OCR Text |
Show THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HariiTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Sunday, May 1 9, 2002 Page B4 nuiiainiDbeir uvsc Combine 'draws irecordl By DARNELL DICKSON ? The Daily Herald OREM Dwight Thomas, the man who coached Dallas Cowboys' running back Emmitt Smith in high school, addressed the 166 young men attending the LRS football combine. "We can guarantee you nationwide," exposure Thomas said, "and we can get people to come and watch you play. We can't promise you a scholarship. You have to get that on your own." Area football players dreamed those scholarship dreams at Orem High on Saturday with dozens of college coaches and scouts watching their every move. Athletes were weighed and measured, then put through testing in the dash, bench press, vertical leap, agility and pro shuttle run. In the three years Orem coach Alex Jacobson has been hosting the combine, attendance has risen from 80 to 120 to 166. This year, LRS also held a similar event later in the day at SLCC's Gate Field. That combine added another 127 athletes. "Every one of the kids who has come here thinks it's a great thing," Jacobson said. Jim Christensen is a sen-- . at Lone Peak, where he will play wide receiver. He wore a name tag with "128" written on it, the number college scouts would refer to when looking at his statistics. "I got a bad start on the laser," Christensen said after the dash. "I - f- f'J be?. I just started running last week because I was playing baseball, so I'm a little out of shape. But it's cool to get my name out there with recruiters and see how I compare with other people." LRS stands for "Levi, Ray and Shoub," a software com-- " LRS FOOTBALL COMBINE, OREM DASH: Ryan Roeth, Orem (4.4 hand timed, 4.59 electric) VERTICAL JUMP: Calvin Boehm, Lone Peak (36.9 inches) BENCH PRESS: Isley FMiaga, (185 pounds 37 times) STANDING LONG Orem JUMP-.Tu- i Maui, makes it convenient for the coaches and players alike. "We both get valuable information here, and it's only going to help the players." Of course, Anae had his eye on offensive lineman. "In our conference (Big 12) you really have to start with size," Anae said. "We like to have a guy at If you pretty you're 4 or much better walk on water. That one to two inches really makes a difference." Orem High's Ryan Roeth in was the double-winnthe combine, running the fastest time in the dash and the pro agility test. Teammate Tui Maui won the standing long jump 6-- (10 feet) PRO AGILITY: Ryan Roeth, Orem (4.06 seconds) AGILITY: Jesse Knudsen, Pleasant Grove (7.0 seconds) for football coaches. Thomas works on getting recruiting content for the service. "We work with colleges at all levels," Thomas said. "We hold 38 of these combines all over the country." Former BYU lineman Robert Anae is now the offensive line coach at Texas Tech, and was attending his first combine of the spring. "We made it a point to get out here and survey the talent in Utah," Anae said. "LRS does a great job organizing this for us and in I I he Daily Herald the bench press. get to identify their weaknesses and go work on them for next year." ADDITION: Two of the best offensive minds in Utah prep football are getting together. Steve Clements left his position as head coach of the Lehi football team in November. The former BYU quarterback has found a home on Randy Reiner's staff at Mountain View for next season. "I don't know what it would be like not to be around football in the fall. Practice will be just a few minutes from home," said Clements, who lives in Orem. Rehrer was helping at the combine on Saturday and was later joined by Clements. 6-- 3, er pany that does digital editing "' MOANA GAKHLLD Working out: Elvis Ramirez, a sophomore from Orem, participates ior-to-- 40-ya- rd I i J:'J TOP PERFORMERS 40-ya- rd STAR PUPIL Roeth is a 170 pound running back who will be junior for Jacobson next season. "He ran track and was the only sophomore to qualify for the 100-metdash final," Jacobson said. "He's about the same size as Troy Sheide was for and Pleasant Grove's Jesse Knudsen took the agility title. Calvin Boehm of Lone Peak leaped 36.9 us." Sheide combined for nearly 1,000 inches in the vertical testyards of offense in his senior year and ing and Isley Filiaga of played at Ricks College last season. lifted the bench press 37 times, Darnell Dickson is the impressive but well short of prep sports editor for The the LRS record of 62. Daily Herald. He can be "The younger players reached at or by here have a real advanat dddickson tage," Thomas said. "They heraldextra.com. Tim-pvie- 185-poun- Continued from Bl 344-255- 5 Cottle (1,500), Michaela Mannova (3,000-metsteeplechase), Nikki Hughes (long jump), Lind-se- y Steele (high jump) and Lindsey Johnson (javelin). Poole was named the MWC's Womens Coach of the Year, while Hughes earned honors with 32.5 points and was voted as one of three outstanding performers in the meet. On the men's side, the Cougars racked up 228 points to claim the title over Colorado State, which won the indoor title earlier this year. The Rams finished in second with 179 points, followed by Air Force with 148.5 points. New Mexico finished fourth with 125.5 points, followed by Wyoming in fifth with 88 . Utah rounded out the standings with 33 total er top-scori- . this thing is real- ly satisfying," BYU men's coach Mark Robison said. "I felt we were under some pressure after losing the indoor championship. With that kind of pressure, you're never sure how the kids will respond." David Pendergrass was voted as the top freshman after winning the high jump and finishing sixth in the triple jump. Individual winners for the men included Pendergrass (high jump), Aron Szmuda (long jump), Daniel Arrhenius (discus) and Matt Nielsen, Mao Tjiroze, Kish Beverly and Jeremy (4x400-metStowell relay). The Cougars who have qualified now move on to the NCAA Championships in two week. two rounds. This was also The Daily Herald Jaime ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. round of 299, BYU failed to advance to the NCAA Championships, finishing 21st at the NCAA West Regional on Saturday. The Cougars were led by senior Manuel Merizalde, who shot the lone below-pa- r round for BYU in the tournament. In his last round as a BYU Cougar, Merizalde carded a 70 to finish and in 51st place. Sophomore d Devin Heid had a 75 to bounce back from high scores in the first - With a final two-und- seven-over-p- er ar final-roun- BYU 20-1- the Lobos but committed four 7, final round to finish in a tie for first with the University of Washington, who is coached by former BYU Cougar Matthew Thurmond. MWC Three schools advance to the NCAA Championships. Along with New Mexico, third-plac- e UNLV and 10th place San Diego State both qualified for a berth in the finals. s, Lobos promptly put two men on. Todd Stroud's single scored Jeff Grady to UNM. With make it runners at the corners and one out, Tyler Dabo relieved Ray but couldn't keep UNM from scoring two more to put the Lobos Scott Kaufman relieved 6. out-h- it tournament low the Lobos. After tying 0, 3 and the game at 10 and 12, BYU allowed a four-ru- n UNM rally in the 10th that included an error that let two runs score. "We kept mounting comebacks and what was impressive is the Lobos kept making a run and we'd match it," Law said. "But in the end we probably didn't have enough for one more." 10-- 14-ov- er 105th place. The Cougar freshmen, Ron Harvey Jr. and Greg Machtaler, each shot 77 Saturday and finished in 60th place and 72nd place, respectively. Harvey, Machtaler and Heid will be the backbone of the Cougars' team next season. In addition to these players the Cougars will add three recruits (Daniel Summer-hayOscar Alvarez and Mitch Carlson) who will be to contribute expected immediately next season. For the second consecutive season the Cougars first-innin- Continued from Bl 9-- failed to advance past the NCAA West Regional. The last time BYU advanced to the NCAA Championships was in 2000 when the Cougars finished in second place at the NCAA West Regional in Fresno. Host New Mexico shot a the last collegiate tournament for Kyle Wight, who finished par and in g six runs and couldn't get a third out on BASEBALL errors to UNM's 1. The Cougars fell behind right out of the chute. BYU starter Paul Jacinto gave up ing as any," Fairbourne said, "even though we didn't win it all. The way our kids battled was very gratifying. I think I'm more proud of this group than the one that won it all, because they did it against remarkable odds. They deserve a lot of credit. No coach could ask for more from his kids." Kristy Miller, who won five games in the tournament, was named to the team, along with Crystal Parry and Renzello. Miller finished with a school record 26 wins on the year. Indian River pitcher Tiffany Ore was named the MVP. Haley Larsen also picked up a win in the tourd nament, giving her a 39 career wins. In the early game Miller fired a shutout to get the win UVSC-recor- BUSY DAY UVSC's day at the championships near-titl- e NJCAA softball Beat Midland, 0 Beat Gulf Coast, 3 Lost to Indian River, 5-- 4-- 5-- 2 over Midland, avenging a 0 loss in the tournament opener. Parry singled home a run in the third inning, and Jamie Hendricks executed a perfect suicide squeeze to plate McWhorter in the fourth. Then, in the sixth, Hendricks drove home three runs with a 1-- double. bases-loade- d "Hendricks played said. Fairbourne great," "She made a case for herself too. We had for so many people step up and come through for us." Miller also got the win in the Gulf Coast game. UVSC moved out to a 0 lead after a Diana Forsey homer in the second and Chelsie McWhorter's 13th homer of the season in the fourth. 3-- Larsen shut the Florida out through four innings, but yielded to Miller in the fifth after Gulf Coast tied it at club 3-- 3. Camille Chivers singled to drive home the run for UVSC in the fifth. "Our kids' efforts did not go unnoticed," Fairbourne said. "Our sophomores were swamped by recruiters at the end. They were on them like piranhas. There must have been at least 40 coaches there recruiting them. Our girls will get some very go-ahe- good offers." w d BYU ends golf season in 2 1st TRACK The 49 wins were the most ever for a UVSC team. After two pressure-packe- d games in the Florida heat Saturday, they ran out of steam against a fresh Indian River team. The Florida club got a solo homer from Ebony Gray in the first inning, and shot from Cindy a three-ru- n Repici in the third that UVSC got a run made it in the fourth when Belinda Renzello scored from second on an infield grounder, and another in the sixth on Stacey Johnson's RBI single. But it was not enough. Indian River swept to its first national title ever. For UVSC, it was the third straight year with a top-1- 0 finish. The Wolverines won the title in 2000 and finished ninth in 2001. This one was as satisfy5-- 0. Ti 40-ya- rd points. "To win Continued from Bl 11-1- 0, Jacinto in the first and UNM nicked him for three more runs to lead 9-- 0. BYU scored three runs in the second. Jensen led the single. charge with a two-ru-n ahead "I thought Jake did a great job and it gives me HARMON Continued from Bl paths and bags across 700 West Street in Orem plotted out on lawns. Cal did erect a giant batting cage in his backyard. It takes up the entire place. But two best friends, prom dates, lifelong buddies and neighbors earning pitchers of record in two state title games one day from one another? "I've never heard of anything like it," Dave said. "It's so strange, I've never come across anything like it before in my life." In those championship games involving Ericka and Mac, the scores of both games through six innings was . Weird? 9-- 3. Yup. When Ericka pitched an incredible 21 straight innings to lead the Bruins out of the loser's bracket over Pleasant Grove in games, Mac kept calling from his cell phone for updates. It was a phenomenal feat. Ericka took a shot to the mouth as a ball smashed into her lower lip, but she gutted it up and finished a brilliant performance. "Where she got the energy, I don't know," Cal said. "I just told her we needed her to load us on her back and carry us. She did." Ericka is 22-- 6 this year, tying a state record for back-to-ba- ck wins. Her ERA hovered around 1.00. She averaged 10 strikeouts a game. MV held opponents scoreless for 38 innings at one time. She completed her high school career on Thursday, her 18th birthday, and signed early to play at UVSC. Mac, who turns 17 in July, is just a sophomore at Timpanogos where he was the starting point guard the past two years in basketball. Since he pitched and won two state playoff games as a freshman and notched three playoff wins this year, he's in high school postseason championship action. He is 16-overall in two seasons and batted .500 this year. He finished this year with an ERA of 1.80 before the win over Olympus. The two promised each other when they were just little tykes that before they left high school, they'd go to the prom together, said Zeffie. That happened Saturday night. As 2002 winds down and both Mountain View and Timpanogos finish school work, this is one tale for the history books if you can find the right category. "It's a storybook ending for sure " Cal said. Try and find another one like it. Bet you can't. 5-- 0 2 9-- 1 Dick Harmon executive sports editor, can be reached at or 344-254- 7 dharmonheraldextra.com. 13-1- 0. in the Trailing sixth, the Cougars rallied to tie the game at 10. The four-ru- n inning came on a two-ru- n homer by Coughlan and solo shots over the wall by Jensen and Rob Itri. Jake Chrisman relieved Kaufmann in UNM's seventh and retired the lineup to keep the tie. James Ray replaced Chrisman to start the eighth and the 10-- 6 confidence to see him throw strikes like that in that situation," Law said. UNM got five RBI from Chris Alexander to lead the BYU's cause. Jackson knocked in four runs with a effort. Derek McCready (3-picked up the win while Tyler Dabo ) got the loss. 10-a- ll k PAUUIS iiAJt il.l.all.Jk G'tOUP 2D STOP IT... Gnon it... nEPlACE IT... UTAH'S ONLY COMPLETE HAIR RESTORATION CENTER THE EXPERTS IN LASER ASSISTED HAIR RESTORATION En (2-1- er CHAMPIONS Local rum . i. online i Confidential Free Interview in Our Local Office ii 877-451-91- Toi fr ToMtm J - a. t- i company." --Tha WjgJf Stosat Journal (475 Offices Nationwide) liiiial Kiwiiilil tLfc'ilJ -- ' oeverai camps ro cnoose trom, based on age, skill, and need Small-grou- p breakouts of players per coach for better individual attention FETE Call Champions at (801) 434-73camps brochure or go online. H. I I Horry! Offer ends May RISK ig mm. Register Today! " 01 J CTiaaSSTC55gfS8T Vvafl i"-J- "- ACA D EMY 8-- 11 24 Hour Rtotxtod M jfj IT Ik n 'Insider" Report: www.jkhams.com JK Harm & Company- - Provo k-- ,;.jrljk? 'How to End IRS Problems Forever!" 800-377-97-20 tha (Nation's) moct mccaaaM , f VETERAN EX4RS AGENTS & TAX PROFESSIONALS CSants Navar Maat with tha RS - SMI for Parma on tha Dote - Writtan GuaranTaa Free Tax Settlement Analysis: ' ATHLETIC 11. 31st INI 2117. SKOYRfflNI 73S. Ivr for a CAA BASKETBALL 1581 West 1000 South. Orem. UT 84058 tel (801 ) 434-730- 1 fax (801 ) 434-914- 0 |