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Show Thursday, May 17, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 9 COMMUNITY SPORTS. PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN Lopez leads T'Wolves to first-round win Russ Lyman DAILY HERALD Only two batters into the game, Weber's Taylor Shaw sent a 400 ft. message that he and his team came to play. Four innings later, it was Timpanogos' Bret Lopez who was sending a long distance memo in the T'Wolves' 4-2 win on Tuesday in Orem. With Timpanogos trailing 2-1 and struggling to find its offense against Warrior starter start-er Troy Bond, Lopez came to the plate with two outs and Jordan Cooper on second. After Af-ter taking a first pitch strike, Lopez blasted a curveball over the fence in left -center field to transform a one-run deficit into a one-run T'Wolf lead. "He threw a curve and I was ready for it," Lopez said. "I threw my barrel down and got it, got all of it." After Mitch Foster ripped a 2-out RBI single to score Nash Fowler in the bottom of the sixth to increase the lead to 4-2, the T'Wolves once again found themselves facing a threat from the fiesty Warriors. Weber opened the top of the seventh with a pair of singles to put runners on first and second with no outs. Reliever Gentry Croft struck out Steve Hilliard on a 3-2 pitch to get the first out. Croft then handed Cole Abbott Ab-bott his third strikeout of the day, and Mitch Foster ended the game by throwing Kyle Oborn out at third on a stolen base attempt. "The big pitch in the game was the first strikeout (in the seventh). His body language changed a little bit, you could just tell it gave him a little more confidence," Nelson said. "It (Croft's fastball) had a little more pop on it the next couple of hitters." Croft added, "The first strikeout was big 'cause it gave me my confidence back. It was all downhill from there." Croft's seventh inning punchouts capped off an excellent ex-cellent day for Timpanogos pitchers. Fowler started the game and accumulated eight strikeouts in six innings while allowing only two runs. Fowler induced a 4-6-3 double play in the top of the fifth to escape a first and third situation with one out. See BASEBALL, Page 11 Many Levels of 1 afflltrmfflFfllTil'Tl m Si nn 9 YOUR E Ml 1 i Traditional Pine Furniture Details for the Home 1 01 mmmmmmmmm- if HFRITAG Doing just enough $0r . Mountain View's Scott Carlson dribbles the ball downfield during against Bingham on Tuesday at Orem. 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MANAGEMENT, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS LIVE LOCALLY and understand the needs of local policy holders! LENDER INSURANCE INC. jggiSSS 382 West Center, Orem Sfcik izna . Now Auditions will be held on May 17-18. accepting Contact the studio for more details, new 0 r i I ie Summer classes start June 11th. Photo by Scott Hancock Bruins struggle, but advance to second round in 5A tournament Jared Lloyd DAILY HERALD The players on the Mountain Moun-tain View boys soccer team certainly didn't do everything that head coach Mark Graham Gra-ham wanted them to in their first-round matchup against Bingham in the 5A state playoffs play-offs on Tuesday. They didn't finish opportunities, oppor-tunities, they didn't close out on attackers strongly, they didn't get rid of the ball fast enough and they didn't possess pos-sess it through the midfield. But they did enough. A goal by senior forward Mike Moreno late in the first half was enough to give the Bruins the 1-0 home win over the Miners and send them through to the second round. "We played well at the beginning, be-ginning, but we had a couple of guys go out and they controlled con-trolled it after that," Graham said. "Hopefully we'll play better in our next game." Mountain View appeared to have the edge in the talent tal-ent department, particularly with Moreno juking Bingham defenders to the ground on a regular basis, but the visitors visi-tors made up for it by playing with a lot of intensity. With those two factors evening out, neither team succeeded in getting very many good chances at scoring. scor-ing. Mountain View started out strong early but then the two teams spent much of the rest of the time playing in the middle of the field. The Bruins got the break they needed when junior Alex Madsen picked up a poorly-struck poorly-struck ball and drove hard toward the Bingham penalty box. He flicked it over to Moreno, More-no, who cut back toward the middle of the field to lose his defender and rifled a bullet into the lower left corner of the net. "When you see that one-on-one opportunity, it happens so fast that it's just back to instinct," Moreno explained, then added that he knew it See MV SOCCER, Page 1 1 Floor uwoBr .- -. T T mmStaSSimi'A Technique, TapBallet combo, and Tiny Tots classes are available. Hot Shots Academy Preschool is now registering new students for the '07- '08 school year. Classes are available for 3 and 4 year olds and combine academic principles with hands-on learning and performing arts. Contact Information: (801) 785-5883 90 South Main Street, Pleasant Grove Overreaction to the infraction by the referee Russ Lyman NORM COUNTY Last Thursday following fol-lowing Timpanogos' playoff-clinching win over Pleasant Grove, senior captain Riley Hunsaker expressed his excitement for the upcoming upcom-ing state playoffs, remarking that the T'Wolves had a good chance to upset someone. Hunsaker did his best to make that goal a reality by scoring a spectacular goal to put the T'Wolves ahead of Riverton by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday. However, only seconds later, lat-er, the highest of highs turned into the lowest of lows for Hunsaker after he was given a red card and expelled from the game due to excessive celebration, which consisted of him lifting his shirt up over his head and running back to join his teammates. Not only did the red card play a major role in costing Timpanogos a first -round victory, vic-tory, but it also tarnished the memories that a great soccer player will have on his senior year and of his soccer playing career. It also shows that one of the great injustices in all of sports is when an official decides to . take over the game as the referee ref-eree did on Tuesday afternoon in Riverton's 2-1 overtime win. "It was a terrible matter of a referee taking over a game," said Timpanogos coach Na-talyn Na-talyn Lewis. "That changed the whole tint of the game. I couldn't even believe it. I didn't even see it and most of the people there had no idea why he got the red card. He completely com-pletely lost the point that these kids are in high school. This is life for them at the moment." Now I understand that in athletics, sportsmanship is just as important as how you play the game, but there are better ways to send that message, like with a yellow card, which is what the rule book dictates should happen. The rule book also dictates that the referee can give a red card for an infraction like Hun-saker's Hun-saker's if the player is lifting his jersey to taunt the other team, but he was doing no such thing. "The fun was completely stripped from the game," Lewis Lew-is said. "I understand why they have the rule in there. I believe what Riley did was excessive, but give him a yellow card and tell him not to do it again. They miss the point of what we're doing out here." See HUNSAKER, Page 11 W UU tOmmif" fm:::1111:1::::;:;111:::1: Copy ' |