LEFT – Logan girls soccer forward Mia Lopez | RIGHT – Green Canyon football quarterback Payton Wilson Mia Lopez and Payton Wilson have been named this week’s Cache Valley Media Group Prep Players of the Week, presented by McDonalds. Lopez, a forward for the Logan girls soccer team, is the girls player of the week with Payton Wilson, quarterback of Green Canyon’s football team, being named the boys player of the week. Lopez recorded a hat trick in the Grizzlies’ 3-2 win over Dixie in the first round of the UHSAA 4A Girls Soccer Playoffs. She scored twice in the first half, including one in the first two minutes of the game, and then netted the game-winner late in the second half to send Logan to the second round of the playoffs. Wilson set career-highs in passing yards and touchdowns this week in Green Canyon’s 39-15 win over Logan. He completed 13 of 14 passes for 257 yards with four passing touchdowns and added a rushing TD for good measure. Other nominees this week included Ryen Smith (Sky View volleyball), Elly Giordano (Green Canyon girls volleyball), Hadli Barrera (Mountain Crest girls soccer), Aiden Wilson (Bear River football), Jace Pingree (Logan

LEFT – Mountain Crest girls soccer forward Hadli Barrera | RIGHT – Mountain Crest football quarterback Casey Crofts Two athletes from Mountain Crest High School have been named this week’s boys and girls Cache Valley Media Group Prep Players of the Week, presented by McDonalds. Hadli Barrera, a forward on MC’s girls soccer team, is the girls player of the week with Casey Crofts, quarterback of the Mustangs’ football team being named the boys player of the week. Barrera led Mountain Crest to a 2-0 week to wrap up the regular season. She recorded two second-half goals in the Mustangs’ 2-1 win over Sky View and then scored on of her team’s goals in a 2-0 win over Bear River. Those two wins clinched second place in Region 11 for Mountain Crest which will begin its playoff run on Thursday with a home match against Hurricane. Crofts completed 18 of 26 passes for a career-high 360 yards and a career-high tying three passing touchdowns. He also ran the ball five times for 12 yards. That performance led Mountain Crest to a bounce-back 38-27 win over Bear River last Friday. Other nominees this week included Ryen Smith (Sky View volleyball), Holli

LEFT – Logan girls soccer sophomore goalkeeper Kennedy Perales | RIGHT – Sky View football senior running back Brevin Egbert Kennedy Perales of Logan High School and Brevin Egbert of Sky View High School have been named this week’s boys and girls Cache Valley Media Group Prep Players of the Week, presented by McDonalds. Perales, the goalkeeper for the Grizzlies girls soccer team, is the girls player of the week while Egbert, the Bobcats’ running back, is the boys player of the week. Oddly enough, both players earned their accolades by helping their team to wins against the other player’s school. Perales helped Logan to a win over Sky View, a game that ended in a penalty shootout. The two sides were tied 0-0 through the entirety of regulation and overtime, with Perales keeping the clean sheet through the 100 total minutes. In the shootout, Perales made one save and saw one miss from Sky View with Logan winning in PKs 4-1. Egbert, now a three-time winner of the boys prep player of the week, dominated in Sky View’s 69-18 over Logan. He had 13 touches (12 rushes, one catch) on the evening and tallied 316 yards from scrimmage (247