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Show Thursday, May 31, 2007 Page 11 Sports Meg prep C.J. Garner Mountain View High School f C2lJ Year: 11 Age: 17 Birthplace: Orem Sport: Soccer Position: Defender Height: 6'0" Favorite sports team: AC Milan Favorite athlete: Landon Donovan Favorite movie: Donnie Darko Favorite food: Pasta and chicken Favorite restaurant: Ernie's Favorite book: Joey Pigza Favorite class: Jewelry and Woods Hobbies: Playing the drums, restoring re-storing old cars, putting together models Most memorable career moment: Taking the state cup playing U-1 1 . Getting seven stitches after an opponent missed the ball off a bicycle kick, instead hitting him in the eyebrow at about age 13. Goals: Play college soccer, get a good degree and a good job. Heroes: Dad Coach's quote: "Heck of a kid. He kept us organized and confident back there. We didn't give up a goal off the flow of the game against four of the best teams in the state. He contributes to the overall game. He's a vigorous defender de-fender but he also starts the attack well." Mountain View Head Coach Mark Graham Tigers Continued from Page 9 put its numbers up front to try to get back into the game and it nearly worked as Balser just missed twice. The first effort was a close-range free kick, and the second was a shot from inside the box that was saved by Bountiful keeper Brian Simmons. Sim-mons. The pressure of the Tigers created cre-ated numerous scoring chances for the Braves as well and they were able to capitalize. John Haddock Had-dock converted from in front of the net to make the score 4-1. Alexander then came through again by breaking through the Orem defense and passing off to Dalin Petersen, who put the ball away and provide the final margin mar-gin of victory. The disappointing loss caps off a fine season for the Tigers, who won a region crown for the first time in 13 years and advanced to the semifinals of the playoffs. "They're a good team; they took it to us today," said Orem coach Ed Louder. "We had a good year, but our goal was to ' play two games at Juan Diego, Getting half of that goal leaves, us VllimHtflUMI II VII Rosettes A Flowers ScroHs why rs Great Gift Ideas - Easy METALmart ' 00000 CStop On In! HtlAl AND HOIIC M-F 8am - Brim 85 South 1350 East Lehi Sat 8am ,t It Vr 11 o Easy Clean Feature g Lifetime Guarantee Energy Efficient ! Quality Installation No Payment A No Interest Until )ctober2007 -WWsT or 'Some restrictions apply I 7 $1" Penalty kick hurts the game Three state soccer championships. Three exciting games. Three defeats. de-feats. Since the fall of 2005, I've been to Juan Diego Di-ego Catholic High School in Draper for a trio of games involving Utah Valley teams hoping for one more win and a state title. And all three times, the local lo-cal team has lost. One fell due to a missed call, one to an unbelievably talented star and one to a bad rule. Mountain View fans, you are in the last category. On the only goal of the contest, the Bruins had a kid trying to make a play and appeared to knock the ball with his hand right on the edge of the penalty box. I don't think the young man involved should feel guilty; you do your best but fouls and mistakes happen. I certainly don't blame the officiating crew, since their job is to enforce the rules as they are written. It's pretty simple: A handball with some degree of intent by the defense in the penalty box results in a penalty kick for the offense. I also don't think Jordan should feel they didn't earn the title. Junior forward Jacob Ja-cob Hustedt buried the free-bie free-bie and that turned out to be the difference in a very All-Star Continued from Page 9 to left. With the bases loaded and nobody out, Healey came up with the biggest hit of the game when he drilled a bases clearing clear-ing double. Two batters later, Holland drove in Healey and Josh Hansen, another Lehi teammate, team-mate, with a two-RBI triple off the left-center field wall. By the time Holland scored on a Trent Call single for the sixth run of the inning, the West team had a 9-0 lead. "I was just trying to get up, swing through the ball, have some fun and don't be so stressed (as during the season)," Holland said "It was better than I could have ever expected." The nine-run lead was more than enough for the West pitching staff, which somehow managed to outdo the team's powerful offense. Anchored by Dan Welch, Zack Laycock and Taylor Mangum, the West held the East squad without a hit until the seventh inning of the nine-inning game. Welch started the game off by getting a pair of strikeouts. Laycock threw the third and fourth innings and faced the minimum of six batters. Man-gum Man-gum then capped off the run of no-hit innings with an exclamation exclama-tion point, striking out the side in the fifth before shutting down the East in the sixth. "We just came out wanting to have fun and throw strikes," Mangum said. "We also had a great defense behind us because it's an all-star game." The West team also got plen- UlrVUI Selection! &jtft 1 II To Paint - Great Decor! - Noon metalmart.blz 10 WINDOWS $2985! OFfWt ' I ; Wasatch Vinyl Products 1 i, 1 v 1 Quality.,. LOW Prlc!i A877-922-72S3 733-5633 Expires 531071 Jared Lloyd Prep Points well-played game. And there is no way enough credit can be given to both teams for the way they played after that moment. mo-ment. Mountain View created cre-ated tie chances , the Beet-diggers Beet-diggers had opportunities to put the game away, and the result was a thrilling 35 minutes min-utes of soccer. But Bruin fans, you got gypped. By a rule. The notion of the penalty kick credited to Irishman William McCrum was established es-tablished in 1890 and adopted in 1891 as a way to keep defenses de-fenses from using increasingly increasing-ly aggressive techniques to keep opponents from scoring. I laud it for that ambitious aim, but I also scorn it for what it has done to a game that is captivating and exciting. excit-ing. Far too often in all levels of play I see offensive players play-ers falling down inside the box, hoping the referee will COBB CONDIENorth County Danny Nelson represented Mountain View on the West team in the Utah Valley All-Star Baseball Classic on Monday. ty of help from its defense. It's middle infield tandem of Trent Call and Nate Newman combined com-bined to turn three double plays to get out of jams. "There are a lot of good ballplayers ball-players out there and a lot of them were making pretty good plays," said West coach Jarod Ingersoll. Although the East squad, which was composed of players play-ers from Pleasant Grove, Timpanogos, Orem, Provo and Timpview, failed to get a hit for the first six frames, they made up for lost time in the seventh with four consecutive hits. Despite De-spite the sequence of hits, the East team only got one run in the inning due to more great defense de-fense from the West team. Brady Hansen led off with a single, but he was caught stealing by Holland. Jake Rick-enbach Rick-enbach then ripped a ball into the gap, but was gunned down by Welch when he tried to take second. Josh Beasley drove in his team's only run by doubling home Mike Newbury with two outs in the seventh Holland's play both offensively offen-sively and defensively earned ATTENTION Save 10 Instantly Firepower Quality 6011 -18" $54.95 box 7018 -18" $59.95 7018 -532" $59.95 box MEIAUfiafr 85 So 1350 Eo5teN Online metaimart.biz Open Spaces Friendly Faces We Specialize in South Utah County and Juab County Real Estate. Mountain View lost Friday on a play when the ball was leaving the box and thus there was obviously no immediate scoring threat. But the rule doesn't care. And that's where it is completely, utterly, ridiculously wrong. buy their antics and award them the precious penally kick. With the way the rules are now, it's tough to blame them. Many games are decided by a single goal so getting a point-blank opportunity op-portunity is extremely appealing. ap-pealing. Even worse are the times that penalty kicks are awarded for plays that had very little chance of resulting result-ing in goals. In the most recent World Cup, France ended up defeating Portugal in the semifinals on a penalty kick when a player got knocked down in the very corner of the box with at least three defenders between him and the goal. Similarly, Mountain View lost Friday on a play when the ball was leaving the box and thus there was obviously obvi-ously no immediate scoring threat. But the rule doesn't care. And that's where it is completely, utterly, ridicu him the honor of Most Valuable Player. Holland was only a liome run away from hitting for the cycle, going 3-for4. "It was a good experience, I played a lot better than in the regular season," Holland said. "It's hard to come out and be friends with the kids you've been playing against but it was fun." The other post -game honors went to Rickenbach who was awarded the gold glove. Healey, who went 2-for4, was the West's outstanding hitter and Beasley was chosen as outstanding outstand-ing hitter for the East team. Call, Reiber, and Binks also had multiple hits for the West team. Monday's event was the ninth year of the Classic, which was organized by the Daily Herald's Neil Warner. "I think it's just a neat thing that Neil does," Ingersoll said. "I can't throw enough compliments compli-ments his way. It's fun to play, it's fun to coach, it's fun to be a part of." 000 036 000 001 100 151 OOx 10141 Smith. 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I Jared Lloyd can be reached at 344-2552 or jlloydfa heraldextra.com. T'Wolves Continued from Page 10 of us imagined but it was a good season." A three-error first inning spotted Taylorsville a 3-0 advantage but Timpanogos battled back and took a 4-3 lead in the fourth on a two-run two-run triple from Bret Lopez. Taylorsville tied it with a run in the bottom of the fourth but Timpanogos took a 54 lead on an RBI single from Jordan Jor-dan Sperry in the fifth. Taylorsville Tay-lorsville got two in the fifth taking advantage of two more Timpanogos errors to take a 6-5 lead that held up. Lopez finished a strong day at the plate with a 3-for4 performance per-formance and Nelson, Sperry, Nash Fowler and Robby Carter Cart-er all had two hits apiece. Taylorsville (21-7) will play the loser of the Jordan-Fremont game today at 7 p.m. Timpanogos and the rest of Region 4 will have to wait until next year. 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As the game wore on, the Bruins' desperation grew and several other opportunities presented pre-sented themselves. Moreno once again made a run down the right side, but was tripped up on the border of the penalty box before he could get a shot off. No foul was called on the play. In the 79th minute, Mountain View's Jacob Parkinson had a pair of opportunities and the game ended shortly alter his shot from 20 yards out was pulled out of the air by Rogers. "Mountain View is a great team, they forced us to play our 'A' game today," Hen in said. I felt that we kept the majority ma-jority of the possession, which is what 1 wanted to do." Despite the loss, the Bruins can celebrate the fact that they had an excellent season in their final year in the 5A classification. classifica-tion. "We accomplished our general gen-eral goals, so we're happy with the season. We felt like we did a good job competing against the big schools," Graham said. "It's going to be tough for us right now. 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