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Show SECTION SUNDAY. MAY 25, Darnell Dickson SPORTS EDITOR 2008 ddidcsonhefaldextra.com 344-255- CLASS 5A STATS B ASBB ALL CHAMPIONSHIP rrn f KB (Q)f (0 take care of Bingham to win TWolves MA 5A baseball title "' h. , Iff 0 t ( j" Y 1 - ; ; k ' ? I ""r 17 fv"--- -- .. flit K - yv v v v vvv v. ' CRAIG Timpanogos baseball players storm the field in celebration after Bingham's Wade Anderson, center, struck out, clinching Timpanogos' Timpanogos collects another baseball crown, this time in 5A Neil K. DAILY look at the road the Timpanogos A HERALD baseball team took to its first state title since 2005: The pitching of one particular Timpanogos coach Kim Nelson has T'Wolf junior lefty Tanner Wolfe Gato-rade been here before. He's had the helped Timpanogos win its first cooler dumped over his head. 5A state baseball title on Saturday. He's watched his players dogpile on For story, see B8. each other in a celebration like no other near the pitchers mound. State College to win the school's He's held the state championship first-eve- r it around among 5A baseball title. , trophy and passed his players. He's watched parents Winning never gets old because, in large part, it always rewards a difturn into the paparazzi. Nelson has coached Timpanogos to ferent set of seniors. This year, he got to see Bret Lothree previous state championships, "but there has never been one like this pez, a three-yea- r starter, cap off his career with a title. He got to see one, and there never will be again. Timpanogos beat Bingham 84 on ; See T'WOLVES, B9 Saturday afternoon at Utah Valley 2008 -- rx ' -- win for the 5A "You know what, we didn't have one person that stood DAILY HERALD !' iel' WfiiFl'ffy It was a total team effort. It is possibly the most common of all sports cliches, but we all know better. We know that a championship team wouldn't be a championship team without a most valuable player. You know, the one who puts the entire team on his back and carries everyone else to the promised land. Without him, the team would be mediocre at best and would never get as far without him as it did with him. For Timpanogos, that player was, well, nobody ... and everybody. The T'Wolves didn't have any one player who set himself apart as being more important to the team's success than pA 'J' SECOND ROUND (May 14) Timpanogos 7, Alta 3 QUARTERFINALS DILGERDaily HerakJ state title on Saturday. Russ Lyman iK FIRST ROUND (May 13) Timpangos 12, Viewmont 1 (Tuesday) Timpanogos 9, Bingham 3 SEMIFINALS (Friday) Timpanogos 6, Riverton 5 FINALS 8-- 4 T'Wolves a team full of MVPs How they got here MORE INSIDE Warner T rTY6Y (Tb (Saturday) Timpanogos 8, Bingham 4 out We were just one full team. Everyone did their best, everyone did their part" Bret Lopez Timpanogos senior any other player. At the same time, there wasn't any single player who didn't contribute significantly to winning the title. And that is what makes the 2008 5A baseball champions truly great. Cliches aside, it See TEAM, B8 TRACK AND FIELD STANLEY CUP FINALS: GAME 1 :' Samuelsson scores pair of goals in Wing victory , - i '' '. skimp, and Chris Osgood stifled the Penguins' young and talented stable of forwards DETROIT Mikael with 19 saves to lift Detroit to a 0 victory Satur Samuelsson doesn't even garner a men day night. Samuelsson tion among the doubled his playalumni in the Pittsoff goal total in burgh Penguins media guide. the biggest game n of his After his two-goNHL career. He performance had oeen dropped in the Stanley Cup DETROIT finals opener, the to Detroit's third PITTSBURGH Deline earlier in the DETROIT LEADS playoffs and had troit Red Wings SERIES, forward won't be posted only two assists since a two-goforgotten in the outburst on May 1. Steel City again. "I just live in the moment." SamueLsson, one of t he kast heralded among the Red said Samuelsson, who Wings' seven Swedish playSec RED WINGS, U7 ers, broke out of a scoring ASSOCIATED PRESS Ml': :fU: k.,' vaulter in her country's history. She cleared 14 Jason Franchuk DAILY HERALD 4-- '. five-seaso- NAM Y. .1 Ira Podell THE '"! Hendry becomes Canada's best in pole vault at BYU HUHAssociated Press start your Engines Check out the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 today at I t a rn, on ABC. t or more on t pduy's ruce, see story on Page B6, little-know- n U'i PAUL SANCYAAssocitiled Pibss Detroit Red Wings' Mikael Samuelsson celebrates his goal against the it tsburgh Penguins during the second period in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finuls in Dt'troit on Saturday. Samuelsson scored twice in the Red Winds' victory. Losing her bag of poles for a week upon arriving in Phoenix, then suffering the highs and lows of training for nearly three months far away those from home obstacles became much easier to bear for KeLsie Hendry when she spent the weekend in Provo and cleared her biggest hurdle yet. Her last attempt on a Saturday with perfect conditions for coniet-inmade the 2!yeur-olCanadian the t pole g In-s- feet, 11 Va inches (4.55 meters). The previous best mark for her country was 4.51 meters, set by Dana Ellis three days after Hendry hit on 4.46 in July of 2005. The third (and final) try was the charm for lendry on Saturday. It happened to be that way on two different heights. I lendry joked before heading home from the High Performance Sprint and lwer meet that she 1 See TRACK. B7 |