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Show Thursday, March 22, 2007 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 7 SCOREBOARD Results Baseball Date Remit Opponent 316 Tied 9-9 Skyline 316 Won 8-2 Mountain Crest 317 Tied 4-4 Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) 317 Lost 3-4 (8) Pleasant Grove 320 Won 15-2 Wasatch Softball Date Result Opponent 315 Lost 5-7 Brighton 316 Won 11-7 Olympus 320 Lost 0-11 West Jordan Upcoming games Baseball Date Opponent Time 322 Brighton 3:30 p.m 330 Capper Hills 4 p.m. Softball Date Opponent Time 322 O Provo 4 pm. 329 ffi Kearns 3:30 p m. Boys soccer Date Opponent Time 322 Payson 3:30 p.m. 327 Lehi 4 p.m. Track Date Opponent Time 328 Pleasant Grove 3:30 p.m. Standings Reported results to 320 Baseball REGION 4 School Region reconl Overall record Spanish Fork 0-0 7-0 Timpanogos 0-0 4-0 Lone Peak 0-0 2-0 Pleasant Grove 0-0 6-1 Mountain View 0-0 5-1 American Fork 0-0 3-1-2 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Lehi 0-0 4-2 Timpview 0-0 2-2 Orem 0-0 1-1 Spnngville 0-0 1-2 Payson 0-0 0-2 Provo 0 0 0-6 Softball REGION 4 School Region reconl Overall record Spanish Fork 0-0 4-2 American Fork 0-0 5-4 Timpanogos 0-0 2-1 Lone Peak 0-0 4-5 Mountain View 0-0 1-3 Pleasant Grove 0-0 0-1 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Lehi 0-0 2-0 Springville 0-0 5-3 Orem 0-0 2-3 Payson 0-0 2-2 Provo 0-0 1-2 Timpview 0-0 0-2 Boys soccer REGION 4 School Region record Overall record Mountain View 0-0-0 2-1-1 Lone Peak 0-0-0 1 -0-2 Timpanogos 0-0-0 1-1-1 Spanish Fork 0-0-0 0-1-0 American Fork 0-0-0 0-2-0 Pleasant Grove 0-0-0 0-3-0 REGION 7 School Region record Overall record Timpview 0-0-0 4-0-0 Orem 0-0-0 2-0-1 Spnngville 0-0-0 3-1-1 Provo 0-0-0 1-1-1 Lehi 0-0-0 0-3-2 Payson 0-0-0 0-2-0 Winter Continued from Page 6 varsity experience during the year. Zach Enosa and Greg Meacham started at least one varsity game this year, and Gentry Haws, Jake Murphy and Derek Danklef logged some valuable varsity minutes. "Taylor Jones and Taylor Judd also improved during the year and they had successful years with the JV team. When this group of juniors played in the ninth-grade Utah County tournament, they won it all. They can compete and defend, and depending on how they work in the off-season, good things are in store for the underclassmen," un-derclassmen," he concluded. Girls basketball I 16-7 overall, 5-5 Region 4 I Region third place I State quarterfinals "It was really a breakthrough break-through year for our program," pro-gram," said coach Corey Clayton. Clay-ton. "It's been a long time since a girls team here won this many games and won a playoff play-off game. I'm proud of the girls for what they accomplished." Even better news for Cavemen Cave-men fans is that the sophomore core of the team, Haley Holmstead, Hol-mstead, Kaycee Mansfield, Cydne Mason and Nikki Ybar-ra, Ybar-ra, will all be back next year. "One of the things those four bring is they expect to win," the coach explained. "We won a lot of games this year because those girls wouldn't let us lose. They dont ever quit, and that showed throughout whole season. Even in the Davis game (the state quarterfinal), quar-terfinal), we were down by 30 points and they went back in and just were amazing. "If someone had told me before the season started that we would go 16-7 and win one game at state, I'd have been thrilled to death," Clayton added. add-ed. "I have nothing but positive feelings about winning a state game, especially against a quality qual-ity team like Riverton; that was above and beyond expectations. "The exciting thing is, we dont get much older next year," the coach went on. "We have three freshmen who played a lot of varsity minutes this seasoa They've had a taste of the competition com-petition and they have talent. They also have the potential to get a lot better. They Ve set their goals very high for the next couple of years. "My plan is that those four , Rewind Continued from Page 6 Cory Draper went 3-for-4 with two RBI and Gentry Haws was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Taylor Mangum added a pair of doubles, Andy Lewis had one and Jake Murphy tripled for the Cavemen. Softball I March 15 Brighton 7, American Amer-ican Fork 5: At Sandy, American Ameri-can Fork allowed four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to fall behind 7-3 and couldn't make up the necessary ground in a road loss. Brighton took a 3-0 led in the first inning, but American .Fork tied the score at three in the third.. The Bengals shattered the deadlock with the rally. Though American Fork answered an-swered with two fifth-inning runs, that was as close as it got. Hitting a single and a double in the game, Sandra Nessler led the Cavemen with three RBI. Teammate Haley Holmstead contributed a two-run two-run single. Kayla Sorensen scored two of American Fork's runs. I March 16 American Fork 1 1, Olympus 7: At American Fork, the Cavemen were led offensively offen-sively by Haley Holmstead, who hit a double and a home run in the Cavemen's victory. "We had a different mindset mind-set in our game today than we did at Brighton yesterday," said American Fork coach Nikki Anderson. "We weren't second-guessing ourselves like we were at Brighton. We played seven good innings today." The coach also said, "We've got to work harder as a pitching staff this season. sea-son. We have four main members on our pitching staff this year. We're trying try-ing to focus more on pitching pitch-ing right now, so we can do much better this year. "I have complete confidence confi-dence in all of our members on the pitching staff. Our two seniors are Marsi Kruger and Kelsey Brimhall. The other fc. . KSi-.,.i a. . , X HSSr 1 ....J I 1 BEKY BEATONNorth County American Fork's MacKenzie Moeai shoots against Riverton on Feb. 20 at UVSC. sophomores will be our captains the next two years," Clayton said. "They refuse to lose and everybody else better get on board. Haley and Kaycee were captains this year as sophomores, sopho-mores, but Nikki and Cyd have earned the right to join them. "We're an unusual team," he continued. "We're trying to identify those in junior high who have potential and light a fire under them, hoping that they'll do the same on-theirown stuff those other girls have done." The Cavemen lost just one starter in senior McKell Brown, but Clayton said the prospects for her replacements are good. "We'll have MacKenzie Moeai and Kylie Allen to run at the 4 and 5 next year," he said. "Our post play will be a strength rather than a weakness. "I expect Moeai will be dominant domi-nant by the end of the season," the coach added "Kylie is another anoth-er Kaycee as far as her versatility versatil-ity and where she can play." Wrestling I Region fourth place I State 21st place I Two state medalists First-year head coach Stan Kitchen has much to be proud about how his wrestlers fared this past winter. "Certainly having two seniors se-niors place at state this year was a compliment to our program," pro-gram," Kitchen said. The pair were Logan Gerratt and Jade Anderson. Anderson was a move-in from western Washington state whose skills earned him a region championship. Gerratt m two members are junior Lisa Paxman and sophomore Kayla Sorensen. "We've been doing really good so far this year. We have young players who are really competitive. We're pushing them harder to do better. Our bats are really coming aliTc. "Our best hitters so far this year are Haley Holmstead, Cydne Mason and Shelby Swapp. Six of our starters didn't play varsity last year. Five of them are sophomores." sopho-mores." Though she walked Olympus' Olym-pus' Kelsi Webster in the top of the first of the March 16 game, pitcher Kruger held the Titans scoreless as she posted two strikeouts. An Olympus infield error allowed al-lowed Amy Krommenhoek to get on base during the first's bottom half. The error quickly came back to haunt Olympus. On one out, Holmstead singled Krommenhoek in. Pitcher Carly Duckworth struck out the next two American Fork batters to keep the score stuck at 1-0 at the end of the inning. Second-inning singles from Madilyn Rockwood and Duckworth Duck-worth almost tipped the momentum mo-mentum to Olympus' favor. However, third baseman Sorensen kicked the control of the tempo out of the Titans' grasp by turning her catch of a Kirsten Schifler line fly into a double play. Shortstop Mason grounded out Kristal Webster, holding Olympus scoreless for another inning. Walked by Duckworth in the bottom of the second, Swapp sneaked her way around to third base. With one out, Swapp spied a passed ball, then sped away, sliding into home and a starting start-ing a rally for American Fork. The Cavemen picked up their next two second-inning runs on a Krommenhoek single sin-gle and an error. Duckworth posted a strikeout to end the rally. In the third, Olympus pulled within 4-3 and Brimhall took the mound in relief. Hitting an infield single in the bottom of the third, Nessler came home on a Swapp single. That was the only run Olym placed second at the region tournament. "This was our best year in duals," Kitchen said. "We finished fin-ished our season with a 15-11 record in duals. We did a lot better at duals than we did at tournaments where our guys wrestled as individuals. "I am pleased to see that our duals record shows that we have a lot of balance on the team," the coach continued. "We saw as a whole a number of wrestlers, experienced ones as well as beginners, progress a lot. "We're going to be losing only five seniors and we have a good group of juniors coming back," Kitchen said. "We have guys on the team who are presently involved in-volved in freestyle wrestling. "Also, we're going to host a couple of camps this summer. sum-mer. Darold Henry, a former head wrestling coach at P.G., is going to help us with the one we're going to have July 9-10." When he was in high school, Kitchen wrestled under former American Fork coach Tim Pon-tious, Pon-tious, who left the program in 2006. Kitchen coached wrestling wres-tling at North Sanpete in the '80s until he went to work for the federal government. It is still his employer. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. Swimming GIRLS I Region second place I State fifth place I One state champion BOYS I Region second place I State seventh place The Cavemen are looking back with pride on their seasoa It went down as a time when American Fork produced a double dou-ble state champion and saw its boys team grow fourfold over what it had been in recent years. First-year American Fork head coach Kathy King said her program would be losing seniors Mike King, Scott Rodee and Au- Steel Itabe Ei Pipe fA Buy For Those Spring Projects r V) Before Prices Go Up f Save! Sqssne & Esctegk $7 Steel Upe Ttebtea vrODAYV 78" 8 m" i2" x 1r - ir x irA "YZv Manv ThlcknessM u t MSnAUTiartSave Now 768-3332 oreHounMf8 5-SAT8NOON 181 pus let American Fork pick up during the third. American Fork held the Titans scoreless in the fourth. Opening its lower half with a left-field single, Krommenhoek got doubled in by Holmstead, opening a rally for American Fork A Sorensen double fueled the ensuing four-run rally. It ended with Rockwood grounding ground-ing out Brimhall. The Titans staged another three-run rally in the top of the fifth. During it, a one-out, Thamert single quickly resulted re-sulted in Olympus loading the bases. Duckworth singled in Thamert to open a three-run rally, prolonged by singles . from Schifler and Kristal Webster. Web-ster. Olympus didn't let any American Fork players get on base during the bottom of the fifth, creating a good possibility possibil-ity of the Titans at least tying the game in the sixth. In the top of the sixth, shortstop Swapp produced two fielders' choice plays and groundout to keep the Titans scoreless. The bottom of the sixth opened on an electrifying note as Holmstead slugged a solo homer over the left-field fence. After singling into left, Mason came home on a Sorensen single, ending American Fork scoring for the afternoon. In the seventh, Duckworth and Schifler each slugged a one-out single to set up an attack at-tack on American Fork's 11-6 lead. Soon, Duckworth tried racing home as Kristal Webster Web-ster hit a grounder. Swapp scooped up the groundball and threw it to catcher Holmstead, who then tagged Duckworth. "The putout at home was the clutch play for us," Anderson said. Brimhall posted a strikeout to end the game. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. I March 20 West Jordan 11, American Fork 0: At American Fork, West Jordan's Katie Kearns Ke-arns struck out eight batters and gave up only one hit in six innings pitched as the Jaguars topped the Cavemen. "i MARIO RUIZNorth County Candice Smith competes in the 500-yard free in the 2006 state swim meet. Below, American Fork's Jade Anderson, right, wrestles P.G's Brad Biesinger on Dec. 7, 2006. Anderson won the match. dra Yocom to graduatioa However, she added, "We're still going to have back next year Candice Smith, Chanel Noot, Maddie Dailey and McKay McK-ay King." She said the girls team will still be strong next year like it was this year. "The boys team will be in a rebuilding state," King said. "We are going to have on the boys team next year a freshman fresh-man with a lot of potential in James Nebeker." King said that Smith won two events at state this year, and several American Fork swimmers had placed in the top five of some of the state events. The coach added, "We did very well in ouj) relays." At the Region 4 meet, American Amer-ican Fork won both sides of the 400-yard freestyle relay. She said Mike King had left a permanent mark on the American Ameri-can Fork swimming program. Coach King said "It will be hard to replace him. Kids on the all For Fn Stock Pric S. 1 2Q0 E. Lehi, UT NEWS AND" NOTES Academic All-State WRESTLER RECEIVES HIGHEST STUDENT-ATHLETE HONOR American Fork's Kyle Kiriyama earned this recognition recogni-tion during the winter semester. The cumulative GPA of the team was 3.98. This UHSAA honor is reserved for the academically top 10-ranking varsity athletes in each sport and classification and is presented at the final state contest for each sport. College Track A.F. GRAD GETS ACADEMIC NOD AND BREAKS RECORDS - UVSC Wolverine Chris Fogt was named one of two Utah Valley Scholar Athletes of the Month for February. Fogt re-wrote the UV indoor sprint record books on numerous occa- i ( sions during the indoor season. Fogt broke the t records in the 60, 200 and 400 meters. Majoring in business management, Fogt maintains a 3.35 GPA. His family now resides in Belmont, Mass., but he graduated from American Fork High School in 2001. The son of William and Janet Fogt, he served an LDS church mission to the Phillipines. He also got the outdoor season off to a hot start on March 17 at Long Beach, Calif. "Chris Fogt annhilated the 100 meter record," associate head coach Klrka Adamson said. "It was one of the oldest school records." Fogt's time of 10.53 seconds beat the eight-year-old record of 10.66 previously hold by Anthony Stewart. Football TWO CAVEMEN SIGN WITH SNOW Brandon Beddes and Matt Harward signed letters of intent on signing day Feb. 7 to play football for Snow College. The seniors play offensive line and wide receiver, respectively, and were two of seven Utah Valley players who decided to lend their talents to the Badgers. College Baseball PARKER OFF TO STRONG START AT BYU Former Caveman slugger Steve Parker went 5-for-5 with two doubles and a home run for the ... Cougars in their first game of the season Feb. 8. . , He started the game at third base and finished with six RBI and also had a walk. "I'm really proud of how we came out the first day," said coach Vance Law. "Parker got a couple clutch at bats." Since then, Parker has played all but two games for BYU and is second on the team in batting average at .382, first among players who have appeared in more than half of the games. He's second in hits with 26 and has five doubles, three triples and a home run so far. He also has 13 putouts and 39 assists with a fielding percentage percent-age of .929. Contact us: If you have any information for Prep Rally or to nominate someone for the spotlight, send an e-mail to bbeatonheraldexlra.com or call 756-7669. i I i " - team looked up to his example." McKay King's big brother came within a hair of taking state in two events. Kathy King said, "We're go- I Metal Roofing IT'" 'X ncia&ie rice ividitneiidiiLfc; net; f Many Popular Colors to Choose From Long Lasting - 30yr. Energy Star Approved o hoi VFors 1200fcntleM.UT 181 FROM AREA ATHLETES 4 ' V v. , r V A v V t f . '" Vj . ' V - y . 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