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Orem • In the Class 4A quarterfinals, Salem Hills put Timpanogos out to pasture with 17 hits in a 15-2 landslide victory at Brent Brown Ballpark on Wednesday morning.

"I think it was spread out between all nine guys. It seems to me that everybody in the lineup got at least one hit," said Salem Hills coach Scott Haney. "If we do that, put pressure on the other team, I like our chances. But Thursday is another day, right?"

Salem Hills (25-3) scheduled a date with region foe Spanish Fork (13-12) — which also won convincing by double digits in its quarterfinal game against Mountain Crest — in the semifinals at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The two programs split the regular-season series.

"It's going to be nice to play them on a beautiful day. The week we played each other, nobody should have been playing baseball," Haney said. "It's going to be a fun game. They hit the heck out of the ball [on Tuesday], we hit the heck the out of the ball today. We'll see what happens."

Salem Hills scored in the top of the first late into Tuesday night before the game was postponed. The delay didn't stumble the offense in the slightest. Lakota Centeno and Tyler Bennett ballooned the lead to 3-0 in the second with a single and a double, respectively.

Bennett added a sacrifice-fly RBI in the fourth before Cooper Smith belted a three-run homer to cushion the advantage to 7-0. The Skyhawks faced five different Timpanogos (20-8) pitchers, none of whom could find the antidote to stop the onslaught.

After the Timberwolves tacked on two runs in the fifth, Easton Tallon, Jesse Rowley, and Centeno collectively brought home three more runs in the ensuing frame.

"Two things that are probably more important than anything in our program is to score first, and then, even more important that, is to answer back," Haney explained. "They got two runs; we came back and got three. It's just demoralizing. Those are our two main focuses."

Jen Higginson, Tanner Hamblin, and Colton Lundell continued the bleeding in the seventh with three more run-scoring efforts.

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Salem Hills 15, Timpanogos 2

R Salem Hills racks up 17 hits by 10 players in the win.

• Porter Gustin strikes out four batters in five innings on the mound for the Skyhawks.

• Easton Tallon and Cooper Smith drive in seven runs collectively.