PLAIN CITY — Fremont (1-2) girls soccer scored two goals in each half to beat Copper Hills 4-2 and pick up its first win of the season.
WASHINGTON TERRACE — Not a lot of soccer teams pick up where they left off at the beginning of seasons. Mostly it’s because nine months separate the end of a soccer season and its beginning the next fall.
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ROY — With about an hour left in Roy High’s football practice Wednesday, Fred Fernandes got out of a silver sedan and didn’t look like a guy who, a week earlier, was undergoing six-way bypass surgery.
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OGDEN — The Ogden Raptors return home Friday to begin a string of seven straight home games in the second-to-last homestand of the regular season.
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The overnight space between games didn’t slow down Ogden’s bats at all going into the final game of a seven-game road trip.
More often than not, construction projects are delayed instead of finished ahead of schedule.
Eric Peterson had totaled three hits in seven games with the Raptors this season after a recent assignment to Ogden, previously having played in Single-A and Double-A this year.
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OGDEN — Box Elder (1-1-1) took a 2-0 lead into the break but Ogden (1-1-1) countered with two second stanza scores. Neither team scored in extra time and the game ended in a 2-2 draw.
Five Northern Utah high school football games will be broadcast live on KJZZ this season.
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The days are getting shorter, the school bells are beginning to ring and it's nearly time for high school football.
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The last time the Ogden Raptors (35-20) played in Centene Stadium in Great Falls, Montana, they celebrated a historic Pioneer League championship.
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Just like that, we’ve already completed a week of games in girls soccer, so it’s time for some rankings.
The Ogden Raptors finally broke through their post-All-Star game blues Sunday, rolling off 12 unanswered runs in a 15-11 win at Billings to avoid being swept in the finale of a four-game set.
You can’t win them all, the saying goes.
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ROY — Quick treatment and keen medical personnel helped avoid a disaster for Roy High football head coach Fred Fernandes, according to those around the program.
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OGDEN — The Weber State football team lined up for its first live action of fall camp Saturday with a scrimmage at Stewart Stadium.
OREM — Farmington High began its girls soccer history with a win.
Friday night brought the things child’s dreams are made of for Ogden Raptors outfielder Daniel Robinson.
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Who faces the toughest teams from last season? And how do you account for games across different classifications? Patrick Carr digs into the numbers for all 19 Northern Utah high school football teams.
The Utah Jazz announced the team’s 2018-19 schedule as the NBA unrolled league-wide schedules Friday.
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ST. LOUIS — All he wanted was to be the best Zach Johnson he could be. Turns out, he was the best Zach Johnson in golf Friday.
The Pioneer League season has entered the home stretch with teams back in action following the All-Star break. The Ogden Raptors appeared absent Thursday, regrouped, then lost 12-7 to the Billings Mustangs at Dehler Park.
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SYRACUSE — Ogden players just found themselves chasing shadows.
BRIGHAM CITY — Mountain Crest and Box Elder (1-0-1) played to a 2-2 tie through the first half, then the Bees scored three unanswered goals in the second stanza for a 5-2 home win.
Seventeen cycling teams took off from Garr Ranch at Antelope Island on Thursday morning during Stage 3 of the Tour of Utah.
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Region 1 was close last season. Northridge, Fremont and Syracuse both went 4-2 and tied for second behind 6-0 Weber.
Weber State basketball announced its 2018 non-conference schedule Thursday, featuring a pair of in-state home games and another trip to the Bahamas.
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Region 5 has the distinction of being the only region in the state in 2018 to have something new.
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LAYTON — Some of the world’s top men’s professional cycling teams will peddle their way through Davis County Thursday during stage three of the Tour of Utah.
For the first time in four tries, the Pioneer League defeated the Northwest League in the inter-league All-Star game, held this year Tuesday in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Pioneer League triumphed 13-10.
WEST JORDAN — Caroline Stringfellow netted a hat trick and the Titans sprinted to a 7-0 halftime lead on the way to a season-opening road win, 8-0.
As football season approaches, we’re going to kick off our coverage by looking at the local regions. Today, we are previewing Regions 11, 12, 3A North and 1A North. Then, we’ll move on to Regions 1 and 5.
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ROY — The soccer field at Sandridge Park was quite lush for an early August girls soccer game. So lush that it was almost too thick, and it slowed things down.
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The Orlando Magic will play a pair of regular-season games in Mexico City in December.
SYRACUSE — The bright green shirt-clad Syracuse girls soccer team assembled in the shade behind the scoreboard.
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FRUIT HEIGHTS — Zach Johnson went through the hoops and hurdles of the PGA Tour’s qualifying process (known as Q-school) from 2006-09, tried life on the mini-tours in Las Vegas and then went the route of the golf club professional.
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OGDEN — The team returning from the best season in Weber State football history has been recognized accordingly in the first national FCS preseason poll.
Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the nature of Pierce Callister's offer from Utah State. He has a preferred walk-on offer from USU. The Standard-Examiner regrets the error.
OGDEN — It was by no means a defensive battle, but the Ogden Raptors scored five runs in the first inning and kept the offense rolling throughout in a 16-9 win Sunday over the Orem Owlz, closing yet another series in the Raptors' favor as the Pioneer League hits the All-Star break.
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OGDEN — With the Raptors rolling offensively and playing the worst team in the Pioneer League, Saturday was likely to bring a series win and the fourth straight victory for Ogden.
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OGDEN — Another wave of smoky haze from Western wildfires rolled into the Wasatch Front on Saturday as Weber State football entered Day 4 of fall camp.
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OGDEN — For now, it doesn’t seem any manner of roster changes will affect the Ogden Raptors, no matter which top hitters are promoted.
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer insisted Friday he followed proper protocols in reporting domestic violence allegations against an assistant coach in 2015, passionately defending himself in his first extensive comments since he was put on paid leave amid a university investigation.
While August brings girls soccer and prep football, the 2018-19 high school sports season began in July with St. Joseph Catholic High School's baseball opening its season with three games, as 1A baseball plays in the fall.
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OGDEN — To the sixth inning Thursday, it was a game of missed opportunities for the Ogden Raptors.
Jimmer Fredette got going late, but it wasn’t enough to deliver Team Fredette to the $2 million championship game of The Basketball Tournament.
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OGDEN — A Morgan man is accused of starting a fire at Lindquist Field and causing thousands of dollars in damages to buildings, merchandise and construction equipment near the stadium in an incident Wednesday morning, Aug. 1.
Davis High alumnus Jessica Sloot fell in the finals of the 112th Utah Women’s State Amateur golf tournament at Bonneville Golf Course in Salt Lake City on Thursday.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Figuring out how to stop Zack Moss could become a shared nightmare for Utah opponents this season.
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