CLEARFIELD — Bransen Simper tossed three touchdown passes to lead Clearfield football to its first win in a 28-23 region victory over Northridge on Friday.

WOODS CROSS — It’s easier to watch a football game from heaven if clouds aren’t in the way.

Week 6 of the high school football season brings 12 games in Northern Utah with a full slate of region contests on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019.

Ben Lomond High School is marking the 30th anniversary of two milestones: the first season of state-sanctioned girls soccer, and the Scots taking home the state championship that same year.

SYRACUSE — Caroline Stringfellow scored two goals and assisted two others, making her the new state record-holder for career assists with 62, to propel Syracuse girls soccer past Clearfield in a 5-2 win Thursday.

BRIGHAM CITY — Last season, a handful of would-be Farmington High varsity volleyball players sat out for the season due to school transfer rules.

PLEASANT VIEW — Weber High’s offensive line speaks in code.

The Utah High School Activities Association released its first volleyball Rating Percentage Index (RPI) rankings on Thursday.

It took a little less than 27 minutes for the Ogden High girls soccer team to break the deadlock Wednesday between itself and Ben Lomond High.

High school volleyball is well under way. Here’s a midseason update on how the region standings are shaking out, who are some players to watch and other observations.

SYRACUSE — Syracuse girls soccer ran out to a 4-1 halftime lead in a one-sided region win, beating Fremont 6-1 on Tuesday.

PLEASANT VIEW — The strength for the Fremont High volleyball team isn't its .254 hitting percentage, which is third-best in the state prior to Tuesday, nor is it the 6-foot-4 freshman phenom outside hitter with big-time scholarship offers — nor is it the handful of returning starters from Re…

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The price for not playing seven sophomore football games? $1,400.

Check out the fifth Standard-Examiner fall sports rankings of the season for girls soccer, football and volleyball.

LAYTON — Coming into Friday night’s Region 1 contest, the Davis Darts had left the field as victors in their previous seven meetings with Layton.

WASHINGTON TERRACE — Kord Shaw returned the game’s opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown and Bonneville football never looked back to open region play Friday with a 27-17 win over Viewmont.

ROY — On Friday the 13th with a full moon keeping watch up above, one may have looked at those circumstances and guessed the local high school football games would experience some weirdness.

Davis and Layton played a high school football game Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, at Layton High School.

Week 5 of the high school football season brings 10 games in Northern Utah as all regions are now into the region schedule on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.

CLEARFIELD — Weber High volleyball won a marathon fourth set that propelled the Warriors to a five-set region road win Thursday at Clearfield by scores of 25-22, 22-25, 18-25, 29-27, 15-12.

FARMINGTON — Farmington High’s football team knows all about slogans.

Sammi Lee learned from last year's City-County cross country race.

Ben Lomond High girls soccer rebounded from a close loss Monday with a close, 2-1 win at Tooele on Wednesday. 

FARMINGTON — Farmington High girls soccer scored a game-winning goal in the final minute of the second overtime period to lift the Phoenix over Bonneville 2-1 on Tuesday in a battle of Region 5 unbeatens.

PLEASANT VIEW — Katie Corelli was quite frank after Davis High volleyball's three-set win over Weber High on Tuesday. 

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Ogden High girls soccer couldn't overcome a 2-1 halftime deficit at Cedar Valley and fell 3-1 to the Aviators on Monday night. 

Check out the fourth Standard-Examiner fall sports rankings of the season for girls soccer and football, and the debut rankings for volleyball.

LAYTON — Mitch Stratford hit Brandon Baray for 44-yard touchdown pass on fourth down with 34 seconds left in the game to lift Fremont High football to a 28-24 region win at Northridge on Friday.

OGDEN — Zhane Espinoza sat at the table, wearing his full Ben Lomond High football uniform. The expression on his face was blank. He was holding his helmet on the table, lost in thought.

LAYTON — Realignment ebbs and flows based on student population, not geography.

We're on to Week 4 of the high school football season!

PLEASANT VIEW — The last time Weber High’s football team lost a region game was Oct. 21, 2016.

WASHINGTON TERRACE — Taelor Anderson converted a penalty kick in the 97th minute and Bonneville High girls soccer notched a 3-2 region win over Box Elder in the second period of extra time Thursday.

LAYTON — On Friday, Layton Christian Academy’s football team will play on its picturesque home field, perched at the top of a ravine overlooking Hobbs Reservoir with a stunning view of the prominent Wasatch Mountains for the backdrop.

Syracuse volleyball (1-0, 1-0 Region 1) swept Clearfield (0-2, 0-1) by scores of 25-18, 25-18, 25-22 to open its season Wednesday.

Emma Calvert first went to a Brigham Young University basketball camp in the sixth grade. Ever since then, the Cougars were on her radar, and vice versa.

OGDEN — Ellen Rickerd tallied a hat trick and an assist as St. Joseph Catholic High School girls soccer shut out American Preparatory Academy-Draper in an 8-0 victory Tuesday.

WASHINGTON TERRACE — One of the strengths of the Bonneville High girls soccer team the past few years has been its versatility. There hasn't been a singular, standout player for the Lakers and there isn't one this year.

Check out the third Standard-Examiner fall sports rankings of the season for girls soccer and football. 

ROY — The bitter football rivalry that bubbled for two years didn’t lose it luster once it resumed Friday night.