Timp Sports Weekly
October 5, 2010
Publisher's Message
For this week's issue, we look at wins that the Ferocious Pleasant Grove Vikings and Lehi Pioneers posted against the Alta Hawks and Timpanogos Timberwolves. We also look at the Pioneers' heartbreaking loss to the Mountain View Bruins, AKA the Teddy Bears and T-Bears, in football. As the people in Lehi would say, let's hop to those stories.
Dean Von Memmott
deanmemmott@hotmail.com
Ferocious Vike Spikers Outlast Alta Tweeties in Fierce Volleyball Contest Sept. 28
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Ferocious Pleasant Grove Vikings outlasted the Alta Hawks, AKA the Tweeties, in a Region Four volleyball match at Pleasant Grove by scores of a 25-13, 25-19, 18-25, 26-24.
Viking Coach Jamie Schapper said, "We had to fight really hard for every ball in the game. Alta's players are fierce fighters at the net. We have to respect them for that."
Through Delayne Daniel's kills and McKell Staheli's serving, the Ferocious Vikings built up an early 3-1 lead. The Tweeties battled back through Kaitlyn Vanoff's spiking. When a Challie Mitchell spike tied the game at three, the Tweeties looked as through they would swoop home with an early win. A Kim Dahl kill put the Vikings back out in front. The Tweeties didn't let Pleasant Grove's ferocious players coast away with an early win. That didn't turn out to be so. Vanoff, Mitchell and Cheyenne Swenson guided a determined Tweetie effort to retake the lead. Those three Tweeties repeatedly tested the quickness of the Viking front row. Alta repeatedly got within a point. The players on the Viking front-row proved to be quick enough to block most of the shots that Vanoff, Mitchell, and Swenson lobbed at Pleasant Grove. Before long, an Annie Jenkinson kill gave the Vikings the energy they needed for rowing away. Kills by Dahl late in the game netted a 25-13 win for Pleasant Grove.
The second game opened with Dahl kills spurring the Ferocious Vikings out to a 5-1 lead. Sisters Audrey and Kat Biggs beat up the Tweetie front row in the second game. When a Daniel kill had improved the Viking lead had at 14-4, Alta's cause became a lost one. Tweeties did battle back through the hitting of Mitchell, Vanoff, Swenson, and Sydney Marchant. After a Mitchell kill had cut the lead to 17-12, Jenkinson and Dahl registered a kill that gave the Ferocious Vikings fresh momentum. Daniel's hitting finally renewed the Ferocious Vikings' offensive effort. Kills by Daniel late in the game gave Pleasant Grove a 25-19 win.
Just as the Ferocious Vikings started anticipating that the match would be over in Game 3, the Tweeties shocked them through flying out to a 6-0 lead. Daniel, Dahl, and the Biggs sisters attempted to prevent a fourth game. Those four Vikings soon started holding their own against the Hawks. With Mitchell and Vanoff controlling the net, the Pleasant Grove didn't have a chance against the Tweeties. The closest the Vikings came to Alta was 21-16. Hitting errors tripped up Pleasant Grove's comeback attempt.
With the Tweeties winning Game 3 25-18, the Ferocious Vikings looked certain of playing a long, fourth game with Alta and a possible fifth one. For a little while, Pleasant Grove managed to keep pulling out in front while the most Alta could do was tie the game. Finally, a Nicole Koehler block moved the Tweeties ahead 7-6. A Kat Biggs kill tied the game at seven, and an Annie Jenkinson tip moved the Vikings ahead 8-7. More trades of the lead followed. When the Tweeties had secured a 13-12 lead on a missed Viking serve, they proceeded to built momentum, leading by as far as 21-18. Daniel's hitting enabled the Vikings to tie the game at 23. A Dahl ace put the Vikings ahead 24-23. A missed Viking serve led to an extension of the fourth game. After a Daniel kill had put the Ferocious Vikings ahead 25-24, a Tweety hitting error gave Pleasant Grove the match point.
Lehi Spikers Quiet Howlin' Timpanogos T-Pups in Region 7 Volleyball Action Sept. 30
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
When the Lehi-Timpanogos Region Seven match got over in three games Sept. 30, the question of which player the University of Utah's women's head volleyball coach came to watch didn't matter.
What did matter was that Coach Beth Launiere witnessed a shocking display of revenge that the Pioneers meted out to Timpanogos for the Timberwolves' spoiling Lehi's Homecoming two weeks before.
Led by Cousin Madi Memmott and Hailee Rupp, the Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, hopped all over the Timberwolves, AKA the T-Pups, by scores of 25-14, 25-21, 25-10.
The first game opened with Niki Maxwell and Sarah Keyes guiding the T-Pups out to a 3-0 lead. A BreElle Bailey kill put the Pioneers onto the scoreboard, and they soon tied the game at five. Timpanogos broke the tie, but Lehi wouldn't give up. Spurred on by Memmott's serving, Lehi finally swam ahead 8-7. Anau Faleao and Rupp registered kills that tightened the Pioneers' lead. Aces by Sharissa Nielsen spurred the T-Pups to howl back within 16-13. Timpanogos' efforts fell apart at that point, and the Pioneers won the game 25-14.
A Memmott kill sent Lehi rowing out to an early 6-1 lead. Maxwell and Nielsen orchestrated a comeback that netted the T-Pups a 10-9 lead. For a little while afterwards, the Timberpups continued staying ahead. However, when they created a 17-14 lead, a Mikayla Dunford kill sparked a Lehi comeback. Soon, three straight Rupp kills pushed the Froggies ahead 22-19. Even though the Timberpups did come back within 22-21, they could not get their pass on another lead. Aided by a Rupp kill, Bailey and Shelby Sorenson threw up a block that proved fatal to Timpanogos. Lehi finally won the second game 25-14.
Breaking a 1-1 tie early in the third game, the Pioneers turned the match into a figurative slaughter. Dunford, Faleao, and Memmott clobbered the T-Pup front row while Bailey and teammate Raegan Lindsey served up aces that threw Timpanogos off balance. Meanwhile, the Timberpups became so shaken by the Pioneers' display of hitting power that they couldn't put together an effective attack despite some good hits by T-Pup Kailey Avery. When the action was over, the Pioneers had much to croak about their 25-9 victory in Game 3.
Lehi Coach Jamie Ingersoll said, "BreElle served much better in the third game. Madi Memmott posted nine kills to become our top killer."
Mountain View Teddy Bears Crush Lehi 42-16 in Region 7 Football Action
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
AKA the Teddy Bears and T-Bears, the Mountain View Bruins came into Lehi Oct. 1 and dried up the Lehi Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, 42-16.
To be honest, the game was not a beautiful performance for either the T-Bears or Froggies. Turnovers plagued both teams through the course of the game. The first turnover was an intercetion that T-Bear quarterback Brandon Bingham threw to Pioneer Noah Timpson during the game's opening minute. Timpson returned the interception to the Mountain View 10. The Froggies managed to move the ball all the way to the Bruin 1-yard line. However, the T-Bear defense stopped Lehi cold there. That was to be the closest that Lehi would score during the first half.
Long runs by Tanner Houston quickly placed the Teddy Bears on the Lehi 11-yard line. Taking the snap there, Bingham raced into the end zone at 6:10, and Nate Pierpont kicked an extra point.
Recovering a blocked, Lehi punt a few minutes later, Maxwell Bennett raced 46 yards for another T-Bear touchdown, frosted by a Pierpont extra-point kick.
The first period ended with T-Bear Alex Jensen picking off a Kinnoch Gray pass. That turnover resulted in Houston scoring on a touchdown run in the early second quarter. Houston made a seven-yard touchdown run a few minutes later. Teammate Seth Loveland caught a 15-yard touchdown pass late in the first half, and a Pierpont PAT kick concluded Bruin scoring for the night.
The Pioneers' defense proved to be impenetrable in the second half. Meanwhile, Lehi finally got onto the scoreboard when Gray passed 16 yards to Chris Johnson for a touchdown at 1:35 in the third period. Lehi then scored a safety.
Late in the final quarter, Lehi invaded the Bruin 10, and Gray passed to Zane Munger for a touchdown. Garrett Bayles kicked in a second extra point to end the night's scoring.
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