Froggie-Loner Rivalry

Timp Sports Weeklly

October 26, 2012

Publisher's Message

For this week's issue, we look at a volleyball match and a football game that the Lehi Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, hosted against the Lone Peak Knights, AKA the Loners. The Froggie-Loner rivalry is only 15 years old, but it has grown to be as fierce as the one that the Froggies have shared with my Awesome American Fork Cavemen and Cavewomen for four generations. The Loners look upon the Froggies as hicks. The Froggies, meanwhile, consider the Loners to be rich, spoiled teenagers. Anyhow, when these two schools play each, the action of their games can be, as they say in Lehi, quite ribbiting. Also in this same issue, we will look at a volleyball match that Froggies played on the Awesome Cavewomen's home court. As they say in Lehi, let's hop straight to those stories.

Dean Von Memmott

Publisher

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Lone Peak Loners Drain Lehi 31-8 in Region Four Football Action Oct. 17

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

The Lone Peak Knights, AKA the Loners, galloped into Lehi Oct. 17 and posted a 31-8 win against the Lehi Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, in Region Four football action.

The game marked the last time that the Froggies would be playing on their home field this year. The first half saw them play a close game against the Loners, even though Lone Peak shoved the ball down the Froggies' throats down the game's first drive.

Quarterbacked by Baron "The Galloping Pole" Gajkowski, the Loners began their first drive of the night from their 20-yard line. Long carries by running back Talon "Alf" Shumway propelled the Loners into the Froggie 10-yard zone three minutes into the game. Gajkowski scored the touchdown, and Mikey Smith booted in an extra point. The Froggie defense and the referees didn't let the Loners make any more touchdowns that quarter. Late in it, Loner Dusty Watkins rushed 37 yards into the Froggie end zone, only to see his touchdown get canceled by a Loner penalty. It led to the Loners to gamble on a field goal try that sent the ball flying into the left arm of the Lehi goal post and bouncing off.

Taking over the ball on the Lehi 20-yard line, the Froggies began successful drive. Quarterbacked by Clayton Greenwood, their offense took long hops up the field, thanks to carries made by Ryan Absher, Folo "Buba" Ulukivaiola, and Derek Hastings. The march continued into the second quarter. At 10:44, Ulukivaiola scored a touchdown, and he then made a two-point conversion that gave Lehi an 8-7 lead. It gave Lehi fans reason to expect that after the game, they would be croaking about their Froggies finally besting the Loners.

That touchdown ironically motivated the Loners to take the Froggies seriously. Not wanting to experience humiliating losses to Lehi like the Awesome Cavemen had done in the past 15 years, the Loners began a fierce drive from their 27-yard line. After picking up five yards on a dash to the Loner 32-yard line, Gajkowski passed 68 yards to Shumway for a go-ahead touchdown. Smith kicked in an extra point.

Paced by rushes made by Absher, the Froggies marched from their 14-yard line to the Loner 35-yard. There, Loner defensive end Dallin Rogers sacked Greenwood, stopping the Froggie march. Before the Loners could score another touchdown in the first half, Froggie linebacker Zach Trapp sacked Gajkowski.

All throughout the second half, the Loner defense kept the Froggies from getting inside Lone Peak's 10-yard zone. Meanwhile, the Loners turned the game into a rout during the third period. After Lone Peak had smothered the Froggies' first march of the second half, Shumway raced 22 yards to the Froggie 44-yard line. Making a total off 44-yards on two straight keeper plays, Gajkowski scored a touchdown, capped by Smith's third straight PAT kick. Smith kicked a field goal late in the third quarter, and the Loners scored another touchdown, which their kicker frosted with his fourth straight PAT for the night. No more scoring occurred after the fourth quarter.

LP Loner Spikers Deck Lehi in 3-Game Match Oct. 16

By Dean Von Memmott

Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

The Lehi Pioneers' volleyball team ended its home season with an Oct. 16 loss during a three-game match against the Lone Peak Knights, AKA the Loners. Lone Peak drained Lehi by scores of 25-18, 25-15, 25-18.

Loner Coach Deanna Meyer said, "We worked with more effect in containing BreElle Bailey. We made sure she could not try to intimidate us. We triple-teamed her. We forced Lehi to make mistakes that gave us the momentum."

The most famous of comic character Beetle Bailey's "distant cousins," Lehi's BreElle Bailey opened the first game by registering a kill. The Loners and Froggies battled to ties of 2-2, 4-4, and 7-7. Lehi soon hoped ahead 5-4, but a Froggie hitting error soon gave the Loners much momentum. Loner Sammy Meyer registered a kill that broke the 7-7 deadlock. Aided by a Makenna Santiago ace, the Loners maintained a narrow lead as they kept Bailey and fellow Froggie Hailee Rupp from doing much damage at the net. The daughter of Orem Tigger and BY Zoobie football legend Chad Lewis, Emily Lewis held her own against Bailey and Rupp at the net, especially during the next two games of the match.

After the Loners had triumphed in Game 1 on a double block, Lewis became destructive to the Froggies in the second game. Meyer and Lewis' combined hitting produced a 3-1 lead for the Loners. Through Bailey's hitting, the Froggies leaped back within 4-2, but Lewis and Kizzy Willey produced hits that produced a 10-2 lead for the Loners. Reesie Tua and Bailey guided the Froggies back within 15-9, but Lehi's Ashlee Robinson missed a key serve. It led to Brooklyn Langham registering a kill that gave the Loners the fuel they needed to charge away, despite some good serving from Lehi's Cydney Lund. A Courtney Grant block gave Lone Peak the game point in the second game.

In the third game, Bailey's hitting gave the Froggies a brief 5-2 lead. After a Robinson ace had put Lehi's lead at 5-2, Willey tipped the ball into a Froggie hole, stirring up a 5-2 scoring run for the Loners. After a Tua kill had tied the game at seven, Lehi missed a serve. Jaiden Acherman and Lewis registered kills that moved the Loners out to a 12-7 lead. Led by Lund, the Froggies battled back to tie the game at 12. The Loners pulled ahead 13-12 on a double block, and kills by Lewis and Willey kept them out in front for the rest of the game, despite strong efforts from Bailey and Rupp. Late in the game, hitting errors proved fatal to Lehi. The Loners won the match on a bad Froggie bump.

Willey led Lone Peak with 12 kills and Lewis posted another six and a block. Santiago and Raegan Lindsey each served four aces. Lindsey also made eight assists. Bailey led Lehi with nine kills.

Lehi Froggies Rebound With Road Win at American Fork Oct. 18
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher

The Lehi Pioneers, AKA the Froggies, demonstrated in a road match on the Awesome American Fork Cavewomen's home court Oct. 18 that they could hop back from defeat. After getting aced by the Lone Peak Knights, AKA the Loners, in a three-game match Oct. 16, the Croakers' volleyball team defeated American Fork 25-22, 29-27, 19-25, 25-16.

During both of the match's first two games, Awesome Cavewomen Elle Rosdahl, Kassidy Roberts, Morgan Evans, Kelsey "Miss Lethal" Letham, and Maddy "Colonel" Sanders guided American Fork in holding its own against the Froggies, led by Hailee Rupp, Kara Lord, and BreElle Bailey, a "distant cousin" of comic strip character Beetle Bailey and a very close relative of Christmas singer Thurl Bailey.

Both of the first two games stayed close all the way through. American Fork Coach Stephanie Hodgeman said, "I was proud that our girls stayed with them all trough both of the first two games and that we came back to win the third game. We didn't hold up in the fourth game, though."

Lehi Coach Jamie Ingersoll said, "I thought our offense operated much better tonight than it has done through much of this season. We ran our middles much better."

After having dropped the first two games, the Awesome Cavewomen managed to create a 19-11 lead in Game 3. Led by Bailey and Rupp, the Froggies jumped back to tie the game at 19. A Lehi service error gave the Awesome Cavewome a break. Roberts and Rosdahl gave American Fork enough muscle to pound its way into a fourth game.

In the final game, American Fork secured leads of 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2 through Aleesa "Tex" Pettitt's hitting. An American Fork hitting error tipped the momentum back to Lehi's favor. Lord delivered a series of serves that proved to be really tough for the Awesome Cavewomen. Through Bailey and Reesie Tua's hitting, the Froggies soon owned a 12-3 lead. Roberts and Rosdahl guided American Fork efforts at attempting to prevent Lehi from securing a 10-point lead. Once Lehi got up by 16-6 on a Tua kill, American Fork's situation became grim. Pettit's hitting helped the Awesome Cavewomen club their way within 22-16. A Bailey kill stopped them cold at that point, and Lehi soon hopped away with a 25-16 win.