Timp Sports Weekly
May 28, 2013
Publisher's Message
For this week's issue, we look at the Awesome American Fork Cavemen's performance in 16-Under Age Division games of the annual Memorial Day Invitational, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain School of Baseball. We will look at two particular games that the Awesome Cavemen played on their home diamond May 25. As they say in baseball, let's take a swing at the accounts of those contests.
Dean Von Memmott
Publisher
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Awesome AF Cavemen Outlast Vicious Viewmont Vikings 13-12 in May 25 Baseball Thriller
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
On their home field May 25, the Awesome American Fork Cavemen survived a close contest during a third game of play for the 16-Under Age Division of the Memorial Day Invitational, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain School of Baseball. In that third game, American Fork staved off the Vicious Viewmont Vikings 13-12 to maintain a unbeaten pool play record of 3-0.
In pool play over in Heber City May 24, the Awesome Cavemen had had swatted the Juab Sting 7-1 and grounded the Weber County Red Gulls 18-0. The Red Gull game, for example, saw a great hitting performance by American Fork, especially in the fourth inning, when the Awesome Cavemen scored 10 runs to have the game called in the fifth. That same game saw Taylor Sabotka, Gunner Lamb, and Hagen Holmstead each club a double for the Awesome Cavemen.
In the Viewmont game Saturday morning, Jade "Sliver Blade" Fox hit two doubles and a single while going 3-4 at the plate for the Awesome Cavemen. Buster "Bunny" Hardman went 2-3 at the plate while scoring three runs for Ameriican Fork.
American Fork took a 4-0 lead in the top of the first, only to see the Vicious Vikings charge back to tie the game at four in the bottom of the second. The Awesome Cavemen picked up two third-inning runs to pull ahead 6-4. A fourth-inning run improved their lead at 7-4, but Viewmont rowed back within 7-6 in the bottom of the fourth.
During the fifth's top half, Hardman doubled in two runs on no outs. A Jace Iberra single moved Hardman to third. As Major Scotty Hughes hit into a double play, American Fork's rally seemed to be short-lived. However, the Awesome Cavemen picked up three more runs, and they kept their 11-6 lead intact while they kept the Vicious Vikings from capitalizing on Stockton "Stock" Oviatt's right-single hit in the bottom of the fifth.
Getting on base on a sixth-inning walk, Lamb scored a run on a Gardner sacrifice fly. Holmstead singled in Ryan "Mountain Lion" Thompson, improving the Awesome Caveman lead at 13-6. The Awesome Cavemen found out in the bottom of the sixth how much more they needed to do to wrap the game up.
On no outs, Ashton "The Organ" Hammond doubled in Devin Tanner, and then came home on a Scotty "Oh So" Young single, fueling a six-run rally. It climaxed with Oviatt's two-run single that put the Vicious Vikings within 13-12. The rally suddenly stopped the moment Tanner struck out.
The close call in the Viewmont game served as a warning to the Awesome Cavemen that their 3-0 pool record shouldn't be taken as a sign that they were invincible in the tournament. The Riverton Silverwolves, AKA the Silverpups, would make that all the more clear during American Fork's pool game, played in the afternoon of the 25th.
Riverton Silverpups Defeat Awesome AF Cavebatters 5-4 in Memorial Day Invitational Game May 25
By Dean Von Memmott
Timp Sports Weekly Publisher
The Awesome American Fork Cavemen's unbeaten streak of pool wins ended on the afternoon of May 25 when the Riverton Silverwolves, AKA the Silverpups, outlasted them 5-4 in a fourth-round game of the Memorial Day Invitational, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain School of Baseball.
The game was one of the most nail-biting contests of the invitational's 16-Under Age Division showdowns May 25.
American Fork pitcher Buster "Rabbit" Hardman opened the game by striking out Brayden Morrill. Mason Warr and Keaton "Big Kim" Kimball each singled off the pitcher, giving the Silverpups ideas that their team would get on the board first. However, after Warr got thrown out in a fielder's choice play at second, Mallo Landon grounded out before Riverton could score a run.
Pitcher Caden Brown didn't let a single Awesome Cavemen get on base during the bottom of the first. The next inning, though, a Scotty Hughes single enabled American Fork to load the bases on one out. After Brown struck out Mikey Hugely, Gunner Lamb chopped a two-run double to put American Fork on the first.
American Fork stayed ahead 2-0 until the top of the fourth. (American Fork had hoped that Hagen Holmstead's third-inning double would enable it to extend its lead, but he got picked off at second before the Awesome Cavemen could get a rally going.) A "distant cousin" of Hollywood actress Megan Fox, Jade Fox replaced Hardman at the mound in Inning 4. The Silverpups played the pitching change to their advantage. Doubling into left, Warr soon stole home, and Austin "Bango-Pango" hit a one-run single that set off a five-run rally, highlighted by Caden "Tail Gunner" Brown's one-run triple.
American Fork held the Silverpups scoreless in the fifth and sixth innings, but the Awesome Cavemen still had trouble with trying to recover from the fourth inning. In the bottom of the sixth, Fox came home on a Hughes sacrifice fly. Having gotten on base through a walk, Hardman stole home. Kasten Rasmussen attempted to keep the rally going by singling into left. He then stole second while narrowly evading a squeeze play. Rasmussen's thrilling escape couldn't save the Awesome Cavemen, for Taylor Sabotka struck out, ending the game.
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