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Donate all your surplus building materials, hardware, tools, and furniture to Habitat for Hu-manity Hu-manity to help Utah families and further our cause. trTr Itabitat for Humanity' 626 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo )gy Q&f Yt Co" 3REST0R for questions .WlUlt! (373 7867) 70-6 M-F, 9-3 S mmm IXSI'IIAXC'E AGENCY home auto life business C3Qn r frf rifl rW rrA i $4.D3$D5 3osN Four local teams carry four hopes and Jared Lloyd fiORTH COUNTY Four teams from each region re-gion in Utah Valley make it to the state tournament. Each classification has four sets of hopes and dreams, four schools ready to roll with the players through the competition, com-petition, four coaching staffs working late into the night making plans. That's why it's time to examine ex-amine our "Four-of-a-Kind" lists of the top four things you need to know about the upcoming up-coming first round games this weekend. Four best first-round matchups 1. Timpanogos at North-ridge: North-ridge: The Timberwolf offense has been one of the most dominant in the state behind the arm of senior quarterback Christian Stewart, and now the defense has shown some signs of life as well. The Knights are traditionally tradition-ally strong and have enjoyed another good season. Watch for Timpanogos to try to turn this one into a shootout and make it a very entertaining contest. 2. Viewmont at American Fork: On paper, the Cavemen should be the favorites over the 64 Vikings, but Viewmont has an emotional weapon. Before the season began, the Vikings lost Seth Fraught on to a drowning accident in August and they are sure to use that as a rallying cry during the state playoffs. American Fork has a tendency tenden-cy to let teams hang around and if they do that here, they could be in danger of getting upset. 3. Davis at Pleasant Grove: Both teams give up points grudgingly so this contest is set up to be a slugfest. It will probably come down to who gives the other a short field with a turnover and who can capitalize on their chances at scoring. . ' . 4. Bountiful at Orem: The Tigers have had their ups and downs this year but they've been pretty good at home (losing (los-ing only once). The Braves don't score a lot of points but b iVrfr1 Yi rtX QT1 .n.cr DZf" yr.,rpni U ft) 1 f - J. - j - their defense has been tough, as shown in a 20-0 shutout of Lone Peak to start the year. Orem's offense will need to create some big plays to get the win. Four biggest potential upsets 1. Pleasant Grove over Bingham, Bing-ham, 5A quarterfinals: The Miners Min-ers handled the Vikings in last year's semifinals at Rice-Eccles Stadium on their way to the 5A state title. Bingham doesn't appear to have lost very much overall while Pleasant Grove introduced a number of new starters. Beating the Miners would be a historic achievement achieve-ment for the young Vikings. 2. Mountain View over East, 4A first round: The Leopards have been one of the top teams in the state all season and handled Region 4 champion American Fork earlier this year. The Bruins, on the other hand, bounced back from a rough season in 2006 to nearly take second place. A win on the road at East would send the team's confidence soaring. m m x t u r"ie rvoss acnoneia at I . a- - ' J i J f b i i i i r y 1 -Cy"! www.footeinsurance.com .FREEDOM BLVD. PROVO 3. Spanish Fork over Layton, 5A first round: The Dons needed need-ed a play -in game to get the final No. 4 seed from Region 4, while the Lancers were rolling through Region 1 competition. Don't count out Spanish Fork, however, since this is a team that never gives up and played some of its best football of the season on Tuesday. 4. Payson over Highland, 4A quarterfinals: Some might think the Lions would get the nod for an opening round road win over Mountain Crest but the Mustangs are barely over .500. Instead, getting a second-round stunner by Payson over the Rams who won the Region 6 coin flip to get the top seed over East and Cotton-would Cotton-would would be a huge step for the hard-luck Lions. Four" biggest questions 1. Will Timpview's lack of competition during the season come back to haunt them? The Thunderbirds rolled through every game except an early comeback by Spanish Fork. If Timpview gets into a dogfight, it will be interesting Rewind Continued from Page 7 against Lone Peak and Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove at the opening event of the season. McKay King produced the first Caveman win for the meet through taking the boys 200-yafd 200-yafd freestyle. A sophomore, he went on to grab a first-place finish in the 100-yard breast-stroke. breast-stroke. He was also the anchor for the 400-yard freestyle relay team that won its event in a time of 3:31. The other members mem-bers of that team included Kyle Smith, T.J. Murphy and Carl Okelberry. Smith went on to win the 500-yard freestyle, then finished fin-ished second in the 100-yard butterfly. A ninth-grader, Murphy got his high school career off to an impressive start with his winning win-ning the 100-yard fly in a time of 56.02 seconds. Murphy also came in second in the 50-yard freestyle, losing to Lone Peak's Stephen Griener by less than one second. Another freshman who shined at the tri-meet, Jamie Nebeker won the girls 200-yard 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard breaststroke. American Fork coach Kathy King said, "I'm pleased with our first -meet performance. Our girls were great in the breaststroke. Several of them were ninth-graders. They were really fast. "We had two guys go one, two in the butterflyi Our kids came to swim; they were very focused. We have 38 kids on the team, and only two of them are seniors." The team of Maddie Dai-ley, Dai-ley, Alliesha O'Neal, Nicole Casey and Abby Morrison won the girls 200-yard freestyle free-style relay. Defending state champion four dreams American Fork running back Chris Wernli has proven himself to be one of the best running backs in the state, even though he splits his carries with three other backs in the Cavemen backfield. The more times he touches it in the postseason, the better American Fork's chances of winning. to how it responds. 2. Can the Utah County 5A schools compete with the top teams in the state? Since rejoining the 5A ranks two years ago, the area 5A schools have had their problems prob-lems in facing off against the Binghams and Altas of Salt Lake. They will have their hands full once again this fall. 3. Willi Mountain View be able to build off its impressive season in the playoffs? No one expected the Bruins to do what they did thus far in 2007, except maybe new coach Teko Johnson. Now they get to see how they'll fare in the tournament atmosphere. 4. Can a Utah Valley team bring home a state title? Only one local team has won a state title in the past 10 years (Timpview in 1997, 2004 and 2006). As good as the Thunder-birds Thunder-birds are, it's time for the rest of the county to begin to challenge chal-lenge for that spot. Four players to watch 1. Mark Ercanbrack, Timpview senior wide receiver: This spot could've been given to the entire T'Bird defense but Ercanbrack has been unbelievable. unbeliev-able. He has great hands and the ability to go up and get the ball in traffic, plus he has great return capabilities. 2. Chris Wernli, American Fork senior running back: Wernli Wer-nli has proven himself to be one of the best running backs in the state, even though he splits his carries with three other backs in the Cavemen backfield. The more times he touches it in the postseason, the better American Fork's chances of winning. 3. LeSean Wilcox, Pleasant Grove junior wide receiver (etc.): Trying to come up with something Wilcox doesn't do is more difficult than describing . ) f a-- " -f?t- Makenzie Moea'i (9) of American match at Lehi High School on Candice Smith won the 100-yard 100-yard backstroke in a time of 58.01. A senior, Smith was the only swimmer to finish the event in under a minute. She went on to join Nebeker, Ne-beker, Chanel Noot and Alliesha O'Neal in finishing second in the 400-yard freestyle free-style relay. Smith also took second in the butterfly. Smith was the lead swimmer for the 200-yard medley relay team that finished fin-ished second. That squad also included Noot, Nebeker and Morrison. Dailey tied Lone Peak's Alys-sa Alys-sa Nielson for second place in the 200-yard freestyle, then earned another second in the 500-yard freestyle. Noot finished third in the 200-yard individual medley and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle. The 50-yard freestyle saw Morrison take second, Alliesha O'Neal third, and her sister Brooke O'Neal fifth. Alliesha in to playoffs what he does: Runs, catches, plays safety, punts, returns kicks and even throws a pass now and then. He needs to play well for the Vikings to get deep in the playoffs. 4. Christian Stewart, Timpanogos senior quarterback: All Stewart has done this year is guide the pass-happy Tim-berwolves Tim-berwolves to more than 300 yards per game through the air. He should build on his 38 touchdown passes before the playoffs are done. Four biggest state tlayoff moments in the ast four years 1. Timpview beats Lone Peak for the 2004 title: This was the first time two area schools met for a championship in forever and the Thunderbirds proved dominant on both sides of the ball. 2. Timpview defeats Highland in 2006 for its second title in three years: The T'Birds repeated re-peated their success last fall, riding a stingy defense and an offense that made just enough plays in the semifinals and finals. 3. Pleasant Grove reaches the 5A semifinals in 2006: Even though the Vikings won Region Re-gion 4, people pointed to the number of close games they had as a reason why they would struggle. Instead, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove kept rolling until running into Bingham in the semifinals. 4. First round surprises in 2005: In a year that saw no Utah Valley teams reach Rice-Eccles Stadium, the big story was a couple of upsets in the opening round. Pleasant Grove scored late to knock off Jordan and Springville turned into a dominant team for a week in a road win over Box Elder. . BEKY BEATONNorth Cognty- Fork serves the ball during Thursday. . i ... O'Neal tooksecondki thfilQQj V yard freestyle; ' The team of Okelberm , ', Murphy, King and Seth Wynn . . finished second in the boys 200-yard medley relay. Okelberry took third in the 200-yard individual medley, and Wynn finished fourth in the 100-yard freestyle. Colby Larsen took fourth in the 500-yard 500-yard freestyle and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle. "I was very pleased with our individual victories as well as our depth," coach King said. "To be able to place several swimmers in the top eight was very encouraging for the season sea-son opener. "Our nerves were not too bad and everyone gave good, solid performances," she added. "I really appreciate the contributions of our newcomers newcom-ers and everyone is working hard." I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. |