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Show 1 Page 10 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, July 12, 2007 Sports Meg Popular Price back Neil K. Warner With a missed jumper from the corner, Sacramento King guard Ronnie Price dropped dead to the McKay Kvents Center Cen-ter floor with a smile on his face. Price has just been st ruck by lighting, so to speak, eliminated elimi-nated in a basketball shooting game by other local hoopsters who were taking part in Utah Valley State coach Dick Hun-saker's Hun-saker's basketball camp. Price is always a popular attraction at-traction whenever he Ls in town. He is remembered as one of UVSC's most talented exports. As a senior at UVSC, Price averaged 24.3 points per game (third in the nation in scoring) and in January of 2005 CBS Sportsline tagged him as the top point guard in the nation. He was drafted by Sacramento Sacra-mento in the second round and played two seasons with the Kings. He became a free agent on July 1. "I don't know what's going to happen yet," Price said. "I've just been trying to learn and get experience and grow as a pro year by year. I want to re-sign (with Sacramento) but we'll just have to wait and see." Jazz faas may rememlx-r lYice from the dunk he threw down agaiast the Jazz in what was coasidered to be one was one of the top dunks of the year. "I hear about that a lot, especially espe-cially from people in Utah," lYice said with a smile. "That was fun. It's fun to have faas of mine in college who still follow my career. ca-reer. That makes you feel good." The Kings drafted Washington Washing-ton center Sencer Hawes in the first round and hired Reggie Theus as the new coach, but despite de-spite the changes, Price is hoping to be part of the team's future. "Nothing is for sure. I want to be in the NBA as long as possible," Price said. "No matter mat-ter how many games I've played in and no matter how long I've played in the NBA I still get the same feeling wow." Summer fishing can lead to frustration handful of anglers ill contacted nie last week af,er expe- (J riencing several I frustrating days on U vithe water on Deer Creek, Strawberry, Scofield and Jordanelle. "We tried everything," one angler recounted. "We trolled deep, we trolled shallow; we BEST BODYSHOP PRACTICES FOR LESS! OREM 574 N State st Orem, 84057 (S0t) 17A 'iH HOURS I AM - 6.00 MA OH tor an poinrmtit. PROVO 355 E. 900 5. Provo, 84606 C01) 377 2827 HOURS 7:30 AM 5 )0 PM J OO-M-OO it4i - Closed Credit Cards Accepted g psne..fgi i 1 ttiaslTjrviijii t Si t - h in ih mm), & MtaMMlHMaMMNHi Vm I li m or ll' lMl'aa 'rimimtowmmmmmmmmmum RICH PEDRONCELLIAssociated Press Former UVSC star Ronnie Price (7), now with the Sacramento Kings, blocks a shot by Utah Jazz forward Paul Millsup, left, during the second quarter of an NBA game in Sacramento, Calif., on April 6, 2007. tried flies, bait and lures and nothing worked. Oh, we caught a fish or two, but nothing like we're used to catching." I, tx), have experienced times when the fish just didn't seem to want to bite. Sometimes the traasition from spring to summer sum-mer throws us all for a Imp. But not all anglers are struggling. strug-gling. Some are reporting near ,.ra, , il 'J r JULJ'J.H A oVviV3?7: at UVSC record catches on these same reservoirs. "It's so simple," said Larry Schlappi of Orem. "We know where the fish are and just troll through them and hook up." Another local angler reported re-ported similar results with different dif-ferent baits. See ALLPHIN, Page U 0 1 '"v UK i S T I "1 w. for camp Don Allphin On Fishing Michael J. Rasmussen - Aft 3J I (7 378 East 720 South Orem www.deltafinanciaIgroup.net REFINANCES PURCHASES CONSTRUCTION LOANS Call for Details Tanoai's late heroics lift Pleasant Grove overTimpanogos Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times? Well, let's just say that Pleasant Grove's Sef a Tanoai didn't find out what would happen then in Tuesday's 17-under summer league matchup match-up against Timpanogos. After striking out twice earlier ear-lier in the game, Tanoai came to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning with two outs to try to redeem himself in the most storied of baseball situations. With the Vikings trailing 3-2 and Heath Stevenson on first, Tanoai came through and belted a Taylor Lyons offering over the left -center field fence to give the hosts a 4-3 walk-off win in dramatic fashion. "I've always dreamed about that," Tanoai said. The soon-to-be sophomore credited his mental approach with his ability to get the timely hit. "I was just thinking base hit," he said. "My first two at-bats at-bats I was thinking home run and I struck out, but that time I was thinking base hit and I got the home run." The round tripper didn't come without an outstanding outstand-ing effort from T'Wolves center fielder Grant Jimenez. Jimenez tracked the ball all the way to the fence and didn't stop when he got there. Running full speed, he drilled the fence just as the ball passed by inches from his outstretched glove. Jimenez's impact on the fence could be heard clearly from behind home plate. Baseball Continued from Page 9 out three straight batters to get out unscathed. In the fourth inning, singles from Jackman and Draper enabled en-abled Mountain View to load the bases on two outs. However, How-ever, left fielder Dahl's catch of a Schmitt fly ball prevented the Bruins from picking up any runs during the fourth. The fifth's bottom half saw reliever Adam Nielson turn up a double play that ended with Riley getting pinched at home plate. i SPRti I. Ms,) i I 224 LOAN (5626) Delta Financial Group The situation created a scare, however Jimenez walked off the field under his own power. Additionally, Timpanogos coach Kim Nelson said the player said he would be alright, but added that Jimenez Ji-menez probably wouldn't have told him if he had been hurt. Although the clutch hit won the game for the Vikings, Timpanogos fans were angry with the umpires after a ball was called on a close pitch while Stevenson was up. Stevenson Ste-venson got another chance and took advantage of it by hitting a single before Tanoai came to the plate. The call could have gone either ei-ther way, but Nelson pointed his finger elsewhere. "The game was lost by us because we were not taking advantage of situations with runners on base," Nelson said. "Three innings in a row we left runners in scoring position. posi-tion. You can't control that (the umpires), but we can control con-trol what we do." Pleasant Grove was bailed out of the tough situations by clutch pitching from Calder Bonnett. A key moment in the game occurred when Bonnett got two straight strikeouts with runners on second and third in the top of the sixth inning. The performance on the mound for Timpanogos was just as sparkling as Lyons struck out 10 Viking batters on the evening. Lyons also added a 3-for-3 day from the offensive side as well as a pair of stolen bases. Timpanogos 100 110 0 3 Pleasant Grove 000 020 2 4 Bonnetl and 24. Lyons and 2. 28-Crofl (PG), Cooper (T), 38-White (PG). HH-Tanoai (PG). In the sixth, Pleasant Grove second baseman Cardon started start-ed a double play that ruined the Bruins' last chance for an eighth run. The Vikings, meanwhile, also had trouble with scoring runs. In spite of a center-field single from Bonnett in the fifth, Pleasant Grove couldn't pick up its second run until the seventh. That inning, Sefa Tanoai singled into left, then scored on an error that let Bonnett get on base. 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