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Show Thursday, August 23, 2007 OREM TIMES Page 11 Tigers fall to Viewmont Jason Franchuk NORTH COUNTY BOUNTIFUL Orem wasn 't happy to get blown out Friday in its season opener, but it couldn't have happened unde more special conditions or in a more spectacularly eerie manner. Emotionally charged by thi; recent death of a teammate, Viewmont defeated the Tiger 33-8. The VIEWMONT 33 team did ' OREM 8 wltho"t t star runnii i,g back, Seth Fraughton, who drowned Aug. 4 at Bear Lake;. His funeral was last Saturday. Satur-day. Those who were there called it more of a celebration than a sad affair, and the joy continued against Orem, as th e Vikings scored the first five touchdowns. Take away two missed extra points and it came up with a special total, 33 the jersey number of the captain Fraug h-ton. h-ton. "We realized it," Orem coa.ch Orem heads south to battle Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY One of the major questions surrounding this football season sea-son is how will the St. George schools compete at the 4A level? Friday night's Orem at Sno'w Canyon game will give a gocfcj indication. While the Tigers are coming off of a loss to a fired up Boun t i-ful i-ful team, the Warriors are con fl ing off of a blowout win over , Uintah in which junior BYU ! Up-and-down performances continue on Owlz road trip NORTH COUNTY The Owlz continued their season long trend of inconsis tent play last week in which they went 3-3. Highlights included in-cluded a 22-run night against . Missoula and a pair of excellent excel-lent starts from Robert Fish who was named the Pioneer League pitcher of the year. , Low points of the week in-' ' eluded an 11 inning loss to Mi is 5-soula 5-soula in which Orem manage cl only a single run. I Osprey 2, Owlz 1: At Missoul the Owlz failed in their artem to win four straight games for the first time this season, dropping a one-run affair to the Osprey in 11 innings. Orei also fell to 0-5 in extra inning games on the season. Missoula won the game on a walk -off homer by catcher Sean Coughlin. Wasted was a fine pitching pitch-ing performance by Pioneer league Hurler of the Week Robert Fish who went seven strong innings, his longest outing of the year, allowing ust a homer to center fielder Ariel Urena, two singles and a double. The big lefty from California fanned a season high nine batters and walked just one. ri aia STANDARD builders silipply ; "A full serv.fcm lumber and contractor yard" 492 North 1100- West, Payson, UT 84651 (801) 373-1063 AUGUST, 31 & SEPTEMBER 1 10 :00AM - 2:00PM Please join us foir free hot dogs, soda, and giveaways GRAND dDPEMirJG SPECIALS -4.-.- 4""1 ffTri f tea Discounts on EVERYTHING In the Store First Liiimbpr Delivery FREE! FREE T-SHIf T with Credit Application Locaff Owned and Operated Since 1948 Best Ser vice & Prices In Utah Robert Steele said. "It was a significant thing for them. I wish our team would've played better, but it was a great night for a team that deserved it." Orem was exceedingly classy in its actions since Fraughton's death, and was praised by Viewmont coach Robbie Gunter. Steele's team captains voluntarily attended the funeral and the players honored the No. 33 on their jerseys, jer-seys, as well. Viewmont players wore it just about everywhere a sticker on the helmets, many players had it written on the legs (a 3 on each calf). Many students in the crowd also sported T-shirts to cherish memories of the popular 17-year-old who also excelled in track. Viewmont came out naturally natu-rally charged up, but couldn't take advantage until the second sec-ond quarter. After forcing a fumble on the period's first play, Viewmont scored two plays later on a 50-yard touchdown touch-down pass. It was the first of two con forward; commit Adam Timo ran for three touchdowns, two of which were for 50 yards or more. I Timpanogos at Hunter: Christian Stewart and the Timpanogos offense will look to carry the momentum they generated in the fourth quarter quar-ter of last Friday's game into t Owlz 4, Osprey 3: At Missoula, the Owlz won their second game in a row over the Osprey taking a 4-3 decision in Missoula. Mis-soula. Orem has now won three straight and six of eight and are 8-12 in one run games. It was the Owlz third one run victory over the Osprey in the last week. The Owlz came from behind to get the win. The Osprey led 3-0 after four. The Owlz then plated a pair in the fifth on an RBI single by center fielder Rian Kiniry and an error on Missoula shortstop Reynaldo Navarro. In the top of the sixth DH Gordie Gronkowski powered his seventh homer of the year over the left field fence leading lead-ing off the frame. Left fielder Jeremy Moore followed with a shot in almost the same place to give the Owlz a 4-3 lead that they would not give up. I Owlz 22, Osprey S: At Missoula, Missou-la, the Owlz scored a season high in runs and tied their 2007 high in hits with nineteen in a demolishing of the Osprey in Missoula on Sunday evening. Jeremy Moore and Anel De Los Santos drove in four apiece, Jerry Gonzalez walked thee times and scored five Payson Yard Grand Opening!!! 716 OSB - $6.19 Per Sheet 2x4-92 58 Studs - $1.69 Per Board 2x4-16' Fir - $1.99 Per Board itsS 2x6 Trx Saddle Accents - $2.38 Per Foot secutive hook-ups between quarterback Chris Larsen and receiver Chad Randall. Larsen had four touchdown passes (50, 11, 12, 12) as Viewmont led 20-0 at halftime and 33-0 after three quarters. "Our kids got punched in the mouth and we just didn't fight back," Steele said. It was enough to raise goose-bumps goose-bumps on anyone's arms after the lead jumped to 33 points. Parker Winters who anticipated antici-pated playing tight end until good friend Fraughton's death scored on a 39-yard run. Right after the failed extra point, the sky began pouring rain. Orem had 130 yards of total to-tal offense, while Viewmont amassed 311. The Tigers can build on the success of their final drive, an 80-yard march that ended by quarterback Josh Hamblin getting a good moment on a tough night (5-for-15, one interception) by scoring on a five-yard run, then adding the two-point conversion con-version with 1:12 remaining. Snow Canyon West Valley City where they will take on Hunter on Friday night. The Wolverines will be seeing see-ing a complete contrast from what they saw last week in a blowout loss to Davis team that features a running attack. I West Jordan at Mountain View: Mountain View coach Teko Johnson will go for his first win at the school on Friday when the Bruins host West Jordan. The Jaguars are coming off of a 44-27 win over Lehi. runs, shortstop Andrew Ro-mine Ro-mine scored four times and had three hits and Hector Estrella scored three runs. DH Gordie Gronkowski had three RBI and Donato Giovanatto had three hits to go with three runs in the laugher. I Brewers 8, Owlz 1: At Helena, after taking Thursday night off, the Brewers had six of their top players back in the line up and it showed as they ripped the Owlz on Friday night. I Owlz 6, Brewers 0: At Helena, Orem tossed a can of whitewash white-wash on the Brewers "B" team Thursday night. The Brewers didn't play three of the Pioneer Pio-neer League's top ten hitters in leader Caleb Gindl, number five Jonathan Lucroy and Stef-fan Stef-fan Wilson, number Isix. California southpaw Robert Fish was brilliant tossing six frames of one-hit ball while walking none. Coincidentally, that was the exact line of right hander Jordan Walden on Wednesday night, only the Owlz bullpen couldn't hold a 3- 0 lead for him in the loss. 1 Osprey 5, Owlz 3: At Orem, the Owlz failed to sweep the Osprey, losing to Missoula on Wednesday night. Though new to football, Jimenez shows his ability ien Grant Jimenez ran head on into the center-field center-field fence in a summer baseball game against Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove and got up quickly, I knew he was tough. When he was knocked silly in the second quarter of Friday's game against River-ton River-ton and came back to play in the second half, I knew he was tougher. When he caught a touchdown touch-down pass one play after being be-ing demolished going after a high pass over the middle, I knew he was a special athlete who could do big things for Timpanogos this season. Jimenez, who had never played in a serious football game, made his presence known last Friday. Normally the newcomers to the football scene have trouble adjusting to the physicality and the hitting hit-ting that goes on, but Jimenez seemed to thrive under those conditions. Early on, Jimenez showed great shiftiness when he juked a defender to pick up an additional ad-ditional 15 yards. Jimenez also showed great hands and speed as he caught everything that was thrown his way and stretched the defense on several sev-eral long passes. Remember the Titans? In one scene of the movie T'Wolves Continued from Page 9 finished with 166 all-purpose yards, in the corner of the end zone to cut the deficit to 21-17. After the Silverwolves hit a field goal on their next possession to make it 24-17, Lyons returned the ensuing ensu-ing kickoff 36 yards to the Timpanogos 46-yard line with 2:43 left to play. Six plays and just over a minute later, Stewart found Skyler Fairbanks in the end zone to tie the game. "We don't feel like we're ever out of the game," said Timpanogos coach Brad Molen. However, the comeback attempt wasn't quite enough, as Riverton's Andrew Carver Carv-er broke free for a 56-yard run that set up Jaussi's game winning kick. Stewart's final touchdown The Central Bank Advantage 13 Month High Interest CD See us at any of our 9 convenient offices Annual percentage yield u of July 9. 2O07. Minimum $500 drpo.11 u required Rrnalty (or early withdrawal. Offer and rale available for a limned time and ubjert 10 change. Special promotional offer for cuatomrra who Russ Lyman On Orem Sports "Remember the Titans," assistant assis-tant coach Bill Yoast ridiculed the size of head coach Herman Boone's offensive play book. Coach Boone responded: "It's like novacaine. Just give it time, it always works." Riverton coach Mike Miller has a similar offensive strategy strat-egy and it Worked nicely in his team's Season-opening win. Miller's Wing-T offense trapped, countered, swept and dove its way to 280 yards of rushing in a display of misdirection misdi-rection plays that would have made legendary Delta coach Dean Fowles smile from ear to ear. "It (the playbook) is really re-ally small," Miller said. "We don't have a lot, we just try to execute and utilize a bit of deception." . The playbook may not have much variety, but what the Silverwolves lacked in number num-ber of playa, they made up for in number of playmakers. Riverton had 10 different players play-ers take handoffs on running plays. Timpanogos had few answers for the offensive scheme. "We were just way to inconsistent in-consistent in our play," said Timpanogos coach Brad Mo-len. Mo-len. "Riverton is a team that tries to set you up with misdirection; misdi-rection; you've got to stay at pass capped off a stellar day for the senior in which he went 29-of-41 for 343 yards and three touchdowns. Stewart, Stew-art, a threeyear starter, also found a new favorite target in Jimenez, who had nine catches for 188 yards and a touchdown. Despite the loss, coach Molen was able to pull some positives out of the game. "I felt like we had the jitters in the first half, but in the second sec-ond half We settled down and got things going," Molen said. "There were a lot of encouraging encour-aging things I saw tonight. It's not a league game, so we can learn from our mistakes and correct them." Timpanogos (0-1) will play at Hunter next week. Pine View 42, Mountain View 14 Rob Evans caught a pair of touchdown passes from Nick Marinko and Justin JoJyJL APY G ENTRAL BANK Utah County's Small Business Bank home. We overpursued and we just weren't disciplined enough." Stewart still hot T'Wolf quarterback Christian Chris-tian Stewart continued his red-hot play of late. The quarterback threw for 343 yards and now has more than 1,300 passing yards over his last 14 quarters dating back to last year. Stewart guided the offense back from the dead in the fourth quarter, led an impressive comeback and guided his team to the game-tying drive. The play of the game for Stewart was when he danced around in the pocket for around eight seconds, stepped up to avoid two would-be tacklers and found Skyler Fairbanks for a 30-yard pass. Stewart's day could have been considerably better had it not been for a number of costly penalties that negated big plays in the first half. Stewart's favorite target was Jimenez, but Fairbanks, Taylor Lyons and Kevin Schade also showed an ability abil-ity to make plays. Fairbanks had five catches for 78 yards and a touchdown, Schade had seven grabs for 54 yards and Lyons caught seven passes for 45 yards out of the back-field. back-field. I Russ Lyman can be reached at rlyman&heraldextra.com Ence had two touchdown runs to pace Pine View to a 42-14 win over Mountain Moun-tain View on Friday in St. George. Evans' 12-yard catch midway through the second quarter got the Panthers' scoring machine started. It highlighted a drive in which Riley Dias started things with a 20-yard punt return. Pine View added Marinko's 1-yard touchdown run for a 12-0 halftime lead. "We knew it needed to be done and we did it," Evans said of the Panthers' offensive offen-sive uprising in the second half. "Our offensive line stepped it up and Nick was able to throw the ball." Mountain View's touchdowns touch-downs came off of short runs by Anthony Heimuli and Mark Garrett. I Bob Husdon from the St. George Specturm filed this report. open or have a (Jentral Bank checking account. FDIC Copy tMi : ntiwfc wiiibii, mm m mn r m. "oww m mm mn t |