April 6, 2010
Publisher's Message
For this week's issue, we look at how Lehi fared in soccer, baseball, and softball. We also have as our cover story, the Awesome American Fork Caveman varsity baseball team's big win against the Fremont Silver Wolves, AKA the Silverpups. Let's get right to those stories.
Dean Von Memmott
Publisher
deanmemmott@hotmail.com
Lehi Kickers Take Down Timpanogos T-Pups 2-1 in March 25 Thriller
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Lehi Pioneer soccer team stayed unbeaten at home March 25 as it defeated the Timpanogos Timberwolves, AKA the T-Pups, 2-1.
Lehi's Spencer Gray scored the game's first goal in the second half minutes into the contest. Lehi Coach Steve McMurdie said, "It was tied 0-0 at halftime. Shortly after Spencer's goal, we made a defensive mistake that allowed them to score a goal."
T-Pup Cam Oldroyd scored the tying goal. Lehi's Iam Ramos scored the tie-breaking goal to keep Lehi unbeaten at home.
The game turned out to be last win that Mcmurdie would post as Lehi's head coach. On Monday March 29, he resigned. The Lehi administration has named Jim Prisendorf as Lehi's new head coach for the rest of this season.
Payson Kitties Spring Past Lehi Girls' Softball Team 3-1 n March 22 Action
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
AKA the Kitties, the Payson Lions sprung past the Lehi Pioneers 3-1 in a non-league softball game at Lehi March 22.
In the top of the first, Kitty Tasha Roberts slugged a two-run single off pitcher Ariel Zimmerman. The Lehi pitcher didn't let the Kitties make any more runs until Vanessa Vigill hit a one-run single off her in the top of the third. Lehi's only run occurred during the first four innings. The toughness of the Kitty defense made the afternoon a frustrating experience for Lehi batters like Bree McBride, who managed to whack a seventh-inning single, only to get nailed in a fielder's choice play at second.
Snowy weather forced Lehi to cancel games against the Springville Reds, AKA the Hellions, and the Orem Tigers, alias the Tiggers. Lehi is taking time off from game action until after this week's spring break.
Howlin' Fremont Silver Pups Get 'Dunn' In By Awesome AF Cavebatters 13-1 in March 27 Play
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
In a non-league baseball game in Plain City March 27, the Awesome American Fork Cavemen had the Fremont Silver Wolves, AKA the Howlin' Silver Pups, get Dunn 13-1 in by a pitcher who gave up only two hits during the five-inning contest.
Pitcher Colt Dunn held the Silver Pups hitless until the fourth inning when Fremont's Tayson Wilson and Jason Lema each hit a single off him. By then, however, Fremont was already a lost one.
Swiss movie actress Ursula Andrus' "distant cousin" Scotty Andrus helped to make sure that Silver Pups were doomed during the top of the second. Now the game had opened with Awesome Caveman Kyle Hall doubling off pitcher Ozzie Kelly. However, the Silver Pup defense kept that American Fork player stranded at second. After Dunn didn't let a single Silver Pup get on base in the first inning, the Cavemen loaded the bases through singles from Ty Flinders, Jeremey Reynolds, and Ryan Draper in the top of the second. The fourth Caveman to bat that inning, Andrus hit a grand slam that started a nine-run rally. As the Silver Pup defense fell to pieces, Ryan Draper hit a two-run single that set the stage for the game ending early.
Andrus said, "I was just hoping to get the ball into a hole somewhere in the outfield, but it became caught in the wind, which carried it over the fence."
In the third inning's top half, Flinders singled in Taison Smith and Ryan Pitcher. Short stop Pitcher turned a double play that crippled Fremont in the bottom of the third. Hitting a right-field single in the top of the fourth, Draper soon scored on an error at first.
After joining Lema in slugging a fourth-inning single, Wilson scored Fremont's only run while the Awesome Cavemen clugged the Silver Pups with another double play.
Fremont held the Cavemen scoreless in the fifth inning. The Silver Pups' last chance for coming back collapsed when Dunn struck out Kelly to end the game.
American Fork acting head coach Jay Holmstead said, "The fielders on our team executed well on defense, and Scotty's grand slam gave us a lot of momentum. Fremont made a lot of errors that we took advantage of. Dunn threw well today. This was his best performance this season."
Lehi Post Profitable Win at Home Against Timpview Millionaires
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Lehi Pioneers reaped a profitable win at home against the Timpview Thunderbirds, AKA the Millionaires, March 25. Lehi flooded away the visiting team by a score of 11-0 during the five-inning contest.
Lehi Coach Jason Flinders said, "We posted 10 runs in the third inning. T.J. Russon hit a two-run homer for us, and Palmer Page hit a solo homer for us. Kaden Longman, our pitcher, threw a one-hitter for us."
The win left Lehi with a 4-1 season record.
Timpanogos T-Pups Howl Past Lehi 5-2 in Region 7 Baseball Contest
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Timpanogos Timberwolves, AKA the T-Pups, howled past the Lehi Pioneers 5-2 in a Region Seven baseball game at Lehi March 30.
The Pioneers battled the T-Pups to a 0-0 tie in the first inning. During the second inning, however, Timpanogos Coach Kim Nelson said, "We had a couple of bunts that allowed us to load the bases. J.D. Ashman knocked in a couple of runs to get us going."
Jason Fullmer scored the third T-Pup run in the second. Lehi pitcher Bronson Anderson didn't let the T-Pups pick up additional runs until the sixth.
In the meantime, Lehi's T.R. Russon hit a solo homer in the bottom of the third.
On one out in the top of the sixth, T-Pup Tyler Hamilton tripled into center. Getting on base through a walk, Scooter Nelson led off from first to distract the Pioneers long enough for Hamilton to score a run. Soon afterwards, Fowler hit a one-run triple to end T-Pup scoring for the night.
In the bottom of the sixth, Russon slugged a center-field single, but the T-Pups pinched soon him in a fielder's choice play at second. Rem Worthen hit a one-run single that gave Lehi a chance for at least tying the game. The Pioneers would have done that, had centerfielder Ashman not picked off at the fence a Trevor Jeppson fly ball that would have otherwise landed outside the ballpark. Nelson said, "When you a big play like that from J.D., that says a lot of his experience as a varsity player."
Lehi Coach Aaron Flinders said, "We played really well, but they made a couple of plays that made it possible for them to win like that sixth-inning catch at the center-field fence. J.D. Ashman took a tying home run away from us when he made that catch at the fence in the sixth. Bronson Anderson kept us in the game."
Lehi avenged its heartbreaking loss by winning on the T-Pups' home field April 1.
Lehi Kickers Suffer First League Loss at Paws of Mountain View T-Bears April 1.
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Lehi Pioneer boys' soccer team suffered its first Region Seven, courtesy of the Mountain View Bruins, AKA the T-Bears and Teddy Bears, in a game played on Lehi's football field April 1. The Teddy Bears defeated Lehi 1-0.
The Pioneers and Teddy Bears played an extremely tight contest in freezing, nighttime temperatures. With the stadium's lights shining on him, T-Bear Sam Hickman scored the night's only goal on a corner kick made Andy Woolley. The second Hickman received the kick, he headed the ball into the goal net during the contest's 20th minute. That successful shot spoiled what was an otherwise terrific performance by Lehi's Riley Anderson.
Hickman's goal didn't take the fight out of Lehi. The Pioneers' new head coach, Jim Prisendorf said, "Our guys had a no-quit attitude tonight. They didn't let themselves get intimidated by Mountain View's being the defending state champion. Though we were missing four starters, our boys kept hanging in there. We have to applaud them for that. Until someone knocks Mountain View off, we're now the second-best in the state.
"Tonight,. we lost Dillon Straw for the rest of the season. A leg injury had kept him from playing for most of this season. The doctor gave him an okay to play for five minutes tonight. However, his leg got hurt really bad. We feel really bad for him, because he's a senior. "
During both halves of the contest, Spencer Gray, Austin Tuckett, and Josh Beatty led fierce Lehi attacks into T-Bear territory. Teddy Bears like Connor Salmon and Jose Sisneroes offered the Pioneers so much resistance that Lehi couldn't find any good spots where they would be able to make kicks that would send the ball flying into the goal net."
Awesome AF Cavebatters Outlast Copper Hills Cubbies 6-5 in Non-League Baseball Game April 3
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Awesome American Fork Cavemen defeated the Copper Hills Grizzlies, AKA the Cubbies, 6-5 in a non-league game at American Fork April 3.
The bragging-rights game lasted eight innings, before the Awesome Cavemen finally pulled it out through hitting from Kyle Hall in the eighth's lower half.
American Fork Coach Jarod Ingersoll said, "We executed just much better than we did at Jordan last Tuesday. We had great pitching for Taylor Tonks, Colt Dunn, Aaron Hill, and Ben Beddes. We made some great plays for grounders like the oone that Jack Blackhurst made that turned the game around for us in the sixth."
During the first two innings, Tonks held the Cubbies scores. Meanwhile, American Fork got a first-single from Ty Flinders and a second-inning double from Scotty Andrus, a "distant cousin" of movie actress Ursula Andrus. However, Copper Hills pitcher Flame Thrower Evans kept the Cavemen scoreless during the game's first four innings.
In the top of the third, singles from Tony Petersen and Colton Clayson permitted the Cubbies to load the bases. Zach Watts' sacrfice groundout scored Collin Kuehn. Soon, a Jake "Captain" Morgan single hit Tonks in a leg, causng the Caveman pitcher to be taken out of the game.
Dunn took over at the mound, but Clayson still came home on a passed ball. Dunn and Aaron Hill, a "cousin" of TV's Hank Hill, held the Grizzlies scoreless during the fourth and fifth innings.
The sixth opened with Morgan slugging a two-run single that stretched Copper Hills' lead to 5-1. American Fork caught up with the Cubbies in the bottom of the sixth. Andrus scored a run on an error that touched off a four-run rally for American Fork. During the comeback, Blackhurst singled in a run, and sometime later, the Cavemen loaded the bases on two outs after Flinders had doubled in a run. A Hall walked scored the tying walk, forcing the game into an eighth inning.
The combined pitching of Hill and Beddes shut Copper Hills down in both the seventh and eight innings. In the bottom of the eighth, Zach Robinson singled into left, and Hall batted him in for the winning run.
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