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Bear River wins, but Ridgeline, Green Canyon and Mountain Crest falter in 4A baseball playoffs Tuesday – Cache Valley Daily

Bear River Bears baseball. Photo by Clint Allen. PROVO – The Bear River Bears survived an up and down contest to get the day started in the 4A baseball playoffs at Larry H. Miller Field at Brigham Young University on Tuesday. #8 Bear River outlasted #5 Desert Hills 11-10 in an up and down game in the consolation bracket. With the win, they will play Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Utah Valley University against fellow Region 11 foe Mountain Crest. #6 Ridgeline has struggled to get runners on base and across home plate, while also stopping their opponents from doing the same. On Monday, Ridgeline lost 10-1 vs. Dixie and Tuesday wasn’t much better. The Riverhawks lost 8-1 vs #2 Crimson Cliffs, meaning Ridgeline is officially eliminated from the playoffs. Later in the day, #7 Green Canyon suffered a similar 8-1 loss to #3 Dixie. But the Wolves were not eliminated from contention. They will face the team who took out the Riverhawks – Crimson Cliffs – at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the consolation bracket at Utah Valley University in Orem. The night cap featured #4 Mountain Crest vs #1 Snow Canyon. The Warriors needed a walk off home run

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Mountain Crest and Green Canyon remain in baseball winner’s bracket; Bear River and Ridgeline not out yet – Cache Valley Daily

Green Canyon baseball. Photo by Sean Greene. PROVO – In the opening round of Bracket Play of the 4A baseball playoffs at Brigham Young University, #4 Mountain Crest began the day with a 5-1 victory over #5 Desert Hills. The #8 Bear River Bears held a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the 7th inning before a two run walk off home run by #1 Snow Canyon propelled the Warriors to a 3-2 win. #7 Green Canyon pulled off an upset with a 5-1 victory over #2 Crimson Cliffs. In the nightcap, the #3 Dixie Flyers got the best of #6 Ridgeline 10-1. All teams will be back in action Tuesday, with Mountain Crest and Green Canyon advancing in the winner’s bracket. But since it is a double elimination tournament, Bear River and Ridgeline are not out of it yet. Monday Scores:#4 Mountain Crest 5#5 Desert Hills 1 #1 Snow Canyon 3#8 Bear River 2 #7 Green Canyon 5#2 Crimson Cliffs 1 #3 Dixie 10#6 Ridgeline 1 Tuesday Schedule:#8 Bear River vs #5 Desert Hills at 12:30 p.m. (with play-by-coverage on 104.9 The Ranch in Box Elder County). #6 Ridgeline vs #2 Crimson Cliffs at 3 p.m. (with play-by-coverage on

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Putting Utah State’s football transfer attrition in context – Cache Valley Daily

Photo by Lorene Hale LOGAN – The spring transfer portal window has finally closed, stopping the hemorrhaging of Utah State’s roster, particularly on defense. The final tally sits at 35 players (that are known of) and that high tally has been the primary talking point of USU’s offseason, leading to questions being asked of head coach Blake Anderson and overshadowing some of the positives the team has produced so far this offseason. Though the volume of transfers is alarming on its face, context is always key. When asked about his team’s transfers, Anderson stated multiple times in his answer that, “this is not a Logan problem, this is an NCAA football problem.” So let’s look at the numbers and see how well that claim holds up. Just looking at the volume of transfers and you can easily see Anderson’s point. Transfer numbers have risen dramatically since the inception of the transfer portal in 2018. In that first cycle there were 1,717 transfer according to data provided by the NCAA. In this last cycle the estimated number (which we’ll get into below) is roughly double that. *2022-23 number is an estimation while the other years have data provided by NCAA reports

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Bracket Play resumes for RL, BR, MC, and SV in 4A softball playoffs

LOGAN – The opening round of the playoffs are done and multiple Region 11 teams are advancing to Bracket Play in the 4A softball playoffs. In the Super Regionals, all of the higher-seeded Region 11 teams won their best-of-three series. The Mountain Crest Mustangs required three games to get past Hurricane, but all other Region 11 teams got their series wrapped up in two games. Double elimination Bracket Play gets underway May 17-18 at the Cottonwood Softball Complex located at 4400 South 1300 East in Millcreek, with brackets now re-seeded after the Super Regionals. Multiple games will begin Wednesday at 12 noon, including #1 Ridgeline facing #8 Mountain Crest on Field 2. #2 Bear River takes on #7 Cedar at 12 p.m. on Field 4. And #6 Sky View takes on #3 Desert Hills on Field 3, also at 12 p.m. Because of their end-of-season RPI rankings as the #1 and #2 teams in softball, neither Ridgeline nor Bear River needed to participate in Super Regionals last week. In the First Bracket, the winner of the Ridgeline vs Mountain Crest game will face the winner of #4 Snow Canyon vs #5 Crimson Cliffs at 2:30 p.m. on Field 2 that

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Bouanga sparks LAFC to 3-0 victory over Real Salt Lake

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Dénis Bouanga scored his league-leading ninth goal of the season to lead Los Angeles FC to a 3-0 victory over Real Salt Lake on Saturday night. LAFC (6-1-3) beat Real Salt Lake (3-6-2) for a seventh straight time and improved to 11-1-0 in the series. Kwadwo Opoku picked up his first goal — with an assist from Ilie Sánchez — since scoring in the season opener to stake LAFC to a 1-0 lead in the 8th minute. Bouanga stretched the lead to 2–0 when he took a pass from Carlos Vela and scored in the 35th minute. Mateusz Bogusz subbed in for Vela in the 80th minute and scored on a penalty kick in the 87th to complete the scoring. John McCarthy finished with five saves to earn the clean sheet for LAFC. Zac MacMatch saved one shot for Real Salt Lake. LAFC earned a road win for just the third time in its last 12 tries. LAFC moved past expansion St. Louis City and into second place in the Western Conference with the victory, two points behind the Seattle Sounders. Real Salt Lake was coming off back-to-back scoreless draws and was unbeaten in its last

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Logan Hammer, Brennan Benson claim titles on last day of MW Outdoor Championships – Cache Valley Daily

CLOVIS, California — Logan Hammer and Brennan Benson provided the highlights for Utah State track & field on the final day of the Mountain West Outdoor Championships, claiming the first individual titles for USU since 2019. In the team standings, the Aggie men held on for a fifth-place finish with 73 points, while the women finished eighth with 50.5 points. USU’s titles came in rapid succession. After clearing three previous heights, Hammer cleared 5.25 meters (17-2.75) on his second attempt, which proved to be enough to claim the MW pole vault championship over last year’s champion and runner-up, Colorado State’s Eldridge Harris and Air Force’s Caiden Macktinger, respectively. Hammer’s mark ranks fourth all-time at Utah State and ranks fifth nationally among freshmen. Also in the pole vault, sophomore Robbie Walker placed sixth with a mark of 4.65 meters (15-3). “Just to clear that bar has been a relief because I’ve been chasing that bar all season,” Hammer said. “Chasing 17 feet, through the ups and the downs. I thought about my mom. She told me today, ‘I don’t want anything for Mother’s Day except for a PR.’ So to give her that PR, not only one PR but two, and

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4A baseball playoffs move to Bracket Play with MC, RL, GC and BR heading to BYU – Cache Valley Daily

LOGAN – The opening round of the playoffs are done and multiple Region 11 teams are advancing to Bracket Play in both baseball and softball. In the Super Regionals of the baseball tournament, all of the higher-seeded Region 11 teams won their best-of-three series (without needing a third game). In fact, only one series required three games to be played and that was #5 Desert Hills needing three games to get past #12 Cedar. Double elimination Bracket Play gets underway May 15-16 at BYU. The first game of the day on Monday will feature #4 Mountain Crest vs #5 Desert Hills at 12:30 p.m. followed by #8 Bear River taking on #1 Snow Canyon at 3 p.m. The winners of these two games will face each other at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16; the losers of those games will have a much shorter turn around and will play each other at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. #7 Green Canyon will face #2 Crimson Cliffs at 5:30 p.m. and then #6 Ridgeline is scheduled to face #3 Dixie at 8 p.m. Teams which win in these later games will face each other at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, while those who lose

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Bear River and Sky View take top spots in final lacrosse RPI rankings – Cache Valley Daily

LOGAN – Dominating seasons for the Sky View boys and Bear River girls lacrosse teams yielded top overall positions in the final RPI rankings of the season released by the Utah High School Activities Association. Both the Bobcats (18-1) and the Bears (14-1) only lost one game the entire season. Since the Logan boys team was disqualified after forfeiting multiple games in 4A, only eight teams advance to the playoffs. For girls lacrosse, the Bears earn a first round bye with nine teams participating and will face the winner of the play-in game between Logan and Judge Memorial. Final 4A Boys Lacrosse RPI Rankings1-Sky View (18-1)2-Ridgeline (20-7)3-Juan Diego Catholic (9-6)4-Bear River (9-7)5-Judge Memorial Catholic (8-7)6-Green Canyon (8-11)7-Waterford (4-6)8-Mountain Crest (6-12) The first round of the 4A boys lacrosse playoffs will take place on Saturday, May 20th at home sites. All start times are tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m., though both Sky View and Bear River have both their boys and girls teams hosting first round games. Their start times are likely to change. #1 Sky View will host #8 Mountain Crest in a Region 11 rematch; #2 Ridgeline will host #7 Waterford; #6 Green Canyon will travel to #3 Juan

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PHOTO GALLERY: Sky View 11, Dixie 1 in game 2 of 4A softball playoffs

Photos by Clint Allen / Additional information about Clint’s work (or inquiries about purchasing his photos) can be found at clintallen.smugmug.com. Photo Gallery sponsored by The Logo Shop, your source for teams, businesses and booster clubs. Visit http://welogostuff.mypromohq.com/ Click on photo to enlarge it, then use your left-right arrow keys to cycle through the gallery Source link

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PHOTO GALLERY: Mountain Crest 13, Ridgeline 6 in girls lacrosse

Photos by Robert K. Scott / Additional information about Robert’s work (or inquiries about purchasing his photos) can be found at rscott.smugmug.com. Photo Gallery sponsored by The Logo Shop, your source for teams, businesses and booster clubs.  http://welogostuff.mypromohq.com/ Click on photo to enlarge it, then use your left-right arrow keys to cycle through the gallery Source link

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