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Show Thursday, June 26, 2008 Page 6 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN -1 U 4 i. r- n t f COMMUNITY SPORTS, PEOPLE AND OUTDOOR FUN Can you hear it? IS iyj VjJJ VirU IJi:LSAlLJi . . -v , , Vv - - , .v . ' " v - . -y X - -. V v .- . ' v - ; X. n. . . . v' , 4 , 4 .- , 'A X' 4 w;,-'. , - , f v v , - - - . - ,.-. , . . x .j ....,. i . 4 - J ; ;; . ' " V , ' " . " f , ' - ' i " . - " ,.,..' ' ty , f . ' 1 I ., . ... . t ' ' ' .' " ' ' ' ...... - ' . ........ .'.... " .... .......... ....... ... ....... :iu .... t. ? . ' ' ... i ..v ...... '.......'..'.'''.'.... . . ,...:.. " 5 .... ' . ' - ' . - . " 1 ..y:...... CEUA TOBINDaily Herald Chris Dodds, of the Utah Explosion, pitches a ball towards the opposite goal during the Men's Goalball National Championship Tournament on Saturday in American Fork. All players, of which there are three on the court ut u time, must be legally blind to participate in official competitions. Players wear "eye shades" so that thosewith some level of vision have no advantage. During the game, a bull containing beds is pitched toward a cross-court goal, which must be defended by listening for where the ball is directed. Utah lost in the final game to Florida. National, local visually impaired athletes gather to compete in USA goalball championships at American Fork High School Jared Lloyd DAILY hf RAID The movie "Dodgeball" highlighted the competitive evolution of the old school-yard game as teams attempted to hit opposing players and knock them out of the contest. Now imagine playing it in reverse: Instead of hitting players, you want to get the ball past them into a goal. It sounds pretty simple until you consider that you have to roll or bounce the ball at least twice on the ground. Oh, and your eyes are completely complete-ly covered. Welcome to the world of goalball, More Online For video highlights high-lights of from the National Goalball Championship, Cham-pionship, go to heraldextra.com which stepped into --.-- the spot light this past weekend as the best legally -blind players in the country descended on American Fork High School for the USA National Goalball Championships. "It's different; you've really got to .";:lt's really intense. You can't see, so you have to hear everything. ev-erything. It's about all different senses, plus it's all about the mental men-tal aspect." Morgan Oxborrow GOAL BALI PLAYER FROM LEHI experience goalball to understand the way it is," said Tony Jepson, who works for the Utah Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired and coaches both the Utah men's and women's goalball teams. "These players play-ers are out here using their bodies to block these throws. One team is throwing the ball as hard as they can, trying to get it past the other team into the goal while the others are trying to block and it can be painful sometynes." l, K:. : f 'if $ W CEUA TOBINDaily Herald Lewis Burdette, of the Utah Explosion, grabs the ball in defense of his goal during the Men's Goalball National Championship Tournament on Saturday in American Fork. The Utah men's squad the Xplo-sion Xplo-sion proved once again to be one of the top teams in the country, rolling roll-ing into the final, where they were defeated by Florida. A pair of Utah Valley teenagers Morgan Oxborrow of Lehi and both just completed their senior years I lerschel Kelly of Highland took at their respective high schools and the floor for their respective teams in plan to attend Utah State in the fall, the tournament. The I-ehi graduate won two national The two are at opposite ends of the goalball spectrum, even though they See GOALBALL, Page 7 American Fork 17-U baseball team has rough start to league play "We ran the bases well, but we kept leaving men on base nearly every inning. . ... We did hit the ball pretty good, we just kept hitting it to somebody, I Jake Fisher AF 17-UNDER BASEBALL COACH Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The first week of Utah Baseball Academy League play ended with the American Fork Caveman 17-under division divi-sion team having a 0-3 league record. In a June 20 game at American Fork, the Bingham Miners picked American Fork apart 8-2. "For the players we had on hand, we did the best that we could," American Fork acting head coach Jake Fisher said. "We ran the bases well, but we kept leaving men on base I nearly every inning, especially in the third when we had that bags loaded with two outs. We did hit the ball pretty good. We just kept hitting it to somebody. some-body. For a guy who hasn't pitched much, Taylor Garner did throw well for us today." r With one out in the top of the first, Miner Nate Petersen got moved to third by a Land-on Land-on Jenkins double. Vince Giron singled Petersen in, only to get nabbed in a double play which sent the Miners out to the field. During the bottom of the first, shortstop Derek Whitney threw out Kyle 1 Iall and Stu Duersch. An error let Colton Whatcott race to second. Tyson Ty-son Smith singled Whatcott in for the tying run but a throw from pitcher Cody Washburn picked the Caveman runner off at first. After singling into left at the start of the second inning, D.J. Nelson came home on a Bryce Benton hit to begin a three-run rally for the Miners. A double from Nate Petserson brought in Benton and Matt Cluff. Whitney's popout to first finally final-ly shut down the Miner rally. Though Garner slapped a left-field single at the start of the bottom half of the frame, the Cavemen couldn't put a rally together. After Washburn had walked C.J. Miller, the two Cavemen grounded out. Left fielder Nelson Nel-son caught a Cam Waite fly ball to keep the Cavemen from t catching up with Bingham. Giron hit a solo homer in the third, but after Garner had walked Whitney the Cavemen were able to stave off another Bingham rally. Things started well when American Fork got up but they couldn't keep it going. Washburn walked Hall, but the Caveman was caught in a squeeze play. Though Duersch got beaned by a Washburn pitch, second baseman Peterson Peter-son tagged him in a fielder's choice play. See BASEBALL, Page 7 |