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Show Thursday, October 5, 2006 Page 6 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN k 4 COMMUNITY SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN Banged-up AF aims for first region win Beky Beaton V i"H ' ' H I'll V The Mountain View football team might ( hoping for a reprieve as it hosts American I ork (0-3 Kcgion 4, VI overall) on Friday. Not going to hapK'n. In the fust la( e, with identical iden-tical region records and tied for last place, whichever team wins this game will likely lie the onlv one w ith even a chance at a playoff ln-rth. I he other one will U' outside looking in. Second, the Cavemen have been within a touchdown in each of their three region losses. loss-es. They are hungry, and the Bruias happen to Ik- up next on the menu. Still, coach Davis Knight knows this game is no gimme. 'from what I see on film, they're a good football team," he said. " They played Lone I'cak dose for a while. Teams that are struggling strug-gling seem to find themselves when they play us. Besides, we're going to their place, so we need to le ready." Mountain View (0-3, Mi) has a proven play maker in Greg May, a two-way threat at wide receiver and defensive back. The Bruins Bru-ins also have a core of solid players who can forward hurt you if they catch you napping. "We've got to come up with a pretty good defeasive plan against that offease," Knight said. "Our defease is just going to have to shut (them) down." As for what the Cavemen need to do, "We put 20 points on the board last week, and we'll need to continue with that and more," the coach went on. "Our special teams have been playing pretty well; in fact, they've given as a cou ple of good breaks," he said. "We'll be leaking for more of that to help us in this game." The bad news continues for American Fork on the injury front. Aaron Lee has been lost for the season with a foot problem. Abdul Kalumbi is gone too, with a knee injury. Justin Jensen probably prob-ably won't return until the Lone Peak game. Knight doesn't know when he's had such a run of bad luck. "It's more than I would care to remember," he said. "I'm not sure specifically specifi-cally when we last had a bunch out like this." Coach and team remain undaunted, however. "I still wouldn't trade any of my kids," Knight See FORWARD, Page 7 Parry's Power Guide TO UTAH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL; BY NOLAND PARRY Week Ending Sept. 30, 2006 Favored Team Rating Diff Rating Underdog American Fork 67.3 9.2 58.1 MTN.VIEW GRAND 58.3 27.0 31.3 Gunnison Juab 52.8 11.4 41.4 N.SUMMIT LONE PEAK 86.5 10.0 76.5 Pleasant Grove Manti 37.2 19.8 17.4 AM. LEADRSHP. Orem 71.7 14.1 57.6 PAYSON Provo 75.2 23.4 51.8 LEHI Spanish Fork 72.1 5.1 67.0 TIMPANOGOS TIMPVIEW 80.6 19.1 61.5 Springville Home team in CAPS; Last weeks record: 40-6 86.9 Year to date record: 227-84 73.0 Copyright 2006 by Noland Parry Top 5 5A 1. Bingham 93.5 1. Sky View 89.0 2. Alta 91.9 2. Highland 88.0 3. Skyline 916 3. East 84.6 4. Fremont 89.5 4. Box Elder 82.9 5. Davis 89.1 5.Timpview 80.6 4A Defensive stands help Dons top AF Jared Lloyd NM'.hl ( OUt,1 1" No one on the Spanish Fork sideline would claim that the Don defense played its best football game Friday night at American Fork. It allowed the Cavemen 229 yards of offense and three touchdowns and didn't force any turnovers. But at crunch time, it proved to le lolh good and lucky. A failed two-oiiit conversion conver-sion by American Fork and a late four -down stand by Spanish Span-ish Fork turned out to be the difference as the Dons narrowly narrow-ly squeezed past the Cavemen 22-20 in Region 4. "I'm just glad we got the win," said Spanish Fork head coach Matt Christensen. "I thought we kept putting pressure pres-sure on them. But also sometimes some-times luck takes a hand." The first monumental play came with just under 10 minutes to go in the game. Trailing by eight, the home team forced a Don fumble and rammed the ball down the field. ( )n third-and-goal from tlie 1-yard line, American Fork went play action and senior flanker Brady Mason was wide open in the corner of the end zone to catch tlx' pans from junior quarterback Taylor Jones. The Cavemen elected to go for two and the tie, but Spanish Fork defensive back Jordan Smith made a erfect break on the rollout pass and picked it off to keep the lns up by two. The teams exchanged posses-sions posses-sions until American Fork got the ball back at its own 36 with four minutes on the clock. With the aid of a Spanish Fork pass interference call, the Cavemen marched into In territory and toward the winning field goal. But luck turned against the home team when they were still beyond field-goal range. On third down, a pass to the flat was short, forcing the receiver to dive to make the catch. The set up a big fourth-and-5 at tlx; Saiii.sh Fork 35-yard line with 120 (Hi tlx; clock and tlx; game on tlx1 line. For the second straight play, fortune favored the visitors as tlx; swing pass was short again, giving tlx; Cavemen no chance to get the first down. Don receiver Zach Fox heled S F. the lead. He snagged a 1-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter, then in See FOOTBALL, Page 7 Dwlbfe dies f telp mm MELISSA FARGONorth County Twins Kellie and Kyle Wentz both run cross country for American Fork High. Kellie and Kyle are 17 years old and have helped the Cavemen challenge for region and state honors. Wentz twins give Caveman cross county a boost Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPOND NT As American Fork prepares pre-pares to try to earn region trophies at this Saturday's Region 4 cross country championships in Alpine, it has the services of fraternal twins to help the school secure se-cure the hardware: Kellie and Kyle Wentz. They're one of two pairs of twins involved in the American Ameri-can Fork cross country program pro-gram this fall. The other pair include identical sisters Linea and Lindsey Grimes. "I'm older than Kyle," Kellie Kel-lie said. "I was born 1 1 minutes min-utes ahead of him." Kyle said his twin does remind him on occasion that she's the big sister. The children of Stuart and Michelle Wentz, the twins started their running career by doing American Fork's annual Steel Days Race. Kyle said, "We've been running since age 6. We'd do the Steel Days Race. For a while, it was the only race we'd do every year. Jay (the twins' older brother) would train us for the race. Jay is six years older than us." "Jay told us to have fun while we would be racing," Kellie said. "We saw him do a lot of races. That was what made us want to race, too." Another brother, Steve Wentz, is older than Jay. Kellie said, "Though he did one year of cross country, he mainly wrestled for A.F. We picked up the habit of dedication dedica-tion from Steve." Kyle said, "I became involved with doing cross country races the summer sum-mer before I got into ninth grade." Kellie said, "Before I came out for the cross country team in ninth grade, the farthest race I'd run was the mile for the junior high track team." When she joined the American Amer-ican Fork High cross country program as a ninth grader, she did well enough for Caveman Cave-man coach Bruno Hunziker to make her the No. 5 runner on the varsity girls team just before the season-opening Grass Relays. Kellie said, "I was really scared when I realized I was going to be the anchor in the relays. To keep myself calm, I kept in mind that I was carrying the baton for the team." Coming out for the team introduced the twins to Dale Golding, a Caveman who won the Region 6 boys cross country title his senior year. Like Jay, Kyle said Golding "taught me to be dedicated. He'd tell us, 'No complaining while running.' " American Fork boys cross country coach Timo Mostert said, "It's great to see how Kyle's realized he's not just some member of the team. He pushes himself. This year, he's a team captain. cap-tain. He shows leadership, not through just words, but through actions. He's showing show-ing the younger guys how to improve." Kyle said his best performance perfor-mance so far this season was his race at Nebo. He placed in the top 10 in his division. He said, "The toughest course I ran was during a dual meet against Judge at Tanner Park in Salt Lake. I encountered a lot of dust, streams and hills. The state course at Sugarhouse is tough, too, but every cross country course is challenging." challeng-ing." Off-and-on through her cross country career, Kellie has had to deal with health problems. Hunziker said, "She's been one of my most dedicated runners. She had some medical medi-cal problems, but she fought back to PR (personal record) as a senior. To get a senior to run a PR without burning burn-ing out as a ninth grader or a sophomore is absolutely amazing. She's a blue-chip racer.". Kellie recently had to race as a junior varsity runner, but she said, "When I posted my best time at 21:46 during dur-ing a JV race at East Bay, Bruno moved me back to varsity." "She's always had an unbeatable un-beatable attitude. Even when she was sick, she made it to all of the practices," said assistant as-sistant American Fork girls coach Kevin Mann. That dedication of both siblings should help lift the Cavemen at the Region 4 meet. Brittney Peay American Fork High School 7 Parents: Todd and Jenny Peay Year: Senior Age: 17 Birthplace: Brigham City Sport: Tennis Position: First doubles player Favorite sports team: BYU Cougars Favorite food: Sloppy Joes Favorite restaurant: Mi Ranchito Favorite movie: Hitch Favorite magazine: National Geographic Geo-graphic Favorite class: Photography Most memorable career moment: "When I won at Mountain View in third singles." Future plan: To attend college. SCOREBOARD Results Football Date Result Opponent 929 Lost 20-22 Spanish Forts 192 yds rushing, 37 yds passing Notable performances Taylor Jones: 8-01-13 for 37 yds. 2 TDs Anthony McGeary: 14 car for 68 yds; 13 yd TD rcpt Robbie Lusk: 11 car for 47 yds, 1 TD Brady Mason: TD rcpt Matt Harvard: 99 all-purpose yds Volleyball Date Result Opponent 928 Won 3-0 Mtn. View 1003 Lost 0-3 Lone Peak Soccer Date Result Opponent 9'28 Lost 0-5 Lone Peak 1003 Won 4-2 Mtn. View Golf Date Result 928 Sixth at Wasatch at 414 Upcoming games Football Date Opponent Time 1006 Mtn. View 7 p.m. 1011 Bingham 7 p m. Volleyball Date Opponent Time 1005 Timpanogos 6:30 p m. 1010 PI. Grave 6:30 p.m. Soccer Date Opponent 10710 State 1st round 1012 State 2nd round Cross country Date Opponent 1 007 Region Westfield Elem. Standings Football As of 1002 REGION 4 School Region record Overall record Lone Peak 3-0 7-0 Pleasant Grove 3-0 5-2 Spanish Fork 2-1 4-3 Timpanogos 1-2 3-4 American Fork 0-3 3-4 Mountain view 0-3 1-6 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Timpview 3-0 5-1 Provo 2-1 5-2 Orem 2-1 4-3 Springville 2-1 2-5 Payson 0-3 3-4 Lehi 0-3 0-8 Volleyball Reported results to 1003 REGION 4 School Region record Overall record Timpanogos 4-0 9-6 Lone Peak 3-1 18-6 Pleasant Grove 2-2 11-6 American Fork 2-2 14-11 Mountain View 1-3 2-5 Spanish Fork 0-4 0-6 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Provo 5-0 19-2 Lehi 4-1 30-2 Orem 3-2 7-S Spnngville 2-3 5-4 Payson 1-4 1-5 Tirnpwew 0-5 0-5 Girls soccer Regulars REGION 4 School Lone Peak Timpanogos American Fork Mountain View Spanish Fork Pleasant Grove REGION 7 School Orem Provo Spnngville Lehi Timpview Payson Region record 10-0-0 6-3-1 63-1 5- 5-0 1-8-1 0-9-1 Region record 9-0-1 6- 4-0 6-4-0 5-4-1 3-7-0 0-10-0 15-1-0 11-4-1 9-6-1 5-15-0 3-11-1 2-12-2 OwraR racord 15-0-1 11-5-0 11-5-0 9-6-1 5-11-0 2-14-0 Caveman spikers sweep past Mountain View, fall to Lone Peak Beky Beaton NORTH COi.'NTY The American Fork volleyball volley-ball team turned it up when it had to at Mountain View on Thurs- day, sweeping the scrappy Bruins 25-16, 25-16, 27-25. 25-21 in a tough match. The Cavemen immediately took the lead in Game 1 with two service points from Tatum Porter Por-ter and a kill by Alisha King. American Fork retained the advantage until Mountain View stormed back to tie the score at 10. More solid serving from Porter and a King kill from the back row helped push the Cavemen Cave-men back out in front, and they closed out the game on a Jamie Gould- ing quick-set spike. The Bruins opened up a 10-2 margin in Game 2 before American Fork responded. Solid serving and strong net rewind play helped the Cavemen rally, but they didn't draw even until a Porter kill tied it at 19. The teams tied at 20, 22, 24 and 25 before a big hit by King and a return error following a Kaili Katoa serve closed it out for American Fork. Mountain View continued to battle. The Bruins held the lead for a good portion of the early going in Game 3, but A.F. overtook over-took them midway through. Mountain View later pulled to within 20-19 but couldn't get any closer as kills from middle blockers Makenzie Moeai and Rebecca Zirkle plus continued solid serving allowed American Fork to close out the match. King finished with 22 kills, no errors and seven digs. Sarah Tullis had seven digs and Brooke Miller six. Zirkle had 3.5 bkxks. Moeai had five kills on nine attempts at-tempts and had two blocks. The Cavemen were particularly particu-larly effective with short -set swings, something coach Chad Murray said they'd been working work-ing on since August. "If we can get four or five kills from our middles, it opens everything up," the coach said. "The more we get our middles involved, in-volved, the bigger the threat we are offensively and the wider our margins of victory will be." As for King, Murray said, "Our team feeds off her energy. It's her role to be the fighter, and she never disappoints." I Oct 3 Lone Peak def. Ameri can Fork 3-0: The Knights swept Soccer the visiting cavemen Z19, z 19, 25-17 in Region 4. No game was never really in doubt as Lone Peak was in control. American Fork's Alisha King had five kills in Game 2 and played an all-around good match. Kaili Katoa served well for the Cavemea Trailing 16-10 in Game 3, American Fork rallied ral-lied to cut the lead to 16-13, but Lone Peak then took controL I Jared Hunsaker filed this report. I Oct 3 American Fork 4, Mountain Moun-tain View 2; In the Region 4 finale at American Fork, the Cavemen See REWIND, Page 7 |