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Show ,, o.ti. lines MSG TWolves Continued from Page 9 we said. This game's going to be battle, and it 's going to be who can win the battle at the end,' Darger said. Then we switched to the man (defense) in the fourth quarter. That's what beat them last time and the girls were excited to go into that man again." In addition to Bailey and Sanders' Sand-ers' big nights, Weitzeil finished with 14 points and six blocks, and Freestone played a solid all-around all-around game and finished with seven points. Lone Peak was led by Amanda Aman-da Parish's 16 points. I rmpanofroc X, Spanish for 49: At Spanish Fork, the back-and-forth ride that has been the Timpanogos girls basketball season returned to the upswing f7 , IK " JUL "c? Timptenogoi point guard Morgan freestone rftouts instructions s she brings the ball downoowrf tit American Fork on Jon. 1 7. 007 r m 9 on Friday night as the TWolves took a win over the Dons. Knowing it needed a win to keep its region championship hopes alive, Timpanogos started off strong and outscored Spanish f ork 35-16 in the first half, then held on down the stretch to defeat de-feat the ljns. "it was a huge game for a lot of reasons. We needed this game to even be in the hunt for the region championship, and even playoff spots at this point," said Timpanogos coach Lk Darger. "It's a game we've prepared hard for. We were just fired up and were attacking early." Megan Bishop, who made four 3s on her way to 18 points, was a big part of the early success. "Megan loves this gym and this gym loves her," Darger said "She brought it tonight and that was huge." While the TWolves' pressure defense and fast faced offense eEK StATO 'tvortr County PUBLISHING: Thursday, Feburuary 28 If you would like your advertisement seen by over 90,000 readers contact: Kolsoy kpatacK! ftcraldaxtra-ccrn 2taf3leraUt was dominant in the first hal. they struggled to score during much of the final two quarters and the Dons took advantage to make the game dose. After Bishop hi a 3 to stretch the lead to 931 the TWolves went cold while the Duns went on an W run to close to 9043. Ah; Tingey made some key steals and Jenna Johnson and Erin Redd made sorrie big plays on the offensive enddurkigtherua Timpanogos' Morgan Freestone, Free-stone, who finished with 10 points, finafly stopped the raBy with a running jumper in the lane . Bishop then gave the TWolves a double-digit lead onoe again when she drove and scored to put the game away. "Megan was shooting weB, Amy (Weitzeil) was playing great down tow, and Morgan was getting us in the flow really well" Darger said. Spanish Fork was led by John- soii and Redd who finished witn 14 points apiece. Boys BasketbaS I Spanish Fork 6i, ftmpanooot 60; At Spanish Fork, the stock market has been big economic news this past week, dropping sharply in early trading before bouncing up and down for the rest of the week. That probably sounds al too familiar to the Timpanogos hot's basketball team after Friday night's game at Spanish Fork. The Timber-wolves got in a big note in the first quarter and stJ managed to have a shot to tie the game late, but the Dans always found an answer on their way to the 68-60 Region 4 win The home team surged to an early 22-7 lead behind its outside shooting. The Dons knocked down four first-quarter 3-point-ers including three by senior guard Zacb Clayton. At that point, Timpanogos switched to a three-quartercourt one trap defense that not onh f oroed some Spanish Fork mistakes, mis-takes, it also inade the Dons take longer to get into their offense. "You have to give my team credit for the way they came back," said TTWotf head coach Oay Anderson. "We sucked the lif e out of tie game and at the end got to a point where we nearly had the chance to tie." The visitors inched their way cbser for much of the second and third quarters but every time Timpanogos got the lead to five or six points, Spanish Fork came at 344-2577 ranpanofof' Tanner Prertw (feJ fights to stay off his box its Lone Peak't Chad SUlson mafees a move during their I W-pound W-pound bout on Jan. 10 at Lone Peak. back with a big shot or a defensive defen-sive stop. Spanish Fork ted by eight late in the fourth quarter when the Tirnberwoh'es made one final frantic charge. Timpanogos senior guard Skylar Hattord who ted aB scorers with 20 points scored five straight poets to cut the lead to three witib under a minute to After the Dons b !2 foul shots, the TWolves couM've made thing very exciting but a good look at a pointer refused to faB and Spanish Fork scored four more free throw's to put the game away. -WeT take the win," Bailey said "There are things we can improve on and correct, but we have the corfidenoe we can play with anyone." That corf idenoe is the one thing the Anderson said his team is lacking, as evidenced by the fact that it's lost eight games in the final minutes. This program has been down for so long that they are sail wendering if they can win," .he explained. "Until we get that confidence and believe, the close games wiE always go the other way." Not onh- did the Dns make big plays, they had a number of players step up. Senior center Juan Yergera ted the team with 17 points while senior forward Devin Nelson added 13. Gavton had 13 port as weB and senior guard Matt Gardiner Gard-iner scored J4. For Timpanogos, junior guard Trevor Thomas came up big time and time again, fmishing with 34 points in the losing effort. Wrestfing I Pleasant Cw $5, Ttmpmogos tt: At Orem, one of the nice Stings about wrestling is that even when a team is on the wrong side on the scoreboard, there is usually something for the fans to cheer about and plenty cf positives $ or the icoaches to draw from. Such was We I 1 . Looking For a New Career! Enroll now and he working - 7 before summer --J- iC' Naa Tech -3 Months Baiierfog-6 Months ' ' Cosmetology -11 Mon ths (HCAPELLI 1 liijtitil BGKV BtAtOWtxonti Coin the case co Thursday night at Timpanogos. Although the TW'oh es lost to Pleasant Grove, Michael Shur-tliff. Shur-tliff. Tanner frestwich, Matt Kresge and Garrett Coleman each won their matches. A lot of our guys wrestled really weB," said Timpanogos coach Byron Tanner. I've seen so much improvement from the start of the year." The V'flungs opened up a 4343 lead before Shurtliff put an end to the losing. After faB-ing faB-ing behind 4-2 in he 152fwurid matchup against Joel Robinette, Shurtliff went to work. The senior se-nior t a reversal to tie the second period then got another reversal in the third to take the lead After a pair of Robinette escapes, Shurtltff got a takedown take-down and three nearf aB points to secure a 13 win. 1 was reaBy impressed with Mike Shurtliff," Tanner said "We've reaBy been pushing him hard and working on a tot of stuff and he used exactly what we've worked on ths wek. That 's a good win going into region." ft was onh- one match later that Timpanogos got its second win at Impounds, frestwich got taken down early and was nearh pinned before turning the tables and pmnng his opponent m the first period. Kresge made it three jb a row by defeating Dustin Deani-son Deani-son 6-5 in an intense tTJpound match. Kresge went into the final period trailing 4-3, but got a quick escape to tie it, then took down Dennison to go p 64. Dermison had Kresge m his grips, but coukta secure the takedown before time ran out. Heavyweight Goteman capped off the night with a pin at the end of the first period. The duel was the final ctf the region season before the region re-gion tournament. Timpanogos now looks to qualify several of its wrestler for state. I iar4 liffi mt!briikntited to this story. Stone Ridge JANUARY SPECIAL amrmm m tv&mit '(limit 1 mm m Tigers pick up a pair of road wins W3R-WCOUKTY The Tiger boy baskeroaB team (34) steamrolled the Buffaloes Buf-faloes on the road, getting big rights from serera! rote players play-ers to pick up the 6747 win. Jake Robison bad a monster game for Oem. dxjminating the paint for 14 points and 13 ' rebounds, whfle senior Goose Kaflunki (12 points) and Steve Warner (K) points) played a rial rote in the Tigers' una. as weB. Tanner Stuart ted the Buffaloes Buf-faloes (0-7) itb a game-high 16 points. Girls Basketbafl Orem H TeW SJ (OTk At Tooele, the Tigers (34) used a huge 13-2 scoring advantage in cwertime to survive huge scare from the Buffaloes (0-7). Tooete Alexis Bird (20 points) nailed a shot to send the game into overtime, but Brianne Larsen ( 19 points) and the rest of the Tiger were too tough bring down in the end Bruins Continued from Page $ for the Bruins that Kaufusi w as able to swat away five wts and snatch up W rebounds, re-bounds, either. The fuB-court press seemed to wear both teams dow fate in the fourth and scoring increased. The Bruins scored 29 nearly equaling equal-ing hat they had scored in he first three quarters. But I was not enough Mountain View was ted by Ashley Kocberhans with eight points, including WorC at the me. The Bruins finished 16f-25 16f-25 from the tine. I Mowttaa VW-w 1 Tooefc & At Tooele. AJyssa Cfeeo had II points to lead a balanced Bruin attack as Mountain View edged Tooele Region 7 play. Boys EaskefisaS I MownUm Y G4. ToeW S At Tooele, Adam Lew is scored 19 , Tanner Young bad 15 and Cameron Schmidt scored 11 nine cf which came from T. to lead the Bruins past the Buffaloes. Buf-faloes. Mountain View 5td t lot of its damage Croat the free (Throw line where M had 20 snore attempts Khaa Tooete. tewiW Veterinary Clinic |