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Show Tri-Cities split region games in A.F., Provo chance at evening the score when Beck struck out. Slapping a triple in the seventh, Ballard scored an insurance run on a passed ball. Paul Bronson came home on a wild pitch in the bottom of the inning to put Tri-Cities Tri-Cities within one. However, Orem reliever Chris Peterson kept them from pulling the game out. Tri-Cities fought a tight battle with Provo Friday night. The outcome was not decided until the top of the seventh when Travis Hansen singled in Mendenhall to break the tied score of 10. Tri-Cities scored four more runs to put the game away. By DEAN VON MEMMOTT Tri-Cities split two American Legion games last week. Orem whipped Tri-Cities 16-15 in the league opener at American Fork's Rotary Park Wednesday night. Tri-Cities Tri-Cities were rebounded from that loss by downing Provo 15-10 at Provo's Timp Park Friday night. Tri-Cities did not lead once during Wednesday's game, even though they got the chance to a few times. But by the way the first inning went, it seemed that they would not even get those opportunities. op-portunities. Orem pulled out to a 7-0 lead in the first, making the game appear as if it was going to be just a five-inning five-inning affair. However, that was not to be the case because of what happened in the second. . Holding Orem scoreless, Tri-Cities Tri-Cities staged a surprising rally in the bottom of the inning. Adam Ozuna got the comeback going with a single that fished in Sean Hack-ford Hack-ford and Chris Baum. After Bronco Mendenhall shot a left-field single to join Ozuna on base, Matt Norman homered them. The home run was enough proof to make Orem realize it was not going to walk away with a lopsided win. With two outs in the top of the third, Orem's Dale Granney singled in Richard Lamoreaux, giving rise to a possibility that Orem would walk all over Tri-Cities. However, Cranney tried turning his single into a double and ended up thrown out at second. Though hurt by a 'double play in the bottom of the third, Tri-Cities managed to score three runs to knot the game at eight. Ballard broke the tie on a fourth-inning bad throw to first by shortstop Sean Hackford. Orem scored four more runs in the round to prevent TriTCities from tying the game in the fourth. In the bottom of the inning, Baum came home on a passed ball, then Hackford scored on Ozuna's sacrifice fly to center field. Norman's Nor-man's two-run homer put Tri-Cities within one, but Orem pitscher Chris Boyack retired Shane Phillips of Pleasant Grove. Walked by Tri-Cities reliever DeMar "Deeks" Beck in the fifth, Cranney came home on a center-field center-field double by Ballard, who in turn, got singled in by Jim Fowler. Orem's three-run lead was reduced to one by Hackford's two-run two-run homer in the bottom of the inning. But with two outs already for them, Tri-Cities missed a fit ' :;-, - . |