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Show Soccer sutlers pair By Beky Beaton The American Fork soccer soc-cer team continued to play competitively last week but lost a pair of region contests on the road, 2-4 at Tim-pview Tim-pview on Sept. 7 and 1-2 at Payson on Thursday. The T-birds came out quickly and scored in the first five minutes on a long cross which was finished by All-Region player Candice Clarke. Clarke scored again in the 13th minute to put Timpview up 2-0. The Cavemen were able to put together some good passes and attack the Timpview Tim-pview defense, but failed to take advantage of their opportunities. The first half ended with the T-birds out-shooting out-shooting American Fork 13-6. 13-6. In the second half, the Cavemen came out strong and began to put more pressure pres-sure on Timpview with some strong runs from sophomore forward Lindsay Voorheis and junior Stephanie Cochran. Photos Sabrina WIscomb competes Caveman By Dean Von Memmott Sports Correspondent The American Fork cross-country team won the varsity boys' division while the girls finished third at the Bulldog Invitational, held Sept. 11 at Provo's Kiwanis Park. Caveman coach Bruno Hunziker said, "The boys had been working really hard to compete well against Provo and Mountain Moun-tain View. They beat Provo today, and defeated Judge Memorial 45-41. "To have four guys finish in the top 10 with this level of competition was great for us. The boys' team is hungry hun-gry to take Region and State," he said Coach Timo Mostert added, "We knew Judge was going to be awesome to compete com-pete against. The boys are learning to win. It's great to see them win over Judge. We had two ninth-graders run varsity today: Jarett Pulsipher and Ben Felix. Ben got an award for being the third-fastest freshman at this meet." In the varsity boys' race, John Bell (16:52) took fourth, Tyler Jackson fifth, Mike Felix seventh, Jacob Moir ninth and Nate Lye 17th for the counted times. Pulsipher came in 32nd and Ben Felix 33rd to push back the scores of other teams. For the boys' JV, Josh Mayne (18:12) took first : u - li - HALIBUT cm IHi UGE OY'S 580 E State Rd American Fork PHONE ORDERS WELCOME 492-1762 Cochran was able to find Voorheis with a give, and she got behind the defense and beat the keeper to narrow nar-row the score to 2-1. The T-birds countered with another goal to go up 3-1, but American Fork continued con-tinued to work hard and Cochran was able to get on the end of one of Kelsey Mitchell's crosses to bring the Cavemen within one point with 20 minutes left to play. The teams went back and forth, then in the final five minutes, American Fork center defender Adrienne Schneider was moved to midfield to try to get the equalizer. The Cavemen attacked and had numerous opportunities in the closing minutes, but the Timpview goalie made some great saves to preserve the win. After the missed opportunities, oppor-tunities, the T-birds were able to counter-attack in the late going and scored to finish fin-ish the tally. Timpview held a narrow 14-12 advantage in shots in the second half. "What a heartbreaker," said coach Rob Vogelsberg. "It looked like Stephanie had beat the keeper, keep-er, but she was able to make a great save to preserve the win. These girls played like champions champi-ons today. "Our co-captains, co-captains, Erin Thomson, Alyssa Ber-rett, Ber-rett, Kelsey Mitchell and by Kent Davis for the ball. boys win place; it's the second straight year that an American Amer-ican Fork runner has won this event. Geoff Harmon was third, Chris Fox fifth, Kyle Wentz ninth, Mike Barlow 13th, Jordan Kitchen 34th, Ryan Earl 38th and Tyler Hunsker 42nd. The Caveman girls finished fin-ished with 96 points in their varsity race, behind Provo (69) and Park City (81). ' Hunziker said, "Sausha Sommers (19:47) ran really well. She beat Judge's Sam Gaffany and finished second sec-ond right behind last year's state runner-up, Katie Bowen of Lone Peak. Katie's the girl to beat this year. "As a team, our girls have been like a roller-coaster this year. Last week, they didn't race as well as they did today. They've got to be on the same page, so they can do really well against teams like Provo," he added. American Fork's other runners were Leslie Rose in 17th, Lisa Tubb 18th, Lind-sey Lind-sey Grimes 29th, Alexis Harward 30th, Jill Greenwood Green-wood 36th and Linnea Grimes 42nd. In the JV girls' race, freshman Rebecca Thorpe (23:26) led the squad by finishing fin-ishing second. Megan Wad-doups Wad-doups took ninth, Allison Hancock 10th, " Corinne Kennard 12th, Brooke Hundley 13th, Kellie Wentz 14th, Melanie Miller 17th, Credit Cank Gladly Accept d of losses Kim Tippett's showed a lot of leadership today in their efforts on the field," he continued. con-tinued. "We've had a tendency ten-dency to let down when other teams score on us first, but today they battled back from 2-0 and 3-1 and never gave up. "We gambled on the extra offensive player in the final minutes and it almost paid off. Everyone worked hard against a great team and put themselves in a position to tie it up," Vogelsberg Vogels-berg said. The Cavemen also fell behind early against the Lions in a physical game. Payson scored in the first minute on a shot from 35 yards out. "Our goal this year is to make it to the playoffs and this is one of the areas that well need to improve on," the coach said. "We've come out soft every game and good teams will capitalize if you let them. "We've got to come out with intensity at the beginning begin-ning of every game. You can't get behind in the beginning and expect to battle back every time." American Fork woke up after that score and worked hard to create quite a few opportunities to score. Voorheis was able to get behind the defense on a pass from Cochran to tie the score in the 10th minute, and the team continued to press for the second goal. "We had four more shots and two corners following the goal, but weren't able to get the go-ahead score," Vogelsberg said. The Cavemen Cave-men were working hard in the Payson end for the equalizer, but then in the 20th minute, the Lions were Bulldog Invitational Hi , mum - - 1 fc I, ? 0 Photo by Dean Von Memmott American Fork's John Bell finished fourth Saturday and led his team to victory In the Bulldog Invitational. Sarah Jones 28th and tional Saturday at Pleasant Christina Laws 46th. Grove. Payson will visit for Next up for the Cavemen a dual meet on Tuesday is the Doug Owen Invita- beginning at 4 p.m. fcucannow quaiiiy uing appliances ax 1 2 illftcSiciroAld Factcrt AsmiQfusj vmm,tum smv mints mt I Iff !Wl4SwS E ww us Sal3, Service i Fasts 50 E. Main Lehi 768-3461 in region able to clear an AF corner kick to their forwards. On a weak cross the ball just slowly rolled in front of the goal and none of the AF players were able to get to it. "It was a disheartening goal, especially after we had worked so hard and had so many opportunities," the coach added. The half ended with Payson in the lead 2-1. The second period went back and forth. The Cavemen Cave-men played more of a ball-control ball-control game and attacked well on the wings, while Payson relied on long kicks. "We had a few more shots on goal than Payson, but couldn't get the equalizer," Vogelsberg said. "It was definitely def-initely the most physical game of the year. "I would have liked to have seen a few more calls; I believe the referee let too much go," he continued. "Our girls got pretty banged up, but if the referee is going to let it go you have to go to battle yourself and let them know you won't be intimidated. "We also need to recognize recog-nize that against bigger, more physical teams you need quicker ball movement. move-ment. If you hold on to the ball rather then make the quick early pass, you give the opponent more of an opportunity to bump and foul," the coach said. The region race remains very tight with Springville on top by a game but the others all following closely behind. This week's, matches match-es will be significant in determining the order of the standings. The Cavemen visit Provo this afternoon and go to Spanish Fork on Tuesday. Varsity kickoff is 4 p.m. .,.1-yM purSuse & vm up to Prwtectt ttangt wittsit prior T-jOTtm mimr Yin .-dW American Fork Citizen - Thursday, September 16, 2(X4 - Page 7 . 3 - - t. - Caveman Jenna Toone hits over Lone Peak's front line. Spikers drop match to Lone Peak in 3 By Beky Beaton The American Fork volleyball vol-leyball team lost to defending defend-ing state champion Lone Peak 3-0 Thursday in last week's only match. In the first game, the Knights won the initial point, but Alisha King then served for three straight to give the Cavemen an early 3-1 lead. The game remained close through the early stages and following a Shantell Durrant kill, American Fork was still within 9-11. Lone Peak scored four points in a row after that, however, and gradually pulled away to win 25-14. The Knights jumped ahead early in the second game at 8-2 and stayed well in front for a 25-11 result. Jenna Toone had a pair of aces for the Cavemen. Game 3 was the closest of the match. After an early 2-2 2-2 tie, Lone Peak moved ahead 13-6, but American Golf still in The American Fork golf team remains in fifth place following Thursday's Region 6 tournament at Spanish Oaks Golf Course. At 436, the Cavemen finished fin-ished behind Timpview at 417 and ahead of Provo at 462. American Fork was led by senior Tyler Cichos with a 78. He was followed by Hap Holmstead at 87, Kai AF team wins 6th grade hoops title at Open Court The American Fork Scorch won the sixth grade boys' basketball summer league championship at Open Court last month. The Scorch finished league play undefeated against teams from Farm-ington, Farm-ington, Draper, South Jordan, Jor-dan, Sandy, Riverton and Utah County. After a bye in the quarterfinals quar-terfinals of the tournament, the Scorch defeated the Riverton Cougars 60-20 in the semifinals. In the championship game, they downed Utah County team John's Auto 52-45 in a hard-fought game. The Scorch were also the LE'i?,QQS2E UJD2IP S ,m ''I' S80 EAST STATE ROAD AMERICAN FORK jMr! Monday Rirv Thunclny ond v .. li li" j i- t A Fork chipped away at the margin until a Jhordan Te'o ace had reduced it to 11-14. The Knights made the next four points though and went on to a 25-17 victory. "We made too many errors to win tonight, but we also did some good things," said coach Chad Murray. "I was happy about how Jhordan played. She's always mentally prepared to pass, dig and be aggressive with the ball," he continued. "Although she's usually a JV player, Kim Thayne came in and played well. "Our missed serves were down a bit today, but the outcome came down to passing, and we were just not mentally ready," Murray Mur-ray said. "Match time reflects practice time, and we need more focus in our preparation." The Cavemen begin the region season Thursday at Springville. Varsity match time is about 6:30 p.m. 5th place Bagley at 88, Brady Nielsen at 90, Jordan Gray at 93, Jordan Houghton at 97, Frankie Day at 98 and J.J. Melton at 100. In the overall team standings, the Cavemen trail Timpview by 39 strokes but are 65 strokes ahead of Provo. The Cavemen will play again this afternoon at East Bay beginning at noon. Open Court 6th grade winter win-ter league champions and participate in AAU and other tournaments, according accord-ing to head coach Shirl LeBaron. Team members include Michael Wells (American Fork), Justin Brockbank (American Fork), Tanner LeBaron (American Fork), Alex Ross (Highland, AFHS attendance area), Colton Colledge (Lehi), Josh Wilson Wil-son (Pleasant Grove, AFHS attendance area), Nate Ensign (Highland, AFHS attendance area) and Kadan McMurtrey (American (Ameri-can Fork). LeBaron's assitant coach is Craig Ensign. t:r;:rcrsirct! XiwftHy loom I Ipm |
