Snow Canyon Warriors

Timp Sports Weekly

April 28, 2010

Publisher's Message

For this week's issue, we look at the Awesome American Fork Cavemen's April 24 baseball game against the Snow Canyon Warriors, AKA the Flakies. The game was the last non-league contest for the Cavemen this year. Let's get to that story.

Dean Von Memmott

Publisher

deanmemmott@hotmail.com

Awesome AF Cavebatters Come From Behind to Melt Snow Canyon Away 4-3

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

The Awesome American Fork Cavemen came from behind in an April 24 baseball game to win 4-3 at home over the Snow Canyon Warriors, AKA the Flakies.

Even though the game had no impact on the Awesome Cavemen's battle for the Region Four pennant, it still contained the kind of excitement seen in the two league games that American Fork had split with the Ferocious Pleasant Grove Vikings earlier last week.

American Fork Coach Jarod Ingersoll said, "We were a little flat offensively today. We were come down from the high of having beat PG at our place this past Thursday. We didn't show much aggressiveness at the bat until the last inning.

"We threw Josh Zitting, Taylor Tonks, Colton Dunn, and Aaron Hill. Our defense was great while our offense struggled."

During the first two innings, neither the Awesome Cavemen nor the Flakies could make any hits as the game evolved into a deadlocked pitching duel between Zitting and Riley "Don't Call Me Bill" Gates of Snow Canyon.

Finally, the bottom of the third opened with American Fork getting a single from Taison Smith, son of the Beautiful Angie Manning Smith, a former stat girl for ex-American Fork wrestling coach Tim "The Awesome Okie" Pontious. The Caveman stole around to third. He tried scoring a run, but catcher Kaleb Hurst, a nephew of former Major Leaguer Bruce Hurst, tagged Smith. Gates then struck out Ty Flinders to end the inning.

Hitting a single into center during the start of the fourth inning, Warrior Austin Larsen came home on a Gates single. Hurst doubled in Gates, then came  home on a Ryan Powell single. American Fork put the lid on Snow Canyon scoring at that point.

For the fifth, reliever Tonks held the Flakies scoreless. Dunn and Hill also didn't let Snow Canyon pick up an additional run in the sixth and seventh, even though the Flakies got a second double from Hurst in the sixth and a single from Tyler "Spearmint" Wrigley in the seventh.

Gates didn't let American Fork go anywhere with fifth-inning singles hit by Jake Blackhurst and Taison Smith. When Ryan Hall got stranded on base after having hit a single in the bottom of the sixth, the Awesome Cavemen looked as though they were going to be handed a shutout loss.

Tonks didn't let that happen. After the seventh's top half had ended with Devin Gubler striking out, Tonks opened the inning's lower half with a solo homer he hit on the left-field fence. Movie actress Ursusla Andrus' "distant cousin" Scotty Andrus singled into center, and Ryan Pitcher doubled him in, only to get forced out at third. An error by third baseman Xavier Fely led to the Cavemen loading the bases on two outs. Ty Flinder hit a two-run single to win the game for American Fork.

This week, American Fork will play the Hillcrest Huskies, AKA the Puppies, in a two-game series.