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Show Vikings nip Cavemen in Sat. baseball action 3 fly DEAN VON MEMMOTT I The Pleasant Grove Vikings lipped the American Fork Cave-,Ji Cave-,Ji 5-1 in Babe Ruth baseball jktion at Pleasant Grove Saturday .morning. I Viking pitcher Justin Atwood i gv up only two hits during the six (innings he pitched. He did find I himself in a pitching duel against J reliever Brandon Deveraux, who fH nine hitters and allowed no kuehits during four innings at the mound. I In spite of the Cavemen's relief pitcher's fine performance, Pleas-!nt Pleas-!nt Grove controlled the entire pine. Hie Vikings got on the board in jhebottom of thefirst when Darren Hraiy came home on a Gene Clem-t Clem-t sacrifice fly in center. Pleasant wove widened its 1-0 lead in the Mt inning. The rally got underway when 1 Kyan Hoffein tripled in two run-r' run-r' Henry singled in two more When stole second and third. scoring of those four points I sed American Fork to pull Rob i Lamb from the mound after the second inning. Taking over pitching duties in the third, Deveraux showed no fatigue fa-tigue from having pitched in a Colt League game the evening before. His pitching prevented Pleasant Grove from making any more points. Lamb fired the first American Fork hit in the first inning a left-field left-field single. However, he got picked off while trying to steal second. Brett Watts managed to circle the diamond for American Fork's only run. Singling in the third, he came home on a passed ball. Determined not to let American Fork pull any more tricks, Atwood turned up a stinging double play in the fifth, practically sealing the Cavemen's fate. They received a golden opportunity opportu-nity in the seventh when an error in right field moved Lamb and Watts into scoring position. Reliever prevented pre-vented the Cavemen from pulling off a rally by retiring Quinn Goeck-eritz Goeck-eritz for the final out. |