PHOENIX (AP) — Matt Jackson scored 19 points and Alessandro Lever scored 14 and Grand Canyon beat Utah Valley 71-60 in a Western Athletic Conference opener for both teams Thursday night. Grand Canyon (8-6) closed out the first half with a 12-4 run in the last 5½ minutes to lead […]
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Brandon Boyd scored 20 points and Idaho State rode a 16-point first-half lead to beat Southern Utah, 88-68 in a Big Sky Conference battle on Thursday night. Idaho State rebounded from a loss at Eastern Washington on Monday where the Bengals scored a season-low 55 points […]
Boys Basketball Region 20 JUNCTION, Utah-Shandon Bagley posted 16 points and the Piute Thunderbirds pounded Diamond Ranch 84-46 Thursday in Region 20 boys basketball action. Davis Harrison had 27 points in defeat for the Diamondbacks. Girls Basketball Region 14 NEPHI, Utah-Willow Kay stepped up with 13 points as the Juab Wasps overpowered Union 53-45 […]
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Sedrick Barefield scored 24 points, Donnie Tillman added 21 and Utah rallied from a 17-point deficit to open its Pac-12 season with a 96-86 win over Arizona State Thursday night. Utah (7-6, 1-0 Pac-12) got off to a shaky start before long-distance shooting its way back […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-After almost pulling off an upset at Division I Wyoming last Saturday, Dixie State men’s basketball returns to Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play with a trip to Colorado. The Trailblazers are 4-5 and 2-3 in RMAC play and ensue in a streak that sees six of their first […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Northern Utah’s air quality issues that flare up in the winter are back under the spotlight as a coalition of environmental groups is putting the Environmental Protection Agency on notice it will sue if it doesn’t hold Utah and Arizona accountable for missing deadlines to […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A search group plans to re-examine an abandoned mine shaft in Utah’s West Desert over the next month with the hope of finding the remains of a mother who disappeared nine years ago. The Utah Cold Case Coalition is organizing the search for the remains […]
OGDEN, Utah-Thursday, Weber State men’s basketball commences 2019 with a home game against Northern Arizona at the Dee Events Center. The Wildcats come into Thursday’s tilt against the Lumberjacks at 8-5, including a 2-0 record in Big Sky Conference play. The high-scoring Wildcats have scored 80 or more points in […]
CEDAR CITY, Utah-Per a late Wednesday announcement, Southern Utah men’s basketball head coach Todd Simon confirmed senior forward Dwyane Morgan is out for the season. He will undergo shoulder surgery, which has already limited him this season. While appearing in four games for the Thunderbirds this season, the Baltimore native […]
ODGEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah man who pleaded guilty to attempting to kidnap a woman has been sentenced. The Standard-Examiner reports Jorge Pedro Soria Nieto, of Ogden, was sentenced Wednesday to serve six years to life in a state prison. Nieto pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree […]
