AF-Bingham Jayvee Doubleheader

Timp Sports Weekly

April 30, 2013

Publisher's Message

For this week's issue, we look at a junior varsity baseball doubleheader that the Awesome American Fork Cavemen hosted against the Bingham Miners, AKA the Pickers, April 27. The doubleheader showed why that the Awesome Cavemen may feel relieved that they won't be having the Pickers as region foes next season. Let's take a swing at the account of the story about the doubleheader.

Dean Von Memmott

Publisher

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Bingham Pickers Sweep Jayvee Doubleheader Against Awesome AF Cavebatters April 27

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

Although the Bingham Miners, AKA the Pickers,  couldn't change the history of their varsity team's home loss to the Awesome American Fork Cavemen April 26, they did enjoy taking sweet revenge in a junior varsity baseball doubleheader at American Fork April 27. The Pickers won ends of the  twin by scores of 9-3 and 10-2.

In the first game's first inning, the Awesome Cavemen took an early 1-0 lead. The Pickers pulled out a 2-1 lead in the second inning. Bingham picked up a third run in the third and a fourth one in the fourth. In the bottom of the fourth, Emmett Green singled into left, and on two outs, Koy "Big Joy" Dibb reeled him in with a right-field single. A Craig Brailsford double advanced Green to third, but he got struck there as he watched the Pickers ground out Andy Bartholemew, a very close relative of American Fork wrestling legends Rick "Dr. Death" Bartholemew and John "Superstud" Bartholemew.

In the top of the fifth, Kade "Steel Blade" Cloward and Tyler "Zupe" Zupan struck out. After Cody "Chef" Kitchen had singled into left, Shortstop Kody "Coco" Hall grounded out Aaron "Mr. Harsh" Marsha to keep the Picker lead stuck at 4-2.

The next inning opened with Trevor "Long Mile" Carlile singling into right, but he got stuck on base as he watched next three Picker hitters get out.

Getting on base through a seventh-inning walk, Landon Walbeck, related to the Walbecks who played sports for the Alta High Tweeties a few years ago, came home on a passed ball. American Fork soon fell apart that point. A Zupan singled knocked in a run, fueling a five-run rally for the Pickers. During the scoring spree, Brayden "Fiddle" Diddle contributed a one-run single that helped to put the game away for the Pickers.

In the bottom of the seventh, Bartholemew hit a two-out single into left, and Logan Flinders singled him in. Flinders tried stealing second, but he got thrown out at that base.

In the second game's first inning, the Pickers loaded the bases on a Walbeck walk, an error, and a Marsh single. Nicknamed "Chief" because of his Navajo heritage, Hayden "Woody" Wood prevented the Pickers from going on a scoring spree that inning. First, he threw to catcher Ty Gardner to get Walback out at the plate. Wood then caused Zupan and Tony "Moddy" Moderno each to fly out.

The bottom of the first opened with shortstop Cloward grounding out Emmett "The Hitting Machine" Green. In response, Bartholemew singled into left, and the Pickers kept him quarantined on base.

The game stayed scoreless until the bottom of the first. On two outs, Wood singled into left, and Slick Mick Madsen batted him.

The third opened with a Marsh single hit into left. Trevor "Never Late" Tait singled him, and the Pickers soon loaded the bases on no outs. An American Fork throwing error allowed two Pickers to reach home plate safely. Bingham picked up another two runs on a Carlile sacrifice fly and a second Caveman error.

In the bottom of the bottom of the third, Bartholemew doubled into left, and Dallin Searle, twin brother of American Fork soccer player Audrey Searle, tripled him in.

American Fork held Bingham scoreless in the fourth and fifth innings. The game's most thrilling defensive play occurred in the top of the fifth when the Awesome Cavemen pinched in a squeeze play Zupan, who had opened the inning with a single.

With the bases loaded on two outs in the top of the sixth, Cloward singled in Kitchen and Landon "Meeese" Measom. However, Marsha got forced out at third, preventing the Pickers from going on a long scoring run.

In the bottom of the sixth, Bartholomew completed his impressive performance at the plate by hitting a center-field single for his third straight hit for the game. Searle hit a left-field single to join him on base. However, the two Awesome Cavemen got stuck on base. After the sixth, the Awesome Cavemen couldn't put any more runners on base. 

In the top of the seventh, Tait and Zupan each slugged a single. Moderno doubled them in. Moderno soon scored a run himself as Hall turned up a double play. It practically shut Bingham down. The Pickers still took home two wins for that Saturday.