolf girls earn first-ever Neil K. Warner NORTH COUNTY After scoring as many points in the first half as Kearns' entire team, Timpanogos' Cali Nelson was held scoreless in the third quarter as Kearns erased a 17-point deficit to take the lead. Relax people. Nelson had it under un-der control. Nelson came back to score 11 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter, including includ-ing two free throws with a second left in the game, to help Timpanogos beat Kearns 5249 on Tuesday afternoon in the first round of the state 5A basketball tournament at the McKay Events Center. "Mentally sometimes she ll have little lapses; she'll be the first one to say that," said Timpanogos coach Liz Darger. "But when we need her to be big, she's been big. I've said this all year, she changes the game. We needed her and I was glad she was able to step up." Timpanogos was on the verge of blowing out Kearns. Megan Bishop scored 10 of her 17 points in the first half and defensively the T'Wolves held Kearns scoreless for the final 4:29 of the second quarter. quar-ter. When Nelson stole the ball and pulled up and sank a 21-foot 21-foot 3-pointer as time expired, Timpanogos had a 29-12 lead at the half. But the third quarter was all Kearns, as the Cougars outscored the T'Wolves 23-7. Led by Rachelle Tialavea's 11 WANTED WATER, WELL RIGHTS & IRRIGATION. Call Ross at 642-0119 Four-point possessions lift Tigers past Red Devils Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY It doesn't take a mathematician mathemati-cian to figure out the equation 432. For Orem, that turned out to be the winning formula Friday night in Springville as, behind the momentum created by two four-point possessions, the Tigers downed the Red Devils 66-55. "It changed the whole game," said rewind Orem coach Mike Conner. "We had two of those in a thirty-second stretch, they were huge." Orem took a 10-point lead into the half, but Springville employed a full-court press to help it come storming back early in the third quarter with a 12-4 run. With the score 37-35 in favor of the Tigers, Jordan Egbert drove, hit a layup and was was given a free-throw. Eggbert missed the free throw, but Goose Kallunki tipped the ball to Mike Hall for the rebound. Hall then kissed a jumper off the glass to complete the possession. pos-session. Moments later, Daniel Hockersmith drove in for a layup-and-one. He, too, missed the free throw, but once again Kallunki was there to tip the ball to Egbert. Egbert then returned the ball to Hockersmith who hit an eight-foot jumper. The exchange put Orem ahead 43-35. "I thought they were both very huge, it was after a Springville run," Hockersmith said. "We hit those, calmed things down and got things back on our side. We just took the momentum from there." The fact that almost every player on the floor played a role in the Tigers' 8-0 run was indicative of the rest of the game which showcased a complete com-plete team effort. "I liked how unselfish we were playing," Conner said. Orem had a season-high 19 assists, led by Hockersmith who had eight. The Tiger point guard seemed to be able to penetrate the Springville defense at will, then he would points in the quarter, including three 3-pointers, Kearns cut the lead to 36-35 by the end of the quarter and took a 37-36 37-36 lead when Brooke Larsen scored with 6:30 left in the game. "We've had a hard time stringing together four good quarters all year and they started shooting shoot-ing the ball well. They hit a couple of 3s, got some momentum and kind of scared us a little bit," Darger said. "Kearns had a lot of fans here; it was an unfamiliar court and their press got a steal or two. And before we knew it, it was a 3-point game. But I'm proud of our girls and how they held it together." After a scoreless third quarter, quar-ter, Nelson came alive again in the final six minutes of the game. Amy Weitzeil made the first of two free throws. She missed the second one, but Nelson grabbed the rebound and scored to put Timpanogos up 39-37. Nelson followed with a steal and a layup to push the lead to four with 5:40 to play. Kearns kept it close. Larsen scored again for the Cougars Cou-gars and, after a series of Timpanogos turnovers, Kearns Ke-arns had a chance to take the lead, but missed the front ends of back-to-back one-and-ones. Bishop followed with a steal and two free throws, and after Larsen scored again, Nelson scored six straight points to give the T'Wolves a 4943 lead with a minute to play. dish off to open teammates for easy buckets. "Daniel was terrific," Conner said. "I don't know how many layups we got cause he broke the defense down." With Hockersmith making the fancy plays, it was up to Hall to contribute with outstanding out-standing defense. In the first half, Hall took a pair of charges, blocked a shot, got a steal, and came away with several offensive of-fensive rebounds to help the Tigers open up a 10-point lead. In the second half, Hall put an exclamation point on Orem's win with an emphatic block of Preston Eaton late in the game. Hall finished with seven points and eight rebounds. re-bounds. "He's a great defender," Conner said. "He is a terrific defender, he's always good for us." Although Hall's defense stood out, the Tigers as a whole played excellent team defense. Orem went into the game with a gameplan that focused on stopping Eaton, the Red Devils' scoring machine who finished with 23 points and five assists. "Even though Eaton probably prob-ably had 20-something, he had to work really hard to get those points," Conner said. "We just tried to stop dribble penetration and make them play defense." The team effort was also portrayed by the fact that five players scored more than seven points for the Tigers. Orem was led by Goose Kallunki's 16 points. Hockersmith Hocker-smith and Timo Valimaki had 14 apiece. Springville repeatedly fought back to get into the game, but its efforts weren't ever enough. Even after Orem took a 10-point lead in the third quarter, the Red Devils closed their deficit to four points in the fourth quarter. "They got kids that can score," Conner said. "You're tourney win It almost wasn't enough. After Jennifer Nielsen made l-of-2 free throws with 13 seconds remaining, Tiala-vea, Tiala-vea, who led Kearns with 24 points, hit her fifth 3-pointer of the game with six seconds left. Instead of calling timeout, Timpanogos inbounded the ball, and by the time Nelson was fouled with six -tenths of a second left, Kearns had no chance. Nelson made both free throws to cap off a sensational game. "This was the first state win in Timpanogos girls basketball history," Darger added. "We feel like that monkey's off our back and we can go out and play ball." Boys basketball I Friday, Feb. 16 Spanish Fork 77, Timpanogos 62: At Spanish Fork, in a game ridden rid-den with fouls, Spanish Fork accomplished a feat Friday night that not many teams in the state can say they have ever done. The Dons made more shots from the free throw line (40) than they attempted field goals (36). Spanish Fork's phenomenal night from the charity stripe, combined with five players finishing in double figures, propelled the Dons to a hard-fought hard-fought 77-62 Region 4 victory over Timpanogos. Both teams started the game playing hard-nosed, physical defense, which had the two men in stripes blowing blow-ing their whistles early and often. See T'WOLVES, Page 10 Corrugated Metal Roofing 25C T Wide izes 2' x 8' 2' x 10' 2' x 12' sqft New Water Stain Sold As Is m cL 768-3332 MEiALmart too y.p M .Sato-Noon never comfortable with Eaton and those other kids shooting that ball out there." The game was never fully in hand for the Tigers until they took over down the stretch by holding onto the ball and making mak-ing free throws. The win keeps the Tigers within striking range of Pay-son Pay-son and Provo for the region title, especially after the Bulldogs' Bull-dogs' loss to Timpview. Orem will face off with the Lions on Wednesday for the region title. Valimaki said, "It's big (the win) because now we have a chance to play for a region championship." Girls state 4A basketball I Tuesday, Feb. 20 Orem 56, East 32: At Salt Lake Community Commu-nity College, after watching the other tops seeds struggle at times in their games, the Tigers came out and took care of business against the Leopards in the first round of the Class 4A girls tournament Tuesday. "In every game, you can go home," said Orem head coach Ross Reed. "We played OK, but we missed some free throws and were lethargic at times. We know can play better." bet-ter." East would've been crushed if the Tigers had played at a higher level. Orem jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the opening minutes, only to see the Leopards Leop-ards get back to within one point at 10-9. That was as close as the game would get as Orem went on a 17-3 run and never looked back. Leading the way for the Tigers was senior guard Delyce Downey with 15 points, including three 3-pointers. Three other Orem players finished in double figures. Jamie Ja-mie Sagers scored 14 points, Jessica Saliby finished with 11, and Brianne Larsen added 10 points. The Tigers will now face Bountiful on Thursday at Salt Lake Community College. I Jared Lloyd filed this report. BEKY BEATONNorth County Mountain View's Hoiden Jasper (33) and Josh Curtis guard Lone Peak's Kevin Lindiuist r0) during their Region 4 game. Bruins fall to Vikings, Knights Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY Sometimes in sports surpris ing things can happen but sometimes things go exactly as expected, ex-pected, r' The latter was the case on Friday night as Pleasant Grove took a 64-51 64-51 decision over Mountain View in Region 4 play. The Vikings jumped out to an early 13-6 lead and then coasted the rest of the way to get a relatively easy win. - 30 Gauge Qty. Avail 5000 pes 5000 5000 pes Price Ea. $4.00 $5.00 $6.00 One Time Offer - Buy Before They're Gone A N O H O I I 1200 fait leN.UT NEWS AND 1 NOTES Basketball OREM GIRLS BASKETBALL - After missing the last weeks of the regular season, Natasha Martin returned to action on Tuesday in the first round of the 4A tournament. Martin finished with three points and is averaging 10.2 points per game this season. OREM BOYS BASKETBALL -Tanner Lamb is currently averaging averag-ing 3.3ppg as a freshman, helping Snow College to a 19 7 record TIMPANOGOS BASKETBALL - Timpanogos high graduate Golden Ingle was recently honored hy Kennesaw State University after he scored the 1,000th point of his career for the Owls. Ingle is currently averaging 14.1ppg in his senior season at the school in Northern Georgia. MOUNTAIN VIEW BASKETBALL - Former Bruin Mallary Gillespie was named MWC player of the week for third time this year. Last week she had a career high 31 points against Wyoming and averaged 19.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3 assists in two games. The junior guard is currently averaging 13.2 points per game. BASKETBALL 2006 Mountain View graduate Michelle Harrison has played in all 27 games and is currently averaging 3.6 points per game for No. 9-ranked Stanford. Harrison has helped the Cardinal on its 21 game winning streak. Football OREM FOOTBALL - Orem alum Jamison Fitt has walked onto the BYU football team as a middle mid-dle linebacker. Last season, Fitt played for Snow College where he led the No. 2 ranked Badger's defense. TIMPANOGOS FOOTBALL - Defensive tack le David Kruger recently received scholarship offers from Utah and BYU Soccer TIMPANOGOS GIRLS SOCCER - Two T'Wolves signed letters of intent to play soccer soc-cer in the Mountain West Conference. Stacy Bartholomew was one of only four members of coach Jennifer Rockwood's recruiting class at BYU. Jen Nielsen commited to play for coach Kit Vela at New Mexico. "Hands down this is the deepest most talented group of fresh man to join our program," Vela said. "Nielsen will be an enormous asset to our program and will look forward to competing against her local Utah Universities. She is an incredible athlete who will fit in very well with our aggressive style of attack." Baseball MOUNTAIN VIEW BASEBALL - Mountain View alum and former Yankee Mitch Jones reported to spring training on Tuesday with bis new team, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Contact us: If you have any information for I'rep Rally or to nominate someone for the spotlight, send an e-mail U rlymun(" heruldextru.com. Pleasant Grove was really only threatened once when the Bruins pulled within eight at the start of the second half after Taylor Russell drilled a three. Mountain '-'-'";-- " View didn't stay close for long as the Vikings executed a set play to perfection, resulting in an easy two for Tallon Robertson. "Tallon's our go-to guy for sure. When we need a basket inside, that's the safest place to Your Source For., 7 Ornamental Iron Scroll Patterns " MEiALfnaf 181 South 1200 East lehi FROM AREA ATHLETES go," said Pleasant Grove coach Randy McAllister. "We've got enough guys that can score from the perimeter. When we need a bucket and the game is on the line, Tallon's the guy to go to." 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