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Highland • In the finale of a three-game series featuring two of the top teams in 5A Region 4, American Fork completed a sweep of Lone Peak with a 16-11 win Friday evening.

The Cavemen opened a 3-0 lead in the top of the first and never looked back, adding at least one run in every subsequent inning — including six in the fifth and three in the seventh.

"Guys had good approaches," American Fork coach Jared Ingersoll said. "It's a credit to the kids and everything they've been working on in practice, and it was able to come forth out on the field."

Less than a week removed from an MCL strain, Trell Morse took the mound for the Cavemen and pitched 4 1/3 solid innings. The southpaw limited the Knights to five hits, struck out two and exited having allowed only two earned runs.

"I felt really good," Morse said. "I was really confident up there because my defense behind me has been solid all year, and so I just knew I had to throw strikes and I'd be fine."

Lone Peak pulled within two runs in the bottom of the third thanks to RBI singles from Payton Freeman and Payton Barney, but American Fork was unrelenting at the plate en route to 15 hits and matching a team season high for runs.

Buster Hardman, Mick Madsen and Colton Carpenter each had three hits and combined for eight RBIs. The Cavemen also stole four bases as a team during the first four innings.

"I hope we're hitting our stride," Ingersoll said. "There's still a tournament at the end of the year that determines the winner, but we don't want to peak too early. We don't want to be flat; we want to play high-energy baseball and these kids have done that."

American Fork (17-5, 12-3) now sits atop Region 4 and concludes the regular season with a three-game series against Riverton next week.

"We're starting to play with a lot of confidence, we're starting to come together and it's the right time to come together," Morse said.