5A Girls Quarterfinals: No. 1 PG handles Springville; Wasatch falls in OT to No. 3 West
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- Pleasant Grove’s Janiece Sikander (2) throws a pass to teammate Sutton Villa against Springville in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Siri Burgess (44) and Pleasant Grove’s Hattie Templeman compete for a loose ball in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Sutton Villa goes up for a shot against Springville in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove girls basketball coach Angela Villa reacts during a 5A state quarterfinal game against Springville at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Springville’s Halle Hall, right, dribbles around Pleasant Grove’s Zuri Nordstrom in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Zuri Nordstrom, sitting, is helped to her feet by teammate Tabi Clark after scoring a basket in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Tabi Clark (left) is fouled by Springville’s Hattie Templeman in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Zuri Nordstrom (0) goes up for a shot against Springville in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Springville’s Sami Dellamas (11) goes up for a shot against Pleasant Grove in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Pleasant Grove’s Cash Connors (23) grabs a rebound against Springville in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Springville’s Hattie Templeman (5) drives to the basket against Pleasant Grove in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Fili Liava’a of Wasatch (left) and West’s Tia Pan dive for a loose ball in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Mahala Speredon of Wasatch takes a shot against West’s Tiana Fa in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Mahala Speredon of Wasatch goes up for a shot against West in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- West’s Laite Latu (in white) lifts up Danielle Garner of Wasatch during a battle for a loose ball in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Maple Mountain’s Leah Bailey (right) dribbles to the basket against Bountiful’s Maleah Nelson in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Maple Mountain’s Autumn Jones (32) dribbles against Bountiful’s Malika Satuala in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Maple Mountain’s Ashlynn Lainhart (1) takes a 3-pointer against Bountiful in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
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- Maple Mountain’s Leah Bailey is defended by a pair of Bountiful players in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.
SALT LAKE CITY – It’s not giving away the game plan to say that Pleasant Grove wants to get the ball to 6-foot-6 sophomore Sutton Villa.
Everyone knows it.
They just can’t stop it.
And, the Vikings are really good at getting Villa the ball.
No. 1 Pleasant Grove established Villa early in Monday’s 55-41 6A quarterfinal victory against No. 9 seed Springville at the Huntsman Center and there wasn’t much the Red Devils could do to stop the Vikings pounding the ball inside.
“Good things happen when Sutton rolls to the basket,” said PG head coach Angela Villa. “And the thing is, she knows she can do it. If you’re going to play her that high or you’re going to push on her, it’s easy to get momentum. It’s a skill to pass the ball to someone 6-6 and the girls didn’t know coming in how to do it. It’s taken practice after practice, game after game.”
Villa turned in a dominating performance with 20 points, nine rebounds and seven blocks. When she rolled to the basket, her teammate found her nearly every time. Point guard Janiece Sikander finished with seven of her team’s 15 assists, almost all of them perfect feeds to Villa at the rim.
“We trust Sutton that she’s going to make her layups and she trusts us that we’ll get her the ball,” Sikander said. “She does a really good job rolling to the basket and looking to score. Our coaches tell us once we get the ball inside, our outside shots will fall, and that’s kind of what happened.”
Villa picked up a pair of early fouls and Springville stayed close, trailing just 12-11 after one quarter. Villa opened the second with back-to-back baskets and Zuri Nordstrom dropped in a 3-pointer, part of an 11-0 run that pushed PG in front 23-11 with 3:18 to play. The Vikings led 26-14 at halftime.
Hattie Templeman single-handedly tried to lift the Red Devils back into the game, scoring 13 of her team-high 19 points in the second half. She scored five quick points to bring Springville within seven, 26-19, but Springville could get no closer. Villa scored six points in the third and Pleasant Grove’s lead reached 17 at 43-26 on a basket from Tabi Clark.
It was 47-29 when Villa dropped in another power move early in the fourth and the Vikings coasted into Thursday’s semifinals.
Nordstrom finished with 11 points and Clark scored nine for Pleasant Grove, which stayed undefeated at 25-0.
The Vikings will play No. 4 Fremont, a 55-41 winner against No. 5 Alta in the quarterfinals.
“Let’s rest and recover,” Coach Villa said. “We’re excited for the semifinals. Tabi and my seniors have never been this far. They’re thrilled for it. We’re going to continue to do the things we do, which is utilize every asset that we have. We’re not just as inside game. We’re not just a tall team. We’ve got quickness, we’ve got speed, we’ve got maniacs on defense, we’ve got everything.”
It’s been a minute since Pleasant Grove has reached the state semifinals: Try 15 years ago (2011). The year before (2010), 6-foot-7 Jennifer Hamson led the program into the state finals against undefeated Syracuse. She scored 32 points in a 62-49 loss and went on to star in basketball and volleyball at BYU.
WEST 59, WASATCH 56
No. 6 Wasatch recovered from a slow start and made up a six-point deficit against No. 3 West in the final minute to force overtime, but missed a tying 3-pointer in the final seconds of the extra session.
Junior Mahala Speredon topped Wasatch (18-7) with 21 points and 12 rebounds. Fili Liava’a and Danielle Garner scored 10 points each.
University of Oregon commit Kylee Falatea led West (24-1) with 16 points, her four points and two assists accounting for all eight points the Panthers scored in overtime.
West jumped out to a 12-2 lead in the first quarter, getting nine points from Tiana Fa and led 16-8 heading into the second. Speredon scored twice down low to end the half and Wasatch closed to within three, 23-20, at the break.
The Panthers led 46-41 with 4:25 remaining on a 3-point play by Laite Latu but made just 6 of 12 from the foul line down the stretch, giving the Wasps an opening to close the gap. Anna Greenwell’s 3-pointer made the score 51-48 with 49.4 seconds to play and after a pair of West misses at the foul line, Liava’a drained a triple with 35.7 second showing to tie the game at 51.
West played for the last shot but Wasatch forced a late turnover. The ball went up ahead to Garner, who couldn’t covert on a contested drive to the basket as time expired.
In the overtime, Falatea got loose on a fast break and a made a pull-up jumper for a 55-51 lead. She also fed Latu for two baskets inside, the second with 19.1 seconds to play for the 59-56 lead that would hold up.
BOUNTIFUL 60, MAPLE MOUNTAIN 33
Milika Satuala poured in 28 points, leading No. 2 Bountiful (23-2) to a dominating victory against No. 10 Maple Mountain. The University of Utah commit also added nine rebounds, three assists and five steals.
Leahi Bailey topped the Golden Eagles with 19 points but her teammates struggled to find the mark offensively, finishing 6 of 32 (19%) from the field.
Bailey connected on a 3-pointer to beat the shot clock to open the second quarter, pulling Maple Mountain to within two, 13-11. But the Golden Eagles would go over seven minutes without a field goal and Bountiful pulled away. A triple from Satuala with 34 seconds left gave the Red Hawks a 27-12 halftime lead.
The second half was all Bountiful and Satuala, which saw their lead grow to as much as 26 points.
Maple Mountain finishes the season with a 16-10 mark and, according to the UHSAA archives, the state record in 3-pointer made. The Golden Eagles made 248 triples this season, which breaks the record set by Lone Peak in 2023.
Bailey totaled 103 3-pointers, second all-time according to the UHSAA. The record is held by Draper APA’s Aaliyah Baldwin, who made 107 in 2024.
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