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Show Cavemen Beat Pioneers 5-1 The American Fork Cavemen Cave-men maintained their hold on second place in Region Six with a 5-1 win over old rival Lehi last week. Carbon leads the region at 6-1. Guy Hampton, possessor of a fine changeup and a good curve and a sneaky fast ball, went the full game as the Caveman pitcher, and Guy was sharp as he had 12 strike-outs in his route going game and gave the Afers a badly needed win. The AF hitters scored one run in the bottom of the third inning, one more in their fifth, and put the game away with three more runs in the sixth. With Hampton doing his job, Lehi went down calmly in their final at bat, as Guy struckout the final hitter with two good fast balls and then a good breaking ball. AF notched their sixth win of the league season against two losses. Jeff Barratt led the AF hitters with a double and single, sin-gle, Doug Oldroyd, cleanup hitter Kent Baker, Paul Peters all had singles. Paul Peters cracked out a triple to lead the AF hitters in this game. The Region season ends today with the Cavemen out at Vernal, and the Utes are apparently appar-ently playing out the season as they have been eliminated from further games. But, in a spoiler role, the Utes hold the key for the Cavemen advancing advanc-ing into the playoffs. Before this weeks games, AF held on to sole possession of second place, a half a game behind league leading Carbon and the Dinos play Springville today in their windup. The Devils must win to have any chance at all of advancing, so in the windup today there are key games all over the league. Three teams advance from Region with Carbon and AF in the best positions right now and Payson and Spanish Fork are just behind the Cavemen. Until the results are in it is difficult predicting next weeks schedule, but AF needs a win to secure a chance at the playoff. Coach Roy Pehrson has one of the top pitching staffs in the league and I would expect that he will use everyone in todays all out effort. That should be good enough to get AF into the finals for State. People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong. Cavemen School Tr Trailing going into the two final events last week, the American Fork Cavemen got two excellent performances to win the team title in a track meet with Lehi and Carbon. Ken Greenland, AF sophomore, sopho-more, distance runner, had to win first place in the two mile run or AF had no chance to win. Ken ran the best race of his career as he came in first in a very good 10 minutes 32 second run to set the stage for the final event and "if" AF won it, they would win the meet by half a team point no matter what Lehi did the final event. Coach Tim Pontious sent Dave Nerdin off first in the mile relay, an event where four runners run-ners each run 440 yards, a real lung testing race. Dave gave the baton to Dave Dean in front by 10 yards; Dean handed off to soph Glen Strong with AF holding hold-ing a 20 yard lead; Strong passed the baton to Kevin Bennett, Ben-nett, who brought the team in first to a well deserved team win. This meet just points out the fact that every race from first through fourth is very important impor-tant to the team title and everyone ever-yone looked good to me. JayVees Down Dons For the second time this year, Mark Christiansen went the distance as the AF Jay-Vee's Jay-Vee's beat Spanish Fork 1-0 in a very good game played Monday. Mon-day. Mark threw a three hitter at the Dons and was supported by fielding gems turned in by shortstop Mark Hardman, 2nd baseman Scott Rackman, catcher Roy Hampton, 1st baseman Dave Laycock and outfielder Doug Miller as each robbed the Spanish Fork team of sure hits. The game played in one hour CITIZEN Roy Peherson's Cavemen baseballers clinched a playoff, at least for Region Six, with a 3-2 victory over Pleasant Grove Tuesday. Guy Hampton started on the hill for the Forkers and allowed two runs, giving up two hits and striking out six Vikings. Jeff Barratt relieved Ul.m and looked very strong as he struckout six and preserved the win thanks to a fielding gem by Hampton. Jeff walked the lead-off hitter in the final innings with a bunt getting the runner in scoring scor-ing position. Jeff fanned the next hitter, then a "Texas leaguer" a little pop over the Golf Classes To Begin At Tri-City Golf classes will be starting at Tri City Golf Course on Tuesday, May 11. Classes will be held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays Wednes-days and Thursdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. each day. Classes on Tuesday and Thursday will be held for a period of three weeks with two lessons each week. Classes on Wednesday will run for a period of six weeks with just one lesson each week. Instructors will be Jimmy E. c Thompson, P.G.A. pro and Jim E. Jones, asst. pro. AH "swinging swingers" are invited to try out the Tri City Golf Course for a "game of a lifetime." For further information, informa-tion, call the golf shop, 756-3594. Win Tri cli Meet The two Dave's, Nerdin and Dean finished one - two in the 220. Nerdin won the 440, and Dean won the 100 yard sprint. Both Dave's ran in the 440 relay with Ken Bishop and Frank Pulley each going a leg to win first in this event as the fast David's paced the AF win in great style. Ron Allen grabbed second in the discus; Glen Strong third in the 440; and Frank Pulley won first place in the long jump. Ken Bishop was second and Anderson Phillips got the fourth spot which added up to a thrilling team win with the strong performances by the entire en-tire team. Much credit should go to Coach Pontious and his aid, Scott Dean, who has worked . close and hard with the track team and AF will be a factor in the Region Six Meet. Late last night, the Region Six Meet was held and the Cavemen should finish up among the leaders and although alth-ough AF did not fare very favorably last weekend at the BYU Invitational, Coach Pontious Pon-tious has several first class athletes ath-letes that could give the AFers a strong region showing. and 15 minutes was aided by the fine fielding, including a double play by AF and the hitting of Rackman. Hardman, Morse, and HampU.ii got AF the very critical run, as coach Stan Reid's club turned in another an-other excellent ballgame. Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. n?3 BY JOHN ROBERTS Ba fc id II u m infield appeared to be a hit, but a sliding diving catch by .Hampton .Hamp-ton just off the grass top saved the big win. AF scored one run in the first inning, one in the 4th, and Andy Burgess hit a single to drive in the winning run in the 5th, and Barratts chucking and clutch fielding gave the Cavemen a very important win. No matter what happens, AF has at least a tie for second and a Carbon loss the rest of the week in three games will give the Big Red a tie for the loop crown. AF finishes league play today at Vernal. mm of the If you ever get lost in Wilderness areas in Utah County, you might appreciate people like Hal Day, a Machinist and thirty-one-year veteran of Central Maintenance at U.S. Steel's Geneva Works. Hal is Past Commander of the Utah County Jeep Patrol a volunteer group that assists the Sheriffs Department and the public in general by driving into the mountains in their own jeeps and with their own survival equipment to help people in trouble. After fourteen years with the Jeep Patrol, p-, tl m ,nt i ( x ( If ' I . I " - - mm - - Mi w .. ---i . v y' v 4 Mix-up at Wrestling Tourney Explained Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity op-portunity to explain what happened hap-pened at our Inter-Mountain AAU Junior Olympics Wrestling Wres-tling Tournament at Pleasant Grove, April 24, last Saturday. First, I would like to state that Coach Tim Pontious was only following the information I gave him. I had told him that all of our wrestlers would be able to wrestle in this tournament. tourna-ment. This was my understanding understand-ing after 1 had talked to one of the coaches in Salt Lake that is in charge of the AAU program. He said that we could wrestle in our own tournament without qualifying. We had a misunderstanding misunder-standing at this point. We were not holding a qualifying tournament, tourna-ment, but we were hosting the State AAU Tournament. Everyone Ev-eryone was to have qualified before this tournament. There was no way we could qualify before this tournament without going to Salt Lake City to one of their qualifying tournaments. tourna-ments. Of course, when the other teams found out we were not qualified, they protested and would not let us wrestle, which is what they should have done. I only wish this misunderstanding misun-derstanding could have been cleared up before it was too late. There were several Amer ican Fork and Pleasant Grove young wrestlers denied the right to participate because of this misunderstanding. I apologize for this and hope we did not discourage anyone from ever wrestling again. It was a honest mistake on our Part. I feel the only real one hurt were the kids that didn't get to wrestle. We are holding a PI. Grove City Recreation Wrestling Tournament on May 8, 1976. This will start with registration and weigh ins at 9:00 to 11:00. Wrestling will begin at 11:00 a.m. We would like to invite all young wrestlers from Lehi, American Fork and PI. Grove to take part in this tournament. There will be no losers - everyone ev-eryone will receive a certificate certifi-cate and ribbons for participating participat-ing in this tournament. It was very successful last year and we are hoping for a good tournament tour-nament this year. If anyone would like to contact me on or about this article, you may call my home or write to me at this address. Darold Henry, Wrestling Wres-tling Coach, Pleasant Grove High School, 700 East 200 South, Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062. Phone: 785-3515. school; 785-4851, home. Yours for better wrestling, Darold Henry A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts. Saying Gesundheit! doesn't really halep the common cold -but it's about as good as anything anyth-ing the doctors have come up with. Rainbow Swim Team Competes The Tri-City Rainbow swim team participated in the Granger Golden Sprint swim meet held at Granger High School. It was an invitational with 12 teams entered from Utah and Idaho. Several membe.rs of the Rainbow team placed in the top seven places. They are as follows: fol-lows: Colleen Savage, 4th place, 50 yd. breast stroke; Michelle Shawcroft, 6th place, 50 yd. freestyle; Brock Knight, 6th place, 50 yd. breast stroke; Nathan Birchall, 7th place, 50 yd. breast, 100 yd. I.M., and 100 freestyle; Candace Knight, 7th place, 25 yd. fly; and Terry Hutchinson, 7th place, 100 yd. I.M. A.F. Team Wins Bowling Team Honors Members of the Jack and Jill Travel Team, Number 10, have won first place in the Utah County Travel League in bowling. bowl-ing. The travel league consists of teams from Springville, Spanish Span-ish Fork, Provo, American Fork, and Orem. Members of the winning including one year in which he served as National Vice Commander, Hal Day is more enthusiastic than ever about his spare-time work. "I love the outdoors," he said, "and 1 like to think that other people can enjoy the outdoors knowing that if they ever get into . trouble, were there to help. And when you find a lost child or save someone's life, then you really know this work is worthwhile." At Geneva Works we can't think of anything more worthwhile than the Utah County Jeep Patrol, which includes ten other people from this plant. They're people helping people, and this kind of concern for others is one thing that helps make America work. At U.S. Steel's Geneva Works, olved. weremv TRADEMARK I. ii 1 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN High School Honor Students Announced A total of 44 students in the senior class at American Fork High School have attained the school honor roll according to George Pedersen, school counselor, and Principal Con H. Brady. To be named to the honor roll, the students had to have a grade point average of 3.67 or above for eight semesters, Mr. Pedersen said. Achieving this from among the 1976 graduating class are: Renae Allen, Kirk Anderton, Alison Apgood, Julie Barratt, Raylene Beasley, Caryn Beck, Kevin Bennett, Becky Bills, Nancy Bowen, Becky Broad-bent, Broad-bent, Mary Chadwick, Karen Christensen, Clinton Conder, Gary Cook, David Dean, Ronald Ron-ald Fowler, Mark Frederick-son. Frederick-son. Guy Hamtpon, Brian Hansen, Han-sen, Geniel Hatch, Bob Haws, team are Jewell Hutchison, Lois Hampton, Una Crystal, Leona Clark, and Kay Barratt. They also took high series with a score of 2559. On May 22, they will go to national competition to compete com-pete for further honors. They are sponsored by the Jack and Jill Lanes. Geneva Works United States THURSDAY. MAY 6. 1976 Troy Healey, Robert Hess, Cyndy Hooley, Allan Jensen, Sheree Jensen, Gerald LeBar-on, LeBar-on, Jolynn McGhie, Ann Mitchell, Mit-chell, Calvin Monson, Barry Morse, David Nerdin, Michell Norton, Lorraine Pack, Sheryl Pedersen, Jim Phelps, Steven Perkins, Lynell Shelley, Robert Shelley, Michael Sumsion, Randy Thomas, John Van-Wagoner, Van-Wagoner, Alan Wofford and Barbara Whitby. CARD OF THANKS We gratefully acknowledge all acts of kindness and words of consolation expressed during the time of bereavement caused through the passing of our beloved mother and grandmother. grand-mother. To those who visited the hospital and the home, those taking part in the funeral services, for the beautiful floral offerings and other remembrances remem-brances sent, we are truly appreciative. 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