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Show OREM TIMES Page 9 Sfortso'E&ibc Thursday, July 19. 2007 i Nelson Continued pom Page 7 that I had to keep making birdies." Trailing by a hole with only 10 holes to play, Nelson made up ground on hole No. 9, knocking in a tough 15-foot putt for birdie to even the match. "That was a huge motivator for me," Nelson said. "It was just about having confidence because earlier I'd left a similar simi-lar putt short." Nelson proceeded to win the next two holes to regain his advantage but Clark took No. 16 to make the championship champion-ship come down to the final two holes. The duo showed how closely matched they were from that point on. Each had a par on No. 17, made incredible drives off the tee on hole No. 18 and chipped up to within 15 feet of the hole. Nelson had a chance to put things away with his putt but it went just wide, giving Clark an 'opportunity to tie things up and force a sudden-death playoff. "I could've sworn he was going to make it (the putt)," Nelson said. "It was very relieving re-lieving went it didn't go in." Clark said that he hit the putt how he wanted to, but he just mis-read it. Nelson earned his spot in the final by shooting a 145 during the two-round stroke play portion of the tournament. tourna-ment. He went into match play with the No. 13 seed and proceeded to win all six of his matches. Winning the tournament on the final hole was fitting for Nelson, since he played at least 18 holes in all five of his match-play rounds, a first at the State Amateur tournament. tourna-ment. He credited his finals victory vic-tory to the way he was able get the ball in the hole on the green. "I made some crucial putts to keep in it," Nelson said. "When I went down, it put the pressure on but I was able to rise to the occasion. My putting put-ting saved me today." Another big factor was his ability to maintain his composure, com-posure, no matter what happened hap-pened on the course. "In the past I struggled with that, getting frustrated, and that's what leads to losing" Nelson admitted. "That has to be one of the turning points in my game, improving the mental men-tal aspect." Nelson's win seemingly came out of nowhere as he was never mentioned as a favorite to win the event. Considering that Nelson had only played one year of golf within the state during his senior season at Lone Peak, most of the competitors com-petitors had never even heard of the UVSC-bound junior-to-be. Following his senior season, Nelson served an LDS mission before playing golf at a junior college in Texas the last two years. Nelson plans to continue improving his golf game as he plays for two more years at UVSC. Owlz Continued from Page 7 wild pitches, a double, sacrifice fly and a walk. The Owlz grabbed a 54 lead in the top of the 12th on Jay Brossman's third ground out RBI of the game. But Ryan Brasier allowed a game tying single by Todd Frazier on 2 strike count and the game wining win-ing bad hop single past Bross-man Bross-man at third to Jason Bour with the sacks loaded. Jeremy Moore hit the scoreboard score-board in left center with his fourth homer of the year in the sixth to build the lead to 4-1, but it wasn't meant to be as the Owlz lost the series and fell to 13-11. White Sox 10, Owlz 7: At Great Falls, the Owlz pitching got bombed again as the Great Falls White Sox decked Orem on Saturday in the opener of a four game set in Montana. The White Sox, who didn't play one of their best hitters Christian Marrero, lashed thirteen thir-teen hits and scored three in the fourth, one in the fifth, two in the sixth, a single run in the seventh and a pair in the eighth after trailing 1-0 and 2-1. Three Owlz hurlers walked six White Sox, hit two guys and were the victim of three errors that led to three unearned un-earned runs. Robert Fish suffered suf-fered his first loss as the Owlz went down for the third time in four games. I White Sox 7, Owlz 4: At Great Falls, the Owlz were defeated Heritage Care Center Skilled Nursing Rehabilitation Long Term Care Assisted Living Level 1 Respite Care Hospice Integrated Secured Unit 350 East 300 North American Fork, Utah 84003 801-756-5293 Many Levels of Care to R each V ion, t I'Vf es Needs 1 ainBfinliH:Hi 1 1 1 i:iimm!3TiTrj a, ;,. ; 1 J j '-V DREW QODLESKIStandard Examiner Orem Owlz, Jerry Gonzalez slides into base while Ogden Raptors 3rd baseman Brian Mathews tries for the tag out at Linquist Field on June 25. for the second straight game in Great Falls as they lost to the White Sox on Sunday afternoon. after-noon. At the one-third point of the season Orem has now lost three straight, their longest losing los-ing skid this year. The two teams exchanged runs in the second then the Owlz took a 3-2 lead with a pair in the third with Gordie Gronkowski and Hector Estrel-la Estrel-la driving in runs with a double and ground out. Gronkowski has 29 RBI to lead the Pioneer League Great Falls grabbed its first lead at 4-3 on a two run single in the sixth by second baseman base-man Dale Mollenhauer. The Owlz then knotted it at 44 in the seVenth on an Andrew Ro-mine Ro-mine RBI single, but side arm ing reliever Ronnie Morales struck out Jay Brossman and Gronkowski swinging, with runners at second and third to end the threat. The White Sox roughed up the Owlz top pitcher David Hurst for five runs and six hits with the crushing blow coming com-ing on a three-run jack by left fielder Jim Gallagher in the bottom bot-tom of the seventh. I White Sox 12, Owlz 3: At Great Falls, the Owlz losing skid reached four straight as they were pounded by the White Sox on Monday night. The Sox rolled snake eyes in each of the first three frames to build a 6-0 lead. Losing pitcher pitch-er Vladimir Veras (3-2) was rocked for six runs on seven hits while walking three. The big blows were a two run first inning homer by left fielder Christian Marrero, who extended his hitting streak to sixteen consecutive games, and a two run double by third baseman CJ Retherford in the second. Great Falls scored three runs in both the sixth and the eighth. Reliever Francis Cabrera was touched up for a two out solo homer in the sixth by Retherford Rether-ford and then was tagged for a mammoth two run blast to dead center by right fielder Salvador Sanchez. The homer fest continued in the Sox eighth when DI 1 Josh Morgan sent a Dylan Lindsay pitch out of sight over the left center field fence with two on. It was his first long one of the season. In addition to the four homers hom-ers the Owlz hurlers walked eight Sox and hit a man. 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