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Show A10 • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2009 Sentinel Guardian of Your Community News Lady Dons host Bingham Miners Bryan Redd STAFF W R I T E R Kayla Neves / The Sentinel PASSING LANE: Maple Mountain's Kelsey Lewis looks for an opening to pass the ball. MM falls to Timp James Hardman there today. We kept up with their top players and STAFF WRITER we looked good." To start off the second On Thursday, Dec. 17, the Maple Mountain Girls half Maple Mountain was Basketball team hosted the able to score four points Timpanogos Timberwolves before Timpanogos, but in a high paced basketball were unable to contain the game. The Golden Eagles, T-wolves as they soon shot coming off of their sec- ahead. The score, 19-24, ond win of the season the looked pretty bleak for MaTuesday before, started the ple Mountain in the fourth game well, but just couldn't quarter, but the Golden Eahold on. The Timberwolves gles didn't give up. Between kept Maple Mountain down Baylee Nielsen and Kasanto half of their score by half dra Paprocki, the Golden time, 12-24, and Maple Eagles were able to score Mountain never recovered. nine points with little time The Golden Eagles lost the remaining in the game. contest 2 8 ^ 5 . "We played very well "We need to work on in the first and fourth quarour offensive execution," ters. The middle two, not so said Maple Mountain coach much," said coach Green. Coach Cory Green. "Our "We just didn't execute on defense looked great out offense." The tale of two half does describe the play of the Dons in last Saturday's afternoon game. SF played a great first half but an inconsistent second half as Bingham defeated SF 41-32. The Dons started strong in the first period as they controlled the offensive rebounds, the tempo and the post scoring to take a 12-6 lead after the first quarter. The lady Dons have struggled in the pre-season maintaining momentum and the second quarter had the Dons playing soft defense allowing Bingham to score 11 points from beyond the three point line. The Dons continued to rebound well but SF shooting went ice cold and SF scored only 4 points in the second quarter allowing Bingham to come back and take 1716 lead at halftime. SF displayed no energy and the Dons offense was non-existent in the third quarter. The Lady Dons took rushed shots and committed unforced turnovers as they suffered a 13-2 meltdown and the Miners enjoyed a 30-18 advantage after three quarters. The Lady Dons relied Keri Huntsman / The Sentinel HIGH HOPES: Erin Redd goes for a lay-up in the game against Bingham. on a half court press and man to man defense in the fourth quarter which frustrated the Miners, getting the Bingham post players into foul trouble. Spanish Fork scored 14 points in the fourth quarter but the Dons were forced to foul late in the ball game and Bingham held on to defeat the Lady Dons 41-32. The Dons were led by Redd with 12, Nielsen with 7, and Johnson with 4. Spanish Fork had 27 rebounds and 5 blocked shots. The turnovers and unforced errors c'ontinue to plague this talented Lady Dons basketball team. The Lady Dons traveled to, Lone Peak last Tuesday and American Fork on Thursday. SF played aggressive fast break basketball in the first half of both games as the Lady Don^ led at halftime against bolh quality opponents. The Dons suffered the third quarter blues as the team continues to be plagued by low scoring and turnovers in the third quarter, and SF suffered two agonizing losses on the road. The Lady Dons resume non-region play as they travel to Grantsville on Jan. 5,2010 and SF will host Riverton at home on Jan. 6,2010. Namon Bills / The Sentinel EXTRA MILE: Members of the Lettermen and HOSA Clubs at SFHS went the extra mile collecting over 400 bears. They are pictured with advisors Alan Albright and Sharla Barber. SFHS clubs donate stuffed animals Christian Thompson / The Sentinel OPPOSITION: ALA's Dalila Rodriguez works her way around a pesky Lehi defender. ALA battles Lehi Michael Richardson STAFF W R I T E R On Dec. 15, 2009 the American Leadership Academy girl's basketball team took on Lehi. ALA put up a good fight but Lehi pulled out the win 55-39. In the first quarter Lehi started out strong, quickly leaving ALA behind 8-0. ALA struggled to keep up throughout the quarter as Lehi managed to stay ahead. By the end of the first quarter, Lehi had scored a total of 22 points, and ALA 12. The second quarter brought more of the same, with ALA playing catch up. Despite the distance between the two team's points, ALA's Sarah Madson scored several points throughout the second and third quarters. By the end of the second quarter ALA had scored nine points and Lehi scored 13, making the score 21-35. After the half, ALA fought hard to get back in the game. By the end of the third quarter Lehi was up 46-25, and still going strong. In the fourth quarter, ALA started to play better, scoring 14 points, while Lehi scored nine throughout the quarter. However, the Eagles still couldn't match Lehi, losing to the Pioneers 55-39. For ALA, Sarah Madson scored a total of 17 points, Mauri Staheli had 6, Dalila Rodriguez 5, McKenna Andersen 4, Wendy Trujillo 4, Katie Muhlestein 2, and Allison Young 1. Despite the loss, ALA's head coach Ray Stewart was proud of the girls' performance. "We did have a rough start. We just had a hard time matching up with them," said Stewart. "But after a while we seemed to locate their shooters and do a little better with our defense. We were catching up the whole game, but we didn't quit, and I am very proud of the girls for that." Namon Bills EDITOR For the second year the Lettermen and HOSA Clubs at Spanish Fork High School have participated in Bank of American Fork's annual Teddy Bear Drive, now in its 10th year. The bank collects teddy bears at each of its branch locations and delivers them to the Family Support and Treatment Center in Orem and the Family Support Center in Mid vale. These centers work to prevent and treat child abuse, and the goal of the teddy bear drive is to provide a stuffed animal for each child that visits these centers. Bank of American Fork's Todd Harrison said the idea grew out of a conversation he had with SFHS Athletic Director Doug SnelLThe two have known each other since grade school, and as Harrison was talking about the teddy bear drive, Snell thought it would be a good idea to get the Lettermen Club involved. Harrison said the project has really grown over the past decade. He said he thinks the first year, the bank collected 75 bears. Last year it was over 6.000. This year the clubs at Spanish Fork High School collected 240 bears to donate. first lead since the opening bucket midway through the fourth at 31-29 when Loftin's hustle play put him at the line for a pair. On that play, the Dogs' 6*7" center fouled out of the game. Moments later, with two minutes left to go, SF was up by two with the ball in the hands of senior Adam Duke looking for more. However, two Bulldogs surrounded him, swiped away his arms to get to the ball. SF cried foul but the official let it go before whistling Duke for a reachin foul when he tried to retrieve it. That controversial call, along with a couple more against the Dons in the final minutes, literally took the ball out of their hands. Provo's Colling- sworth hit a huge inside jumper plus one to regain the lead and from there, Spanish came out on the short end by the score of 38-32 despite their amazing effort. In ihe final 10 minutes of the ballgame, SF went to work by out-hustling their opponent with loose rebounds, big steals and quick fast breaks. Great team effort was displayed in the scoring statistics as no Dons were in double figures. Still led with nine, while Loftin pitched in seven. Williamsen and Perkins both had five. Duke, Williamsen and Still all had four rebounds on the night. Spanish now has a .500 record on the year with three wins and as many losses. Coming up short: From SHORT • A12 play, it's possible that the intimidation' factor came in to play along with BYUbound Kyle Collings worth, who played above the rim and carried his team. Spanish worked their game plan throughout with a zone defense that disrupted the Dogs1 play down low, but Provo nailed some big treys to counter. The Dons took advantage of a noshot-clock rule to make it a low-scoring affair, which gave them a chance to pull off the upset. In the first half, the Dons struggled to get the ball in the hoop. After winning the opening tip-off, SF took a 2-0 lead, but it didn't last long. Provo went on a 10-0 run before the red and gray answered back. The Bulldogs found success with a couple of dunks from their star forward, along with some aerial assaults from downtown. With two seconds to go until half, Provo nailed a trey to take a 2 2 11 advantage. After trailing by as many as 12 in the third, Coach Jeff Cook inspired his team in a timeout to get after their opponent with excellent defense and team play. Spanish scratched and clawed back when Max Johnsen hit a bankshot to get within two, followed by another big shot from Chase Loftin to knot it at 29 all. The Dons took their |