Timp Sports Weekly
May 6, 2009
May 6, 2009
Publisher's Message
This week's cover story concerns the tight softball game between the Lehi Pioneers and the Lone Peak Knights, AKA Loners. The game reflected the fierce rivalry shared between northern Utah County's high schools. Besides the cover story, we'll look at the latest action in boy's soccer and baseball. We'll also tell who placed in what at the recent BYU Invitational. We'll then finish out with an essay on what can happen when a person doesn't call it quits. Let's get to those items.
Dean Von Memmott
Publisher
deanmemmott@hotmail.com
Lehi Softball Team Survives 8-Inning Thriller Against Lone Peak
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Playing an eight-inning softball game at home April 30, the Lehi Pioneers won 4-3 over the Lone Peak Knights, nicknamed the Loners by the American Fork Cavemen.
Through the course of the contest, Pioneer hurler Ariel Zimmerman fanned eight batters as she became locked in a pitching duel with Rachel Schomacher, who posted six K's.
During the top of the first, Zimmerman walked leadoff hitter Lauren Gourdin, but struck out Raven King and Jeni "Jedi" Keller. Second baseman Annie Nelson grounded out McKenzie St. Clair to help keep Lone Peak scoreless that inning.
After Schomacher had struck out leadoff batter Becky White in the bottom of the first, Shelby Lund slugged a center-field single, and Bree McBride joined her on base through an error at first. Schomacher didn't let Lehi go anywhere, though. The Lone Peak pitcher fanned Nelson, then caused Zimmerman to ground out to second base.
The game stayed a scoreless tie until the bottom of the third. Singling at the start of that inning's bottom half, Casey Romero soon came home on a McBride single, slugged into center. A Lehi pinch runner scored the next run through an error.
In the top of the fourth, St. Clair and Keller each slugged a left-field single. Before the Knights could go anywhere with those two hits, Zimmerman struck out Schomacher and Lachelle Eckles, slowing Lone Peak down. The fourth ended with Lehi still ahead 2-0.
Though Gourdin singled in the fifth, Lehi kept her chained on second, preserving the Pioneers' lead. It grew to 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth when Romero scored a run on error.
Lehi played without any errors -- until the sixth. That inning, the Pioneers committed two errors, which allowed Lone Peak to post two runs.
In the bottom of the sixth singles, from Whitney Cook and Ashley Zimmerman prompted Lone Peak to have King replace Schomacher as pitcher. The reliever struck out Lund to end the inning.
On one out in the seventh, Schomacher singled in King to the game at three and force it into an eighth inning. In the bottom of the eighth, Kjersti Secretan singled in Ariel Zimmerman to give Lehi the win.
Earlier in the week, the Pioneers won 9-4 in an April 28 game on the Orem diamond of the Timpanogos Timberwolves, AKA T-Pups.
Meanwhile, the American Fork Cavewomen lasted only three innings in an April 28 game at Spanish Fork. Spurred on by a Kylee Bufton home run, those manly Spanish Fork Lady Dons shut out American Fork 15-0 in the abreviated contest.
Lehi Soccer Team Posts 2 Straight Region 4 Wins
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly
By scoring two Region Four wins last week, the Lehi Pioneers improved their chances for state 5-A boys' soccer tournament action. In an April 28 game at home, Dylan Straw kicked in a second-half goal to pace Lehi to a 1-0 win over the American Fork Cavemen.
April 30 saw the Pioneers win 2-1 in overtime on the field of the Timpanogos Timberwolves, alias T-Pups. T-Pup Caleb Porter score the game's first goal during the opening period. Ian Ramos kicked in a second-half goal to force an overtime. During it, Zach Morgan scored the winning goal.
American Fork won 2-0 on the Ferocious Pleasant Grove Vikings' home field April 30.
AF Sweeps 2-Game Series Against T-Pups; Lehi Drops Both Games Against Spanish Fork
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Last week, American Fork Caveman Ben Beddes proved to be the clutch hitter for his Region Four baseball team as it swept a two-game series against the Timpanogos Timberwolves, alias T-Pups. Beddes knocked in three run in an April 28 game at Timpanogos to give the Cavemen a 3-2 win on the T-Pups' home field. At the Cavemen's home diamond April 30, he hit a one-run single in the bottom of the seventh to lift American Fork a 10-9 win over the T-Pups.
Also during the April 30 contest, Evan Wright and Ryan Evans each hit a triple for American Fork.
The T-Pups took a 4-0 lead during the first 1 1/2 inning. American Fork scored a run in the bottom of the second, then pulled ahead 5-4 in the third. Timpanogos stayed closely behind American Fork, and the T-Pups tied the game at nine in the seventh's top half.
Lehi had a rough-time against Region Four leader Spanish Fork in games played April 28 and 30.
Lehi Coach Pat Gleave said, "We played really good at Spanish Fork, but we made a couple of costly errors that permitted them to make some runs. In the game at our place, we didn't really good. We had only one run. Tanner Martin scored it for us in the first inning. We made lots of errors in the second game, allowing Spanish Fork to beat us 12-1 in five innings."
In the April 28 game, Adam Duke had a gay old time striking out seven Lehi batters. Duke's ptiching permitted the Dons to win 7-1.
Adam and Brock Duke hit a three-run double and a home run in the April 30 game. It saw Jordy Hart hit a double for Lehi.
Six Local Tracksters Place at BYU Invitational
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Six northern Utah County tracksters placed at the BYU Invitational May 2.
In the boys' 3,200-meter run, Lone Peak's Steve Morrin finished third and American Fork's Austin West fifth. Lehi's Jake Brydson took eighth in the boys' 200-meter dash.
Lone Peak's Cody Jacob flung himself to a sixth-place finish in the boys' discus. Ferocious Pleasant Grove Viking Levi Williams took second in the boys' 110-meter high hurdles and fourth in the boys' 300-meter hurdles. Cody Jacobs of Lone Peak took fourth in the boys' discus.
Publisher's Column
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly
Thinking Things Through First Often Pays in the Long Run
Two years ago, American Fork Cavewoman Hayley Holmstead came out of the Lehi Pioneers' gym crying. No, her team didn't lose to the Pioneers. In fact, the Cavewomen won by a double-digit margin.
The reason she cried was that she had an off-night. Although she would usually score in double figures in her games, Hayley didn't set the nets ablaze in that game. In fact, the Pioneers held her to four points.
In front of me, she told her mother, Sondra, "Mom, I sucked tonight. I don't think I should play anymore. I'm going to quit."
Sondra said, "You just had a bad game. That's all."
"No, I'm not good on the court anymore. I'm going to quit."
In a soft voice, I said, "Hayley, think it through first before you do it."
I walked away, thinking Hayley might not listen to me either. On the following Tuesday, I showed early for a Cavewoman basketball game, and I saw Hayley, dressed in her game uniform, taking practice shots. Later on that night, she scored in double figures to lead her team to a victory over the Hillcrest Huskies, AKA Puppies. Soon after that game, Hayley gave me a hug after I had interviewed her coach, Corey Clayton.
Through the next two years, I didn't think what the end result of my giving Hayley that piece of unwanted advice would be. That end result was Hayley getting named as the Salt Lake Tribune's
Most Valuable Player for the All-State 5-A girls' basketball team. That shows what can happen when a person doesn't throw in the proverbial towel.
This week's cover story concerns the tight softball game between the Lehi Pioneers and the Lone Peak Knights, AKA Loners. The game reflected the fierce rivalry shared between northern Utah County's high schools. Besides the cover story, we'll look at the latest action in boy's soccer and baseball. We'll also tell who placed in what at the recent BYU Invitational. We'll then finish out with an essay on what can happen when a person doesn't call it quits. Let's get to those items.
Dean Von Memmott
Publisher
deanmemmott@hotmail.com
Lehi Softball Team Survives 8-Inning Thriller Against Lone Peak
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Playing an eight-inning softball game at home April 30, the Lehi Pioneers won 4-3 over the Lone Peak Knights, nicknamed the Loners by the American Fork Cavemen.
Through the course of the contest, Pioneer hurler Ariel Zimmerman fanned eight batters as she became locked in a pitching duel with Rachel Schomacher, who posted six K's.
During the top of the first, Zimmerman walked leadoff hitter Lauren Gourdin, but struck out Raven King and Jeni "Jedi" Keller. Second baseman Annie Nelson grounded out McKenzie St. Clair to help keep Lone Peak scoreless that inning.
After Schomacher had struck out leadoff batter Becky White in the bottom of the first, Shelby Lund slugged a center-field single, and Bree McBride joined her on base through an error at first. Schomacher didn't let Lehi go anywhere, though. The Lone Peak pitcher fanned Nelson, then caused Zimmerman to ground out to second base.
The game stayed a scoreless tie until the bottom of the third. Singling at the start of that inning's bottom half, Casey Romero soon came home on a McBride single, slugged into center. A Lehi pinch runner scored the next run through an error.
In the top of the fourth, St. Clair and Keller each slugged a left-field single. Before the Knights could go anywhere with those two hits, Zimmerman struck out Schomacher and Lachelle Eckles, slowing Lone Peak down. The fourth ended with Lehi still ahead 2-0.
Though Gourdin singled in the fifth, Lehi kept her chained on second, preserving the Pioneers' lead. It grew to 3-0 in the bottom of the fifth when Romero scored a run on error.
Lehi played without any errors -- until the sixth. That inning, the Pioneers committed two errors, which allowed Lone Peak to post two runs.
In the bottom of the sixth singles, from Whitney Cook and Ashley Zimmerman prompted Lone Peak to have King replace Schomacher as pitcher. The reliever struck out Lund to end the inning.
On one out in the seventh, Schomacher singled in King to the game at three and force it into an eighth inning. In the bottom of the eighth, Kjersti Secretan singled in Ariel Zimmerman to give Lehi the win.
Earlier in the week, the Pioneers won 9-4 in an April 28 game on the Orem diamond of the Timpanogos Timberwolves, AKA T-Pups.
Meanwhile, the American Fork Cavewomen lasted only three innings in an April 28 game at Spanish Fork. Spurred on by a Kylee Bufton home run, those manly Spanish Fork Lady Dons shut out American Fork 15-0 in the abreviated contest.
Lehi Soccer Team Posts 2 Straight Region 4 Wins
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly
By scoring two Region Four wins last week, the Lehi Pioneers improved their chances for state 5-A boys' soccer tournament action. In an April 28 game at home, Dylan Straw kicked in a second-half goal to pace Lehi to a 1-0 win over the American Fork Cavemen.
April 30 saw the Pioneers win 2-1 in overtime on the field of the Timpanogos Timberwolves, alias T-Pups. T-Pup Caleb Porter score the game's first goal during the opening period. Ian Ramos kicked in a second-half goal to force an overtime. During it, Zach Morgan scored the winning goal.
American Fork won 2-0 on the Ferocious Pleasant Grove Vikings' home field April 30.
AF Sweeps 2-Game Series Against T-Pups; Lehi Drops Both Games Against Spanish Fork
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Last week, American Fork Caveman Ben Beddes proved to be the clutch hitter for his Region Four baseball team as it swept a two-game series against the Timpanogos Timberwolves, alias T-Pups. Beddes knocked in three run in an April 28 game at Timpanogos to give the Cavemen a 3-2 win on the T-Pups' home field. At the Cavemen's home diamond April 30, he hit a one-run single in the bottom of the seventh to lift American Fork a 10-9 win over the T-Pups.
Also during the April 30 contest, Evan Wright and Ryan Evans each hit a triple for American Fork.
The T-Pups took a 4-0 lead during the first 1 1/2 inning. American Fork scored a run in the bottom of the second, then pulled ahead 5-4 in the third. Timpanogos stayed closely behind American Fork, and the T-Pups tied the game at nine in the seventh's top half.
Lehi had a rough-time against Region Four leader Spanish Fork in games played April 28 and 30.
Lehi Coach Pat Gleave said, "We played really good at Spanish Fork, but we made a couple of costly errors that permitted them to make some runs. In the game at our place, we didn't really good. We had only one run. Tanner Martin scored it for us in the first inning. We made lots of errors in the second game, allowing Spanish Fork to beat us 12-1 in five innings."
In the April 28 game, Adam Duke had a gay old time striking out seven Lehi batters. Duke's ptiching permitted the Dons to win 7-1.
Adam and Brock Duke hit a three-run double and a home run in the April 30 game. It saw Jordy Hart hit a double for Lehi.
Six Local Tracksters Place at BYU Invitational
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
Six northern Utah County tracksters placed at the BYU Invitational May 2.
In the boys' 3,200-meter run, Lone Peak's Steve Morrin finished third and American Fork's Austin West fifth. Lehi's Jake Brydson took eighth in the boys' 200-meter dash.
Lone Peak's Cody Jacob flung himself to a sixth-place finish in the boys' discus. Ferocious Pleasant Grove Viking Levi Williams took second in the boys' 110-meter high hurdles and fourth in the boys' 300-meter hurdles. Cody Jacobs of Lone Peak took fourth in the boys' discus.
Publisher's Column
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly
Thinking Things Through First Often Pays in the Long Run
Two years ago, American Fork Cavewoman Hayley Holmstead came out of the Lehi Pioneers' gym crying. No, her team didn't lose to the Pioneers. In fact, the Cavewomen won by a double-digit margin.
The reason she cried was that she had an off-night. Although she would usually score in double figures in her games, Hayley didn't set the nets ablaze in that game. In fact, the Pioneers held her to four points.
In front of me, she told her mother, Sondra, "Mom, I sucked tonight. I don't think I should play anymore. I'm going to quit."
Sondra said, "You just had a bad game. That's all."
"No, I'm not good on the court anymore. I'm going to quit."
In a soft voice, I said, "Hayley, think it through first before you do it."
I walked away, thinking Hayley might not listen to me either. On the following Tuesday, I showed early for a Cavewoman basketball game, and I saw Hayley, dressed in her game uniform, taking practice shots. Later on that night, she scored in double figures to lead her team to a victory over the Hillcrest Huskies, AKA Puppies. Soon after that game, Hayley gave me a hug after I had interviewed her coach, Corey Clayton.
Through the next two years, I didn't think what the end result of my giving Hayley that piece of unwanted advice would be. That end result was Hayley getting named as the Salt Lake Tribune's
Most Valuable Player for the All-State 5-A girls' basketball team. That shows what can happen when a person doesn't throw in the proverbial towel.
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