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Show Thursday, July 17, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 7 LUKHEUTIOIM NORTH COUNTY In last week's article on the American Amer-ican Fork Giants winning the Pony League title, the name of player Colton AF GIANTS Hale was misspelled. He had two home runs in the contest. The Citizen Citi-zen regrets the error. AF golf sets tryout dates NORTH COUNTY The American Fork High School golf program has set rescheduled tryout dates for the 2008 boys golf team on Aug. 4 and 5 at Fox Hollow Golf Course (formerly Tri-City) Tri-City) in American Fork. All interested boys entering enter-ing grades 9-12 are invited to participate but must be present both days to be considered. con-sidered. For each session, registration and check-in begins at 11 a.m., followed by 18-hole stroke play beginning begin-ning at noon (times subject to change). Requirements to try out for the golf team include: 1. Paying in advance discounted dis-counted greens fees for both days of $28. 2. Presenting an academic GPA of at least 2.0 (last report card) with no more than one F grade. 3. Handing in pre-partic-ipation physical and tryout checklist forms (available in the school office). 4. Reviewing by parent and student of activity disclosure dis-closure and tryout general instructions. ', USGA amateur rules and local rules will apply. For more information, call coach Lynn Anderson at 362-8743 or go to www.afhs. alpine.kl2.ut.us. and click on athletics, then select golf. ' Am. Fork 16U baseball earns victory over Knights Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRRESPONDENT The American Fork 16-and-under baseball team came from behind to beat Lone Peak 9-8 at home in UABA league action Tuesday evening. It followed up on the success the Cavemen had winning the West Jordan Firecracker Tournament during dur-ing the Independence Day weekend. Aided by Kyle Hannemann and Chris Nelson singles, the Knights quickly loaded the bases on one out in the top of the first. Lone Peak thereupon took a 2-0 lead through walks made Rhett Reiber and Logan Leavitt. With pitcher Taylor Tonks striking out Zach Newman, the Cavemen quickly proceeded proceed-ed to shut the Knights down. American Fork didn't let Lone Peak batters make any more hits until the fourth inning. In the meantime, the Cavemen Cave-men had trouble with getting onto the scoreboard, even though they did start making hits in the second. On one out in that inning's bottom half, Colton Dunn singled into left, only to become ensnared in a double play turned by shortstop short-stop Zach Robinson. The Cavemen couldn't get anywhere with Trevor Phelps' third-inning double and Tyson Smith's fourth-inning single. In'the top of the fourth, Leavitt singled into left, but reliever Dunn picked him off at first base. Aided by two fifth-inning errors, Knight Mitch Call singled Gage Christensen in, FVF 0R0M. tmiMfl K LW9 !!!! nr lew nniWER mm'T 1 3 -J i ErrorscostAF 16U baseball against Kearns Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT Through committing two fifth-inning errors, the Caveman Cave-man 16-and-under baseball team allowed the Kearns Cougars to defeat them 10-5 in a UABA league game at American Fork Saturday. After the two teams had battled to a scoreless tie in the first inning, American Fork went on a four-run rally in the bottom of the second. The rally got fueled by singles sin-gles hit by Jake Blackhurst and Jake Miles. American Fork coach Tracy Flinders said, "We hit the ball on the line in the second. sec-ond. The middle of our lineup did really good for us at the plate. Ben Beddes came through well for us. What hurt us were two errors we made in the fifth. That was what made the difference in the game." For four straight innings, Kearns held the Cavemen scoreless. Meanwhile, the Cougars scored three runs in the third, then pulled ahead 54 on two fourth-inning runs. The errors occurred when the Cougars had two outs hanging over their heads. The mistakes gave the Cougars Cou-gars the momentum to pull away. One center-field error er-ror let Scotty Meyers come home. Jordan Blain then singled in Andy Perhson on two outs. American Fork slapped the Cougars with a double play to hold them scoreless in the sixth. Kearns kept the Cavemen Cave-men from capitalizing on a Blackhurst single in the bottom bot-tom of the inning. In the seventh's top half, Zach Coon tripled in two Cougars, then stole home to conclude Kearns scoring. For the seventh's lower half, Aaron Ingersoll's right-field right-field single moved Tyson Smith into scoring position. On one out, Morgan Flinders singled Smith in. Kearns shut the Cavemen down after that. improving the lead at 3-0. The Cavemen bounced back by turning a double play that retired re-tired Lone Peak to the field. On one out, a Dunn, center-field center-field single quickly resulted in American Fork loading the bases. A Lone Peak error permitted Dunn and Morgan Flinders to race home. Phelps later stole home to tie the game at three. In the sixth, Leavitt singled Hannemann in to break the 33 tie. Singling in the bottom of the sixth, Kyle Hall came home on a Tonks sacrifice groundout. A Mason Smith single in the seventh paved the way for Lone Peak to load the bases on no outs. Smith came home on a passed ball, opening a four-run rally. During it, Nelson widened the lead to 84 through slugging slug-ging a three-run double. It failed to become the knockout punch that Lone Peak needed for putting the game away. The Cavemen kept Nelson stuck at second. American Fork coach Glenn Taylor said, "I didn't think we were going to pull it off. Trevor Phelps told me, 'Me and the next two guys will come through for you.' "Phelps, Colton Whatcott, and Jim Shumway all got on base. It was boom-boom for us after that. Everyone got to hit, though we did have two outs during the seventh." Hall hit a one-run double to start a five-run rally. After Tyson Smith had singled in two runs, Dunn hit a two-run single to win the game for the Cavemen. ... - West J American Fork 17U Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The American Fork 17-and-under division team dropped an eight -inning game at home to West Jordan 4-3 during UABA league action July 9. The game opened with West Jordan's Garrett Peguillen singling sin-gling into left. Tyler Nelson hit a two-out, left-field double to reel Peguillen in for the night's first run. American Fork pitcher pitch-er Jim Davis answered quickly by retiring Carter Lloyd. In striking out two of the four batters that West Jordan sent against him in the top of UHSAA Continued from Page 6 That opinion will draw mixed reactions from fans of traditional and newer sports, but the UHSAA hopes no matter mat-ter how people view the decisions, deci-sions, they recognize what the association is trying to do. "We're not 'those guys' in the office," Wilkey said. "We're all together in this thing and we need to be Beaton Continued from Page 6 Maybe an answer could be found in an expanded system to determine which schools get the final berths to the tournament tourna-ment in the major team sports - football, volleyball, soccer, basketball, baseball and soft-ball. soft-ball. One possible scenario would have the top two teams in each region get an automatic auto-matic berth to their respective respec-tive playoffs, while all the rest of the teams - including the ones who right now are excluded - would play each other in inter-region games for a couple of rounds to get those final spots. The present system of cross-scheduling according to a preset formula could still be used. Calendar issues could be resolved by swapping out regular-season games for these contests, when necessary. Another possible approach would be to assign all teams to preset inter-region pools and then having the top finishers from those contests advance to the final rounds of the playoffs. play-offs. The idea would fje to ensure the best possible field in each tournament, allowing teams American Fork 16U baseball falls to Cottonwood Dean Von Memmott SPORTS CORRESPONDENT The American Fork 16-and-under baseball team lost a close contest at Cottonwood 13-12 on Thursday. American Fork coach Rick Lyman said, "We didn't hustle as fast on the bases as we should have. We made base-running base-running mistakes that came back to haunt us, and we left a lot of runners on when we had good chances for winning the game. We just have a real young team." Colt pitcher Derek Pitts posted five strikeouts during the game's first three innings. Two of the strikeouts occurred oc-curred in the top of the first, hampering American Fork's efforts at making hits. Pitts did walk Kyle Hall and Taylor Tonks. Hit by Jake Blackhurst into right field, a sacrifice fly Queen Mattress Set $599 reg. $799 King Mattress Set $799 reg. $999 j XTl Upgrade to Memory Foam for $50 v U NQIITHERN- 470 w state street T FURNITURE Pleasant Gwve 735-7788 mim Jaguars the second, Davis held the Jaguars Jag-uars scoreless that inning. In the bottom of it, Jake Blackhurst singled into left, and on two outs, CJ. Miller doubled him in for the tying run. Before Miller could make another score, shortstop Andre Ashton grounded out Colton Dunn. In the third inning, Davis kept the Jaguars from snipping snip-ping the 1-1 tie. Davis' efforts allowed the Cavemen to take control of the momentum in the bottom of the third. Caveman Cave-man Kyle Hall tripled in Skyler Davis, then came home on a two-out single bunted by Stu Duersch. Pitcher Nelson fanned unified like a team, with coaches, parents and administrators. admin-istrators. If we do, we won't just survive but we'll thrive. I encourage people to become acquainted and involved in the process." Excell said that everyone at the UHSAA has a job to do and he hopes people would respect that. "We work overtime to be fair," he explained. "I hope no one ever takes decisions personally. We try to always which play in a particularly competitive region or come on at the end of the season to earn their way in while also providing a chance for players on weaker teams to experience experi-ence a bit of playoff flavor. This could also add one more method of disciplining teams with behavioral problems prob-lems without punishing everybody every-body else. The ultimate sanction sanc-tion would be excluding them from the playoff process. i Adding a consolation I bracket to the soccer i tournament. If one of the 'above playoff scenarios isn't adopted, I'd like to see consideration given to a consolation con-solation bracket for soccer as a means of broadening opportunities oppor-tunities for the athletes. With the exception of football, a sport that is in its own category for scheduling purposes, soccer right now is allowed the fewest number of contests of all the team sports. I realize that the UHSAA has used competition limits in an attempt to regulate a. sport with persistent sportsmanship problems, but what that approach ap-proach does is penalize teams that are conducting themselves properly right along with the miscreants. Instead, why not sanction the ones causing the trouble scored Hall. That turned out to be the only Caveman run for the inning. On one out in the bottom of the first, Zach Story hit a center-field double, then got doubled in by Pitts. Shane Hanson Han-son doubled Pitts in for a go-ahead go-ahead run, then stole around to third base. American Fork kept Hanson confined to third. With Pitts striking out two of three American Fork batters bat-ters in the second, Cottonwood proceeded to lengthen its lead in the bottom of the inning. Walked by pitcher Tonks, Kyle Van Amon came home on a passed ball. Despite getting a double from Colt Gratherum and a single from Story, the Colts couldn't pick up any more runs in the second inning. in-ning. , Aided by a third-inning error, er-ror, American Fork quickly loaded the bases on one out. base Blackhurst to shut American Fork down. With his striking out three straight Caveman batters in the bottom of the fourth, Nelson Nel-son kept American Fork handcuffed hand-cuffed for the rest of the game, even though Hall did single off him in the fifth to go 2-2 at the plate for the night. Davis' pitching kept American Ameri-can Fork ahead clear to the seventh inning, even though Brook Bennion did double off the pitcher in the sixth. Davis posted five strikeouts for the night. When the Cavemen got the first two Jaguars out at the think what's best for the kids first." That attitude and the emphasis empha-sis on sportsmanship is what Excell was most proud of, although al-though those things now take a back seat to other activities as of July 1. "I'm going to be kicking back and enjoying my family," Excell said. "I'm also going to be doing some golfing, fishing, camping and hunting. I'm just going to play it by ear." Wilkey plans on continuing (see the previous section) and allow the rest a greater chance at playoff experience? Since so many soccer games are decided by a single goaL often by a stroke of luck rather than any particular skill, a bracket like those used for volleyball and small-school basketball bas-ketball would allow programs not quite at the top level yet or who suffer an unfortunate loss to still play for something meaningful while they gain experience ex-perience which will help them become more competitive in the future. Early rounds could be handled han-dled the same way small-school baseball and softball are now, by gathering teams at a specific specif-ic location and playing a couple of games that day to determine who gets to advance. 4 Expanding opportunities in track and field. I'm not necessarily advocating more meets, but I would like a few more events to be made available. One glaring inequity exists right now in pole vaulting, where the problem is two-fold. In the first place, there are few schools with the facilities and few coaches coach-es qualified to teach the technique tech-nique necessary for this event. The net result is that those schools who do have vaulters can earn a lot of points not Walks by Tonks and Colton Dunn sparked a six-run rally for the Cavemen. During the rally, Trevor Phelps smacked a one-run single for the first Caveman hit of the game and Tyler Flinders contributed a one-run double. The Cavemen's retaking of the lead gave them only short-term satisfaction. In the bottom of the third, Hanson hit a one-run double to spark a six-run six-run response by Cottonwood. Hit by Carl Yagi, a two-run double tied the game at seven. Van Amon hit a one-run single to tip Cottonwood back out, front. A Crosby Jensen, one-run single left Cottonwood leading 9-7 at the end of the third. Blackhurst hit a one-out triple in the top of the fourth to spark a Caveman comeback. Tonks singled Blackhurst in, then came home on a Dunn single to tie the game at nine. ou tlast mil start of the seventh, they stood figuratively within inches of picking up a win. Suddenly, that opportunity slipped away from them through Lloyd accidentally ac-cidentally getting hit by a pitch and Jordan Butterfield hitting a center-field single. Taylor Call singled both Jaguars in to tie the game at three and force it into an eighth inning. Hitting an eighth-inning single, Pegullen scored a run during an error at home plate. Dunn got on base through a walk in the bottom of the eighth, but Nelson didn't let the Cavemen make any runs to secure se-cure the win for the Jaguars. to place the same importance on the mission of the UHSAA. "This is about people and relationships, re-lationships, seeing them grow and mature," the new executive execu-tive director said. "It's about seeing the UHSAA family face challenges and find solutions. "I've been here for 30 years and I still look forward to the lessons the kids learn from winning and losing. It's fascinating fasci-nating to watch the threads of life that add vibrancy to the tapestry." available to other schools - although al-though under current UHSAA rules, they only count points for the 5A and 2A classifications, classifica-tions, presumably because they are the only ones with a sufficient suffi-cient number of competitors. In the second place, while the UHSAA also defines this event as coeducational, there is no separate state qualifying standard for girls. They are allowed to compete with the boys, but any points they earn go to the male team total, just like it used to be in golf. School districts should try to find ways to allow boys or girls who want to learn this event access ac-cess to the facilities and coaches at the schools that have them, and the genders need to be fully separated in meets. In addition, I'd like to see some college and Olympic events not presently sanctioned to be added, such as the triple jump, the heptathlon (girls) and the decathlon (boys). Of course, the latter two could be staged only at two-day two-day meets, where in some cases they are already offered but only on an unofficial basis. These could add an exiting new dimension to high school meets as well as improve college col-lege scholarship opportunities for those who choose to compete com-pete in theraete in them. Taking over pitching duties in the bottom of the fourth, Dunn kept Cottonwood from profiting on a Sam Shapiro single. In the fifth's lower half, Hanson Han-son doubled into left and raced to third on an error. A Yagi sacrifice fly scored Hanson, starting a three-run rally, highlighted high-lighted by Van Amon's in-the-park homer and Tim Glenn's one-run double. Getting on base through an error in the sixth, Hall came home on a passed ball to stir up another comeback for the Cavemen. Colton Whatcott and Phelps each singled in a score during American Fork's three-run three-run rally in the sixth. The Cavemen were unable to put any runners on base in the seventh. Aaron Robbs came home on a sacrifice fly during the bottom of the seventh to secure se-cure the win for the Colts. |
