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Show Thursday, May 3, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 11 Spring sports races going down to the wire Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY Just how tight is the Region 4 baseball race? Earlier this year Spanish Fork pitcher Brock Duke said the a 64 record might win the region. He could be right. Going into Tuesday's games, five of the region's six teams were within one game of each other with American Fork only two games ahead in first place. Timpanogos went into Tuesday's Tues-day's game against Mountain View with the possibility of being be-ing second in region with a win, or last in region with a loss. After Tuesday's games which were won by Timpanogos, Spanish Fork and Lone Peak, four teams remain within a game of each other with only three games separating the first (American Fork) and last place (Mountain View) teams. The region is so tightly packed that even the last place Bruins could feasibly be in first with only a few breaks. They lost a game to American Fork on a diving play. They gave up five runs to Lone Peak in the first inning only to outplay the Knights for the game's other six innings, and they squandered a late lead against Spanish Fork. If Mountain View could undo three innings this year, they would be in first place. Tiger baseball team edges past Springville, 8 Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY "Good pitching and timely hitting." Was how Orem coach Gary Miner described his team's 8-7 win over Springville on Tuesday. The good pitching came primarily from Nate Adamson who pitched the game's first six innings. The Red Devils' Ben Doxey hit a home run in the first inning, but Adamson held the powerful Springville offense scoreless until the fourth inning. "Springville's just been hitting hit-ting the heck out of the ball lately, but Nate Adamson kept them off balance," Miner said. The timely hitting came from several sources. In the third inning, Brentley Petersen Pe-tersen and Brandon Peterson each had clutch twoout RBI singles. Two innings later it was Goose Kallunki coming up with the big hit when drove in two runs with a two-out double. The clutch hits helped the Tigers open up a 7-2 lead going go-ing into the sixth inning but Springville battled back, scoring scor-ing three runs on six hits. The Red Devils then tied things up in the top of the seventh. In the bottom of the seventh, sev-enth, Orem kept the hits coming, but this time they did the damage with nobody out. Peterson and Morgan singled to lead off the inning. Jordan Sargent walked to load the bases. Strong then walked WANTED) WATER, WELL RIGHTS & IRRIGATION. Call Ross at 642-0119 FAMILY FRIENDLY RADIO FOR UTAH VALLEY AM RADIO Me Key 1450 rran- J UWlLlt u Web Site: www.keyy.com E-Mail: mailkeyy.com Complete program schedule and listener comment opportunity on our web site or phone us for a copy of our schedule! - KEYY will not add your name to any mailing lists. Steven A. 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PROGRAMAS Y MUSICA PARA LA FAMILIA Los Sabados De Las 12:00 A Las 5:00 p.m. Standings through 502 Baseball Softball Boys soccer Region 4 Region 4 Region 4 School Region Overall School Region Overal School Region Overall American Fork 5-2 12-4-2 Spanish Fork 8 0 17-2 Mountain View 6-1-0 9-3-1 Spanish Fork 4-3 14-5 Timpanogos 6-2 10-8 Lone Peak 5-1-1 9-1-3 Timpanogos 4-3 13-4 Pleasant Grove 5-3 6-11 Timpanogos 2-2-3 4-4-4 Pleasant Grave 3-4 14-5 Lone Peak 3-5 7-13 Spanish Fork 2-3-2 3-8 2 Lone Peak 3-4 11-8 AmencanFork 1-7 8-11 Amencan Fork 2-4-1 3-6-2 Mountain View 2-5 12-7 MountainView 1-7 5-13 Pleasant Grove 0-6-1 0-10-2 Region 7 Region 7 Region 7 School Region Overal School Region Overall School Region Overall Spnngville 9-3 11-9 Spnngville 7-0 15-4 Orem 6-1-0 9-21 Lehi 9-3 13-6 Lehi 7-1 15-3 Provo 6-1 0 8 4 1 Orem 7-5 10-9 Payson 5-3 10-10 Timpview 4-3-0 8-5-0 Provo 7-5 7-12 Orem 2-6 5-12 Lehi 3-4-0 3-8-2 Payson 3-9 4-14 Timpview 2-6 4-14 Spnngville 1-6-0 5-7-1 Timpview 1-11 3-16 Provo 0-7 1-14 Payson 1-6-0 3-9-1 If Timpanogos could have scored Taylor Lyons from third with no outs in their loss to Spanish Fork, they would be in a tie for first place. These are just two scenarios that could have dramatically altered the picture, and every team has similar cases that could be made. Although the parity of Utah County teams is most apparent in Region 4 baseball, it can also be seen in every other sport with the exception of softball (where Spanish Fork, SpringviDe and Lehi have separated themselves). In almost every sport, the region title will come down to the final week of competition. In Region 4 soccer, the champion cham-pion will likely be determined by the winner of the Lone Peak at Mountain View game. In Region 7 soccer, Provo with the bases loaded to give the Tigers a big Region 7 win. In addition to the pitching and hitting, the Orem defense was also solid as the Tigers didn't make any errors. The defensive de-fensive performance was highlighted high-lighted by a perfectly executed first and third situation in which Jordan Johnston prevented the runner at first from advancing while throwing out the Springville Spring-ville runner who tried to score. The play gave the Tigers a big out in a crucial situation. I Provo 6, Orem 5: At Orem, Josh Beasley and Colin Big-elow Big-elow took care of business. Aside from being Provo's pitching and catching combination, combina-tion, Beasley hit his fifth home run of the season and had four RBI and Bigelow earned his third win for Provo (7-11, 74). Orem fell to 9-9, 6-5. Orem 15, Payson 8: At Payson, Orem exploded for seven runs in the second inning to take a 9-2 lead and never looked back as Payson committed eight errors. er-rors. Orem (9-8, 64) will face Provo Pro-vo at home on Friday. Payson is now 4-13, 2-8. Softball I Lehi 4, Orem 0: At Lehi, the Orem softball team had no answer an-swer for Lehi's Ariel Zimmerman Zimmer-man on Tuesday, as the freshman fresh-man ace pitched a no-hitter 24 HOURS A DAY to life is Jesus Christ and Orem still have a shot at the title. Orem showed that even Region 7 baseball has a great deal of parity with its win over Springville. Regardless of personal viewpoints view-points on whether or not parity is a good thing in sports, the parity this year will spell some exciting moments in the final weeks of region play. Next week should be particularly particu-larly exciting as there are three matchups that could potentially feature first place teams playing play-ing second place teams. Here's a look ahead at the top games of the upcoming week: Monday, May 7 BASEBALL I American Fork at Timpanogos, 4 p.m. Coming into the season, few through five innings, recording eight strikeouts and helping to preserve the 4-0 Region 7 victory vic-tory over Orem. The win keeps Lehi within a game of Springville in the region re-gion seven title race. "She pitched very well, eight Ks pretty much speaks for itself, she also had a very good day at the plate," said Lehi coach Leslee Warr. To go along with Zimmerman's Zimmer-man's great pitching performance, perfor-mance, she also scored two of her team's four runs and added a stolen base. Lehi wasted no time taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. After two quick outs, Megan Zimmerman started a twoout rally with a base hit, which was followed promptly by another base hit from little sister Ariel. With Zimmermans on first and second, sec-ond, Jessica Anderson came to the plate and hit a towering pop fly to right field that looked to .WHiVWINIHfiTOl HOW -ifims3$$i 0j3sW7! ll jam- Won't Peel, Crack or Warp Outperforms Ml Drop-In Liners Great for Boats, Trailers. RV's, Jeeps eta Helps Koop your Gear from Sliding would have expected these two teams to be battling for the region re-gion title, but here they are. A sweep by either team will put the winner in prime position for the number 1 seed going into the playoffs. The first game of the series Monday will be particularly important for the T'Wolves as A.F. ace Taylor Mangum likely awaits for Wednesday's game. Tuesday, May 8 SOCCER . I Lone Peak at Mountain View, 4 p.m. The rematch of Lone Peak's 1-0 home win will likely determine deter-mine the region champion. If both teams win their games leading up to the huge contest, Mountain View will remain in first with a win or a tie. However, How-ever, a Lone Peak win would put them all alone in first place. The Bruins are getting a huge boost with the return of all-state midfielder Dust in Graham. I Provo at Orem, 4 p.m. Like the Bruins, the Tigers will have a chance to avenge their lone region loss. With Timpview two games back, the winner of this contest will likely like-ly be the Region 7 champion. Orem really needs a win because be-cause if they tie, the tiebreaker would go to the Bulldogs by virtue vir-tue of their 2-0 win on April 17. be a routine play. But the high wind had other plans, as right-fielder right-fielder Mata Pope watched the ball sail just over her head. That scored Lehi's first two runs. Orem then turned on the defense, keeping Lehi's offense of-fense scoreless for the next four innings. But the Pioneers struck again in the bottom of sixth inning, and once again it was Megan Zimmerman starting start-ing things off with her second single of the day. After a wild pitch moved Megan to second, Orem pitcher Meghan Mullen got Ariel Zimmerman Zim-merman on a swinging strike three. But the ball bounced away from the"catche and Arid made it to first. A stolen base and a wild pitch later, the Zimmerman sisters were in scoring position, and they eventually scored. Orem (4-12, 2-6) didn't go , down quietly. In the top of the seventh inning, the Tigers loaded load-ed the bases behind singles by Jessica Saliby and Pope. With WARRANTY! " PERMANENTUr PROTECTS AGAINST RUST AND CORROSION Resists Abrasion, even under Heavy Use Not a Paint -tike Coating. . . Sprays On up to 14" Thick All Colors Available Linings Bruin softball team tops Lone Peak Russ Lyman NORIH COUNTY After allowing 26 runs the last time they played Lone Peak in a 26-22 loss, Mountain View's softball pitchers had a big challenge ahead of them. They were up for it. The Bruins used the pitching pitch-ing combination of Erika Nielsen and Erica Blake to stymie the Knight bats in their 9-1 win on Tuesday. The tandem only got better in difficult situations. Twice Mountain View battled its way out of bases loaded no out situations en route to its first region victory of the season. "It's a long time in coming com-ing but it feels good," said Mountain View coach Mack Fieldsted. "We haven't played a really good game in a while. It felt good to go out an play well. I guess it was our day for the breaks to go our way finally." Not only was the solid pitching pitch-ing crucial to keeping Lone Peak's bats off balance, but it also helped the Bruin defense. "The first time we went through the region games we gave up a lot of runs because we couldn't throw strikes," Fieldsted said. "When you're not throwing strikes your defense gets back on its heels. There just wasn't any rhythm to the games, but today there was and the defense played well." - 7; Soccer team wins the tying run at the plate, however, how-ever, American Fork got a fly ball to end the game. I John Boyd filed this report. I Springville 10, Orem 0: At Springville, Sarah Clark pitched the win for the Devils in a five-inning game that ended early due to the 10-run rule. Red Devil catcher Amber Martin hit the two-run home run to end the game. 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Just go to www.hclpyourcommunity.org or call 1-877 KIDS 31 3 to contact a community coalition in your area. They'll tell you exactly how your group can help. You'll be surprised at what you have to offer. And how much you can accomplish. YOU GET MORE WHEN Office o' Notional Drug Control Polity With the pitching and defense de-fense under control, Mountain View just needed a few runs and got much more behind Hailey Bradshaw's big day. Bradshaw had a double, a triple tri-ple and four RBI in the game. Soccer t Mountain View 1, American Fork 0: At American Fork, Jake Parkinson scored in the 27th minute and backup goalie Clayton Byington had his third straight shutout as the Bruins blanked American Fork on Tuesday. I Mountain View 1, Pleasant Grove 0: At Orem, Mike Moreno More-no got the lone goal of the game as he took a nice feed from Dust in Graham and shot a low, left -footed strike that beat the Pleasant Grove keeper keep-er on the far post last Thursday. Thurs-day. Backup goalie Clayton Byington got the shutout for the Bruins. Graham had been out for the previous five games due to injury, i Baseball I Mountain View 4, Lone Peak 1: At Orem, Cam Schmidt went the distance, pitching all seven innings for the Bruins in a pitchers' duel against Lone Peak. All of Mountain View's runs were unearned. Soccer I Orem 4, Payson 0: At Payson, Ryan Reese scored in the first half for Orem, and the Tigers netted three more in the second. Jake Balser knocked in two goals, one three minutes into the half and another 25 minutes in. Brad Howard wrapped up the scoring by picking up a loose ball in the Payson goalbox and poking it into the net. Cameron Cam-eron Clark had the shutout. Bruce Henriksen, Pl.M mm YOU GET TOGETHER Copy |