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Show Thursday, May 24, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 11 I Tennis Continued from Page 10 It was shortly after Timpview clinched the team title with a victory at No. 2 doubles and was done posing for photos that Young found extra support. After 33 he lost the next two games. His last gasp came in the last game. He saved two match points, then Lane came up with what he called one of his best shots ever a defensive lob that caught Young totally off-guard. It didn't help that mobility wasn't his greatest asset at that point. "I thought it was going to drift lone, but the wind pulled it back just enough," Young said. Lane agreed with the assessment, as-sessment, and even rival Timpview could appreciate Young's final-match feelings. "I was happy I could finish the match," Young said. "I feel like I put myself in a reasonable rea-sonable position to win. I have a legitimate excuse. I just tried to leave it all out there." Day 1 A.J. Young's tennis-coaching father didn't get much chance to see his boy play Friday in the first round. If it could somehow change the course of a match, opponents op-ponents may just hope that the Orem senior has his dad, Craig Young, courtside for what looks to be a possibly breezy final two rounds. He didn't lose a game at No. 1 singles, sin-gles, winning all 24 in the first two rounds at Liberty Park. It ' doesn't look like there's much out there to faze him. "Obviously he's a year older and more mature," said the elder Young of his defending state champion. "I think he just handles pressure pres-sure really well." Father and son hardly spoke during the day, Craig Young said, as he wandered around the sparkling tennis complex in search of ways to help other Tigers. Young, the No. 1 seed from Region 7, pasted opponents oppo-nents from West and Murray. It was a pretty standard day at No. 1 singles, the the expected ex-pected winners winning. The father Young hopes to watch his soon-graduated son a little more Saturday, although it's not necessarily a huge deal if he fails to see every ev-ery point. He estimates about 20 traveling tournaments a year he'll attend, something he's been doing for about six years. Young won a state title last year. As a freshman, fresh-man, Young captured a No. 1 doubles crown with his older brother, Colby. Young's the favorite fa-vorite to repeat, but his coach father doesn't believe overcon-f overcon-f idence will be an issue. "He enjoys playing obviously obvi-ously because of the social aspect," he said. "He's just having a lot of fun." Craig Young will have a'rea-son a'rea-son to be away from his son, at least for the semis. Aaron Pearson and Nathan Killpack are playing at No. 2 doubles against Cottonwood. Baseball Continued from Page 9 wasted too many opportunities opportu-nities earlier in the game to dwell on the final call. Timpanogos left a whopping 13 men on base and were out hit 12 to seven. Fremont's pitching staff recorded 10 strikeouts. Timpanogos trailed 5-0 before be-fore it got something going in the bottom of the fifth. Carter was hit by a pitch and Lopez tripled to left center. Jimenez reached base on an infield single to cut the lead to 5-2. Lopez singled in two more runs to cut the lead to 6-4. Fremont got the insurance it needed when Aiken tripled in what prove to be the biggest big-gest run of the game in the top of the seventh. Track Continued from Page 9 Robins also dominated her preliminary races in both hurdle events. The Tigers also benefited from strong performances by Kendy Christiansen and Krystal Harper, who finished 34 in the 1600m, and Delyse . Downey, who made the most of her final javelin throw to finish in second. "Overall, the kids who were supposed to get into the finals have gotten there," Jacobs said. "We're sitting where we thought we would be sitting." Bruins edge Brighton, advance to semis Neil K. Warner DAILY HERALD For the better part of 80 minutes, min-utes, three members of the Bruin Bru-in Crazies banged their drums trying to drum up support for Mountain View's soccer team. They would play until Mountain Moun-tain View scored or until the Brighton fans ripped the drumsticks drum-sticks out of their hands. Then suddenly, it happened. With 12 minutes left in the game, Mountain View's Alex DeLa-Fuente DeLa-Fuente scored the game-winning goal as Mountain View beat Brighton 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the 5A state tournament on Friday afternoon in Sandy. Play that funky music! To the dismay of Brighton fans, Mountain View's goal Timpanogos boys second at state Jared Lloyd NORTH COUNTY The Timpanogos boys team knew that first-place Davis was uncatchable but also knew that to take second in the 5A track championships on Friday at BYU, all they needed to do in the final race of the day the 4x400-meter relay was beat Viewmont. That appeared to be a tall task as the Viking runners pulled in front heading into the final leg but the Timberwolves were confident that senior super-sprinter Silas Pimental could give them a chance. Viewmont was still in front by a couple of meters as they turned for home but Pimental had enough gas in the tank to surge in front of his Viking counterpart and secure second place in the race and in the team competition by 6.5 points. "This is my last year running," run-ning," Pimental explained. "I had to make it worth it for myself my-self and for my team. I wasn't 100 percent sure I could do it, but when I thought of all the hard work we'd put in, that kicked it into a new gear." His coaches and teammates let loose with a roar as he made the big pass at the end. "I was just screaming," said. Timpanogos head coach Jody TWolves Russ Lyman DAILY HERALD All right Taylorsville, it's safe to put away the oxygen mask. Timpanogos is no longer breathing down your neck. Robby Carter and Taylor Lyons are done stealing bases. Nash Fowler's time of dropping down perfect bunts is over. Bret Lopez's TPX Exo Grid bat is stowed away safely in his locker. lock-er. Jordan Cooper's glove is in his bag and Gentry Croft won't throw a pitch for a couple days. Finally, the Warriors can do what they couldn't do for seven innings in the T'Wolves' 7-3 home win last Wednesday: breathe. While Timpanogos' high pressure strategy of getting runners on, advancing them, and driving them in with clutch hitting should come as no surprise for Taylorsville, the nearly flawless execution of the T'Wolves has to leave the Warriors War-riors scratching their heads. Timpanogos had its leadoff batter reach base safely in all six innings in which they hit, executed three sacrifice bunts, stole three bases, and smashed a pair of clutch two-out hits. "We really are not a big inning in-ning team. Where we've had success is moving runners and driving them in," said Timpanogos coach Kim Nelson. Nel-son. "There's no reason to try and change it now." The Timpanogos pressure cooker started early and kept going until Jordy deLisle stopped a hard grounder with his chest and touched first base for the final out of the TWolves' second round playoff win. Carter scored in the first inning in-ning after advancing on two passed balls. Carter and Lopez each had clutch two-out RBI hits in the second inning following follow-ing a Christian Stewart double. Carter led off the fourth with a single and Lopez advanced him on a perfectly executed hit-and-run. One inning later, Stewart led off with a walk didn't quiet the drum solos, it just made them louder as a strong contingent of noise-maker-rattling students blew on plastic horns and danced on the sideline. One member of the Bruin Crazies, the nickname for a group of fanatical Mountain View fans, even lit a flare. "I told our guys that the winner of this game has good chance of going far in the tournament," tour-nament," said Mountain View coach Mark Graham. "Brighton put more pressure on us this game than any team has all year. We probably would not have won had it not been for (goalie Mike) Chesler. In a lot of games we won, it wasn't because be-cause we had great keeper play. This was really the first game we've won all year because Benson. "I just hoped he had enough after eight events in two days. We needed a couple of things to fall our way and they did." That capped a phenomenal day for Pimental who won three events and came in second sec-ond once the same as the Stewart twins did for Spanish Span-ish Fork but he also set his mark on history by breaking the 5A record in the 100-meter dash by one 100th of a second. "I worked my whole life for that," Pimental said. "I believed in myself." The Timberwolves also got huge performances from junior ju-nior Taylor Lyons, who came in right behind Pimental in both the 100 and 200-meter races. Lyons, who had only practiced seriously for about two weeks due to the fact that he also plays baseball, shattered his personal bests in both events en route to the second place finishes. The pair of 1-2 finishes gave the team the lift it needed to get that runner-up spot. "If someone had said that we'd have had a shot at second at state at the beginning of the year, I would've said not this year," Benson Ben-son said. "We lost so many guys from last year. But I'm more excited ex-cited about getting second than I ever thought I would be." On the girls side, Timpanogos put the pressure on before Nash Fowler's bunt forced an error on Taylorsville starting pitcher Taylor Chism. Stewart later scored. "We feel like we can score every ev-ery time we get a lead off runner on," Lopez said. "Especially with the way we were executing and moving the runners around" Fitting right in with the small ball offense was strong defense and clutch pitching for the T'Wolves. Rhett Nelson started and pitched well and Gentry Croft came in to extinguish a bases loaded situation in the fifth by striking out Tyler Curtis. When asked how his team was able to execute at such a high level, Nelson said. "If I had something I could tell you, I would write a book and sell it and make a lot of money. There's nothing special that we do, we stress getting that lead off guy on and making things happen and it's happened. It's nothing different than what anybody any-body else is doing I don't think." The methods may not be different, dif-ferent, but the results certainly are. Taylorsville presented a stark contrast in styles with it's lineup of powerful batters led by Austin Padilla and Justin Jensen who each had home runs. However, Wednesday was the day for the little guys. Timpanogos' strong performance perfor-mance was a welcome sight following something of a lackluster lack-luster performance by TWolf standards on Tuesday. "Our approach at the plate was different today," Carter said. "We were thinking the other way and we were hitting good" Carter and Lopez led the T'Wolves. Carter was 2-for-4 with three runs scored, and Lopez Lo-pez was 3-for-3 with a walk. "Those two guys have been our best hitters and hopefully they're not done," Nelson said. Softball I Timpanogos 5, Brighton 3: After Af-ter a hard-fought five innings, which saw the pitchers for both Brighton and Timpanogos we've had great keeper play." Mountain View may have caught Brighton's defense napping, nap-ping, since the Bruins struggled strug-gled to generate much on the offensive end for much of the second half. But then Dustin Graham sent a pass down the middle of the field and suddenly sudden-ly DeLaFuente found an opening open-ing in the Bengal defense. He found the left corner of the net to put the Bruins up 1-0. "The ball got through and they were pretty weak on that side, so I just saw it bouncing and took a hit at it," DeLaFuente said. "It feels good to win We came out with energy. We knew it was going to be a hard game. This was a good team. We stayed composed every minute of the game. We came to win." Timpanogos's Silas Pimentel finishes first in the 100-meter dash on track meet. Pimentel also helped the TWolves take second in assured them second place in the team standings. finished in 13th, while Mountain View placed 17th. Day 1 Talking to track coaches after the first day of the state track meet Friday was much the same as discussing the weather with a meteorologist: Just about everything every-thing is subject to change. Still, the top 5A teams in Utah Valley are cautiously optimistic op-timistic about how things are shaping up. frequently making big pitches, in the end it was the Timberwolves' Timber-wolves' hitters who came up big when it counted, leading the T'Wolves to the win. With her team down by one, Jessica Rivers started the bottom of the sixth inning by blasting a double, energizing the Timberwolves Timber-wolves and setting the stage for the late-game heroics. The next four Timpanogos batters got on base, with Angie Larson scoring on a Brighton error to tie things. Whitney Rode's grounder sent Rivers home for what would have been the go-ahead run, only to have her forced out at the plate. Brighton pitcher Kyrstie Terry struck out the next Timpanogos batter, giving them two outs with the bases loaded and the game tied. With the pressure high, Kailee Gonzalez calmly hit a fly ball to shallow center field, which dropped between the second baseman and the center fielder, scoring two runs, and putting Timpanogos up 5-3. "We really need to work on our consistency, but it's the playoffs play-offs and a win's a win and I'll take it," said Timpanogos coach Frank BramalL "Brighton's got some good girls. (Kyrstie) Terry is a great player." Timpanogos pitcher Shiri Stevens gradually got better as the game went on and finished Brighton off in the top of the seventh, sitting down all three Brighton batters in order. Terry had a solid game not just as a pitcher, but also at the plate. She had the game's only home run, a solo shot in the top of the fifth, which gave Brighton Brigh-ton the 3-2 lead. "I'm just happy to win," Bra-mall Bra-mall said. "We got things to work on, but I'm happy with it." I Josephy Simmons filed this report. I Fremont 12, Timpanogos 2: The Timberwolves struggled defensively committing seven errors and the Silverwolves made them pay. But this one wasn't over yet. The Bengals kept Chesler busy most of the second half. Chesler had to make two spectacular spec-tacular saves in the game's final five minutes to help the Bruins hold on for the win. "Chesler did an amazing job. He's the sickest keeper out there. He's the best keeper in the state," DeLaFuente said. "He made some amazing saves. He did a great job." Neither team could generate many scoring opportunities in the first half. The closest Mountain Moun-tain View came to scoring came with 9:45 left in the half when Mike Moreno got off a shot on the right wing. The ball was tracking the top of the Brighton net, but Patxi Shortsleeve tipped the shot up and over the net. "We have a chance to lake second but we'll have to have an outstanding performance to do so," said Timberwolves coach Jody Benson. "We're excited that we got the guys in that we wanted. I think we're in shape for what we wanted to do overall, but everyone needs to step it up." The Timberwolves got a big performance from Taylor Lyons, Ly-ons, who came in sixth in the 200m prelims and qualified for the finals. Matt Reeves finished Orem soccer blanks Colts; baseball, softball ousted Jared Hunsaker HERAIDCORRPPONIjINT After nine good chances on the goal in the first half, Orem finally found the back of the net in the first round of the 4A soccer playoffs. That goal was all the Tigers Ti-gers needed as they went on to beat Cottonwood Cotton-wood 1-0 last Wednesday afternoon at Orem High School. rewind Orem had great passing pass-ing combinations all game long, setting up many good chances to score. It could have easily been 5-0 but some unlucky bounces and great play from the Colts keeper, Greg Troester, kept the game close. Ryan Reese drove a shot hard and low to beat Troester Tro-ester midway through the first half in what proved to be the deciding margin of victory. The goal was set up by a good build up from the back and some great combination passing. "It was what we were trying to work on all day; we hit the post a number of times and their keeper made some good saves," Orem coach Ed Louder said. "If we would have had one for every time we hit the post we would have had six or seven goals today. It worked out and we finally put one in the back of the net." Cottonwood put some pressure on the Tigers defense de-fense in the second half, but Orem keeper Brad Howard had some excellent saves. Forward Nelsen K rouge of Cottonwood had a couple of well-hit balls deflected away by a diving Howard. Mountain View's defense kept Chesler bored for I he first 25 minutes of the half, but in the final 10 minutes, the Brums survived a pair of close calls. Mike Nielsen cut outside and then back inside of two Mountain View defenders and ripped a shot from 30 yards out that hit the left post and skipped out of hounds. Nielsen then got in a dangerous danger-ous position, just 10 yards out. He took a pass on one bounce and headed a shot that would have found nothing but net had Chesler not caught it. Mountain View played Davis in the semifinals Wednesday morning at Juan Diego High. I Neil Warner can he reached tit nwurner hvruklcxlra.com. MARIO RUIZ. N-irlli ' Suturday at the 5A stale the 4x400m relay, which third in the l.tiOOm. The first individual stall.' title for a Valley schixtl was earned by Lone R'ak le vauller Aaron Kay, who cleared 14 feet, ti indies. indi-es. Bobby Kittell and Mike Davis of Mountain View rounded out the top three in the event . The Bruins used a strong performance in the pole vault to finish in 1 1th place. I Jared Lloyd can ) reuched at 344-2552 or jl I o yd'" heruldcxtru ( am "He's extremely athletic and has great instincts," Louder said. "Brad made some good saves as they started to put a little bit of pressure on us. Anything they put hard on the goal he was able to cover. He did a great job for u's back there." Orem outshot Cottonwood 27 to 10. Sonny Son-ny Chandra, Jason Bodine, Tyler Boulter, Quinton l.eb-lanc l.eb-lanc and Mck- ay Corbelt had good chances to score, along with a host of other Tigers. "There was a lid on the back of the goal. We had so many opportunities Some days you just hit the post and if it's another six inches one side or the other and you get a goal," Louder said. Baseball I Granger 10, Orem 1: At Reams, Granger ended ( h em's season thanks to a nine-run fourth inning in-ning that helped the Lancers advance in the state 4A tournament tourna-ment loser's bracket and end the Tigers' season. Clint Felion threw a complete com-plete game three-hitter to send the Tigers packing. Goose Kallunki had two of Orem's three hits. He doubled and scored Orem's only run. Softball I Timpview 4, Orem 2: At Orem, a two-out, two-run RBI double by Timpview 's Camille LaFollette in the top of the seventh inning gave the visiting visit-ing T'Birds the victory and a ticket on to the next round. Alisha Talk pitched the complete game for Timpview. The loss ended the season for the Tigers. Copy |
