Timp Sports Weekly
July 7, 2015
Publisher's Message
For this week's issue, we look at a Utah Baseball Academy League game between the Awesome American Fork Cavemen's 17-under age division team and the Brighton Bengals, AKA the Bad Old Puddy Tats, sworn arch enemies of the Alta Hawks, AKA the Tweeties. We will also look at the Awesome Cavemen's Varsity League game played at home against the Provo Bulldogs, AKA the Bullpuppies, and a Timp Colt League contest. Let's take a swing at the stories of those games.
Dean Von Memmott
Publisher
magnanovelist@gmail.comThufferin' Thucatash, Four Triples Power Awesome AF Cavemen to 14-0 Win Over Brighton's Bad Old Puddy Tats July 3
By Dean Von Memmott
Through belting four triples, the Awesome American Fork Cavemen shut out the Brighton Bengals, AKA the Bad Old Puddy Tats, 14-0 in a 17-age division game played during Utah Baseball Academy League action at American Fork July 3.
Pitcher Kobe Lindeman and reliever Colt Scharrer's combined throwing restricted the Bad Old Puddy Tats to one hit. The only Bad Old Puddy Tat to club a single in the five-inning game was Randy Clark He hit a two-out single off Scharrer in the top of the fifth. Right after that hit, Clark saw Austin Simpson, a "distant cousin" of TV character Lisa Simpson, strike out, ending the inning.
Now, at the start of the game, Awesome Caveman first baseman Jace Ybarra grounded out Dave Hoshijima. Lindeman walked Riley Schneiter, who then tried stealing second, only to get put out by a throw from catcher Buster "Bunny" Hardman to second baseman Hagan "Speedster" Holmstead. After third baseman Ryan Hardman grounded out Riley Stewart, the Awesome Cavemen went to work on making short work of the Bad Old Puddy Tats.
On two outs in the bottom of the first, Scharrer singled in Ybarra, then moved to third on a Trell Morse double. Center fielder Hoshijima picked off a Chandler "Crazy Horse" Wood fly ball to keep American Fork's lead at 1-0 until the second.
With Lindeman posting a total of five strikeouts, the Awesome Cavemen went on a four-run rally in the second. Aided by a Kastan Rasmussen single bunted that inning, the Awesome Cavemen loaded the bases on one out. A Buster "Bunny" Hardman walk scored Rasmussen. ensuing four-rally climaxed with Holmstead hitting the first of American Fork's four triples.
In the third, Weston Flinders singled in two runs, and Buster "Bunny" Hardman tripled in another two Awesome Cavemen. On two outs, Ybarra tripled in Hardman, only to get stuck on third.
Hitting a one-out double in the fourth, Wood came home on a Rasmussen sacrifice fly.
Doubling at the start of the fifth's lower half, Lindeman came home on a Buster "Bunny" Hardman sacrifice fly. Soon afterwards, Scharrer tripled in Ybarra and Scharrer to put the final score at 14-0.
As the Alta Tweeties, Brighton's sworn arch rivals, would say those four AF triples were just too devastating for the Bad Old Puddy Tats.
AF Pirates Survive AF A's Comeback By Score of 10-6 in Timp Colt League Play June 30
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Winning 10-6 in a Timp Colt League game at American Fork's Rotary Park June 30, the American Fork Pirates survived a strong American Fork Athletic comeback.
The Pirates took a 3-0 lead in the first inning. They then secured five runs in the third inning and another two in the fourth.
The game should have ended in a blowout, but Athletic Dalton Payne launched a left-field double that turned the contest into a nail-biter in the bottom of the fourth.
In the top of the fifth, Pirate Tommy Hancock got on base through a walk, but his next three teammates all grounded out before he could score a run.
On two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Athletic Eli Hooge doubled into left. Pat "Captain" Morgan belted a double that drove Hooge in. Payne singled Morgan in, and the A's soon loaded bases. The A's picked up their next two runs on walks before Jake Burton grounded, ending their comeback.
Awesome AF Cavebatters Shut Out Provo Bullpupies 8-0 in Varsity League Game June 29
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
In a Varsity League game played at American Fork June 29, the Awesome American Fork Cavemen defeated the Provo Bulldogs, AKA the Bullpuppies, 8-0.
The Awesome Cavemen's pitching staff limited the Bullpuppies to three hits during the course of the game. During the first inning, No. 1 batter Payton Griffin whacked a left-field single for the first of those three hits. Griffin then saw teammates J.R. Kanama and Kory "Born to Be Alive" Hernandez strike out and Tony Pena fly out to right field.
Walked by pitcher Preston "Brownie" Brown in the bottom of the first, Chandler "Crazy Horse" Wood came home on a triple, hit by Ryan Reid, a greatnephew of Brighton Bad Old Puddy Tat and UVU coaching legend Duke Reid. Ryan came home on passed ball as did teammate Ryan Hardman a few minutes later.
On two outs in the second, Bullpuppy Clay Atkinson doubled into left, but teammate Aaron Hermingway, a "distant cousin" of late American novelist Ernie Hemingway, flew out to second base.
Beaned by a Brown pitch in the bottom of the second, Lee Davis scored on an error in right field, and Stevie Duberbach singled in Weston Flinders to put the lead at 4-0.
Singling on one out in the bottom of the third, Hardman got into scoring position by a Colt "Nails" Carpenter single. Hardman came home on a passed ball.
Taking over pitching duties in the fourth, Duberbach caused Pena to fly out into left and Brown to strike out. Aaron Hernandez singled off Duberbach, but got stranded on base.
Provo held American Fork scoreless in the fourth, but in the fifth, Wood tripled in Jackson Draney, who had singled at the start of the fifth's lower half. Wood then came home on a Reid single.
Doubling on one out in the bottom of the sixth, Lee Davis came home on a sacrifice fly to end the game's scoring for the night.
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