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Heidi Bruce

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4A girls soccer playoffs: East beats back gutsy Pioneers
The Lehi Pioneers almost gave the East Leopards more than they could handle in the first round of the 4A state tournament on Tuesday.
By Heidi Bruce
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High school football: Youth serving well for Whitehorse
Young, but ready to rumble, the Whitehorse Raiders want to rebound from their one-win season last year to contend in each region game this season and hopefully make the state playoffs.
By Heidi Bruce
AJ Slavens helped lead San Juan to the 2A state title last year, and Slavens is back again this year as the Broncos are in search of a repeat.
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High school football: San Juan knows it will be wearing a target
After staying steady as one of the top teams in 2A for over a decade, the San Juan Broncos won it all for the third time in the last 10 years last season.
By Heidi Bruce
Billy Keddington
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High school football: Red Devils bring high hopes to Moab
After starting this past decade in shambles, winning just one game between 2000-2002, and never more than three in a season, the Grand Red Devils climbed to the top of the heap in 2005, edging San Juan for the state championship.
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Teyba Naser finishes first in the women's division of the Deseret News 10K race that started in Research Park and ended in Liberty Park in Salt Lake City Saturday.
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Naser lasers past field in women’s 10K win
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High school soccer: No. 1 Alta gets ousted by Granger in 5A playoffs
The Granger Lancers pulled off the upset of the 5A state soccer tournament, upending top-ranked Alta 4-3 in a shootout on Friday after the game ended deadlocked at 1-1.
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High school softball: Macauley Flint fires two-hit shutout as top-ranked Royals keep rolling
Roy’s Macauley Flint demonstrated why she’s one of the state’s best pitchers Thursday, leading her Royals over the visiting Brighton Bengals 3-0 in the second round of the 5A state tournament.
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High school baseball: Riverton wins 5A playoff in extra innings
Mitch Watrous belted a two-out RBI double to deep center to lead the Riverton Silverwolves to a tough 3-2 extra innings win over the visiting American Fork Cavemen in the first-round of the 5A state tournament on Wednesday.
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High school soccer: Undefeated Grand edges St. Joseph in 2A semifinal
A resilient Grand Red Devils soccer squad stayed undefeated to advance to the boys’ 2A state championship for the second straight year with a 2-1 win over the St. Joseph Jayhawks on Friday.
By Heidi Bruce
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High school soccer: Wasatch shuts out Ben Lomond in 3A semifinal
The Wasatch Wasps netted a goal in each half to defeat a tough Ben Lomond Scots team 2-0 in a hard-fought, aggressive 3A semifinal on Friday.
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Westminster knocks off defending NAIA national champs
The Westminster Griffins ran roughshod over the defending NAIA national champion Rocky Mountain Battlin’ Bears on Friday night, blowing open a close game late in the first half and battling through the second for an 80-68 victory.
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5A high school basketball: West Jordan avoids upset
The defending 5A state champion West Jordan Jaguars avoided a minor upset when Pleasant Grove star Sefa Tanoai’s three-point bomb rimmed out at the buzzer, allowing the Jaguars to emerge unscathed with a 52-50 win in the second round of the 5A state tournament on Tuesday.
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Wasatch's Michael Brown and Hurricane's Zach Sorenson scramble for a loose ball during Friday's contest.
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High school basketball: Guards lead Wasatch boys to 3A victory
Top-ranked Wasatch overcame a resilient Hurricane squad with clutch free throws in a 61-54 semifinal victory at the 3A state tournament on Friday at Utah Valley University.
By Heidi Bruce
Union's Katie Richens, center, scrambles for the ball between Emery's Tayler Jewkes, left, and Markette Tanner.
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High school basketball: Union takes down 3A’s No. 1 Emery in quarterfinal showdown
Third-ranked Union upended top-ranked Emery 51-46 in a mammoth quarterfinal showdown at the 3A state tournament Thursday. The Cougars held the Spartans to over 14 points under their season average to get the win.
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High school basketball: Canyon View girls overwhelms Juan Diego in 3A quarters
With a steady offensive output and a stifling variety of defenses, the Canyon View Falcons easily handled the Juan Diego Soaring Eagle 56-33 on Thursday at Utah Valley University to advance to the 3A semifinals.
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High school basketball: Roy’s defense stifles Kearns in 5A girls opening round
A well-prepared and very balanced Roy team jumped all over the Kearns Cougars from the outset, taking a 15-point lead after the first quarter en route to a 53-37 win in the first round of the 5A state tournament Saturday.
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South Summit's Jacob Flinders reaches for the ball as San Juan's Benny Royer defends.
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2A high school football championship: San Juan’s defense sparkles in championship
With the top two offenses on display, the 2A state championship game could have been a barnburner.
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High school soccer: Soaring Eagle coasts to win over Falcons
Sophomore Kaitlyn Flynn scored the first goal and the last goal of the match to lead the Juan Diego Soaring Eagle over the Canyon View Falcons 4-0 in the 3A quarterfinals. The win advances Juan Diego to the semifinals for the fourth straight year.
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High school tennis: Desert Hills dominates early going at state tourney
Reigning champion Desert Hills rumbled through the first two rounds at the 3A girls state tennis tournament Friday, standing alone atop the standings as the only team to get all five positions through to the semifinals.
By Heidi Bruce
Highland High assistant tennis coach Kathy Rothfels
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A lifelong love match with tennis
While many coaching staffs in Utah prep tennis are deep and diverse, with assistants ranging in age from 19-83, Highland High’s staff is perhaps a little more varied than most.
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Timpview's Cal Larson prepares to blast a forehand during his No. 2 singles match Saturday. Larson overcame a tough semifinal to repeat as a state champion for the triumphant T-Birds.
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4A high school tennis: Timpview adds another tennis title to trophy case
With four state champions out of the five events, the Timpview T-Birds absolutely dominated the competition to take their sixth straight title and eighth in the last 10 years at the 4A state tennis tournament at Liberty Park on Saturday.
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4A high school tennis: Lane nips Cowley to advance
It didn’t feel like the first two rounds of the 4A state tennis tournament Friday at Liberty Park. There were few easy matchups and several matches were even finals-worthy, including a showdown between the defending No. 1 singles champion, Highland’s Devin Lane, and rival Matt Cowley from Woods Cross. The two sophomores know each other’s games well, and Cowley upset Lane in a tournament last year.
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5A high school softball playoffs: Taylorsville pitchers buckle down to stop Pleasant Grove in 5A tourney
Defending champion Taylorsville’s offensive firepower was more than Pleasant Grove could handle Thursday, allowing the Warriors to grab the 6-3 win and advance with no losses to the third round of the 5A state tournament.
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3A, 4A high school tennis playoffs: Top tennis teams take to the courts
With everything up in the air at the top of both divisions, there should be two thrilling state tennis tournaments at the 3A and 4A levels this weekend.
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5A high school baseball playoffs: Riverton beats up Layton
After a rough first-round win over Weber on Tuesday, the Riverton Silverwolves turned things around on Wednesday and showed why they’re still the team to beat in the 5A State tournament, dominating the Layton Lancers from the start to take a commanding 9-0 win.
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4A high school softball playoffs: Roy defense shuts down Payson for playoff win
The Royals dominated defensively to take down the Payson Lions 3-0 Tuesday and advance to the second round of the 4A state tournament.
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Brighton High's No. 1 singles player, Spencer Smith, smacks a forehand return on his way to winning a third straight state title Saturday.
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5A state tournament: Bengals are again king of the 5A tennis jungle
The Brighton Bengals cruised through the singles rounds en route to taking their third straight 5A state tennis championship Saturday at Liberty Park.
By Heidi Bruce
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Few surprises in tourney’s early rounds
Despite frequent threats of rain early on, and two short delays punctuating the proceedings, things went much as expected in the early rounds of the 5A state tennis tournament at Liberty Park on Friday.
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High school tennis: Doubles may be the difference
In both the 5A and the 1A/2A state tennis tournaments this year, the doubles matches could be the difference in determining which team wins the state championship.
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High school 2A soccer: Solid first-half showing helps Jayhawks roll into semifinals
It was the tale of two halves Saturday, as first-year team Manti controlled most of the second half, while St. Joseph absolutely dominated the first to grab the 3-1 win and advance to the 2A
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