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Show Ami-ricun Fork Citizen New Utah - Thursday, July 17, 2(X).? - Pujie 6 Sports Sports editor: Beky Beaton 756-5273 bbeatonnewutah.com AF 1 7Us By Beky Beaton The American Fork 17-anrl-under baseball team has now run a win streak to citfrit in a row as five more victories were posted in eight flavs. The Cavemen outlasted I'leasant drove 12-10 on the road July 7. American Fork came up with two runs in the top of the sixth inning and pitcher Mark Brown shut the Vikings down after that to preserve the victory. Austin Haws went 3 for 4 with a double, while Shay Conder doubled and tripled with 2 KBI in 4 at-bats. Tyson Davis was .3 for 5 with 2 RBI, Steve Parker went 2 for !, and Hap Holm-stead Holm-stead was 2 for 4 with a pair of RBI. Josh Jones had a double, (lentry Bean a single, sin-gle, and Brown and Zach Mitani each drove in a run. On the 9th, the Cavemen shut out Hillcrest 5-0. "We're continuing to hit good," said coach Jarod Ingersoll. Mitani got things started with a triple in the bottom of the second, then scored on a sacrifice bunt by - k, 1 y J 1 - ' , ' ' - f' WHqJjp0: lift. --- y American Fork's Tyson Davis dives back to first before he can be picked off June 28. AF 15Us beat Colts, Huskies By Dean Von Memmott Scours Cowr.spoNDt.NT In last week's action in the UABA League's 15-and-undcr division, the American Ameri-can Fork Cavemen defeated the Cottonwood Colts 10-9 in an overtime thriller at home July 7. American Fork followed that win up with a 4-2 triumph on the Hillcrest Huskies' Midvale diamond July 9. American Fork coach Rick Lyman said, "The Cottonwood Cot-tonwood game went nine innings. Ryan Riddle pulled it out for us in the bottom of the ninth. Aaron Baddley hit a double, and Riddle : ':''Z .. i I A Caveman makes a hit on Taylorsville June 28. STEEL R00RN6 SIDING Sunrise Gold Ivory, Beige Whit. Tan, Grtn Irown, lk. Burgundy Charcoal Cray, Almond, U. Gray aijfiarf ME13 11 AMO NO win eighth straight Brady F'almer. In the third, Davis tripled and was driven in by a Conder base hit. Parker then tripled to score Conder. Con-der. In the sixth, Parker hit another triple and later came in on a passed ball. Mitani also tripled, then reached home on a Palmer single. American Fork topped Bingham 6-2 at home Thursday. "Brown threw a great game against the defending 5A state champions," champi-ons," Ingersoll said. "He adjusted to the umpire and threw good pitches. He got a lot of ground balls, and we backed him up with good defense." Haws drew a walk to begin the first batting turn. He advanced on a fielder's choice, then came in on a Conder double. Parker doubled dou-bled in Conder to make it 2-0. In the third, Haws walked again, and Davis followed with a base hit. With two outs, Mitani walked to load the bases, and a Palmer single scored Haws. Brown doubled and doubled him in for the winning win-ning run. "We were ahead for a few innings, but they Cottonwood Cotton-wood tied it up late in the game to force it into extra innings. The game went really fast." The Hillcrest game went down as a pitching duel between Caveman Gentry Bean and Husky Carson Robinson as both teams stranded runners on base nearly every inning. Doubling on one out in the top of the first, Zeb Lowe soon scored the game's first run on an error. Bean doubled in Riddle on JULY IS sazuNrwrrH SAVINGS FOR YOUI I ... i' Coviag Popular Itngthi ttmiUd QuonlllHi Onlin Catalog mfctalmart.bfz 1 -800-947-0249 W accept H1 Z'i Haws singled to open the fourth. Davis drove in one run with a base hit, and another was scored on a Conder double. Parker walked, and a Mitani sacrifice sacri-fice fly brought home the final tally. The Miners got their two runs in the fifth but were held after that. The Cavemen took the lead at East with five runs in the third inning and held on for a 7-4 victory Friday. Brown was 2 for 2 with a walk, and Haws went 2 for 4 with an RBI. Conder contributed con-tributed 2 RBIs and Parker an RBI triple. Brown threw six innings and Hap Holmstead closed out a 10-2 victory over Mountain View on Monday. Mitani had a great night at the plate, going 3 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI. In the second inning, Palmer had a key sacrifice bunt which moved runners to second and third. A Hunter Boone double then drove them both in. Holm-stead Holm-stead was 2 for 3 with an RBI, while Haws was 2 for 4 and Davis and Parker each added an RBI. two outs. Robinson got a groundout to end the turn. In the bottom of the inning, Bean struck out the first three Husky batters. Taylor Mangun doubled in Brady Mason and Jordan Houghton in the second inning. After that big RBI, Robinson cracked down on American Fork's hitters, and they didn't score again, despite sixth and seventh inning hits from T.C. Taylor and Mangum. During the bottom of the second, Hillcrest got a double dou-ble from Austin Hatch and a two-out single from Ryan Morby, but Bean struck out Josh Ison to delay Husky scoring until the third. In the bottoom of the third, the Huskies picked up two runs on a Dex Olson double and a Scott Peterson single. After that inning, Bean and reliever Mangum didn't let the Huskies make any further runs. Together, Bean and Mangum struck out 12 batters bat-ters for the night. DOLLAR CUTlk.lgT'jflif DC OREM 1277 S.800E. 227-0303 OREM 882 N. State Street 224-3284 PLEASANT GROVE 314 E. State .... 785-3100 PR0V0 350 N. Freedom Blvd. .... 374-0024 - (Inside Smith's) T : : r ' : - -- H v r x i Photos by Kent Davis HAST members heading to Moscow Include (front row, from left) Casey Klelnman, coach Dee Loose, Jared Greiner, Sandra Yocum, (back row) Melynne King, Carly Smith, Haylee Adamson, Ashley Johnson and Annette Johnson. Seven local swimmers set to compete in Moscow Games By Beky Beaton Seven swimmers from Hilltop Aquatics Swim Team have been chosen to compete in the Moscow-Utah Moscow-Utah Youth Games in Moscow, Russia, July 16-27. Representing Utah will be 18 swimmers each for the men's and women's teams. Haylee Adamson, Annette Johnson, Ashley Kleinman, Carly Smith and Sandra Yocom will compete in the women's division, while Jared Griener and ' Casey Kleinman were chosen cho-sen to be on the men's squad. Hilltop Aquatics and Lone Peak High School head coach Dee Loose was also chosen to be the head coach for the men's team. They will be competing in the three-day meet at the Olympijski Sports Complex, ' said HAST spokesman DaNene Adamson. According Accord-ing to Moscow officials, 15,000 spectators are expected to attend the meet. Another HAST swimmer, Melynne King, will also be going to Moscow, but will be competing in track and field events. Titan 16Us By Beky Beaton The American Fork 16-and-under softball team had a breakthrough week in the most recent double-header double-header as they tied the first game and won the other. Playing on Thursday against Mountain View, the Titans scored four runs in the fourth to tie 5-5. Shelby Swapp started the offense with a single in the second but was left stranded. In the third, Lisa Pax-man Pax-man walked and later Save on our EVERYDAY low prices.., Opening ceremonies are scheduled for July 19, with the swimming competition beginning on July 20. The athletes will also be seeing the sights of Moscow throughout the Games. "These swimmers have been training for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for many months and are excited excit-ed to be a part of Team Utah," Adamson said. The Utah and Russian athletes will all be staying in the Olympic Village Hotel, built for the 1980 Olympics in downtown Moscow, to help "promote the Olympic spirit of friendship, friend-ship, solidarity and fair play," promoters said. Neways International of Springville is the sponsor for Team Utah and is covering cover-ing almost all of the expenses expens-es for the athletes, including includ-ing team wear. "The security for these athletes has been uppermost upper-most in the minds of the organizers of these games, and has been carefully coordinated coor-dinated through the 2002 Olympic Security Task Force," Adamson said. Neways also chartered an Aeroflot jet to transport tie and win scored. Shaylynn Wilkinson slapped the ball but reached first safely on an error and made it to home for American Fork's second run. In the fourth, Lindsey Phelps walked, Jenny Christiansen got aboard on an error and Kim Thayne smacked a double; all three of them eventually crossed home to complete the Titan tally. Some momentum carried over into the nightcap, when American Fork beat Wake up feeling rested! ftrvUR-PEDIC : mwl DDrCCIIDC DCI ICUIUft vvl PRESSURE RELIEVING 8WEDISH MATTRESS NASA technology has contributed to America's best sleeping system. Try it today! AlliccFs' Sleep ' Cent er )n the ACE Hardware building 7SS-222 1 HOURS: Mon.-frL 7 i.m. - 7 pm Sat ! i.m. - ( p.m. the 300-plus athletes, coaches, officials, chaper-ones, chaper-ones, medical staff and dignitaries dig-nitaries that are attending the Games from this state. The Moscow-Utah Youth Games are the first ever joint games between a city in Russia and a U.S. state. It was during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games that Mayor Yuri Luzhkov of Moscow and Governor Mike Leavitt first discussed the possibility of continuing the Olympic Spirit between the City of Moscow and the State of Utah. The 250 Utah athletes chosen to attend are 18 years and younger and are the top competitors in their sports. They will be competing compet-ing in gymnastics, volleyball, volley-ball, basketball, soccer, baseball, wrestling, track and field, water polo and swimming. Also as part of the exchange, Russian athletes will come to Utah in February Febru-ary 2004 to compete in winter win-ter events. Complete results and daily pictures of all of the athletes will be available at www.yourlifeimages.com throughout the games. in Softball Orem by a comfortable margin. mar-gin. Specific details on this contest were unavailable, but coach Shanna Stevens said "the kids hit well. They knew what they had to do to' win and got it done. "They held the Tigers, and got their teammates in," she added. "I've seen an awful lot of improvement through the course of the season, and it's made me very happy. "I'm excited for the high school season to . come again." ANO PILLOW 181 South 1200 East Lehi 330 SOUTH MAIN PL GROVE Store Hours: M-F 8-5 SAT 8-NOON T |