There’s a certain futility to playing defense against the Skyridge girls lacrosse team. The Falcons are so skilled and so potent, it’s almost unfair. Skyridge — the No. 1 seed in the Class 6A state tournament — has been tormenting opponents all season, scoring 397 goals in 20 ...
First of all, the Maple Mountain baseball team is enormous. Morning weight lifting sessions — and good genetics — have helped create one of the biggest, most physical rosters in the state that boasts eight players 200 pounds or more. At least 17 players are 6-feet tall or bigger. The ...
The magic continued for Skyridge as the No. 7 seeded Falcons defeated No. 2 Mountain Ridge 11-9 to open up the bracket play portion of the 6A state baseball tournament held at BYU’s Larry Miller Field on Monday. Skyridge barely survived its Super Regional. After losing the first game 5-0 in ...
Kambri Muir crossed the finish line several strides in front of the others, took a deep breath and looked at the scoreboard. As her time flashed across the screen, the weight of the moment came over her. She cried out in joy and fell to the ground. Months after suffering a serious ...
Despite placing first in just a single event at the three-day Utah state track and field meet at BYU, the Mountain View boys ran away with the 4A state championship. Their 105-point effort, enough to defeat second-place Orem by 22 points, came because the team collectively saved its best ...
Teams fraught with adverse circumstances can either have it negatively affect their play or use it to rise to the occasion, but seldom does it make no impact whatsoever. Fortunately for the Timpview boys tennis team, it was definitely the latter effect that came into play during its ...
It's not just one aspect that has provided Salem Hills' dominant play throughout this season, although one certain team strength was showcased in earnest during a 19-8 win over Wasatch on Friday. Sure, the Skyhawks again received a big boost from the pitching of senior Jo Norman, while ...
Pleasant Grove’s unbeaten season is no more, and it ended in the cruelest of ways. The Vikings lost Friday’s 5A boys soccer quarterfinal when Hillcrest sophomore Jeter Pugh took a free kick from about 20 yards away in the second overtime and put it in the upper 90 of the net — a ...
Things were seemingly under control for No. 2 seed Maple Mountain to sweep fellow Region 7 rival and No. 15 seed Salem Hills Thursday to advance out of the Super Regionals to the bracketed portion of the 5A state baseball tourney. Locked in a pitcher’s duel, Maple Mountain (hosting the ...
Regions may realign yet rivalries still remain, and that was certainly the case when No. 10 Skyridge squared off versus No. 7 Westlake during regional action on Thursday. For years the two teams resided within the same region, forging a type of rivalry that made the Falcon's 11-8 win perhaps ...
