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Show A6 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, October 27. 2005 "1 Pill C 0 M f1 U II I ! SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN layoff season begins for Caveman football team Brighton isAF's first opponent in 5A tournament Beky Beaton I he Ami-rii an I ork football team lias put an excellent season sea-son in tin- Uxiks Now it's lime- lo start the next one. On I nday, tin Cavemen (7 2) we( orne Brighton (H I) to Amern an 1 oik in the Inst round ol the state tournament. Because ol a logjam at the tup ol Region 1. a ( oin Hip placed thi- Bengals in the region's third Ix'ith. Ion ing them lo hit the road " I hi- Salt Lake papers have them tanked as No 2." said Ami'i i' an I urk coach Davis Knight On lilm, I don't see anything to suggest they don't deserve that ranking. "I low ever . our kids aren't intimidated.'' in-timidated.'' he added. "We plan to win." In older tor that to he ossi- hle, somebody is going to have to contain the state's second-leading second-leading rusher, Mike Hague, who is averaging 10 yards ler c arry while producing 175 yards per game by himself. A lot of teams don't get that many total rushing yards in an entire contest. "He has pretty gaudy figures," fig-ures," Knight said. Hague isn't Brighton's only weapon, however. " They're more a running team, but they can throw," the coach continued. "They have a big offeasive line, and they've always been strong defensively. Not many players go both ways, so they're a pretty typical big-school team." Knight said the bigger 5A schools do have certain advantages, advan-tages, but that hasn't fazed his team. "We were put in a position that we had to overachieve a little bit." he said. " The kids have done a pretty good job with that." The coach isn't making any big shifts in his strategy. "If we try to change too much, we'll get away from the things that have made us successful suc-cessful so far," he said. "We've earned the right to have a home field, and we want to take advantage ad-vantage of that. We'll just have to do what we have been doing. "At Lone Peak, we had too many turnovers," Knight added. "We have a solid running game complemented with a good passing pass-ing game. We onJy throw it 15 or 16 times a game, but Paul (01-sen) (01-sen) has a good arm." And what does Knight think of the chances of other local schools that went up to 5A this season? "1 think Lone Peak will beat Skyline," he said. "Pleasant Grove will give Jordan everything every-thing they want. "Spanish Fork played well against Highland last year, and they are one of those core Salt Lake schools. 1 expect all our teams to be competitive." Knight confirmed that the transition to 5A has gone about as he expected. "They're just definitely bigger, big-ger, more physical teams, but from a skill point of view, our kids have proven they can play with them," Knight concluded. Parry's Power Guide to Utah High School Football Stat playoffs, for mk ndkng Oct. 28, 2005 Last weeks record: 26-9 74.3; Year to date record: 322-107 75.0 Copyright 2005 by Noland Parry Top 5 5A 4A 1. Bingham 93.4 1. Mountain Crest 92.2 2. Brighton 93.0 2. Cottonwood 89.9 3. Lone Peak 91.5 3.Timpview 86.3 4. Hunter 90.2 4. Bountiful 81.1 5. Skyline 86.0 5. Highland 80.3 Favored Team Rating Drff. Rating Underdog ' 5A Playoffs ALTA 84.8 12.0 72.8 Spanish Fork BINGHAM 93.4 16.4 77.0 Northridge ; Brighton 93.0 16.2 76.8 AMERICAN FORK ,; FREMONT 80.2 7.5 72.7 Riverton jj HUNTER 90.2 9.2 81.0 Clearfield i; JORDAN 80.0 18.2 61.8 ' Pleasant Grove jj LONE PEAK 91.5 5.5 86.0 Skyline " VIEWMONT 84.1 0.3 83.8 West Jordan l! ij 4A Playoffs BOUNTIFUL 81.1 6.6 74.5 Orem jj Box Elder 79.1 12.0 67.1 SPRINGVILLE i! COTTONWOOD 89.9 25.0 64.9 Bonneville jj East 77.0 7.8 69.2 PROVO j! HIGHLAND 80.3 23.4 56.9 Woods Cross ;. MOUNTAIN CREST 80.0 17.1 62.9 Granger jj or MOUNTAIN CREST 80.0 25.8 54.2 Cyprus jj SKY VIEW 70.8 2.0 68.8 Olympus !! TIMPVIEW 86.3 20.5 65.8 Murray Home Team In CAPS Kaili Katoa American Fork High School tit ' Parents: Sam and Angie Katoa Year: Junior Age: 16 Birthplace: Provo Sport: Volleyball Position: Setter Favorite sports team: The Dallas Cowboys Favorite food: Popsicles Favorite class: Spanish Favorite book: To Kill a Mockingbird Favorite movie: Just Like Heaven Heroes: My parents Most memorable career moment: mo-ment: "Doing good at the Bingham tournament this year." Future plans: To play club volleyball. American Fork head volleyball coach Chad Murray said: "She's a very hard worker. She doesn't play much varsity, but she's still our hardest worker in practices." 1. JK MARIO RUIZ Worth County American Fork's Mike Felix finishes seventh ut stale .5A hoys stute i (oss coiiiilrv mrcl in Salt Lake Cilv on Oct i.'l American finish third Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The American Fork cross country team finished a stellar stel-lar third in the state 5A boys championship meet at Salt Lake City's Sugarhouse Park on Oct. 19. Mike Felix came in seventh as the top Caveman finisher at 16:16.9. Felix said, "The last few hundred hun-dred yards were the hardest part. I wanted to get first or second, but I got sick. The team worked their hardest today. When the team was working for a goal, they always accomplished accom-plished it." He was followed by T.J. Jackson (16:45.2), Geoff Harmon Har-mon (16:45.4), Jarett Pulsipher (17:11.0) and Nathan Lye (17:16.4) for a score of 139. American Fork finished behind Mountain View and Davis. Ben Felix and Kyle Wentz rounded out the field for the Cavemen. American Fork coach Timo Mostert said, "I was pleased with how Mike did in his race. He deserved to make All-State. All the guys ran their guts out. Winning third is pretty exemplary exem-plary for us." The Cavemen had not par- Fork boys at state ticipated in the 5A meet for nine years, but had some other strong showings during their time in the 4A ranks. American Fork finished 11th in the girls division. Arista Sommers took 32nd in 20:28.6 to lead the effort. Arista's sister, Sausha, was supposed to compete as American Ameri-can Fork's No. 1 runner in the race, but had to be pulled out of the competition because of a physician's concerns over a leg injury she had. Arista said, "As I raced, I thought about Sausha. I wanted to do good in this race on behalf be-half of her. She wanted me to do good in the race. The last 400 yards of the race were the toughest part for me." Mostert said, "I wasn't shocked that Sausha had to pull out. In cross country, we're always used to the unexpected. That's why we take along alternate alter-nate runners. For a ninth-grader, Arista did pretty good. She was our No. 5 or No. 6 runner at the start of the year." The Cavemen's other scoring scor-ing runners included Lisa Tubb (20:50.2), Leslie Rose (20:54.5), Lindsey Grimes (2121.2) and Becky Thorpe (21:43.2). Alexis Harward and Linnea Grimes also competed for A.F. Caveman spikers earn big victory over Timpanogos Jared Lloyd Midway through the lirM game of Tuesday's Tues-day's ( ni( i,i kegion 1 volleyball showdown at Amerii an I ork. the ( 'avemen got the hall on their side, hut couldn't get a clean set. 1 he hall sailed too ( lose to the net for a good swing, hut American f ork junior outside hitter Alisha King didn't give uj) on the play She instead puiK lied out with her left hand, striking under the hall with a closed list. kno king it at an angle down the net line. Before the visitors lrom limpanogos ( ould react, the ball hit the ground on their side and the Cavemen had another point. The pl.tv characterized the effort American Ameri-can I oi k displayed as it swept the Timber-wolves. Timber-wolves. 25-19. 2T-1 H, in a game it had to win to keep hopes of a stute playoff birth alive. A loss Tuesday would have put the Cavemen on the outside lX)king in " This win puts us in a tie with Timpanogos for fourth in the region." American lork liead coac h Chad Murray said. "Now it depends de-pends on h iw we d i and how they do .11 I hursdav. If they win and we lose, they're in II we win and they lose, we're in. If we both win or both lose, we'll play a play -in game " The Cavemen didn't play like they felt the pressure ol a must -win situation. Instead. In-stead. American I ork came out loose and intense "I thought we were scrappier than ever tonight. King said "I vervone did their part and we didn't let serv mans balLs drop." Although the home team was far from perfect, they battled for every point, forcing forc-ing Timpanogos to make the perfect play to get a kill. Murray, like most coaches, knew exactly where his team needed improvement. improve-ment. "Lveryone makes mistakes," he said. "Our biggest was our block. We were in the net a few times, while other times we were late getting there so they could hit over us." Though Murray would've liked to see better play at the net, he liked the way the Cavemen attacked from every angle. "These girls know that it doesn't matter where they play," he explained. "Front line, back line, everyone is going to be an offensive of-fensive threat. (Senior setter) Jenna Toone does a gcxxi job of distributing it." Many American Fork players got kills, but whenever the team needed a big play, I cxne or King seemed to be in the right place. King led the way for the Cavemen with IH kills and only three errors, while Toone had 10 kills to go with 22 assists. The home team came out and quickly gained control of all three games, never trailing after being down 4-3 in Game 1. The play that put the Timberworves away is the level American Fork believes it can play all the time. "That was one of our best games this season," King said. "We need to do better at our serve receiving, but we can put balls down. We have the hitters. I think we're pretty close to peaking right now." Now the focus goes to Thursday's match- y 4r MATT SMITHNorth County American Fork's Jenna Toone (11) reacts after scoring a point against Timpanogos High on Tuesday night. ups. The Cavemen play Lone Peak while Timpanogos battles Mountain View. If both teams win or both lose, Murray believes American Fork has a bit of an edge if his squad faces the T'Wolves in a play-in game. "The confidence is going to be there," he said. "We know we can beat them with aggressiveness and mental toughness. Granted, they're a great team, but we can carry that confidence with us." .... - ( "'-?n wNfc ; i i . , ,'". 2 ..." -.' ? ii v Courtesy photo The new state record holders in the 400-meter freestyle relay of the 10-and-under boys division are, from left to right, Chris Nielson, David Dickerson, Adam Mason and Ryan Fonseca, accompanied by coach Janet Oles. syyiMiyiiNG AF boy part of state-record relay team NORTH COUNTY American Fork's Adam Mason is a member of a 400-meter freestyle relay team that broke the state record on the way to winning this event in the 10-and-under boys division of the Utah Long Course state championships July 30. The team posted a mark of 5:10.35 while representing the Hilltop Aquatic Swim Club based at the American Fork Fitness Center. The record the four boys broke has stood since 1976 and was set by a team called the Tritons from Price. The other members of the squad are David Dickerson of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, Ryan Fonseca of Lindon and Chris Nielson of Highland. High-land. RECREATION AF recreation moves to new location; signups now open for basketball, skiing NORTH COUNTY The American Fork Recreation department has moved to the FireRescue Building at 96 North Center St. in American Fork. The phone number is 763-3080 and e-mail is recreationafcity.net Office hours are now 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. I Jr. Jazz basketball Junior Jazz basketball registration is now being accepted. Deadlines for each age group are as follows: Boys grades 9-12: Nov. 10 Boys grades 7-8: Nov. 14 Boys and girls grades 3-6: Nov. 23 Girls grades 7-12: Nov. 23. I Men's league The registration deadline is Nov. 10. Play begins on Nov. 21. The cost is $675 per team for 15 games and a tournament. I Skiing A ski-package bus going to Solitude Ski Resort is available. The package includes the chartered bus, ski or snowboard lessons, les-sons, and an all-day lift pass beginning Jan. 7 for five Saturdays. A chartered bus will also be going to Canyons Ski Resort beginning be-ginning Dec. 10 for a choice of five or 10 Saturdays. For more information, contact the recreation office. BASKETBALL Bantam tryouts setforNov.1-3 NORTH COUNTY Bantam basketball open tryouts for American Fork seventh- and eighth-grade teams are scheduled for Nov. 1-3 at the high school from 7-8:30 p.m. For more information, call coach Doug Meacham at 756-8547 (ext. 194) or 602-9927. (POOR |