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Show Thursday, July 3, 2008 OREM TIMES Page 11 SCOREBOARD Prep sports Baseball All-Region Region 4 Mott Valuable Playw Daniel Sectored (Lone Peak) FIRST TEAM Lara Peak Adam Ketscti, Bremen Holmstead Dillon Robinson, Matt Williams, Kade Andnjs Spanish FonX Tyler Hanks, 8rock Duke, Gentry Mitchell, Damon Ward American Fork Bo Rsher, Jake Murprty, Josh Mooney Tlmpanogos Rhett Nelson, Taylor Lyons, Bret Lopez Pleasant Grove Sean Stevenson. Colby Croft UN Josh Swenson, Derek Hermansen SECOND TEAM Lone Peak Chase Cook, Braydon Matheson, Jacob Hannamann Spanish Fork Adam Duke, Kade Chhstensen American Fork Nate Pitcher TTmpanogoi Mitch Foster, Gentry Croft, Jordan Cooper, Grant Jimenez Pleasant Grove Riley White, Adam Nielson LeM Brandon Healey, Brandon Anderson Region 7 Co-Most Valuable Haven Mark Garrett (Mountain View), Cateb Lovetand (Mountain View) FIRST TEAM Mountain View Kyle Kendall, Tanner Young, Sam Ftoden, Marcus Draper Oram Goose KaHunkt, Nate Adamson, CJ Harrison, Jordan Johnston, JeAMena SpringviHe Ben Doxey, Kurt Averett, Brandon Miller, Isaac Ailred Payson Tyson Memmott, Corjy Ferguson, Dalton Smith Prow Andy Isom, Greg SchofieW, McClaln Griffin Tooele Matt Gochis, Zac Clausing Domonique Moe SECOND TEAM Mountain View Cameron Schmidt, Grayson West Oren Marc Morgan, Travis Strong Sortngvtlle Jen Boyd, T J. wniting Harry Davis, Beau Button rrovo Adam Law. Kyle Valgardson Tooele Derick Anderson. Matt Medina Tlmpvtew Ben Daniel, Max Forrest Minor League Baseball Pioneer League standings FIRST HALF Northern Division W L Great Falls (White Sox) 10 5 Billings (Reds) 9 6 Pet G 5 .667 - 6 .600 1 8 .467 3 11 .267 6 Helena (Brewers) 7 Missoula (D'backs) 4 soumern uwiaon W I Oram (Angels) 11 4 Pel .733 .667 Casper (Boctoes) to Mario Falls IRoyals) 5 Ogden (Dodgers) 4 10 .333 11 .267 Tuesday's results Ogden 5, Casper 3 Billings 9, Great Falls 7 Helena 15, Missoula 8 Orem 6, Idaho Falls 2 Thursday's Gaines Casper at Ogden Great Falls at Billings : .Helena at Missoula ... . Idaho Fans at Oram StstSt Players. Stories. Everything a fen nseds to show their trua colors. w We pay your first 3 origae payments when you buy tome ffom COUNTOYSIDrEStAttt4 ; ;tuiili7$ldeEstatesinSantaquin,Utah. 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Guys aren't leaving Europe to come to the NBA ... they're staying more often because they can get paid." Hansen's career is rewarding reward-ing more than his bank account. ac-count. His wife, LaRee, has helped to set iip Little Heroes Foundation Foun-dation (littleheroesfoundation. org) that, with the cooperation coopera-tion of Utah-based company Nature's Sunshine, is helping make life better for Russian orphans. In Lehi last week, Hansen ran his second annual hoops camp for a fundraiser. Could he have had the time or inclination to do such a thing if he still played in the NBA? It seems like a long time ago when Hansen was the 37th pick. Going early in the second round, life looked good in the summer of 2003. The dream of playing at the sport's highest level was fulfilled. ful-filled. Only one problem: Atlanta picked him. Hansen acknowledges he might still be in the NBA if he hadn't been selected by such a tumultuous, fractured franchise. But he played a lot in his last month of a lousy season and cashed in on his NBA pedigree with a two-year run in Spain. BYU head coach Dave Rose, who's known Hansen for about 15 years, recalls vividly the long talks they'd have about what to do after the first NBA season. Try to stick it out in what's perceived as the sport's high Hansen Continued from Page 9 equipment that is standard in the West. LaRee said the ratio of children chil-dren to nurses is overwhelming, leaving only time to change diapers, dispense bottles and maybe give a bath or two before the cycle starts all over again. The children are confined to their cribs most of the rime and when they are picked up, the reaction is quite different from what the couple saw when son Ryder, born Travis' senior season sea-son at BYU, was that age. "When you go to hold them, they have this glazed look over their eyes and it just makes you so sad," Travis said. "I mean, you have to do something." It was LaRee's idea to start a foundation and she saw right off the marketing power of her husband's name. Hansen was an automatic story as an American playing for Dynamo Moscow, the powerhouse pow-erhouse Russian sports club. He was the subject of a nice spread StratFibld HOMES www.rtratfietdhomes.com Hansen has er v) J. rP & Travis Hansen holds his child and senior departing from the BYU est level, or seek fortune and happiness (playing time) elsewhere else-where the game is played? It's a common question for basketball players, as the game has grown so lucrative lucra-tive worldwide. The question becomes more perplex as the game gets better around the planet, and the American dollar dol-lar is continually devalued. The Utah Jazz recently drafted Kosta Koufos, who is American but comes from Greek heritage. He's reportedly report-edly turned down much bigger big-ger offers overseas than what his first-round, guaranteed NBA contract will pay. Rose knew Europe could be a great thing. He had a bunch of former college teammates take that route. The schedule's sched-ule's good, travel is better and money can be downright great if you can get with a good team and level and perform per-form well. Hansen's cherished all of the above. He went to Dynamo Dy-namo Moscow in Russia and has just finished up his second season. He's gone from "see what it's like" in Spain to "not going anywhere soon" in Moscow. He has become even more loyal as the team supported sup-ported him last year through an Achilles heel tear. His philanthropic pres in a Russian sports magazine, which featured Russia native and Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko on the cover. Hansen didnt get that kind of star treatment when he was an all-Mountain West player at BYU. Several pictures accompanied the story, including one of Hansen in a borrowed fur coat leaning against a Lotus sports car, which also wasnt his, though he's a car nut and would take it. Hansen said he mentioned the foundation and the writer was touched that an American was making that much of an effort to help in Russia. The headline was "Missionary," spelled in Cyrillic. A sports newspaper followed up on the story as Little Heroes was completing renovations on part of the hospital in Lyubertsy. Lyu-bertsy. Hansen said that story caught the eye of two Russian doctors, who are now part of Little Heroes. Word also got back to Utah, where nutritional supplement company Nature's Sunshine got on board. Hansen said he expected the foundation to provide blankets, MEBirilBOl'IS LIMITED TIME OFFER Pi One Year No Interest Utah ton free 888-201-7135 Showroom 505 N 1200 West, Orem found niche in Europe 'ft FILENorth County waves to the crowd after being recognized as the only basketball team on March 8, 2003, in Provo. ence, coupled with basketball basket-ball background, convinced Russian government to grant him a passport. Now nationalized, he may compete com-pete for its Olympic team this summer alongside Utah's Andrei Kirilenko. There is one holdup, however, how-ever, and it's a big one. Only one nationalized player can be on the team and the Russians Rus-sians need a point guard. That gives the upper hand to J.R. Holden., though the long shot exists both Americans could be a part. That's if Holden is granted citizenship for all of his time spent playing professionally. profes-sionally. There's been some debate among Cougar fans on the Internet, including the Daily Herald's cougarblue.com, whether Hansen should consider playing for another country. One guy's view: The Cold War's over. Be happy Hansen might play. "America would be my first choice, but they haven't asked," Hansen quipped. "But to play in the Olympics would be a great experience." Life's been full of them. He loves the Russian culture but also gets the benefit of living in an English-speaking community near the Krem diapers and maybe some books for orphans or other Russians in need. This spring. Little Heroes helped a 2-year-old boy get a liver transplant. "We were just trying to help out that one hospital," Travis Hansen said. "It kind of just kept getting bigger and bigger." During a brief visit to Utah, Hansen ran a children's basketball bas-ketball camp with the proceeds going to Little Heroes. Then he was headed back to Russia to train with the national na-tional team, although he wasnt sure he would be part of the final Olympic roster. Teams can have one naturalized citizen citi-zen and Hansen said it's more likely to go to American point guard J.R. Holden, a veteran of the Russian league and national na-tional team If Russian officials can somehow some-how change Holden's status, which they are trying to do, there could be room for Hansen and he said he would gladly accept ac-cept the invitation to Beijing. "We really have taken to Russia," he said. "They've treated us very, very well." as low as $2900 00 10 Windows Installed Low E, Vinyl Frames, up to 15 sq. ft each Upgrade Options: Swing in for Easy Cleaning Hidden Screens, More Light Secure Multi-point Locks Easy to Operate Energy Efficient, Save $'s ? If V 1 l-Lr ' lin. His place, occupied also by his wife and two young children, oversees a park. Relatives visit often and fly from here to there first-class. Christmas has been spent on that side of the globe the past four years. Hansen admits it wasn't always an easy choice. Especially Espe-cially in Spain, he'd keep an eye on the NBA and wonder what he was missing. Turns out not much. He's glad he played there, but happy hap-py to move on. He doesn't appear ap-pear to be a guy who misses all of the NBA s flaws. BYU fans can search You-tube You-tube and find an amusing 10-second clip of him dancing after a win in Spain. "It's a party over there," he said. He loves that the game is like a top-level American college col-lege atmosphere, where every possession matters. The NBA playoffs are a wholly different differ-ent animal, he concedes, but the regular season is a much bigger deal in Europe. "If you were to see Pan-athinaikos Pan-athinaikos play at home in Greece in front of 22,000 people who are throwing batteries bat-teries and water bottles, flares and fireworks," Hansen said, "that's the best environment in the world." 0 ' p. p. Ttl,V:H 1 " ' J DOUGLAS C. PIZACAssociated Press Travis Hansen demonstrates how to shoot a free throw at his bat ketball camp for kids on June 25 in Lehi. 5mo!io 5!?cp Cigarettes, Cigars, cam 1698 Nartk State Street Faovc 41 OXorll freedom BSvi I Bring in this ad and receive a j FQGG ySC37GQ I I With a Minimum 1 5 Purchase Limit one per customer j PrepRally Soccer Former Mountain View soccer soc-cer player transfers to St Louis: Saint Louis head men's soccer coach Dan Donigan announced Thursday that former UCLA midfielder James Jaramillo (OremMountain View HS) will transfer to the University and compete for the Billikens. The junior begins his two years of eligibility this falL "James is another extremely versatile player who has the ability to fill a void on our team," Donigan said. "Because of that versatility, I am not sure where he will fit in positionally." A 2005 high school All-American, the 6-foot Jaramillo played in 32 matches (11 starts) over a two-year span at UCLA. In 2006, he played 19 games for a Bruins squad that advanced to the championship match of the College Cup played in St. Louis at Robert R. Hermann Stadium. He scored his first and only goal that season with 18 seconds remaining in double overtime against Washington Last season, sea-son, Jaramillo saw action in 13 games, including two starts. Jaramillo played three years at Mountain View High School a career punctuated by him earning NSCAAadidas All-America All-America honors following his junior season in 2005. He was an All-State first-team selection his sophomore and junior seasons, and he was named his region's MVP and an adidas Boys' Ail-American Ail-American following his junior season. Jaramillo decided to forgo for-go his senior year after graduating graduat-ing early and enrolling at UCLA in the spring of 2006. Baseball I Former Cougar Taylor signs with Los Angeles Dodgers: former for-mer BYU third baseman Brandon Bran-don Taylor signed Monday with the Los Angeles Dodgers and has been assigned to the Great Lakes Loons (Single A) farm team in Michigan: Taylor, who will be playing shortstop, signed after his junior year at BYU with the Chicago Cubs as a 17th-round draft. The Orem native played this past month with the St. George Roadrunners in Utah, where he batted .409 in 31 games with 52 hits and 14 homers for the Road-runners. Road-runners. Taylor has taken a roundabout round-about way to the Dodgers organization orga-nization He originally entered pro ball as a third baseman, then was converted into a pitcher before be-fore returning to shortstop. Pipes, Loote Tobacco PRICES MNortfclCOWes! 106 N.Wet State 14 I |