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Show Thursday, October 18, 2007 SportsoE&ec 0 R E M TIMES Bills battles to grab top finish at Region 4 meet Jared Lloyd I Iciidm around the final loop in the Region I Ixiys cross country race, Timpanogos senior Mike Hills thought lie might lc heading for a second-plac e finish American Fork senior lien Felix had created a gap between that appeared nearly impossible to overcome. Hut as they headed into the final KK) yards of the three-mile race, Hills saw that Felix wasn't quite as far ahead as he had thought. "When I got to the chutes. I thought how it was my senior year and that I couldn't settle," Bills explained. "I gave it everything I had." With an stunning surge to the finish line, Hills and I elix dueled until the final step, when the I imherwoll senior crossed just in front of the diving Felix to earn first -place honors in a time of IT07 usl t seconds in front. "I could feel myself gaining," Hills said. "Over those last live meters. I just out -stretched him. I he w hole team was cheering me on and we wen- overlapping each other. I just poked out slightly lurt tier. At first. I didn't believe it." While I elix just missed on finishing first, he could lake some consolation in the dominant perlormancc the C avemen boys team put together, to-gether, rolling to the region title by X points over second-place Timpanogos. " This had been our goal ever since the end of May," said American Fork head coach Timo Moslert "I'm proud of the boys and the work they've put in over the last four months. Now I tist hdM' they can keep it going for the next week (at state)." ( hi the girls side, the Timberwolves once again found themselves celebrating an individual title, though this one wasn't nearly as exciting. I impanogos junior lirooke Hmlson pulled away from the held midway through the race and never looked hack, finishing in a time of 17:14.5. I ft VI , i :"i:. "l.'-V ASHLEY FRANSCELLNorth County Mike Bills of Timpanogos competes tit the Grass Reluys on Aug . 25. Hills won the Region 4 cross country title lust week in a time of 15:07.1 "Since I was first in the pre-region meet, I was afraid everyone would come after me," Hudson said. "So I went out strong and just tried to hold on. I knew Alexis Uws of American Ameri-can Fork was coming but I was able to come in first. It was just a good day." I lodson set the pace for an exciting finish to the team competition as the Timberwolves edged out the Cavemen by six points to get the region title. "At the two-mile mark, I was a little nervous," ner-vous," said T'Wolf head coach Jodi Nelson. "We were behind but we had two of our girls, Hannah Groom and Kim Bringhurst, pass some girls and that gave us the victory." I Jared Lloyd can be reached at 344-2552 or jlloyda herahlext ra.com. T'Wolves finish great soccer season with loss in semifinals Jared Lloyd NORTH COUNTY Timpanogos head girls soccer soc-cer coach Natalyn lwis knew that her squad needed to start well in order to have a chance against powerful Alta in Tuesday's Tues-day's 5A state semifinals. Hoping Hop-ing to keep the 1 lawks from scoring early, IewLs pulled an extra player back to defend for the first 15 minutes of the contest, hoping to stave off the initial surge. The strategy worked perfectly per-fectly as far as it went, keeping keep-ing Alta from scoring in the flow of play. Unfortunately for the Timberwolves, Tim-berwolves, the Hawks also got a couple of set pieces. Alta scored twice in the first 12 minutes of play, then piled it on in the second half to get the 7-0 win and advance to Saturday's finals against Lone Peak. "That wasn't quite what we were kxking for," L,ewis said. "(Having them score two goals) was exactly what couldn't happen. Both were on set pieces that we have to be able to clear out, but that's been a weakness of ours all season and it showed badly today." Alta pushed it's first chance over the top but capitalized on two bouncing balls, getting get-ting goals from sophomore forward Kealia Ohai (from senior midfielder Natalie Cude in the ninth minute) and from Cude in the 12th minute to give the Hawks a lead they would '. . . : -4$. - . - J 7v v ; taV- ' ;xLs v A... CRAIG DILGERNorth County Timpanogos' Dana Oldroyd, right battles Kealia Ohai of Alta during the 5A state soccer semifinals Tuesday. never give up. to get things rolling, we didn't "That put them on their stop." heels," said Alta head coach From that point until the Lee Mitchell. "They're a great team, but once we were able See TIMPANOGOS, Page 13 la: t anm yj A Now accepting Jgfc IkSMStMhWlMl Sfa$famll students Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Tumbling, Hip Hop, Technique, TapBallet combo, and Tiny Tots classes are available. V. 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