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Show A10 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2009 Sentinel Guardian of Your Community News Lady Dons learning Bryan Redd STAPF WRITER Lady Dons 1-3 in Preseason Basketball The SF girls are in the midst of a tough pre-season schedule and the learning curve is tough. The Lady Dons lost three games last week as they strive to develop team chemistry, aggressive defense, and a consistent offensive attack. On Dec. 1 the Lady Dons hosted Syracuse, a top team in 5A. SF was not ready for the full court press and the terrific threepoint shooting of Syracuse. The Lady Dons w.ere dominating in the paint, but Syracuse maintained hot shooting and defeated SF 51-74. "Our girls needed to handle the press and play more aggressive defense on the perimeter to win games" said Coach John- , son. On Thursday the Lady Dons traveled to Lehi for a non-regionrivalry.Spanish Fork had a balanced scoring attack led by Redd with 22 and Nielsen 12. The Lady Dons' soft perimeter deNamon Bills / The Sentinel fense allowed the Pioneers to launch three-pointers - IN THE ZONE: Erin Redd had 22 points against Lehi. at will. The Dons tied the score at 68-68 with seven and sat the bench until half foul and the PG players second remaining, but SF time. SF received qual- iced free throws to win a lost the game with an ill- ity minutes from Emerine hard fought physical battle advised foul, Lehi hit one and Petersen with timely 46-40. free-throw and won the rebounds and scoring. SF The tough pre-seagame 69-68. turned the ball over late son week taught the Lady "Our team needs to in the half and the Vikings Dons many tough lessons learn how to act in tough came back to lead 23-22. this week. game situations, we need SF played aggressive "We scheduled a tough to play in games like we defense in the post with pre-season to prepare us play in practice and not a tough double team on for region play. We have make mental mistakes," Hamson. The Vikings went some young players that commented Redd. cold from outside in the will be looked on to step up The PG Vikings vis- third quarter. Both teams and play varsity level basited SF last Friday in a fast could not get any offensive ketball. The girls need to paced battle. Both teams rhythm in part to inconsis- cut down the turnovers. If where tight, and neither SF tent and non-existent of- we can fast break, not turn nor PG could establish mo- ficiating. The Vikings led the ball over, and run our mentum. The battle inside 34-30 at the end of three. offense we will be tough the paint 'was fierce beTurnovers plagued the to beat. I am proud of the tween Redd and Hamson, Lady Dons in the fourth progress this team is maktwo of the top post players quarter giving PG to many ing, if they play in games in the state. PG would lead transition baskets. SF like they play in practice 14—11 ending the first pe- played tough double team we can dominate and have riod. The Lady Dons tied defense but the three sec- fun" commented Coach the score at 17-17 but both ond call against PG was Johnson. teams struggled scoring evident to all, but non-exThe Lady Dons will when Redd and Hamson istent by the officials. The host North Sanpete on received their third fouls SF girls were forced to Thursday. Swimming at MMHS Mike Olsen STAFF WRITER Weary as they might be from their 5 a.m. swim practices, the hard work and dedication of the Maple Mountain Eagles swim team is starting to pay off. Coach Brough sees the teams' times consistently dropping. The swimmers are fine-tuning their strokes, turns, breathing, touches, starts and finishes and in a sport where time is measured in tenths of a second, these subtle changes can pay huge dividends. The Eagles are represented by swimmers from all classes at the high school and they even have recruited several Eaglets from Diamond Fork Junior High. Their most recent meet was against Pleasant Grove and Springville and on Dec. 11th they will swim against Juan Diego and Canyon View at the Springville pool. Stop by the pool in the afternoon on Dec. 11 and cheer the team on as theyflythrough the water! Namon Bills/ The Sentinel GOING FOR TWO: Kasandra Paprocki beats her defender to the basket against Lehi. MMHS girls play Lehi as did Baylee Nielsen, who recovered a missed foul shot and was able to turn it into points. Before the half, Kasandra Paprocki scored the last basket, the only Maple Mountain three pointer. Despite the Golden Eagles efforts, Lehi was able to put on some unanswered points right before the half. This finished the second quarter with a score of 19-30. "Being a new school, every game is a first-year game. Everything is brand new for us," said Maple Mountain Coach Cory Green. "We had low points and high points and we need to work on capitalizing on the high points." Trying to rebound after the disappointing first half, Golden Eagle Kelsey Lewis was able to score four baskets against the Pioneers. Maple Mountain was once again closing in on the Pioneers, but Lehi kept a comfortable lead. The Scoreboard showed 29-37 with 0.7 seconds remaining on the clock when Kasandra Paprocki scored with a quick pass from Wesli Peay, closing the third at 31-37. Now close enough to win, the Golden Eagles flew in a last attempt at the game, but Lehi kept them from scoring. The game ended 37-51. "We played really well a large portion of the game. We battled back and didn't give up," said Green. "We have all the talent we need. We're just younger — a little more inexperienced than most teams. With a little more experience, we should be a really challenging team to beat." for the Dons. Both teams traded baskets in the second but SF lated 14 steals for the night pulled ahead with a great and relied on solid senior defensive effort. The Dons leadership from Ren Wil- out-hustled the Panthers in liamsen and Chase Loftin the first half by accumulatwhich made a huge differ- ing eight steals which lead ence in the ballgame. How- to big buckets in transiever, when the Panthers tion for a 28-19 lead at the closed the gap in the final tjreak. minutes, SF was clutch at The Panthers came out the charity stripe with the hungry to start the second majority of freebies com- half. They scratched and ing from junior Ridge Per- clawed back with a 7-2 run kins who went five-for-six which forced a Dons timefrom the line to help give out at the five minute mark the Dons a 56-42 victory by Coach Cook. Shortly and an early 3-0 record. after, Pineview continued Spanish lead 12-4 in the it scoring streak and took first frame but Pineview its first lead of the second had a 4-0 run that kept it half with a 33-32 advaninteresting. Ren Williamsen tage. But SF answered answered when he drove with a 4-0 run to recapture left baseline for a hard con- its lead at 39-33 heading tested lay-up that resulted into the fourth. in a deuce and one. But the The Mighty Dons went Panthers got hot to end the on a cold streak on the ofquarter with an 8-3 run to fensive end to start the make it a 15-12 advantage final frame. Junior point guard PJ Inoke's aggressiveness gave SF a big boost throughout the night. But a questionable technical forced him out for the night and helped the Panthers get within two at 41-39 midway thru the quarter. A timeout by the home team followed thereafter which helped SF regroup. Excellent defense and some high percentage shots were the result from the red and gray. Loftin came up with a huge put-back before fouling out and Pineview put several Dons players at the stripe and they delivered. Two players were in double figures. Williamsen led all Dons with 20, Loftin pitched in 12 with seven boards. Travis Still had five boards with three steals and sophomore sensation Hayden Nielsen came off the bench to grab four steals and six points.%, James Hardman STAFF WRITER The Maple Mountain Golden Eagles girl's basketball team played its second game of the season on Tuesday, Dec. 1. It was a hard game against the Lehi Pioneers, and the girls tried their best, but just couldn't come out on top. The game finished up 37-51, and Lehi took the game from the beginning, finishing the first quarter with the score 6-13. Although the Golden Eagles did get close several times, they never pulled ahead of the Pioneers. The second quarter started in a similar fashion, with Lehi scoring first, but the Eagles did get the score within two points, 16-18 midway through. Jessica Benson put up several baskets against the Pioneers, Dons: FromSF«A12 Mike Olsen / The Sentinel EXTRA MILE: Pictured above is Mickalea Allison; below is Taylor Winkel. |