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Show Thursday, February 14, 2008 0 R M TIMES SCOREBOARD Basketball standings Games through 212 Boys Region 4 School Region record Overall record Lone Peak 8-0 17-2 Pleasant Grove 6-2 16-3 Spanish Fork 4-4 12-? Timpanogos 4-4 8-10 Lehi 1-7 7-12 American Fork 1-7 5-14 Region f School Region record Overall record Provo 11-0 17-3 Spnngville 7-3 12-7 Timpview 6-3 12-5 Mountain View 4-6 10-8 Payson 4-6 6-12 Orem 4-7 10-10 Tooele 0-10 2-15 Girls Region 4 School Region record Overall record American Fork 8-2 18-2 Timpanogos 7-3 12-9 Lone Peak 5-4 14-6 Pleasant Grove 5-5 10-10 Spanish Fork 3-7 5-15 Lehl 1-8 4-14 Region i School Region record Overall record limpview 11-0 15-4 Provo 8-4 14-6 Spnngville 6-5 13-7 Mountain view 6-5 11-9 Payson 4-6 6-10 Orem 4-7 8-10 Tooele 0-11 5-13 Schedule today GIRLS BASKETBALL Region 7 Orem at Mountain View. 7 p.m. WRESTLING 4A-5A State Meet at UVSC Friday, Feb. 15 BOYS BASKETBALL Region 7 Orem at Mountain view. 7 p.m. WRESTLING 4A-5A State Meet at UVSC Tuesday, Feb. 19 BOYS BASKETBALL Region 4 Timpanogos at Lone Peak, 7 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL 4A Tournament, tirst round at UVSC 5A Tournament, first round at SLCC Florea, Rodda win titles; Payson wins region Russ Lyman NORTH COUNTY There's a new king of the Region 7 wrestling jungle. Springville's three-year reign atop the local 4A wrestling wres-tling landscape came to a close last Friday night as the Payson Lions easily took the Region 7 championship at Tiger Field-house Field-house in Orem, outpacing second-place Springv ille 312-259. "It was good, it's been a little while coming but it feels good to get it," said Payson coach Chris Loveless. "The team as a whole really did what we asked them to." If there was any doubt about the Lions being able to dethrone the Red Devils it was erased early on as Payson won its first four championship bouts and its wrestlers went 6-3 overall during the final round. Although several of the Lions' six region champions were favored to win, Payson also got wins in some of the matches it entered as the underdog. un-derdog. There were few surprises early on. Tito Ortiz got tilings started for the Lions by pinning pin-ning Orem's Chase Orwin at 1 12 pounds. Brock Brown followed fol-lowed up with a pin of his own at 119 pounds and Jeremiah Guzman produced the same result re-sult in his 130-pound match. Payson's fourth and biggest win of the night came in the highly -anticipated 135-pound matchup between McCade Ford and Springville's Hayden Petersen. After a scoreless first period, Petersen went ahead 1-0 in the second when he was let up for a one-point escape. However, seconds after the escape the lightning-quick lightning-quick Ford shot in and got a single-leg takedown to go up 2-1. Ford once again let Petersen Peters-en up to tie the match at 2-2. After a scoreless third period, pe-riod, Ford used his quickness once again in the sudden-death overtime and took Petersen down with a high-crotch 15 seconds into the extra period to win the region championship. champion-ship. "It was a good match, Hayden's as tough as there is in the state," Ford said. "I knew I could take him down, t was trying to get it into overtime over-time and thought I had a good chance to win. I just let it all go and went for it all." It wasn't until Jace Harmon faced off with Springville's Jason Chamberlain at 140 pounds that a Payson wrestler lost a match in the final round. Chamberlain improved to 187-2 187-2 in his high school career with a pin and was named the tournament's tour-nament's outstanding wrestler in the lower weights. At 145 pounds, the Lions got another mild upset when Colton Cannon defeated Mountain Moun-tain View's Clay Frost. The match was tied 2-2 going into the second period when Cannon Can-non took control with a take- 1 C FT , f l .; 8: V I 7 MARIO RUIZ North County Mountain View's Jake Fredrickson holds Provo 's Jacob Jensen during tlw 119 lb. quarterfinal round tit the Region 7 Championships at Orem High School On Feb. 8. down and two hearfall points to go up 6-2. Cannon eventually eventu-ally led 104 before Frost got two nearfall points late to pull withing two at 10-8, but Cannon Can-non answered with a reversal to win 12-8. Cannon, who defeated a pair of state placers from last year in Frost and Springville's Caleb Christen, was named the .outstanding wrestler for the upper weights. The other winner for the Lions was Hesston Parkin who defeated Sebastian Lucio of Springville 8-2 in the 171-pound 171-pound final. Mountain View wrestlers played a part in two of the more exciting finishes of the night. Bryce Florea trailed Springville's Rick Wirsch 2-1 for most of their 125-pound final. However, with less than 10 seconds remaining in the third period Florea scored a takedown to get a 3-2 win. "Bryce is just a very consistent consis-tent wrestler," said Mountain View coach Mark Stoddard. "He doesn't get out of his game and in the end that's probably what won it for us." In the 285-pound final. Mountain View's Kyle Rodda and Provo's Likio Pope were deadlocked at 1-1 until Rodda was given two points for a takedown with only One sec ond left on the t 'lock. IXspitc the big wins, it was a bittersweet night for coach Stoddard. "We did ok." the he said. "The Payson kid caught us in the finals (at 1 15i. that hurts a little bit and kind of evens it out." Springville had two wrestlers wres-tlers in the- 103-pound final whete tierritt Bradley pinned Steve Brown. Other local winners were Springville's Brian Beardall at 1(50 pounds and lYovo's Mick Ellis at I XI) pounds. Ellis's w in helped lYovo edge Mountain View for third place 171.5 to H57. Stewart Continued from Page 9 have BYU or Utah after you or out-of-state Division I schools wont be interested." Being extremely successful doesn't hurt, either. Timpview has won three out of the last four 4A state titles and every year has signing-daV get-togethers with multiple athletes going to D-I schools. "I think one thing we do well at is evaluating talent," said Thunderbird head coach Louis Wong. "We put kids in position to where they'll get a better look." Wong also said that he isnt the type of coach that is out there trying to get his players noticed. "I tell the parents in our meetings that my job is to help the kids at the skill level," lev-el," he explained. "If coaches ask me about players, I'll give them my opinion, but I see it as the parents' job to shop their kids around and some have done a very good job." Molen pointed out that while coaches want to do everything ev-erything they can to get kids on to the next level, their first responsibility is to the team. "It's not an individual sport," he said. "You look at that because you want kids to be able to go on and get scholarships, schol-arships, but you take care of the team and hope those other things work out." Stewart explained that his advice to young players that might have a chance to go to the next level is to start early. "You need to work really re-ally hard as a freshman and sophomore," he said. "You also need to get your name out there (particularly by going go-ing to camps and combines) before and during your junior ju-nior year." 4A wrestlers ready to go for state tournament Wm ftV VMM0M Donate jrour newspapers to Newspaper In Educatlod. For mere Infonnaticn taQ 344 Russ Lyman NCRTH CCUNV Shortly after Payson's McCade Mc-Cade Ford won the Region 7 championship at 135 pounds, he began to look forward to the 4A state tournament, which begins be-gins today at UVSCs McKay Events Center and continues through Friday. "I've never wanted nothing more in my life than to be a state champion," Ford said. "Hopefully I can get it done." Ford's thoughts could be echoed by almost all of the hundreds of athletes who will be participating in the matches throughout the week. Several local wrestlers, including Ford, could have their dreams become be-come a reality as the 4A tournament tour-nament plays out over the, next several days. From a team standpoint Ford's Payson Lions are " coming off of a strong showing show-ing in last week's Region 7 championships. "We hope to keep the momentum mo-mentum going, we've got high hopes," said Payson coach Chris Loveless following last week's region meet. "We're definitely peaking at the right time." Payson's up-and-coming team will be aiming for the two-time defending state champion Mountain Crest team that is favored to win it all. The Mustangs qualified 20 wrestlers (three more than Payson's 17) and are led by brothers Ethan and Raider Lofthouse and Jake and Jarrett Morrill, Springville is another local team that expects to finish fin-ish in the top five. Springville coach Justin Jud-kins Jud-kins likes what lie's seen from Payson's team. 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