Harlem Ambassadors and Lehi Baseball

Timp Sports Weekly

June 5, 2012

Publisher's Message

For this week's issue, we look at an exhibition game played between the Harlem Ambassadors and the Lehi Alumni All-Stars as well as two Memorial Day Weekend Invitational baseball games that the Lehi Pioneers played. Let's hop to those stories.

Dean Von Memmott

Publisher

Harlem Ambassadors Defeat Lehi Alumni All-Stars 86-60 May 16

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

At a charity basketball game sponsored by the Lehi Rotary Club, the Harlem Ambassadors defeated the Lehi Alumni All-Stars 86-60.

The contest was a low-cost version of Harlem Globtrotter-Washington General games. Early in the game, former Lehi basketball stars Ben Walker and Richie Gardner provided firepower that allowed the ex-Froggies to hop ahead 11-7. However, Harlem's Harold Williams, Keith Thompson, and Alex Robinson proved to be too much for the former Froggies to contain. After Lehi slipped back ahead, Thompson delivered a go-ahead shot that put Harlem ahead for good. The Ambassadors turned the game into a blowout win.

That was fine with the Lehites who shown up for the charity event. They got to witness the same kind of hilarious antics that often occurred at Globetrotter games. Some of those antics came at the experience of brothers Trevor and Skylar Nerdin. When each of those brothers took a turn at taking a foul shot, Ambassador Lade Madjic had fun clowning around with them.

During period breaks, she had grade school kids participate in contests. Their winners received autographed photos of her. Madjic's antics made the contest an affair where people could easily forget their problems for a couple of hours.

Silverpups Defeat Lehi's 16-Under Baseball Team at RMSB Memorial Day Invitational

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

In the Rocky Mountain School of Baseball's Memorial Day Invitational, the Riverton Silverwolves, AKA the Silverpups, defeated the Lehi Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, 14-7 at Lehi May 25.

During the game's first 2 1/2 innings, the Silverpup howled 6-0. Lehi's Preston Hansen scored a run in the bottom of the third. Holding the Silverpups scoreless in the top of the fourth, the Froggies went on a six-run rally in the bottom of that inning. A Blake Smith single and a Hansen double fueled that rally.

Lehi's 7-6 lead couldn't survive the fifth inning. Doubles from Colt Katala and Joe Barlowe stirred up a seven-run rally that clinched the game for the Silverpups. They ended it by belting the Froggies with a double play.

Utah Rebels Defeat Lehi 10-4 In Memorial Day Invitational Action May 26

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

In a Rocky Mountain School of Baeball Memorial Day Invitational game at Mountain View High May 26, the Utah Rebels defeated the Lehi Pioneers' 16-under division team 10-4.

AKA the Froggies, the Pioneers were able to hold their own against the Rebels, a local Traveling Lcague club, for the first six innings.

During the top of the first, Lehi pitcher Ryan Absher didn't let a single Rebel get on base. In the bottom of the first, he got beaned by a pitch. It lead to Grant Dixon batting in the game's first run.

In the top of the second, Rebel Chase Bauerele singled off Absher on two outs, but he got nailed at second during a fielder's choice play. During the bottom of the second, Haden Hunt singled in two runs to improve the Froggies' lead at 3-0.

On two outs in the top of the third, Troy Quarnberg hit a two-run double. Lehi kept Quarnberg stuck on base before he could a tying run. Although Lehi got a single from Grant Dixon and a double from Preston Higgins, Utah still held the Froggies scoreless that inning.  

In the fourth, the Froggies kept the Rebels from getting anywhere with singles hit by Swats Collingwood and Baurele. On two outs in the bottom of the fourth, Paxton Terry singled in Haden Hunt, who had hit a single a few minutes before. That was the last RBI Lehi was allowed to get.

A fifth-inning error allowed two Rebels to come home, tying the game. The game stayed deadlocked until the seventh when Kole Tracy hit a one-run double that unleashed a six-run rally for the Rebels.

Lehi tried coming back on a Sampson single and a Hunter Bolles double in the bottom of the seventh, but Utah didn't let the Froggies score any runs.

In a game played earlier that Saturday, Lehi defeated the Roy Trojans, AKA the Rubbers, 26-3. In that contest, Absher hit a single, double, and triple for Lehi. Sampson, Dixon, and Preston Hansen each hit a double for the Froggies. In a May 25 game at Lehi, the Froggies routed the Clearfield Falcons, AKA the Green Chirps, 16-2.