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Show American Fork Citizen New Utah! - Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - Page 10 s PORTS Football s b4 Dean Von Memmott Sprts Correspondent Tbe American Fork Cavemen will open their new; football season on a tough note when they travel to te Titans' field Friday for an endowment game. "Olympus is ranked one of the top three teams in state. 4A," said American Foik Coach Davis Knight. "The week after we play them, we will play at Highland, another one of the Top Three teams." American Fork is no novice at playing Olympus. The Cavemen have faced the Titans twice during state playoff action. With seven starting let-ternien let-ternien back this year, American Fork is hoping it tan finally get Olympus this time, even though bragging rights are the only things presently at stake. "The thing I want is our offensive line," Knight said. "At .'i00 pounds each, linemen line-men Gavin Rock and Nick Jensen are just mountains. 1 don't know if I have ever r y ai American Fork quarterback Saturday's varsity scrimmage. ' - ' - -JT ' 1 tP rnl m Soccer season starts tomorrow at PG lllrflli l I Photo by Dean Von Memmott Members of the soccer team perform practice drills last week in preparation for the season opener tomorrow. Cascade Collision Customer Service backed by Integrity, Knowledge & Skill 175 North 1200 East Lehi 768-8010 eason '- ml " ' rm Week Ending Aug. 17, 2001 Favored Team Rating Diff. Rating Underdog Non- Region Games CARBON 47.0 -, 62 v 40 8 Payson MTN VIEW 58 4 6.4 . 52.0 Lehi NORTH SANPETE 37 3 11J 260 Dixie OLYMPUS 63 2 5.6 ' '" 57.6 ' American Fork Orem 605 3.8 ' 56.7 JORDAN TIMPVIEW 74.1 ,17.4 56.7 Pleasant Grove UNION 350 ; 0.9 34 1 Emery Las! weeks record: 5-3 62.5 Post-season record to date: 48-10 82.7 Final regular season record: 290-1 15 71.6 Copyright 2000 by Noland Parry Top 5 4A 3A Highland 77.2 Snow Canyon 63.9 Timpview 74.1 Lehi 52.0 Lone Peak 70.2 Delta 51.4 Logan 67.6 Morgan 47.9 Olympus 63.2 Carbon 47.0 had 300-pound linemen before. We also have Kimball Reeves, Landon Dellass, and Grady Lee. "An All-Stater from last year, T.J. Trane is back. He received honorable mention 49 ait ' Kai Ragland swings a pass w : . t..:, c, mm mmmmmmmM r j: sgv a ... . . "', "'i ... . " gets un for lineman. This year, he will be playing tight end. Derek Bodtcher, a returning All-Region player is an inside linebacker." Knight pointed out that the Cavemen have among ii towards JD Beck during By Dean Von Memmott Sports Correspondent The American Fork Cavemen will open their new girls' soccer season tomorrow in a 3:30 p.m. game on the Pleasant Grove Vikings' field. While American Fork's new coach, Rob Vogelsberg, knows nothing about Pleasant Grove's strengths and weaknesses, he says, "The fact . that they are being coached by Jose Marzan means they should be competitive. He is a good coach." Vogelsberg succeeds Rebekah Kemp, who had stepped down to get married mar-ried and move away. In her final season, at American Fork, she coached the team to its first state playoff appearance in nine years. American Fork has four starters back from that squad: Shae Hall, Kim Harris, Emily Lyons, and Jeanette Moody. Vogelsberg said, "Shae has been in the program since ninth grade. Kim is Specializing in Diesel Repairs and Performance GlllPtt Diesel Service 14H12 So. Ilerltaiiccmt Way (700 W) Bluffdalc ul nir Bl.ifrdakc.il J9) 1-800-638-4679 derway their teammates, three-fourths three-fourths of last spring's state 4A champion 400-meter relay team. The coach said, "Relay team members running run-ning for us include J.D. Beck, Derek Richards, and Derek Walker. They're the ones we're looking at for speed. Derek Richards was the third fastest athlete at state last track season." Kainoa Ragland is the Cavemen's starting quarterback quar-terback this year. Of him, Knight said, "He has a great throwing arm, and he's intelligent on the field. We don't hesitate to point that out." While the Cavemen are looking forward to demonstrating demon-strating the awesomeness of their offense this Friday, they are not neglecting the importance of their defensive defen-sive team. Knight said, "Ryan Callahan will be playing strong safety for us and Nick Jensen defensive tack-, le. Trane is doing defensive end this year. We have a couple of transfer students playing defense for us. "Andy Hilgenberg shined last year at Lone Peak; he was one of their premier athletes. He's going to play saftey for us. Jon White was on the Lehi team that took state last year, and he's going to be a defensive end for us." This season will mark another reincarnation of Region Six, the league American Fork has been in since 1997. This year's league will not have Pleasant Grove and Lone Peak as members, but it will still include Payson, Timpivew, Provo, Spanish Fork, Springville, and American Fork. "The No. 1 team in the league this year will be Timpview," Knight said. "They, Highland, and Olympus are the three top teams in state 4A." Before anyone assumes that the reorganization of the league will mean no games with crosstown rivals Pleasant Grove and Lone Peak, there is good news. American Fork will open its home season against Pleasant Grove Aug. 31. The Cavemen will take a break from Region Six battles bat-tles during the week of Sept. 26 for a crossover game with the Lone Peak Knights in Highland. This year's team captains include Callahan, Ragland, Beck, Walker, Trane, Steve Burton, and Travis Slater. quite enthusiastic. Emily is a senior, and she's been with the team for the past couple of years. Jeanette is a junior, and she was a jayvee captain last year." Vogelsberg is not a stranger to the American Fork girls' soccer program. He says, "I spent one season helping Becky coach the girls. That was when my daughter was playing for American Fork." He brings to the program many years of soccer experience. experi-ence. He says, "I played soccer soc-cer on Long Island. I went on to play it at Annapolis and BYU." Vogelsberg commented that soccer "is bigger in the East than it is in the West. We're not up to the level the kids in the East are on. We have to teach the girls the basics." He and his coaching staff have' been teaching the American Fork girls the basics in recent two-a-day practices. This week, he will see what they have learned from the sessions. Products- 1 .ill ( -t- "rrtiii- mm Friday at Olympus jMWiiJIiil .IWBM'Ui.HIW'.l. 1 ...'II I J I."1 IF""1"" iwrnTnrrrTTinpTTir i i "' r"'T'" ""J Jf4l "1 ' I ' ' t'" . . t , m i,,M. Ji Photos by Beky Beaton Coach Davis Knight and receiver Ryan Callahan focus on the action during Saturday's varsity scrimmage Annual AF booster dinner draws 1,000-plus to luau The Caveman football season got off to a rousing start Saturday with the annual dinner and Red and White scrimmages, sponsored spon-sored by the booster club. As last year, the dinner was a Hawaiian-style luau prepared by quarterback Kai Ragland's family under the supervision of his grandmother, Mrs. Ciriako. Fresh bread from Great Harvest completed the meal. An authentic Hawaiian program accompanied the dinner, which was attended by more than a thousand people. Coach Davis Knight and his assistants competed . with the varsity captains Rec soccer meeting, training set for 25th A meeting for all coaches of NUCS recreation soccer teams has been set for Saturday, Aug. 25, at 9 a.m. in the Highland city building. At this meeting, team rosters, schedules and team equipment nh be distributed. distrib-uted. Coadnes should make sure to attend or send a delegate del-egate to pick up your materials. mate-rials. At 10:30 a.m. that same PLEASAfiT GROVE spen Bert Wilson W ' ' CM stora for detail Bert and Bruce have over 30 years combined lending experience in North Utah County. We're a full service lender Purchase $0 Down Poor Credit ' Refinance - . . i , 2nd Mortgage 1 Credit Ufitd 250 West Main American Fork 756-7434 .Visit our homepage at: www.aspenmtg.com for the honor of best dancers. In his remarks to the crowd, Knight complimented compliment-ed his coaching staff and noted the great dedication of his varsity players. Running plays dominated dominat-ed the sophomore versus junior varsity contest. Thei JV prevailed 8-6 with an' overtime period. '- The varsity 'team was divided into black and white squads, with Ragland running the offense for both. The offense was more of a" mix of pass and run in this one, with a good showing by the linemen and an improved kicking game. morning, there will be a training meeting for youth referees. All youth players 11 and up who would like to earn some extra money asJ referees for recreation soccer soc-cer should attend for training train-ing and season instructions. Please see the NUCS website at for more infor-" mation. Mortgage Bruce Henriksen Construction "ikbt Consol. Locally Owned T POOR |