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Show c Citizen - Wednesday, Oct 12, 1988 - Page 9 siw(ntrtts Cavemen score two last-minute TD's to beat Mountain View 22-9 Friday By DEAN VON MEMMOTT Two last-minute touchdowns lifted the American Fork Cavemen past the Mountain View Bruins 22-9 22-9 in nailbiter at Mbuntain View Friday night. K-. K-. The two TD's spared American Fork from defeat, but "darkened Mountain View's chances for state play. Caveman Coach Davis Knight said, One of our goals this week was to move the football the entire length of the field, and my players did that. They have my respect." Because a 2-3 record Mountain View was carrying into Friday's game, American Fork was favored to win by a wide margin. However, those who predicted that would happen had no real understanding of the Caveman-Bruin rivalry. Whenever Mountain View and American Fork play each Qther, they both usually play superbly. That was the case Friday as their defensive teams kept the Scoring very low for most of the game. It opened with the Bruins initiating initi-ating a well-executed drive from their 35-yard line. That attack went well until quarterback Scott Albrecht lost the ball while getting gang sacked. Caveman Richard Anderson recovered the fumble on the Mountain View 41. On the next play, quarterback DougMeacham shot a 10-yard pass to Matt Christopherson, who then sprinted 16 yards to the 15. Three downs later, Bart Jorgansen caught a 13-yard pass, putting American Fork on the board first. John Davis kicked an extra point to cap the drive. Mountain View thought it was going to catch up with American Fork quickly when Brad Mangum made a 35-yard kickoff return to the 50. In fact, the Bruins looked as P IKK?? . S$3&'ffi Ay AF's Julie Trane and a Bingham player battle over the net in last Tuesday's match on the Miner's home court. Cavespikers lose at Bingham, triumph at home over Brighton By DEAN VON MEMMOTT ; The American Fork Cavewomen split two matches last week as they clung to fourth place in Region Two volleyball standings. They lost a three-game contest on the Bingham Bing-ham Miners' court Tuesday, but overcame the Brighton Bengals here Thursday. j American Fork assistant coach Bo Kirrate termed Tuesday's loss the Cavewomen's Christmas gift to Bingham. Indeed it was. After American Fork had grabbed a 6-0 lead in Game 2, the Cavewomen let the Miners bounce back to force a tjiird game, which they won 15-6. f American Fork had the momentum momen-tum in Game 1. After an ace by Cavewoman Irene Yazzie had tied the score at one, the Miners roared ahead 6-1. I A net violation on the Miners gave American Fork the chance it needed for leaping back into the game. Kills by Julie Trane, Mindy Gale and Kim Wiscombe rattled them long enough for Yazzie to put the Cavewomen up 8-7. Upon stealing the lead, they tightened their hold on it. Christa Whitaker scored the winning point fpr the Cavewomen. ; Still high on the triumph, they got Game 2 off to a great start with Gale producing a kill block. They continued numbing Bingham until they scored their sixth point. They then turned cold while the Miners became hot. t Bingham's two hottest players were Jennifer Jarvis and Debbie piamond. Together, they sunk the lackadaisical Cavewomen in a seven-point rally. I While Jarvis did the serving, though they would as substitute quarterback Cody Child's passes moved them into the middle of Cavemanland. American Fork lineman Mike Bartell smothered their drive, though, with his sacking Child for a four-yard loss. Sent back into action in the second quarter, Albrecht tried to go to the air, but defensive back Tom Lamb kept chopping down that Bruin's passes. That forced the Bruins to punt. Catching the punt, Jorgansen weaved past onrushing Bruins and went into the end zone as a referee threw out a yellow flag. With relief, Mountain View cheered as the official offi-cial announced that the Cavemen had been called for clipping, voiding void-ing the touchdown. The call pushed the momentum to Mountain View's favor, for on the next play, Bruin Jason Beck recovered recov-ered a Caveman fumble at the American Fork 31. The turnover resulted in a 33-yard touchdown pass from Albrecht to Josh Benson at 7:59. No sooner had the Bruins gotten into position to tie the score when something went wrong for them. Kicker Kevin Benson booted the ball too wide to be counted for an extra point. , The Cavemen gobbled up a lot of yardage in their next drive. It opened with Meacham sprinting 26 yards from the American Fork 12. Soon, the quarterback had Anderson Ander-son run the ball. The running back gained a total of 30 yards in three straight plays. Anderson's gains turned out to be all for nothing as four straight incomplete passes kept American Fork from moving beyond the Bruin 36. Late in the half, two Caveman Diamond did the killing. A 6-1 brunette, the second Miner produced pro-duced a kill block that moved Bingham Bing-ham ahead 7-6. The Miners never trailed again in the game. After Jarvis missed a serve, American Fork blew several scoring scor-ing opportunities until Wiscombe scored an ace. The Cavewomen came within 12-9, but that was the closest Bingham let them get to it. In Game 3, American Fork . never led once, even though the Cavewomen tied the game at four. Bingham's Tanna Nelson smashed the 4-4 tie with a seven-point rally, highlighted by sloppy American Fork passing. Julie Trane spiked on a Wiscombe Wis-combe set, preventing Nelson from rubbing out American Fork. The hit only delayed the inevitable. Melissa Dunford served up two straight point to knock out the Cavewomen. Asked what inspired them to pull out the win against the Bengals Ben-gals Thursday, Cavewoman Coach Pam Beckstrand answered, "The losses at Brighton and Bingham. They knew they gave those games away on stupid passing. When we were up there at Brighton, we gave the game away. We did the same thing at Bingham. "When you know that you're a better team, you must prove it, no matter what the score is." Fans could tell in the opening minutes of Game 1 that the Cavewomen were out for revenge againstthe Bengals. Leadoff server Trane created a 2-0 lead before missing her third serve. After American Fork got up by 4-0, Tara Kunz cut the lead to 4-2 on a kill by penalties called during a punt gave the Bruins excellent midfield position. posi-tion. However, American Fork kept them from going far. The second half opened with American Fork staging a long drive into Bruin territory. The Cavemen got a lot of help in the march when defensive back Bill Mounga was ejected from the game for spearing. That action put American Fork on the Bruin 28, where Meacham fired a 13-yard pass to wide receiver re-ceiver Steve Caldwell, enabling their team to penetrate the 10 on the next play. Pinning the Cavemen down at the nine, the Bruins forced the Cavemen to try for a field goal. The attempt failed, and it almost cost American Fork the game. Late in the third quarter, Beck intercepted a pass as the Cavemen were called for holding. Capitalizing Capitaliz-ing on the call, the Bruins marched down to the 28. When junior linebacker line-backer Stan Parrish nailed Blake Murray for a four-yard loss on the third down, Mountain View decided de-cided to have Kevin Benson try booting a field goal from 42 yards out. The effort paid off. At 0: 12 of the third quarter, Benson kicked a field goal that put Mountain View ahead 9-7. He tried for another field goal early in the next quarter. However, the ball fell short and into Lamb's hands. He returned the ball to the Caveman 15. Knight called Lamb's catch one of the key defensive plays of the game. The catch ultimately spelled doom for Mountain View, mainly because Kent Clayton's running. "He (Clayton) ran like a man possessed," the coach said. Clayton produced long runs that positioned American Fork inside the Bruin 20. Mamie Maxwell. A spike by Trane stopped Brighton cold. The Cavewomen coasted ahead 12-3 before the Bengals finally became serious about playing ball. Keeping American Fork stuck on 12, Kunz led Brighton in pulling within five points. A net violation knocked the momentum out of the Bengals. Christa Whitaker then scored the three needed points for an American Fork victory. But after choking Brighton, the Cavewomen started havingtrouble with passes again. Beckstrand said, "In the first half of the second game, we missed five passes in a row and mishandled mis-handled five passes." So it hardly a wonder that Maxwell created a 5-0 lead for the Bengals. A Wiscombe kill ended Maxwell's serving, but didn't get the Cavewomen going strong and it looked as though there would be a third game. Gale didn't let that happen, though. Beckstrand said, "In the second half of the second game, she played well. She came up with two crucial blocks and two crucial kills." Gale's playing gave the Cavewomen the medicine they needed to pick themselves up and battle back. Five straight points by Yazzie evened the score at nine. The game stayed tied until Kim Gurney scored three straight points for American Fork. Gale soon registered her two kills to put the Cavewomen within one point of victory. Getting the needed 15th point proved difficult for American Fork. The Cavewomen won when Trane killed the ball on an angle shot. X .-'erf 9 ' V , - - J X.- ' ft. V f" Joe Avina takes a hand-off from After Meacham ran the ball to the one-yard line, running back Joey Avina barged his way through the middle for a touchdown. 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