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Show Thursday, March 27, 2008 Page 8 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Softball Continued from Page 7 Timpanogos (8-1) The Timberwolves return eight seniors, seven of whom have played varsity since their freshman year, so this team has exceptional experience and leadership. Tanner will be relying on the pitching tandem of Kirsten Bra-mall Bra-mall and Shiri Stevens, who has been injured and is just coming back. Kelsi Belliston has played at second base the past few seasons but has been moved to third. "She's one to look for," her coach said. "She's an amazing amaz-ing athlete and an all-around player." Center fielder Megan Bishop is a powerhouse on both sides of the plate. "She hits well and will field anything hit her direction," direc-tion," Tanner went on. "Even if she has to make a diving catch, she'll get to it somehow." Infielder Brittany Peterson has tons of range and could play anywhere. She also swings a big bat and is a really quick, solid player. Kalee Gonzalez is the top hitter right now and has Rewind Continued from Page 7 That was the inning when the deadlock ended. Walked by pitcher Sorensen in the top of the inning, Barbara Tor-rence Tor-rence soon came home on a two-out single hit by McKenna Helm into center field. American Ameri-can Fork pinched Helm in a fielder's choice play at second before Brighton could go on a scoring run. Haley Holmstead opened the fifth's lower half by whacking whack-ing a single into left. An illegal pitch called against Kyrstie Terry brought Holmstead home for a tying run. Before American Fork could break the tie, a fly out and strike out ended the turn. For the top of the sixth, the Bengals capitalized on an error to pull ahead 3-1 on a passed ball and a Sierra Si-erra ; Nielsen single; However, -Brighton's second lead didn't survive the inning. In the bottom of the sixth, Amy Krommenhoek orchestrated orches-trated a nine-run rally for American Fork by doubling in Sandra Nessler and Peterson. Pe-terson. Krommenhoek then came home on a Holmstead triple. Late in the rally. Nessler and Krommenhoek each hit a two-out, two-run single. Despite the beating that they took in the bottom of the sixth, the Bengals proved to be a huge threat when they loaded the bases on one out in the top of the seventh. After Sierra .4! . , f i,,,Ivef jhe Lehi pes! office. OIPTJ QS5 n really come along this year. Tanner said her senior-heavy team has some extra motivation this season. "They know it's now or never for them, so I expect ex-pect them to go to every game really prepared," she said. DARXE HORSES American Fork (8-3) The consensus on American Fork is that the team is loaded with athletes and has gotten off to a stronger start than many expected this year. "Their scores have been amazing so far," former coach Tanner said. "They've really been hitting the ball a lot this year. Anyone who's going to play them is going to have to have good defense that day." Sorensen is distributing pitching pitch-ing duties between two junior primaries, Annie Christensen and Kayfa Sorensen. "They've come a long way and we'll have them next year as well," he said. Any discussion of batting starts with catcher I laley I lol-mstead, lol-mstead, the Valley Offensive Player of the Year in basketball and a pretty fair softball player too. "She swings the bat about 1 :i American Fork's Daniel Litchford good enough for sixth best Nielsen had singled in a run on two outs, reliever Annie Chris tensen struck out Kayla Terry to end the game. Baseball I March 19 - American Fork mm u mm IT . .,-; :."... v:. ? -O'". : -f t I ' t, They've really been hitting the V ball a lot this year. Anyone who's going go-ing to play them is going to have ' to have good de-' fense that day." Timpanogos coach Niki Andersen ON AMERICAN FORK as well as anybody and is a good athlete too," Gillman said. She and Sandra Nessler have been providing the biggest big-gest share of the power at the plate so far, with each of them already credited with an over-t over-t he-fence home run and a bunch of triples. Amy Krommenhoek, Shelby had a shot-put toss of 47 '5.5" in all-time in American Fork history. 10, Fremont 5: At Plain City, Josh Mooney, Andy Lewis and Scott LeFrandt each doubled for American Fork, as the Cavemen doubled up Fremont in the victory. James Davis was the winning pitcher, going five innings. !!' REMODEL NOW! J .T.V.TMl .V .T.T.I .1 I'LL GIVE YOU A GREAT PRICE FORTHE NEW SEASON! CALL 550-8603 i0UNTA1NHIGH niiiuiiic iui a ii cc coin iaic FULL HOME CONSTRUCTION TO SMALL REMODELS - WE CAN HELP V MOUNTAIN HIGH BUILDERS & Benefittontrqls c 6 m v A N IE s WE DELIVER STRATEGIC BENEFIT RESULTS! Large and Small Employer Groups (fully-insured and self-insured plans) Individual Plans & family Plans Medical 'Vs', frescriptMi , Dental' ;;' Vision, Life ' i : . Disability '.-. (LTDSTD) ?5.! USAHRAFSA- . Cancer : , '1 Medicare Swapp and Mallory Davis are also hitting well right now. Lehi (6-3) , "We have to make sure we come with the game face on and ready to play every day, but We am compete in this re-v re-v gion," Warr said. "I do.beljeve we have some ' of the top pitching to be able 6 contend.with the top teams the stateTWith the return of ' sophomor Ariel Zimmerman and her sister Ashley Zimmer-. Zimmer-. man, who has been starting the ' , Season for us as Ariel has been recovering from an injury. "We have returning four-year four-year starter Marci Gray, who is consistently hitting the ball and Ls providing great leadership lead-ership for our team," Warr added. Some younger players like Bree Mcbride, Ariel Zimmerman Zim-merman and Aly White also all have a strong bat. Pleasant Grove (4-3) The reason why the Vikings are something of a mystery to the other region teams is because be-cause many of the players are so new. The team has just three seniors and four juniors playing Courtesy photo the UCCU Bulldog Invitational, Boys SOCCer I March 22 - Timpview 4, American Fork 0: The Cavemen Cave-men became the latest victim of a very strong Thunderbird squad. I March 25 - Mountain View SEE kit-Ill DESIGN LEHI. UTAH 84043 Hospital Income Benefits Long Term Care (LTC) Accident with a bunch of underclassmen. "We're way young," Gillman said. "We have a lot of sophomores sopho-mores and freshmen who want to step up and play varsity. We played a lot of summer ball together to-gether but we lack a little bit of maturity. "I'll be relying on seniors Whitney Giles, Haley Enge-mann Enge-mann and MeKell Miles to provide some leadership so the other girls can learn from their example," the coach continued. Juniors Kayloni Mikaluski and Torrey Best will continue to carry the bulk of the pitching pitch-ing responsibilities. "This will be their third year throwing and I think they do a pretty fair job," Gillman said. "We should be able to rely on our defense to step up more this year and make fewer mistakes to back them up. "We should be pretty good offensively too," he added. "Giles hits the ball pretty hard and will help teach the younger kids how to do things right. "We have a sophomore in Mackenzie Larson who knows what it takes to win and likes to make things happen. Sophomore Sopho-more Sam Dodson plays outfield out-field and first and Ls a pretty good little hitter. We've moved 5, American Fork 0: The Cavemen Cave-men had trouble on both ends of the field on the road. Track i March 22 - Caveman sets high mark at Provo: Daniel Litchford Li-tchford won the shot put at the UCCU Bulldog Invitational and made the school records list in the process. Litchford's toss of 47'5.5" ranks sixth all-time at American Ameri-can Fork and was less than two feet short of the school record set by Keith Robinson (49'4.5") in 1982. "I want to be able to tie or break that record this year," said Litchford. He came into the meet seeded No. 1 and the event's judges clapped at his winning throw, which was five feet farther than the next-closest mark. Litchford also placed second in the discus with a mark of 1 15' U" in a field of 100 competitors. com-petitors. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. t March 18 - American Fork wins several events at quad meet: The team placed second sec-ond in the boys division and fourth in the girls as a number num-ber of Cavemen triumphed in individual events. For the boys, Daniel Litchford Litch-ford earned first place in both the shot put and the discus by comfortable margins. Alan Smith and Ben Christensen Chris-tensen captured the top two spots in the 110 hurdles, separated sepa-rated by just 3100ths of a sec Includes Low-E & Argon Qualifies for Utility Rebates NoPayment No Interest ) Wasatch Vinyl Products .Until August 2008 High Quality...LOW Pricel ! Some Restrictions Apply Expires 032908 D E IM , i m - Air Engemann back to her natural position at second after she's played elsewhere because of the team's needs the past couple of years." Lone Peak (4-5) The Knigrits have struggled a little with consistency so far as the team has been dealing with some injuries and illness, but there is plenty of potential in the lineup. "They're always a competitor competi-tor in everything," Tanner said. "They always have good athletes ath-letes and they're pretty well coached," Gillman added. Still just a sophomore, Raven King stands out in the minds of coaches after her debut season sea-son last year. "This is a tough pitcher who's a good hitter too," Andrews said. King has been nursing a couple of nagging nag-ging injuries, but several other pitchers have filled in well, most notably sophomore Whitney Whit-ney Stevens. The team returns seven seniors in Nicole Bean, Bailie Hicken, Chantelle Ouimette, Katie Schoepf, Cami Trinna-man, Trinna-man, Arielle Wing and Rebecca Vincent, who all have important impor-tant roles to play this season. ond. Smith also finished third in the 300 hurdles. In the sprints, Chris Wernli was third and Brady Poulson fifth in the 100. The 4x100 and medley squads were third. Four Cavemen finished within a second of each other in the 200 as Koster Ken-nard Ken-nard was sixth, Tyler Bixler seventh, Andrew Angerhofer eighth and Aaron Harrison 11th. In the 400, Adam Thomas was fifth and Mark Huff sixth. The 4x400 relay teams came in fourth and fifth. Spencer Craft was third and Robby Lee eighth in the 800. American Fork showed well in the distance races. Ben Felix was second, Shawn Craine third and Lee ninth in the 1,600, and Felix was second, Ryan Bradshaw third and Evan Melville fourth in the 3,200. Stewart Stringham was fourth and Ryan Ellingson sixth in the long jump. String-ham String-ham was also sixth in the shot put. For the girls, Kristi Warren earned first place in the 100 hurdles and was fifth in the 300 hurdles, in between Mar-lisa Mar-lisa Hardman at fourth and Jessica Shumway at sixth. Morgan Laycock was third in the 100. Finishing 2-3-4 in the 800 were Danielle West, Amy Riddle and McCall Harward. In the 1.600, it was Heather Dimond sixth, West ninth and Alexis Laws 11th. In the 3,200, Riddle came in fifth. The Cavemen were fourth in all three girls relays. Lifetime Guarantee Energy Efficient Quality Installation f -.T. -i? Qf 733-5633 T A L Dr. Nick Groneman DMD 801-756-5136 186 South 1100 East American Fork, UT 84003 X-Rays, Exam, and Cleaning |
