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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Thursday, May 31, 2007 I prep; Page 6 COMMUNITY SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN West dominates East in All-Star Classic Russ Lyman In iin evening wliere the valley's best tame out to shine, it turn-d out tint the slat s really arc In filter out West. At least, tlia! was tlie case for the West All-Stars Monday at BYlTs Miller Held. 'Ilie top seniors from lne It.-ak, Ii:hi, American Fork, Mi Hint ain View and Spanish f ork high si IkioLs took it to the top players from tlx.- East Coun-ty Coun-ty schools and emerged with a ID 1 victory In tlie first year wl)ere the s IkkiLs were divided Ix-tween hist and West, it was only fitting fit-ting tliiit a couple of Honeers led tlie way for the West squad. U'hi's Travis Holland and C.J I lealey dusted off their hats and blasted big hit after big hit to help the West team take a formidable lead. The duo's biggest contribution V Wdi t, r ; k v A J 1 J r " ' JjhsT? i, ll.hCv- - ; -1 There were plenty of moments to remember for American Fork during the 2006-07 sports season, including (from top left, basketball, volleyball, boys soccer and boys basketball. Utah County schools have plenty to remember from 2006-07 Neil K. Warner MOHIHCOUNIY Lone Peak his already played 19 games and schcxil isn't even out. ()()eration title defense Ls well underway. under-way. Lone Peak High School's basketball team is currently busy working on defending de-fending its title, but that doesn't mean the Knights don't occasionally look back and enjoy what they accomplished earlier ear-lier in the year. The Knights finished the season with a 24-1 record and ended the season ranked 18th nationally by MaxPreps and eighth in the West by USA Today. The 200W17 season was also memorable memora-ble for a number of other teams. Provo basketball coach Craig Drury became the all-time winningest coach in Utah (state championships) by coaching Provo to a win " over Payson. In other sports, Orem's swimming team review won its first ever swimming swim-ming title and Timpview won three titles, one in football, one in cross country and another one in tennis. Overall, it was a pretty goftd year. Here's a look back at the 200607 boys prep season. Basketball Lone Peak completed one of the most impressive runs in prep basketball history. his-tory. The Knights finished the season in dominant form, beating three opponents by double figures and one by nine in the four tournament games. In the championship champi-onship tilt, Lone Peak beat Riverton by 25 points. In 4A, two familiar foes met in the state champkinship game. Chris Col-linsworth Col-linsworth scored 27 points to lead Provo to a come-from-behind win over Payson 43-37. Baseball The 4A and 5A state championship games arrived with one big surprise I T -. 1 -! " 1 FILENorth County American Fork's Taylor Mangum was one of three Cavemen that played for the West team in the Utah County All-Star Baseball Classic on Monday. came in the third inning. Lone Peak's S)encer Reiber led off the inning with a single, American Ameri-can Fork's Taylor Mangum was hit by a pitch and Spanish Fork's Jason Binks knocked a single to left. With the bases loaded and nobody out, I lealey came up with the biggest hit of the game when he drilled a base-clearing double. Two batters later, Holland Hol-land drove in Healey and Josh Hansen, another Lehi teammate, team-mate, with a two-RBI triple off the left -center field wall. By the time Holland scored on a Trent Call single for the sixth run of no Utah County team. Jordan won 5A and Cottonwood won 4A. Provo finished third in Region 7, but the Bulldogs played like a region champion cham-pion during the tournament. Provo lost to Cottonwood in the second round, then bounced back to finishing third, a game short of playing for the championship. Timpanogos finished fourth, the best showing of the Region 4 teams who expected ex-pected to fare better in the tournament. Cross County Utah County once again showed well in cross country. Timpview won the 4A title with a score of 59. Orem had 79, followed by Provo at 87 and Springville at 171. Davis held off Mountain View, the defending champs, 105 to 115 to win the title for the first time 4 i since 2002. Lone Peak was third at 129. , Timpanogos' Matt Reeves was fourth in 5A. In 4A, Springville's Spencer Gardner was second, Lehi's Chris Dorton was third and Provo's Adam Smith was fifth and Austin Olsen was sixth. Football Timpview began the season as the Daily Herald's top ranked team and by the end of the season, the T'Birds had proven worthy of the ranking. Timpview beat Highland 21-12 in the state title game to win their second crown in the last three years. Jackson Owen rushed for 188 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Timpview finished fin-ished the season 12-1. The only loss was a 1O0 defeat to Lone Peak. Pleasant Grove took 5A by surprise by winning Region 4 and marching to the semifinals before Bingham ended the Viking season with a 350 win. Following the season, Springville coach Doug Bills, Payson coach Colby Knight and Lehi coach Joe Hayes all See BOYS REVIEW, Page 7 the inning, the West team had a 9-0 lead. "I was just trying to get up, swing through the ball, have some fun and don't be so stressed (as during the season)," Holland said. "It was better than I could have ever expected." The nine-run lead was more than enough for the West pitching staff, which somehow managed to outdo the team's powerful offense. Anchored by Lone Peak's Daniel Welch with Cavemen Zach Laycock and Mangum, the West held the East squad without a hit until the seventh inning of the nine-inning nine-inning game. Welch started the game off by getting a pair of strikeouts. Laycock threw the third and fourth innings and faced the minimum of six batters. Mangum Man-gum then capjxxl off the run of no-hit innings with an exclamation exclama-tion point, striking out the side in the fifth before shutting down of highlights Jared Lloyd NOR 1H COUNTY They are the largest teams in girls high sch(l athletics and are probably second only to football in total participation. participa-tion. They did it all: Sprinting, distance running, run-ning, jumping, hurdling and throwing. And in the state of Utah no one did it better than the teams from Utah Valley. During the 200607 scholastic year in prep sports, local teams experienced success in nearly every category, but none more so than at the state track and field meet on May 18 and 19. Those exciting two days saw Spanish Fork's star twins Nachelle and Natalie Stewart lead a deep and talented Don team to victory in the 5A competition, while Orem dominated the 4A competition. competi-tion. When the dust finally ! """ ' settled after all of the events were completed, both squads had pulled review away to handily win first place by more than 35 points in their respective classifications. classifica-tions. It was an impressive showing for athletes ath-letes in Utah County, particularly when the efforts of the girls from Springville (second place in Class 4A) and Lone Peak (tied for fifth in 5A) are added to the equation. Knight Angela Kaplar won an individual state title in the 100m hurdles. Obviously this past track season will be remembered by many local athletes but it wasn't the only sport that saw teams have an opportunity to walk away with a state title, the highest honor possible in high school. Here's a brief look back at the 2006-07 2006-07 year in Utah Valley girls high school athletics: Girls Basketball Area 4A teams again proved that playing in Region 7 is the best preparation prepara-tion possible for the state tournament. After Orem dominated league play, the East in the sixth. "We just came out wanting to have fun and throw strikes," Mangum said. "We also had a great defense behind us because it's an all-star game." The West team also got plenty of help from its defense. The middle infield tandem of Trent Call and Nate Newman combined to turn three double plays to get out of jams. "There are a lot of good ballplayers ball-players out there and a lot of them were making pretty good plays," said West coach Jarod Ingersoll. Although the East squad, which was composed of players play-ers from Pleasant Grove, Timpanogos, Orem, Provo and Timpview, failed to get a hit for the first six frames, they made up for lost time in the seventh with four consecutive hits. Despite De-spite the sequence of hits, the See ALL-STAR, Page 7 FILE PHOTOSNorth County clockwise) baseball, Softball, girls prep sports season Timpview came alive in the tournament and both teams advanced to the championship champi-onship game. Unlike last season, when the Tigers eked out a late comeback in the semifinals, semifi-nals, this time it was the Thunderbirds that exploded out of the gate and never let Orem come back, earning the 5749 win and the state title. In the 5A ranks, Lone Peak rolled to the Region 4 title but couldn't keep up with Fremont in the 5A quarterfinals. Timpanogos and American Fork also ' reached the quarterfinals at state before ending their seasons. Tennis The Orem girls tennis team was the only other girls team to get a first-place finish at a state tournament during the year, tying Bountiful for the top spot in a duel between two very deep squads. Led by sisters Callie and Kelsie Craig, who only lost three total games in the entire tournament on their way to titles in No. 2 and No. 3 singles, the Tigers rolled to 18 points. The Brave doubles teams did just as well and both teams ended up with the same point total. Lone Peak finished third overall in the 5A ranks. Girls Soccer The Lone Peak girls soccer team was the first of four area squadsthat made it to the title game in their respective sports but were unable to get the final victory. The Knights ran into a good Alta team in the title game but still managed to take a surprising 20 lead early in the game. Unfortunately, the Hawks had senior Megan Ohai and she put in four goals to give Alta the title. "The way we played the first 30 min-utes, min-utes, we were all they could handle," See GIRLS REVIEW, Page 7 Brian Spencer American Fork High School Parents: Todd and Lori Spencer Class: Senior Age: 18 Birthplace: Van Nuys, Calif. Sports: Football and track Positions: A tailback in football and a sprinter in track Favorite sports team: BYU Cougars Favorite food: Steak Favorite restaurant: Tucanos Favorite movie: Remember the Titans Favorite book: Any Steve Young biography Favorite class: Student Council Grade Point Average: 3.80 I Most memorable career moment: Going to the state track meet in three events and setting new personal records re-cords in all of them. Future plans: To go on an LDS mission. eye LOCAL SPORTS AF Angels stay unbeaten with win Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The American Fork Angels defeated de-feated the American Fork White Sox 11-5 in Timpanogos Colt League action at American Fork's Rotary Park May 24. The win improved the Angels' league record at 2-0. The White Sox did lead during the first 1 12 innings of the game. On two outs in the top of the first, ' White Sox Jason Judd doubled in Justin Porter and Rustin Hocker, then advanced to third, only to see teammate Chancy Thompson strikeout. With no outs in the bottom of the first, pitcher Hocker walked Kai Fitzhugh and Kurt Merry-hew. Merry-hew. A one-out single by Eddie Halloway drove Fitzhugh home. Merryhew tried stealing home, but Hocker tagged him at the plate. Also, the pitcher didn't let the Angels make any more runs that inning. Jake Packer opened the second inning with a left-field single. He tried turning his hit into a double, and he got tagged at second. That setback didn't stop the White Sox from loading the bases on two outs. Seth Hewett singled in two runs and Hocker one, improving the White Sox's lead at 5-1.; On one out in the bottom of the second, Eric Porter doubled in Jared Smith to launch a six-run rally for the Angels. Merryhew's two-run double tipped the Angels ahead 6-5, and Halloway's doubling dou-bling in a run left the Angels with a 7-5 advantage at the end of the inning. The Angels kept the White Sox from capitalizing on Braydon Schneider's third-inning single. In response, the White Sox prevented the Angels from going anywhere with an Eric Porter single, hit in the bottom of the third. In the bottom of the fourth, Merryhew Mer-ryhew singled in Fitzhugh, launching launch-ing a five-run rally, which saw the Angels pick up their final tWo runs on steals at home. i During the fifth, Hocker slapped a single and Schneider a double, but the White Sox couldn't rally back in the game. I Twins win blowout in Pony League action: The Twins triumphed tri-umphed over the White Sox 154 in American Fork Pony League action ac-tion at Bus Manning Field May 23. The game opened with Twin pitcher Alex Ross walking Kyle Rus-son Rus-son and Cam Laycock. Russon tried stealing home, but a throw from the mound nailed him at the plate. Laycock, though, proved to be too speedy for the Twins to get him at the plate. Laycock's run put the White Sox on the board. Brandon Bran-don Bills' two-run single improved the White Sox lead at 34). Bill tried stealing home, but he got tagged for the third out. j On two outs in the bottom of the first, Ty Bulkley doubled in Trevor Hemsley to start a Twin comeback. Jantzen Frampton singled in two runs, then came home on a passed ball to put the Twins ahead 4-3. Walks by Skyler Briggs and Matt Veylupek gave the White Sox a golden chance of at least catching up wuh " Twins. However, How-ever, Russon hit Ho a double play that smashed the opportunity. Caleb Dearing cnenod the bottom bot-tom of the second v. ' ' an infield single, and he scoreo on Chance Carter's sacrifice groundout that i See TOWN EYE, Page 7 f i 1 POO lllU.lt.llwfcllMltalJl |