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Show r-1 Thursday, September 4, 2008 AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Page 7 3TORTSE&E!D Lone Peak Jared Lloyd ' NORTH COUNTY The desire to combine the , skills of different players to create a super-player is common com-mon in all sports. Add a receiver's speed to : a linebacker's body to create i the perfect safety, combine a guard's shooting with a power . forward's size to make an unstoppable small forward, '.. or mix a bench player's drive with a starter's ability to make an all-star on any roster. For the Lone Peak boys golf team this fall, taking junior Garrett Fotu's power and putting put-ting it with junior Joe Parkinson's Parkin-son's consistency would make a tough player to beat. Good thing for Knight head coach Troy Nordick that, in a way, he gets to do that because he gets to tally the scores of both players at each tournament. tourna-ment. "(Parkinson) has figured himself out," Nordick said. Rewind Continued from Page 6 During 11:39 in the third period, Orchard took a snap at the Ram,25-yard line on the first down and raced 75 yards for a touchdown. The Cavemen Cave-men prevented Keller from booting in a third straight extra ex-tra point. They received a good break when Highland drew a roughing-t he-kicker penalty during a midfield punt halfway half-way through the third period. Capitalizing on the penalty, Lusk connected a 40-yard pass to Wright to start another big march. Subsequent tosses to . Weston Frandsen and Wright soon put the Cavemen at the Highland 1 1-yard line. However, the Ram defense toughened up at that line and made it impenetrable for the Cavemen. Taking possession of the ball, the Rams marched clear to the American Fork 47-yard line. There, Orchard threw an interception to Frandsen. American Fork's effort on capitalizing on that turnover soured'immediately. On a first -down play at the 47-yard line, the Cavemen Cave-men fumbled away the ball to Highland. With Orchard soon getting sacked for a six-yard loss, the Cavemen compelled the Rams to punt to the American Amer-ican Fork 15-yard line. The Cavemen's effort to get out of the hole got ruined by a five-yard penalty and Pete Ferra's sacking Lusk for a six-yard six-yard loss. The fourth quarter opened with Orchard racing 64 yards to a touchdown at the 1 1:47 mark. American Fork again undermined a Keller attempt for a PAT kick. The Caveman offense commenced clicking again after having sputtered in the second and third quarters. Safety Austin Rich picked off an Orchard pass and returned the interception to the 30-yard line. At 7:32, Lusk passed 69 yards to Frandsen for a touchdown. American Fork tried for a two-point conversion, conver-sion, but the Rams thwarted the attempt. Later in the period, the Rams drew a passing interference inter-ference penalty that put the Cavemen on the American Fork 25-yard line. Highland came really close to shutting down the Caveman march, though; however, a roughing-the-passer penalty assessed against Highland put American Ameri-can Fork inside the Ram 10. Lusk connected an 8-yard pass to Hansen for a touchdown with 2:28 remaining. Smoke Cigarettes Cigars, gO WEST 695 North State Street PROVO 410 North Freedom Blvd. Bring in this ad With a Minimum - Limit one per golf duo compliment each other's In the swing of things CURRENT REGION 4 TEAM SCORES (after four of eight tournaments) 1. Lone Peak, 1500 2. Spanish Fork, 1552 3. American Fork, 1590 4. Timpanogos, 1626 5. Lehi, 1636 6. Pleasant Grove, 1710 TOP 5 INDIVIDUALS 1. Garrett Moss, SF, 69.3 2. Joe Parkinson, LP, 71.25 3. Garrett Fotu, LP, 72 4. Matt Hemple, Lehi, 73 5. Jake Bumingham, AF, 75 "Each of the past couple of years he's cut two or three strokes off his handicap. He understands his game and is so consistent. Now he's become Parry's Power Guide TO UTAH HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL BY NO LAND PARRY WEEK BEGINNING SEPT. 1, 2008 Favored Team Rating Diff. Rating Underdog EAST 91.6 0.6 91.0 American Fork LEHI 71.9 4.3 67.6 Provo Orem 92.2 5.4 86.8 TIMPANOGOS PLEASANT GROVE 97.6 3.0 94.6 Riverton SPANISH FORK. 87.1 17.3 69.8 Payson SYRACUSE 85.2 5.6 79.6 Mountain View Timpview 106.9 10.0 96.9 LONE PEAK UINTAH 65.1 16.7 48.4 Salem Hills WASATCH 70.3 3.6 66.7 Springville Home team in CAPS; Copyright 2008 by Noland Parry Last weeks record: 32-13 71.1 Year to date record: 62-29 68.1 Top 5 5A 4A LAIta 121.6 1. Timpview 106.9 2. Bingham 113.5 2. Cottonwood 103.6 3. Jordan 106.4 3. Pine View 95.8 4. Layton 105.6 4. Sky View 95.4 5. Northridge 103.4 5. Mountain Crest 93.9 Highland scored once more on a 60-yard run to finish out the contest. The Cavemen will be at East Friday at 7 p.m. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. Volleyball I Aug. 28 -West Jordan 3, American Fork 1: At American Fork, the Jaguars defeated the Cavemen 21-25, 25-18, 25-23, 25-18 in a very tight match that was ultimately decided by unforced errors. After trailing by as many as four in the first game, American Fork rallied. Jessica Jes-sica Jardine laid down an ace to start the comeback. On the next Caveman serving turn, Hayley Su'a-Filo posted four points in a row to give American Fork its first lead at 17-16. The stretch included a block by Candice Dawson and Makenzie Moea'i followed by a Moea'i kill. A Moea'i service ace and another Dawson block helped push the Cavemen in front 23-19, and they closed out the win with a couple of Jaguar errors. American Fork was competitive compet-itive in the other three games and led at some point in all of them, but they weren't able to overcome enough of their own mistakes to get the victory. However, the team did show a lot of the potential that is getting them respect in volleyball circles around the state. Shop Pipes, Loose Tobacco PRICES SPAUISH FORK 84 North 100 West AIMICAII FORK 106 N. West State Rd. and receive a ( 1 1 S00 Purchase I customer j 1 II 1 1 1 IT 3 one of the top players in the state. "(Fotu) has so much natural talent. In the last couple of years I think he was deciding if he wanted to play, but then he qualified for a big tournament tourna-ment and that sparked his interest. in-terest. Now he's focused even more." The pair have paced the team during the early part of the season with Parkinson averaging 71.25 strokes and Fotu averaging 72 strokes per round. Both players feel that they're working together toward a common goal success at the state tournament. "We want to win it so badly," Parkinson said. "We've talked to the team and we're all putting in the effort to get to that point." With that overall goal in mind, the team has come out strong so far through the first half of league play. "We've been pretty consis Outside hitter Moea'i had a monster game and showed a substantial increase in the power of her swings. Along with her 12 kills, she had five aces and a great passing night. Brooke Miller was perfect per-fect at the service line, Su'a-Filo Su'a-Filo had just one hitting error (93) and Dawson finished with four blocks. "The errors were frustrating, frustrat-ing, but the girls looked very good at times," said coach Danette Moea'i. "We have a lot of things to clean up, but this was just the first match of the season. This group works hard and is motivated to improve." im-prove." Soccer Mug. 28-Waterford4, American Fork 1: At American Ameri-can Fork, the Cavemen were overwhelmed by the highly-regarded highly-regarded Ravens. American Fork coach Becca Murdock said, "We've played Waterford for the past three years. Like they did in the last two years, they beat us today. We passed well, and we had some great shots. Waterford, though, capitalized on our mistakes. They're a great 3A team." Kaycee Mansfield, Nikki Ybarra and Cami Fox directed strong attacks on the Ravens' center during the game's first 20 minutes, but American Fork couldn't get the ball past goalie Jeannie Woller. Raven Lanie Ward suddenly shocked American Fork with a breakaway play that ended Locally Hand Made GENUINE LEATHER GUN BELTS & HOLSTERS Pack Saddles Panniers Wall Tents Stoves Sleeping Bag Covers ,' vroff 1274 West 300 South Lindon, Utah 801.922.4234 tent so far," Fotu explained. "We've been shooting in the 70s a lot and in the last couple of tournaments we haven't had to take any 80s. That's why we've had such a good start." Both of the Lone Peak captains cap-tains admire each other but also know there are areas where they can get better. "(Fotu) is really good at putting," put-ting," Parkinson said. "But he could get better at hitting fairways fair-ways in regulation." Fotu said: "(Parkinson) hits his irons well. He hits more greens in regulation than anyone. any-one. There's not much he could do to improve but you can always al-ways work on your driver." Nordick sees each player with a slightly different perspective. per-spective. "Fotu doesn't hit fairways often but he's so good at scrambling," the Knight coach said. "He can make miracle shots, but since he hits it so far he's usually not too far from - f Provo's Kyler Hamilton (23) holds tight to the bull as he's brought defense in a game on Aug. 22. Below right: Cavemen Hayley Su'a - block a West Jordan ball during their volleyball match on Aug. with her kicking in a goal. American Fork goalie Makenzie Mak-enzie Empey's attempts to keep Waterford's lead stuck at 1-0 got kicked aside. Kimi Miyashima scored Waterford's next two first -half goals. Miyashima Mi-yashima scored again midway in the second half to complete her hat trick. Empey didn't let Waterford pick up any more goals after Miyashima's last successful shot. In the meantime, Woller continued spoiling the Cavemen's Cave-men's efforts to score. Taylor Ritzman and Katie Crosland added to American Fork's frustrations through frequently frequent-ly stealing the ball. The Cavemen refused to let the game end in a shutout loss, however. With only five minutes of play left,,American Fork's Amy Krommenhoek kicked in a goal. It revived her team's morale but the Waterford defense kept American Fork from picking up a second score. I Dean Von Memmott filed this report. Golf I Aug. 28 - Cavemen fourth at Talon's Cove: American Fork remains in third place in the overall league standings despite de-spite slipping to fourth in last week's region match. Jaxson Taylor and Nate Bray led American Fork with 75 game in tight Region 4 the green. "That can be a weakness though because sometimes he tries to make the miraculous miracu-lous shot instead of playing it smart. "Parkinson has worked so hard that when he makes a bad shot, he can put it behind him. His scores will drop if he improves im-proves on his short game." With the pair leading the way, Lone Peak has forged an early lead in Region 4 action. The Knights lead perennial league champion Spanish Fork by 52 total strokes with four tournaments left to go. "It feels great," Parkinson said. "Since my freshman year, we've wanted to take region but we haven't been able to beat Spanish Fork. This summer sum-mer we worked really hard but we know we can't let them come close." The toys know that the advantage ad-vantage they enjoy now puts them in the driver's seat. "It's definitely different," strokes each. Scott Andrus posted a score of 83 strokes, Gabe Smith 85 and Brayden Schneider 86. Others competing compet-ing that day included Matt Meyers and Isaac Pedroza. "Conditions at Talon's Cove were windy," said American Fork coach Lynn Anderson. "Our guys settled down and performed well." In the overall team standings, stand-ings, the Cavemen trail Spanish Span-ish Fork by 38 strokes and are leading Timpanogos by 36 with four meets left to go. In the individual rankings, , Jake Bumingham is currently fifth at 75, Taylor is sixth at 75.25 and Bray is 10th at 78.75. Tennis I Sept. 2 - Pleasant Grove 5, American Fork 0: The Pleasant Grove girls tennis team picked up its first win of the season Tuesday afternoon, beating neighboring host American Fork 5-0. The Vikings improved to 1-2 in dual meets, while American Fork fell to 1-3. Tessa Sheffield got the Vikings Vi-kings going early, beating Aly-son Aly-son Jeffery of American Fork 6-2, 6-3. On Court 2, Janelle Matheny of Pleasant Grove, who played for the first time in the No. 2-spot on Tuesday, handled Braelynn Barron 6-1, 6-0. Torrey Best also played well for the Vikings as she outlasted outlast-ed Caveman freshman Kaylee Some Restrictions Apply Expires 093008 .A , , : jr -. I I1, Qualifiesfor Utility 1 fiZSTKyWiJ I I 'r'ffw 1 1 t'A s nu rdviiieiiL v r if no interest 1 ' jManuai7200 i Fotu said. "It's good to finally get ahead." But Nordick knows that they can't count out the Dons yet. "We've been trailing them for years so it's nice to have the lead," he said. "But the next two or three weeks will tell us whether we can do it. Fifty strokes is not a lot. We've been consistent but Spanish Fork hasn't played their best yet. They could gain 30 strokes in one tourney if things go their way." American Fork has also been strong in the early going and sits in third place, 38 total strokes behind the Dons. "They have some kids that can play," Nordick said. "They might be able to surprise some people at state." Lehi and Timpanogos are battling for fourth, just 10 strokes apart with the Timber-wolves Timber-wolves having the slight edge. The next meet takes place today at Fox Hollow beginning at 1 p.m. FILENorth County down by the American Fork Filo (left) and Jennifer Orton (8) 28. JhVjj -j - -mm) Mir Shimanek 6-2, 6-1. The Vikings also swept both doubles matches with the team of Gentry Robinson and Arica Wilson beating Kelsie Stiltson and Taylor Jeffery 6-1, 6-2. American Fork, which was coming off a win against Lehi, received praise from head coach Spencer Sacido. "They're doing a lot better in moving their opponent," he said. "Their mental game is also improving game-by-game." I Tyson Camp filed this report. i a it . Lifetime Guarantee Energy Efficient I Quality Installation Wasatch Vinyl Products i HljhOality...L0WPricel! 877-922-7283 or 733-5633 I |