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Show DAIIYHERAID C4 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS American Fork base ball topples No. 1 Cottonwood Although not much has been said about American Fork as one of the top contenders in 5A this year, the Cavemen continue to prove that they are for real on the field. American Fork improved to on the season with an win over 4A's No. Cottonwood on Tuesday afternoon in Salt Lake. "Cottonwood's one of the top programs around," said American Fork coach Jarod "Anytime you can beat those guys, it's a good win." The teams traded runs in the first inning and two runs in both the fourth and fifth intie going nings to set up a into the seventh. With two outs in the top of the seventh, Jake Murphy started a rally with a double. Josh Mooney followed with a single that drove in Murphy and gave the Cavemen a 5 lead. Bo Fisher then hit a single and Mooney hustled to beat the throw to third while Fisher took second. Randy Searle capped off the rally with a big hit to left that scored the runners on second and third, givlead. ing American Fork an Cottonwood threatened in its last chance, loading the bases before Jarrett Pulsipher came on in relief to strike out the 8-- 6 5-- 1 5-- 5 6-- 8-- 5 BASEBALLSOCCER ROUNDUP homer over the fence to make it a game. The T'Wolves went on to add an insurance run in the seventh. Nelson finished the game with a double and a home run. Taylor Lyons also went ed a two-ruright-cente- n Man WM limn 020 LP t 010 jacuon 2B 17J erK M) 01 11 13 0 Justin Manzauaret ii and Caww Aoams Tayie Peterson ano Mtcah keeno Wooffsteunutnie Peterson (NSi Setn Anoersbn iAlAi Brent Frank lAtA 3B Setti ALA top-rank- 6-- 0 1 (T), 220 American For 100 100 220 Cottonwood Mooney, Searle 15). Pulsipher a 12 2 663 and Fisher lait and 2 (AF, Searle (AF), J (Tj. HR Nelson (T), (T), (T). San Juan I Gunnison At Gunnison, the Bulldogs picked up a pair of victories over Region 12 foe San Juan. In the first game, Kevin Nay struck out eight to earn from the win and went the plate. In Game 2, Cutler Frandsen hit a home run as the San Juan 5 Bulldogs out-hto cruise to the victory. 2-- Anderson ifcA. San Joan Gunnison 010 242 0 681 (Gt, Nay G) ' Biack(S). Gunnison San Juan 401 014 1 000 031 0 11 142 4 S); Hill -- 5 3 (&), frandsen(G). I Grand 404 300 4 Longman 000 0 430 I and Healey. er 884 1074 Higoy. Geslison 4) 38- - - Ventura IP; Boys Soccer (AF). 2-- I Pleasant Grove 3, West Jordan 0: At Pleasant Grove, Dylan Dinehart had a goal and an assist as the Vikings beat West , Jordan. Jordan Connors and Scott McClellan also scored for Pleasant Grove, while Braden Capt and Ulysses Estrada combined for the shutout. 2-- 0 Tiger baseball rebounds for win over Knights Things didn't start off well for the Tigers, as Lone Peak HERALD CORRESPONDENT hitters tagged Orem pitcher The Orem High baseball Nate Adamson for four consecutive hits to start the game, team needed a The Tigers returned from a including a Matt Williams Dixie Sunshine Tournament in single that plated the first two St. George that saw them finish runs for the Knights. with a dismal 3 record, includAdamson rebounded from a loss at the hands of ing an 1 shaky first inning to silence the Knights bats for the remainder Region 4's Spanish Fork Dons. of the game, allowing only On Tuesday afternoon, the three more hits in the next six Tigers hand their hands full again with another tough Re innings of work to earn the win in the contest. gion 4 opponent in Lone Peak, but Orem held off the Knights "When Nate is on the hill, evfor an impressive victory at erybody loves it." Miner said. "They know he is going to be Tiger Field. "We didn't play well (in the around the plate, they know he Sunshine Tournament) and we is going to throw strikes. He weren't pleased with the outjust does an incredible job." The Orem bats struck back come there." Tiger coach Gary in the bottom half of the first Miner said. "This was a real when Goose Kallunki found the big win for our guys." Kyle Flanagan pick-me-u- . . 4-- 3 gap to plate Jeff Mella. Orem found the scoreboard again in the second inning when a Jordan Johnston single scored Jordan Sargent, who led off the inning with a double d line. down the After Lone Peak took 2 lead when Chase Cook singled to score Bray den Matheson, Orem answered off a Mark Morgan single to plate Mella. ; With a tie heading into the bottom of the sixth inning, Johnston stroked a double in the gap to set up Travis Strong. Strong responded on an 2 count and doubled to score Johnston and give the Tigers the lead heading into the top of the seventh inning. "In seven previous games, I think we have left over 50 guys on base," Miner said. left-fiel- 3-- 3-- 3 0-- "That is one of the things we've talked about in saying we have got to do a better job in clutching up." Adamson continued his dominance in the top half of the seventh inning. After Brian Nielsen singled to start the half of the inning for the Knights, Adamson forced Adam Kelsh to ground into a double play to stop any signs of a rally and lift the Tigers to four-six-thr- the victory. Orem evens up its record to on the season and takes on Lehi today at Tiger Field. Lone Peak suffered its first loss of the season and dropped to 1 on the year. 4-- 4 2-- lonePeak Orem Kallunki (0). 200 110 Sargeant 374 100 011492 2 10), Johnston (LP), (0). (01. Strong I Spanish Fork 1, Payson 1: At Payson, Spanish Fork's Jose Olivarez scored a second-hal- f goal to counter Payson's goal Jordan Christiansen HERALD CORRESPONDENT Springville pitcher Sarah Clark kept the Payson hitters guessing all game, earning 14 strikeouts in a Region 7 shw vin for the Red Devils on Tuesday afternoon in Springville. Relying mainly on her curve-bulChirk also mixed in a few screwballs and the occasional changeup. In the last four innings of the game, the senior coaxed 12 outs, all off Ks. "She's been working on her location and driving with her hip so she can get that snap off of the ball and it's come," Springville coach Karl Jensen said. "She'll be tough. She's an incredible, competitive athlete. When the kids see her come in the game, you can see their 4-- 0 ' confidence bolster up." The only real scare from Payson came in the top of the sixth inning, when the Lions managed to get their first two batters on base. After center-fieldJessie Uresti walked, Lacie Zeeman, Payson's hit a single. But the next three batters couldn't put the ball in play, each striking out. "I just wanted to hit my spots," Clark said of the inning. "I knew my defense was behind me. We were playing right-fielde- l, r, good and I knew they were backing me up." While the 3, 4, and 5 batters for Payson went with seven strikeouts, the heart of the order for Springville brought in the Red Devil runs. With runners on the corners in the bottom of the third inning, Springville drew a balk, bringing in the first run of the game while giving catcher Brittany McCray a free trot to first base and Keeli Chalk a good spot in scoring position at second. The Red Devils' Aria Agle took advantage, hitting a two-ru- n single in the next to extend the lead. Springville scored again in the fifth inning off an error after McCray had hit safely to second earlier. Yet with only two doubles and six hits overall, Jensen would like to see his team improve at the plate. "I think our hitting is behind the rest of our game," Jensen said. "They're not striking out; they're making contact, but we're just not driving the ball like I'd like to." Instead, Jensen believes his team has the ability to power at-b- their way to a lot of runs. "When we put those runners on, we've got to crush the ball," Jensen said. "We're not a short ball team. I prefer the kids get confidence up there and mash it. It makes for fun watching. I don't like pitching batting practice ... because they'll just undress you." in the The Red Devils are Region and 54 overall after the victory. Payson fell to and 54. "We did good today," Clark said. "We haven't been hitting as well as we can. We have a lot of potential; we need to play to it. It was good to get a win first game." a brain cramp early in the second half and let them put two quick ones in. After that our heads dropped and it was hard to recover." Timpanogos started out with the momentum early when midfielder Trevor Henderson made a great move in the Thunderbird box and tapped the ball into the goal lead. for the But that advantage would only last 10 minutes as Timpview came back. and a Timberwolf defender were racing after a long through ball and the Timpanogos player was whistled for taking Espinoza down in the penalty box. The home team easily earned the equalizer as Sam Rosen came up from his defensive position to put it into the back of the net. "When we got down against Mountain View, we kind of fell apart," Stevenson said. "Today we held together, controlled the possession and got back into it." Timpview's final goal came on a fluke free kick by forward Karson Payton that curved just enough that the T'Wolf goalkeeper couldn't bring it in cleanly and it ended up crossing the Une to give the Thunderbirds the 1 win. Both teams got a number of opportunities though the home team had the advan- - UHSAA Continued from Cl willingness of Pine View. The Vernal high school explained during their time that safety, budget and loss of class time were big concerns as well as challenging some of the attendance numbers. Uintah and many of the Region 10 schools would like to the Utes to remain in the 3A classificatioa Pine View, on the other hand, explained the difficulties of playing in a three-tearegion (with Snow Canyon and schools would be the right size to be in a region with at least one of the three largest St. George schools: Snow Canyon, Dixie and Pine View. No Utah County institution elected to make a presentation at the meetings, which are some of the input part of the realignment process. Very few of the proposals directly affected area programs as well, sentations requesting to stay in their current classification instead of moving up, while some schools and districts put - Sean Avery NEW YORK efposted his third two-gofort in a month and Henrik Lundqvist made 22 saves for the New York Rangers, who got back to their winning ways with a victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tues5-- 2 day night. , NHL ROUNDUP ASSOCIATED PRESS Avery gave the Rangers lead in the first period and then provided insurance" in the third when New York restored the two-goedge it squandered in the second. Avery has 10 goals in 15 games. 0 I Blues 4, Canadiens 3: At Montreal, Brad Boyes scored his 38th goal and was the only player to score in the shootout, and St. Louis ended a road losing streak. I Flyers 3. Thrashers 2: At Phila- delphia, Mike Richards, Jeff Carter and Vaclav Prospal Scored goals and Philadelphia kept its hold on the eighth playoff spot in the Eastern Confer- ence. I Delta At 7, Canyon View 2: Delta, the Rabbits scored five goals in the first half to coast to the victory. Both teams scored a pair of second-hal- f goals. I Orem 2, Lehi 1: At Lehi, Orem scored a goal in each half to pick up the road victory. ' V 'f 4-- ' V it U " .ft w JOHNSTONDaily Herald MARK Timpview's Samuel Rosen shoots and scores on a penalty kick against Timpanogos on Tuesday. tage in that category but Timpview simply took better advantage. "I was pleased with our effort and the fact that we played with a lot of heart," Barth said, "We just couldn't put the ball away." The Thunderbirds have another game on non-regio- n Thursday when they play at American Fork, while Timpanogos will try to get on track against cross4own rival Orem the same afternoon. Both games are scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. . I Jared Lloyd can be reached at jlloydheraldextra.com. 0 1 000 000 Payson 003 010 Springville Christensen. Stevens (3) and 0 031 x Gonzalez 46 0 Clark and McCray Chalk (S), McCray IS). Kirkham P), S). together their own proposals to help the UHSAA Board of Trustees in their realignment decision. The process will now create a second draft in a meeting in the beginning of April and institutions will have another opportunity to ask for changes later in April. The final realignment decision is scheduled to be finalized in June. I Jared Lloyd can be reached at jHoydheraldextra.com. Avery powers Rangers past Penguins THE I Hunter 4, American Fork 0: At West Valley City, Hunter used four second-hal- f goals to pull away from the Cavemen. 0 Timpanogos beats Union SOFTBALL ROUNDUP Russ Lyman DAILY HERALD Wanting to get off to a good start going into the game, the Timpanogos soft-bateam did just that as they opened up a 0 lead after the first inning on their way to an win over Union on easy Tuesday afternoon in Orem. "We had certain goals to pick up our intensity starting out in the first inning and that's what we did today," said Timpanogos coach Niki Tanner. "We came out and were ready to play." The Cougars got the first batter out in the bottom of the first, but the T'Wolves' next five batters scored to take control of the game. Chelsie Laird extended the Timpanogos lead to 10-- in the third with an RBI double. The T'Wolf offense was led by Laird, who went with a double and three RBI. Jessica Rivers added a pair of hits, including a double, and Alyssa Richins also went f or-- 2 for Timpanogos. Kirsten Bramall pitched a complete game on the mound and allowed only one run, which was unearned. "She's come a long way," Tanner said. "Her ball movement is coming along a lot and she's able to keep batters ll 12-- 1 Dixie) and said it was willing to travel to play the southern Utah County teams if that would be what it needed to do to be in a bigger region. Other possibilities include changing bounderies of schools in the area to balance out the numbers and thus making all schools of the St. George-are- a part of their own region. Other schools made pre- 10, Gunnison 4: At Gunnison, Grand overwhelmed Gunnison with five goals in each half of a road victory. The Bulldogs were led by Ricardo Mendoza, who had two goals. Continued from Cl 5-- the exceptions being the travel concerns of Uintah and the Edu-ard- T'Birds 0 Clark fans 14 as Springville blanks Lions I Copper Hills 1, Mountain View 0: At West Jordan, Copper Hills scored a goal eight minutes into the second half to defeat the Bruins. lehi Prow (Li, Isom iPi 2-- 3 the four innings of shutout ball, allowing only two base runners and picking up the relief win. Provo is now 54 overall and play next at home against Fremont on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. 11, North Summit 1: At no-hitt- in first half of a tie. I Millard anrGnner I ALA from Brandon Jamison S, Manti 4 (0T): At Fillmore, Josh Aleman's three including the game-winngoals lifted in overtime Millard past Manti. Kenny Squire scored twice o for the Templars, while Nava and Edgar Vega added a goal each, Peterson, Spanish Fork, ALA took down Summit in five innings, North Sullivan. thanks to Tay ler Peterson Christensen Copper Hills 7, Timpview 0: At West Jordan, Copper Hills' who pitched 10 strikeouts and David Allen pitched a complete walked only three. However, as Timpview the one North Summit score t Timpanogos 5, Mira Mesa game fell to came off a beaned batter who on the season. (Calif.) 0: At San Diego, Gentry Croft pitched a gem, giving was hit home on an RBI double 000 000 00 3 from North Summit's Justin up only one hit in seven in110 7 02 050 Copper Hills (CH), (CH). of ball lead the to shutout Manzauaret. nings T'Wolves past Mira Mesa in ALA's solid offense was led by 13 stolen bases and the Lions Invitational Baseball I Juab 7, Manti 3: At Manti, after falling behind Tournament. through Seth Anderson, who hit a sinthree, Juab scored seven runs gle, double, triple and stole Timpanogos opened up a in the final four innings to pull three bases, finishing with lead over the first two innings before Rhett Nelson provided two RBI. out the victory. ALA play North Sevier toCroft w it h some breat hing 7 5 3 000 203 2 Juab room in the fifth. Nelson blast day at 3:30 p.m. 1 (7) lALAt Bulldog Griffon Geslison 14-- 010 003 201 Roooy Black I Provo 10, Lehi 8: At Provo, the Bulldogs beat the Pioneers in a game where the teams combined for eight errors, 13 walks and one hit by pitch. , it H 103 free Wowtsteuna 4-- 0 last two batters to preserve the win. "Our guys didn't quit," said. "Today was a gut check a little bit." while Bret Lopez, Grant Jimenez and Mitch Foster all Murphy had a solid day at the plate, finishing with doubled for Timpanogos. three hits, including a pair of With the win, the doubles. Searle, who also got on the T'Wolves improve to the win on the mound, added a seasoa Timpanogos is also the only undefeated team in Group pair of crucial hits. B of the Premier Division at the American Fork, whose tournament. The T'Wolves will only loss came to Baseball America's No. Bishop face San Diego's Vista High Gorman of Las Vegas, will School today at noon. continue its difficult preseason 110 020 S01 schedule today with a road trip Timpanogot Mira Mesa (Crtl.JOOO 000 0 021 Crott and Foster Gonzales ana Haunt Fremont. to play No. Foster Jimenez Lopez ui 000 ji Lynn r I Blue Jackets 3, Flames 0: At Columbus, Ohio, backup goalie Fredrik Norrena made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and Columbus beat Calgary. I Maple Leafs 3, Islanders 1: At Uniondale, N.Y., Pavel Kubina d scored a power- play goal to help Toronto beat New York. third-perio- outs and runners on second and third, the Cougars knocked in their first run of the game with a hit, but second baseman Ashli Duke gunned down the second runner at home to end the game. Union Timpanogos Bramall and 000 523 01 1 2x 12 63 10 1 Laird. (T), Rivers I Tooele 1 0, Timpview 0: At Tooele, visiting Timpview failed to get a hit off of Tooele pitcher Matti Snow, who went the distance for the Buffaloes on the mound. 000 110 Tlmpvtow TooeU 000 008 001 10 121 K. Mendenhall (To). (To), M. Mendehall (To), (To). 0 2-- Bramall limited the Cou-g- a to six hits and Union didn't score until the final play of the game. With two I Lone Peak 15, Kearns 8: At Kearns, Lone Peak improved to 2 on the season with the road victory. 4-- I Spanish Fork 14, Box Elder 2: At Brigham City, the Dons includpounded out 13 hits hits to ing six extra-bas- e pound the Bees in five innings. Spanish Fork BonEldw WP.Rotunson. Thurgood (S). (S). 533 000 12 02 14 131 233 (S), Tlngey (SI, Tlngey (S), (S), Roberts Other Softball scores: San 9, Gunnison 4; San Juan 19, Gunnison 3; North Summit 11, ALA 8. Juan |