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Show ; Thursday, May 1, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 9 PORT ! i ! Rewind Continued from Page 7 to hit or walk 12 batters. The Cavemen struck for two runs in the third when Jake Perry singled and came home on a Bo Fisher two-run homer. American Fork wasn't done. The Cavemen came back for more in the fifth. It started with a Fisher walk. Nate Pitcher delivered an RBI double. Murphy walked and after Mooney grounded out, Lewis drew a walk to load the bases. LeFrandt hit a sacrifice fly and Jarett Pulsipher singled in a run. A wild pitch allowed the go-ahead run to score to give American Fork a 6-5 lead. Timpanogos came right back to tie the game in the bottom bot-tom of the fifth with an RBI single from Grant Jimenez, but the Timberwolves would get no more off of Mooney. I April 25 -Lone Peak 12, American Fork 9: At American Fork, the Knights out-hit the Cavemen 16-14 and scored six runs in the second inning on their way to earning the season sweep over American Fork. Soccer April 24 - Lehi 2, American Fork 0: The Pioneers scored twice in the late going to get the win. For 65 scoreless minutes, the American Fork soccer team gave the league-leading Pioneers everything they could handle. After numerous fruitless opportunities op-portunities by both squads, Le-hi's Le-hi's Spencer Gray found the net twice in the final 15 minutes to lift his team past the Cavemen on a cold and windy Thursday afternoon in American Fork. The first goal came when the Pioneers were awarded a free kick just past midfield. With the wind behind him and a slight downward slope in front, senior Jake Crump sent a well-placed kick into the box, where Gray collected the ball and quickly redirected it into the right side of the net for the tiebreaker. Six minutes later, Zach Mor Mark your calendars and plan on sharing a part of your day with us on Friday, May 9 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm as wt celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of our American Fork Office. There will be free food, gifts and lots of fun as we say "Thank You" for making the expansion of our American Fork office possible. We're experienced tremendous growth over these past years, all of which can be attributed to our great customers and to the hard work of our employees. So to all of you and to this great community of which we are a part -Thanks! gan booted a long cross from the right sideline to a waiting Gray, who once again made a quick trap and turned the ball into the left side of the goal in a crowd. Both teams continued to play with vigor for the remaining re-maining time. The intensity led to a yellow card issued to each squad during the closing minutes. The Cavemen had one final opportunity for a score with about 10 seconds left, but the shot sailed just wide to the right. "We made a couple of mistakes mis-takes in the box and that cost us," said American Fork coach Barkley Chile. "We put more pressure on them than we have in other games though, so I was pleased with that. Everybody Ev-erybody played hard." I Beky Beaton filed this report. April 29 - Pleasant Grove 4, American Fork 1: Pleasant Grove capitalized on free kicks and scored three goals in the first half in defeating the Cavemen in Region 4 boys soccer on Tuesday. The Vikings went after the young defense of the Cavemen. Cave-men. Senior Joseph Schwartz scored the second goal of the game on a free kick eight yards in from the midfield line, sneaking a ball between the crossbar and the outstretched out-stretched hands of the Caveman Cave-man goalkeeper. Pleasant Grove scored again off a direct free kick a few minutes before the half, as senior forward Jordan Wood-house Wood-house put a ball in the right side from 22 yards out. Pleasant Grove drew blood first off a hustle possession by senior Dylan Dinehart. Cavemen keeper Chris Pineda blocked Dinehart once, then twice from point-blank range, but couldn't stop Dinehart a third time as the midfielder finally buried the ball in the back of the net. American Fork did manage to cut the Viking lead to one goal at 2-1. The Cavemen's McKay Steggell sent a ball across the Pleasant Grove goal box to a wide open Sean Halbleib, who tapped the ball in for the goal. Friday, May 9, 2008 10:00 am 3:00 pm Food - Gifts Fun Utah County's Small Business Bank (( i m n lit A (?) U The Cavemen were stifled in the second half as Pleasant Grove continued to build its lead. American Fork is a depleted team, as four starters and five players overall who were on the team to start the season are no longer with them. 1 "They were actually happy," American Fork coach Barkley Chile said of his remaining players. "Now we're playing as a team, so I think it's good for the team actually." I Jordan Christiansen filed this report. Softball I April 24 - Pleasant Grove 7, American Fork 3: The Cavemen competed but couldn't get the bats going enough. American Fork coach Duke Sorenson said, "We've been in a hitting slump in the last while. We didn't hit well until the seventh inning. By then, it was too late for us. Annie Christensen pitched good for us." Guided by pitcher Angie Mikalauski, the Pleasant Grove defense kept American Fork in check for most of the game. With one out. No. 2 hitter Cydne Mason singled into center, cen-ter, then stole second base, but she was left stranded. Mikalauski Mi-kalauski didn't let American Fork make another hit until the seventh. In the bottom of the first, sacrifice flies from Mikalauski Mika-lauski and Sammi Dodson each brought in a run for Pleasant Grove. Christensen kept Pleasant Grove's lead stuck at 2-0 until the bottom of the third, its lower half opened with Whitney Whit-ney Giles singling into center. Lexi Muir singled in a run, then came home on a Haley Enge-mann Enge-mann double. In the fourth, Viking Kenzi Larson hit an in-the-park homer. hom-er. Soon afterwards, a two-out triple hit by Dodson drove in two runs for the Vikings. Despite a fifth-inning double from Mikalauski, Christensen didn't let the Viking make any more runs after the fourth. In the top of the seventh, Shelby Swapp bunted a single, and a Haley Holmstead double & 0 moved her to third. A Mal-lory Mal-lory Davis sacrifice groundout scored Swapp. On two outs, Christensen tripled in Holm-stead, Holm-stead, only to get stranded on base. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. I Spanish Fork 13, American Fork 0: At Spanish Fork, the Cavemen got seven hits but couldn't put anything together to get some runs. Track I March 25 - Boys second, girls third in tri-meet: The Cavemen finished a narrow second to Timpanogos in the boys division and the girls were third behind Pleasant Grove. In the boys events, Ben Christensen was first and Alan Smith third in the 1 10m hurdles. Christensen tied for second in the high jump, while Smith was also second in the 100m dash and fourth in the 300m hurdles. Daniel Litchford won the discus dis-cus with David Marler second, then also earned first in the shot put with Stuart String-ham String-ham fourth. Marler took the javelin, followed by Ben Felix in third. Chad Johnson was fourth in the long jump. Mark Huff finished fourth in the 400m. Shawn Crane won the 800m and Evan Melville came in fourth. In the 1600m, Felix was first and Melville fourth. Robby Lee came in second and Josh Stewart Stew-art fourth in the 3200m. The Cavemen won the 4x400m relay and the sprint medley team was second. Kristi Warren got things started for the girls by winning win-ning the 100m hurdles. American Ameri-can Fork took three of the four places in the 800m. Ermin-ia Ermin-ia Martinez came in second. Amy Riddle third and McCall Harward fourth. Danielle West took second sec-ond in the 1600m, while the 4x100m and sprint medley relay teams were second. Talea Kelsey was third in the discus, and Kristen Judd came in fourth in the shot put. I April 1 - Boys beat Timpanogos, girls second in trS-meet: The Cavemen scored i "LA A Mh i ..' 1 : ... I - well against the Timberwolves and Pioneers. In the boys events, Ben Christensen won the 110m hurdles and Alan Smith was second. They reversed places in the 300m hurdles, with Smith first and Christensen second. Smith also took first in the 100m followed by Chris Wernli. Ben Felix took second in the 200m. American Fork won the 4x100m relay and was second in the 4x400m. Spencer Craft won the 800m, while Evan Melville was second in the 800m and the 1600m. In the 3200m, Shawn Crane and Brady Pulsipher got the top two spots. The Cavemen did very well in the field events. Daniel Litchford Li-tchford won the shot put and the discus, with Lee Caldwell second and David Marler third in the latter event. Mai ler was first and Felix third in the javelin. Joel Roberts Rob-erts earned first in the hjgh jump with Christensen second. Brady Poulson and Stuart Stringham went one-two in the long jump. For the girls, Danielle West and Alexis Laws earned the top two spots in the 1600m. In the 800m, Laws was the winner win-ner and Erminia Martinez was third. Nikki Packham finished second in the high jump, and was also third in the long jump and shot put. In the relays, the medley and 4x400 teams came in first. I April 17 - Litchford wins, places at Uintah: Daniel Litchford Litch-ford won the shot put (46'6") and came in fourth in the discus dis-cus ( 129'8") in Vernal. t Beky Beaton filed these reports. I April 26 - American Fork earns spots: Four Cavemen placed at the Davis Invitational Invitation-al in Kaysville. Ben Felix finished eighth in the boys 1.600-meter race. American Fork boys coach Timo Mostert said, "Spencer Craft took second in the open 800 in a time of 2:05. Ben Christensen Chris-tensen took second and Alan Smith sixth in the open 110 high hurdles." Mostert said Shawn Crane posted a good time of 4:42.79 in the open 1,600. Ryan Bradshaw took 10th in the open 3,200. The coach said most of the American Fork track team members stayed home because be-cause of the Junior Prom. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. w mm mrnm mm mm lit to m Ant i. A . ! S FDtC Mi |