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Show 0 R E M TIMES Page 11 y-iji ill uju uv-v r i COMMUNITY SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN Thursday, November , 2007 (oP r-r- trzr nmn Tigers come out on top in Region 7 volleyball rewind Ethan Thomas SPORTS CORRESPONDENT In a match where the winner took home the Region 7 title, the Orem Tigers rebounded from a Game 1 loss and won three straight to beat cross-town cross-town rival Mountain View 27-29, 27-29, 25-9, 25-23, 25-15 Thursday night at home. Game 1 was everything you would expect from two teams that came in tied for first place in the region. The Bruins Bru-ins jumped out to an 8-3 lead, but Orem came back quickly, tying the score at 15. The seesaw see-saw battle ended with Mountain Moun-tain View on top, 29-27. As Mountain View celebrated celebrat-ed its early lead, Orem got down to business. "After our first game I told them that there is a lot of adrenaline and we let it get away from us a little bit. But guess what? There are four games to go and they are not going to take it from us," said Orem head coach Natalie Kidman. Kid-man. Kidman was right, and the second game was all Orem. They served well, played defense, and were able to run away with Game 2. "I was so proud of them to come back in Game 2 and act like (Game 1) didn't even happen," hap-pen," Kidman said. The second-game win set the momentum for how Orem would play throughout the remainder re-mainder of the match. Game 3 was much closer, but Orem was able to capitalize on some poor serving on Mountain Moun-tain View's part and closed the game on one of Ella Moe's 10 kills. Moe was instrumental throughout the third game, as she has been all season for the Tigers. "She has been such a great addition," Kidman said. "She brings so much fire and passion pas-sion to the court, and when she is on, she is unstoppable." The Tigers closed out the match and the region title in the fourth game, led by Moe and teammate April Robins, who had a game-high 15 kills. "It feels so good," Moe said. "I love how we get down and then work together to get back into it. It feels so good." Being region champs means a lot of things to the Tigers and their coach, who have fought through early difficulties and turned their season around, finishing the regular season 11-6 overall, 9-2 in region, even when many didn't believe in them. "It feels so good to come so far," Kidman said. "In the beginning of region, everyone every-one thought if we could pull it together we might be third or fourth. But to all the people who didn't know anything about Orem, we are here to stay." Now the Tigers move forward for-ward into the postseason and try to build upon their success during the state tournament. "I am so excited for next week for state and I think these girls are going to shock a lot of teams like we shocked our region this year," Kidman said. k Orem def. Payson 3-0: At Pay-son, Pay-son, the Region 7 champion Tigers wrapped up regular-season regular-season play with a 27-25, 27-25, 25-16 sweep of Payson. Emily Jullian 10 kills and five solo blocks to lead the Tigers, April Robins eight kills and Ella Moe added seven kills for Orem. The Tigers face Bonneville at 1:45 p.m. on Friday in the first round of the 4A state tournament tour-nament at UVSC. Football The state tournament has a way of crushing or lifting a player's dreams. It causes even the toughest player to collapse on the field, hug their dad and fight back tears after a tough loss. On Friday night, Orem trailed 17-14 with 2:38 left in the game and began a drive from its own 10-yard line. After two third-down conversions conver-sions and one fourth-down conversion, the Tigers found See TIGERS, Page 14 w J ' I CRAIG DILGERNorth County Emily Julian of Orem spikes the ball during a game against Mountain View on October 25. TUTORING CLUB: Reading, Math, Writing, Custom Tutoring, GED Prep., and ACT Prep. UT 229-CLUB (25 fA I. Ill I1WM K-MlBMMWWMIMujyU limy Maw Wmmm: Next to Smiths near Walmart) -Gave 50 or ttoro oh Ink! I Just bring in your empty cartridges. 7 Think Ink New mm1 mm ' i J , J 1 f j(C:f Y''' I v, 4 ' MARK JOHNSTONNorth County Mountain View wide receiver Greg May tries to break free from an Orem defender Oct. 19 at Mountain View High School. The versatile May has been a key part of his team's success this season. After a difficult 1-9 2006 season, Mountain View star Greg May is enjoying football once again Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY There's no "1" in Greg May. Perhaps that is why it's so hard to get the Mountain View standout to talk about himself. Although the senior has been an integral part of the Bruins' dramatic turnaround this season. sea-son. May prefers the pronoun "we" to the vertical alternative. Problem is, when you are your team's safety, receiver, punter and returner, who also throws the occasional pass and gets the occasional carry, it's kind of hard not to get noticed. While May is hesitant to talk about himself outside of a team concept, Mountain View coach Teko Johnson has been willing will-ing to do it for him throughout the season. After the Bruins' 14-7 win over Tooele early this season, Johnson commented that May is the best he's been around and compared him to a former player who went on to be an All-American at Delaware. Dela-ware. Although the season is dying down, Johnson's praise is not. "What doesn't Greg do? You could probably put Greg at guard and he'd be an all-state kind of kid," Johnson said following fol-lowing Tuesday's practice that ended with May's diving catch in the back of the end zone. "He's just one of those rare kids that you coach once every five years that just makes it a lot easier to make it look like you know what you're doing, do-ing, and he does a lot of those things on his own." Such praise would go to a lot of players' heads, however May takes greater pleasure in his team's success this season than in his own. 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