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Show Soccer team ties Payson in 01 American Fork Citizen New Utah - Thursday. October 2, 2(X)3 - Page 7 By Beky Beaton The American Fork soccer soc-cer team earned a 1-1 tie at home against Payson on Friday after dropping an 0-3 0-3 decision to region leader Timpview on Sept. 23. The Cavemen began the second round of league play against top-ranked Thun-derbirds, Thun-derbirds, who are undefeated undefeat-ed in the region. "The girls worked hard the whole game and created quite a few opportunities to score, but were unable to finish," said coach Jan Vogelsberg Timpview was able to create more opportunities opportu-nities and find the back of the net." She added, "Coach Davis of Timpview complimented the American Fork girls on their skills, determination and understanding of the game. As coaches we were very impressed that the girls never gave up, but worked hard the whole game." The coach said her players play-ers were excited to play Payson at home, but had to wait a day when the regularly-scheduled game for Thursday was changed to Friday due to the smoke from the Cascade II fire. "In the first game against Payson a few weeks ago, we felt like we had outplayed Payson. We controlled the ball and outshot them, but came away with a 1-0 loss," Vogelsberg said. This time, the girls came out aggressive from the beginning, winning the 50-50 50-50 balls and controlling possession. pos-session. Both teams created good opportunities to score, but neither team was able to finish." The Caveman finally went on top with a goal from Stephanie Cochran off an assist by Heather Vogelsberg with only about 10 minutes left to go in the game. With just two minutes remaining, Payson was able to get a corner kick and finish fin-ish when the ball got lost in front of the net. In overtime, both teams had opportunities to score, but neither was able to find the net. "We were so proud of the girls," Coach Vogelsberg Vogels-berg said. "They worked hard the whole game, never gave up, and left it all out on the field. "Again, we won in stats -time of possession, shots on goal (led by Adrienne Schneider, Megan Keith and Alyssa Berrett) and corners cor-ners - but unfortunately left with a tie," she added. "All the girls deserve to be recognized for their efforts: Amanda Willard as goalie, and Brittany Harrison, Harri-son, Rebecca Bush, Erin Thompson, Carlie Cornell, Jill Greenwood, Adrienne Schneider, Marissa Brad-shaw, Brad-shaw, Alyssa Berrett, Kim Tippetts, Megan Keith, Heather Vogelsberg, and Stephanie Cochran in the field," the coach said. "We were a team in every sense of the word. We would have loved a win, and felt like we more than deserved one, but couldn't be prouder of our girls for the way they played." The Cavemen complete the region season at home with Provo this afternoon and Spanish Fork on Tuesday. Tues-day. Varsity game time is 4 p.m. Spikers earn win as region opens By Dean Von Memmott Sports Correspondent The American Fork volleyball vol-leyball team opened their Region 6 schedule with a split in two home matches last week. On Sept. 23, American Fork defeated the Payson Lions 25-21, 25-16, 25-22. However, third-ranked third-ranked Provo overcame American Fork 20-25, 25-12, 25-12, 25-23, 25-19 on Thursday. Thurs-day. Of the Payson match, American Fork Coach Jamie Ingersoll said, "Shan-na "Shan-na King had an excellent night at the net with kills and blocks. Our passing is getting excellent. It's allowing allow-ing us to hit more balls, especially tonight. We had five seniors at a time on the court. That was really good for us." The first game opened with a seesaw struggle between the teams. At the net, Emillie Toone and Shanna King led American Fork in countering shots lobbed by Lions Camille Chlarson and Karlee Patridge. The lead changed hands so frequently that it was hard to tell how long either team stayed ahead. One thing that did stay constant was Toone's hitting. She led American Fork with 20 kills and 10 blocks for the night. Kills by her helped to keep the battle going in the opening game. Its outcome was not decided until a Toone kill put American Fork's lead at 23-20. With Toone dominating the net in the second game, the Cavemen rolled easily out to a 10-2 lead. Sandy Marvin and Kellie Brereton registered kills which pushed the Lions within 15-10. 15-10. Hitting mistakes on their part kept the Lions stuck while American Fork pulled way ahead on hits from Toone, King, and Shantell 1 Durrant. A Monica Lamb ace won the game for American Amer-ican Fork. Even though American Fork took a 4-0 lead in the third game, the Lions made a contest of it. Led by Chlarson Chlar-son and Marvin, they quickly quick-ly tied the game at 4-4. Taking advantage of two Payson hitting errors, Toone registered kills that created an 8-4 lead for American Fork. Brereton and Chlarson Chlar-son organized another rally which eventually put the Lions ahead 9-8. This marked the start of frequent changes in the lead. As usual, Toone kept her poise as she received much help from Cedar Hatch, Lamb, Andrea Andrews and King in preventing pre-venting Payson from taking permanent control of the roeirtentum. nAfter a King kill had tied the game at 16, American Fork; slipped ahead and never fell behind after that. For the Provo match, Ingersoll said, "Our girls played well in the first and tgjjCjf games. We had more balanced teamwork in those games. In the second and fourth games, we made too many mistakes. They were what beat us." The Cavemen visit powerful pow-erful Timpview tonight, then host Springville on Tuesday. Varsity match time is about 6:30 p.m. , v A. ' : 3 if A i I' t - t- fj -' t Photo by Kent Davis American Fork's Shantell Durrant makes a hit In the Provo match on Thursday. Harriers win region tri-meet By Beky Beaton The American Fork cross-country team won both divisions of a tri-meet with Timpview and Spanish Fork on Tuesday. The girls' scores were 30 for the Cavemen, 46 for the Dons and 54 for the Thun-derbirds. Thun-derbirds. On the boys' side, American Fork had 26, Timpview Tim-pview 33 and Spanish Fork 84. Sausha Sommers was the top Caveman finisher for the girls at 20:33. Leslie Rose was fourth at 21:12, and Kellie Wentz came in fifth at 21:28. Alexis Harward was ninth, Nicole Redford 10th, Keisha Sommers 12th, Lisa Tubb 13th, Linnea Grimes 16th, Lindsey Grimes 19th, Corrine Kennard 21st, Danni Hatch 23rd, Rachel Bradshaw 26th and Mariah Proctor 27th. Dale Golding led the boys,' finishing second at 16:14. Justin Crowther was fourth at 16:38, and John Bell fifth at 16:48. T.J. Jackson came in seventh, sev-enth, Nathan Lye was eighth, Chris Fox ninth, Jacob Moir 10th, James Barlow 18th, Josh Mayne 23r Kyle Wentz 26th, Geoff Harmon 32nd, Ryan $arl36th and Tyler Hun-saker Hun-saker 38th. t - ft A ( f v . Ty - JU,M- ' ' ' '' Ptioto by Matt Smith American Fork's Alyssa Berrett moves in to challenge a Bruin on Aug. 26. Golf team qualifies for State By Dean Von Memmott The American Fork golf team finished fifth at a Region 6 golf tournament held Sept. 25 at Springville's Hobble Creek course. Though the Cavemen have stayed in the seeded spots up until this match, Thursday's finish put American Amer-ican Fork's chances of making mak-ing the state tournament on 'the line. They now trail fourth-place Payson by nine strokes. American Fork coach Jeff Thurman said, "There are going to be four teams from our region that will get to go to state." American Fork hosted the final region tournament Sept. 30 at Tri-City. ' At the Sept. 25 tournament, tourna-ment, C.J. 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