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Show Thursday, April 5, 2007 Page 8 0 R E M TIMES Sports 3&ec Brainns Mountain View names new head football coach Russ Lyman Mountain View's search for a new head football coach has come to an end with the school's announcement of the hiring of Teko Johnson. Johnson's diverse hack-ground hack-ground has given him unique experiences that have contributed con-tributed to his vision of how to build up I he program at Mountain View. "A head coach certainly has a responsibility to be a leader, and establish a program pro-gram that the kids buy into," he said. "I've been able to work and play the game in a lot of places. I've been able lo take a little bit from where I've been, and I think that lias helped me and will continue to help me." Coach Johnson's diverse background includes graduating gradu-ating from West High School in Salt Lake City. He then moved on to play offensive line for Snow College, then lurdue University. His coaching career started start-ed at Jefferson High School in Indiana I le then went on to coach defense at Tooele High and llillcrest High. Johnson's career as a head coach began at Oneonta High in New York where he tinned I he program around and led them to an undefeated undefeat-ed regular season. Coach Johnson's most re- r?a n nn mm neir mm " t?W Lone Peak edges past T'Wolves in OT contest i i . km. 7w t m 5 & ' --: It I BRENDA MANOOKINNorth County Mountain View football players practice at Mountuin View High School in Orem on Aug. 8, 2006. This year, the Bruins will he led by Teko Johnson, who was numed the team's head coach. cent coaching stint was at Northampton High in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania where he went .'51-18 over three years, after the school had gone only 7-2H in the three seasons before his arrival. Although Northampton Northamp-ton was the favorite to win the district title this year, Johnson felt that the oppor- (unity to coach at Mountain View was loo good to pass up. "Any time you go to something some-thing new it's exciting," he said. Johnson plans to employ the same techniques that he has used elsewhere to turn around the Bruin program. "Anywhere that I've been, the goals are always the same to get yourself to achieve as much success as possible," he said. "My ambition ambi-tion is to compete for region championships but we're going to take it one step at a time, and walk before we run. We want to have as much fun as possible, learn as much as possible, and get the kids excited about football. foot-ball. Sometimes a program just needs someone from the outside who doesn't have any preconceived notions." Johnson also believes that his teaching background in special education has helped his ability to communicate with his players. "One of the things we do with that (special education) educa-tion) is focus on the positive things," Johnson said. "By doing that you can develop an atmosphere where talking talk-ing about winning and competing becomes second nature. It's important to develop the mentality that they're going to win, they deserve to win." -""ifj! , ifl .000 LENDER INCENTIVE J iJLVA I i I h ON ANY SPEC HOMES or CUSTOM BUILD HOMES DURING THE MONTH OF MARCH Knn McKINLEY Augur GOLDBERG 3i 'lL 1 TrTttS"t?1' ' I VjL 801.755.9333 801 .556.4648 (T 'I'JlUtiiU rJf 1 1 QfjdfHtf'Yp ' t Mfjt I f TRAVERSE MOUNTAIN - -V lKVi- BUILDER PAVS YOUR FIRST 6 0 WSgjSW W " " ' MONTHS PAYMENTS! " Selling your Condo? 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But a good pass here, another there, still another back to the middle, and the Knight attack rolled forward gathering momentum. mo-mentum. More black-clad players play-ers advanced, sweeping down the field like an avalanche. It felt almost inevitable as the tide rolled toward the goal. Senior midfielder Steve Wilson made the final pass and senior forward James Sullivan slid the ball low and hard into the net to give Lone Peak the 1-0 overtime over-time win over Timpanogos on the road. "We got the counterattack and we had seven players on the offensive," said Knight head coach Dave Woolley. "Our guys were tired but they ASHLEY FRANSCELLNorth County Timpanogos' Jordan Hightower, left, and Lone Peak's Brian Madsen both leap for a ball t during a game at Timpanogos High School on Tuesday. did a nice job of one-touching passes through the midfield." It was a surprisingly smooth and precise finish to a scrappy, hard-fought contest that saw few scoring opportunities for either side. Timberwolf senior keeper Christian Ledek and his Lone Peak counterpart sophomore See SOCCER, Page 10 Region 4 baseball better than expected Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here as Region 4 baseball play begins on Tuesday when Mountain View hosts American Fork, and Timpanogos visits Spanish Fork. Coming into the season, it was widely agreed that Region 4 was once again the best region re-gion in the state. However, no one could have imagined it was going to be this good. In the first 56 games, the region is a combined 47-7-2, with two of the losses coming at the hands of other region foes in tight games. Spanish Fork narrowly defeated Mountain View, and Pleasant Grove took a 4-3 decision deci-sion over American Fork in an eight -inning game. A closer look at some of the losses paints an even clearer picture of the region's quality. qual-ity. Pleasant Grove's lone loss came after it had opened up a nine-run lead against Mountain Crest. Due to the fact that the temperature on the field was approaching 100 degrees, and because the Vikings played the rival Cavemen in the next contest, con-test, they removed their starters. start-ers. The loss to Mountain Crest should be counted against the JV team's record, and not the varsity's. American Fork's only loss was to Pleasant Grove. In that game, the Cavemen threw a pair of sophomores and a freshman and held the vaunted Viking offense to merely four runs with an arsenal of off-speed off-speed pitches. 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