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Show 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, November J, 2007 Sports Page 14 Exciting week ahead for volleyball teams Jared Lloyd Imagine trading to an lm-portant lm-portant txwird meeting at the ofli , only to find that the confer ftuv room has three other large business gatherings going on at the same tune at tallies set disturbingly ( lose to yours All four aie intense, spirited meetings with a lot riding on the out( ome lor everyone involved in-volved Sound like I iin'r Well ome to the Class 4A and ( lass TiA state volleyball tournament at I'tah Valley Stale College "It 's crazy and loud but it's ex iting for the kids to U' at the slate tournament." said l,one Teak head coach I Vanna Meyer. I ighl I ,'tah Valley teams four from each classification will be battling not only the other teams for the state title but the pressure-cooker atmosphere atmo-sphere at the McKay Invents Center as well. Perhaps no team in Utah Valley has been as successful at UVSC as I .one I'eak, as the Knights have reached four straight championship games and come away with two state titles (2003 and 2004). "It's really a test of nerves," Meyer explained. "You have to go out and execute. If you can't locus, then you're done. It's tough in that there are a lot of things that can distract you." Negion 7 has often been viewed as an afterthought in the 4A ranks this fall as the top teams have battled for supremacy, su-premacy, but Springville head coach Wade Taylor believes Utah Valley teams are ready to surprise some people. " The region has been really strong and I think that will help all four teams at state," he said. "I see us doing well because we've had some absolutely ab-solutely great matches this year." The final standings weren't decided until the final game of the year Tuesday night, though Orem had clinched the top seed. Provo, Mountain View and Springville tied for second place. "We all started out slow," said Bruin head coach Jon Fairbanks. "Overall I think the region is pretty young and with that comes losses. The records aren't great but I don't know what that will mean at state. I feel like we have talent but no one team has been able to pull out all of the close games." In order to compete with teams like I lighland, Cottonwood, Cotton-wood, I5ox Elder and Dixie, Taylor said teams have to put forth the effort. "You have to be consistent with your intensity," he said. "You also have to have the confidence that your team is as gcxxl as you think it is." But as Fairbanks pointed out, the state tournament is a chance to begin again. "Luckily the season starts over," he said. "Tourneys are exciting and I think that at least eight teams could win it because there is a lot of parity in 4A. It will be a battle." The games start Friday morning at 9 a.m. at the McKay McK-ay Events Center at UVSC and continue all day. 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Ihese are just glimpses of how lntermountain Healthcare and its family of hospitals utilize technology, caregivers' skill and compassion to help patients heal. I fjf r V ' .it ' it"iiii w,m. . . . fa. . 41 J -r" 1 St mmmmm V . J . For more information visit our Web site at intermountainhealthcare.or. ? i 1 . iS j t i i v if 2 Tt'Mr r blfJ o ..... v wmsuni ' ill v. i . 4krJ s A. mm 3 lntermountain Orem Community Hospital f Vie Part of lntermountain Heultbcart't family of bospitalt inducing PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER DIXIE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. LDS HOSPITAL McKAY-DEE HOSPITAL CENTER UTAH VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER I INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER f . v t .- ' 4 , Tigers Continued from Page 1 1 themselves in Bountiful territory ter-ritory and with a chance to score. But the Tigers couldn't convert on fourth down and watched their state playoff dreams fade away as Bountiful Bounti-ful escaped with the 17-14 win. Orem coach Bob Steele knows how hard a night like this will be on his players, especially es-pecially his seniors. "I hate this night." Steele said. "I feel bad for the seniors." Despite the tears at the end of the 48 minute battle, Orem's night began very optimistic. Senior Tucker Lamb broke free for a 10-yard touchdown scamper to go up 7-0. Bountiful seemed to have Lamb stuck at the line of scrimmage, but Lamb kept his feet moving, broke through the Bountiful tacklers and found the end zone. Lamb finished with 107 yards rushing and one touchdown touch-down on the night. Bountiful made the proper adjustments on both sides in the third quarter. "They were packing it in on defense." Steele said. "We just couldn't throw it very well." Bountiful scored again midway mid-way through the fourth quarter quar-ter to put the lead at 17-7. But Orem came storming back with five minutes remaining. remain-ing. Facing an improbable fourth and long, Josh Hamblin found Jeffrey Mella for a crucial 70-yard 70-yard touchdown pass to pull the Tigers within three. Orem's defense forced the Braves to punt and got its offense of-fense the ball again with just over two minutes remaining. But Orem couldn't convert on the crucial last drive of the game. Bountiful will now move on to face Pine View in St. George. GRAND OPENING SALE UltraLllX 1000 PUIowtop QUEEN SET $689.00 KING SET $939.00 FULL SET $559.99 TWIN SET $429.00 MATTRESS FACTORY OREM 1032 S. State 801-802-7234 Let the Sunshine in! Mprejhanm 0SOLATUBE uayiignting system Professional Installation in about 2 hours SAVE $$ SAVE Energy We do swamp cooler switch-outs! Solatube installed prices starting at: $499 call for details CALL TODAY Toll Free 877-873-7652 SLC 566-1264 Bright Concepts llc May Continued from Page 1 1 against Sky View. "It's been a blast. I mean going go-ing through all we did last year and not being predicted to do much this year," May said. "It's just been kind of hard to put in words because last year we were struggling so much for wins and we're getting wins this year and we're playing a lot harder." "It's just a great time to be at Mountain View. It's fun to be a football player again." May's fun is magnified due to the fact that he almost never leaves the field. May admits that being an important part of Mountain View's offense and defense can get tiring at times, however he wouldn't have it any other way. "I definitely couldn't pick, I love playing both," he said. "It's tough but a lot of people are doing it. We just try to grit it up and get it done." There's that preferred two-letter two-letter pronoun again. May's selfless attitude is confirmed by his coach. In a game that often focuses on offensive statistics, sta-tistics, Johnson suggests that May is happier with doing the dirty work. "I think he'd take a decleater over a touchdown and that's pretty rare," Johnson said. "He just loves to fly up and be a physical kind of kid and that's awesome." When asked to confirm his coach's assumption, May said with a smile, "Yeah, that's the safety in me talking. I'll take both in a game hopefully, but there's not much better than a decleat-ing decleat-ing hit on defense; it makes the whole stadium go silent." Although he inflicts more than his fair share of punishment on defense, May is also quick to help out the opposition after the whistle has blown "I'm pretty good natured on the field hopefully. It requires you to be a little more intense but I try to maintain my sanity out there," he said. "It's funny because if you get a flatback you want to help them so you can do it again the next play. You can knock someone down and they can get up and feel bad, but if you help them up (it's different) ... We don't try to come off as punks, we're just here to play and we have so much fun doing it. We just try to do things the right way." Not surprisingly, doing things the right way is something some-thing that May practices off the football field as well. "He's a great kid, but we have a lot of kids on this team that are just really good people," Johnson said. "He's not just a good football player, he's good in life. I think the world of Greg, he's going to be a success in anything he does. A lot of our kids are going to be like that and that's fun to be around." What has made this season all the more enjoyable for May is that the success has been achieved by a close-knit group of seniors who have worked toward to-ward a common goal since last season ended. "We've been playing together togeth-er since eighth grade so we know each other really well," he said. "All of us knew we could have success, and good things have happened." 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