The 3A softball state tournament brackets were released Thursday night in a surprise move about 12 hours before they were initially scheduled to be released Friday morning.

Morgan, Ogden and Ben Lomond High’s teams will all open the 3A playoffs on the road Saturday. There was some optimism that Morgan, Region 13 co-champions with an 18-8 overall record, would host playoff games.

The Trojans ended up as the No. 7 seed and will face No. 10 North Sanpete at 3 p.m. Saturday at Grantsville High. The winner moves on and plays next Thursday at 12:15 p.m. at the Spanish Fork Softball Complex.

The loser plays at 5:30 p.m. Saturday against the loser of the Grantsville and Ben Lomond/Summit Academy first-round game.

Ogden (3-10) is the No. 12 seed and takes on No. 5 Emery at 3 p.m. Saturday at South Summit. The winner moves on to next week’s later rounds, and the loser plays at 5:30 p.m. Saturday against the South Summit/Juab loser.

Ben Lomond (6-13) is the No. 15 seed and will face No. 18 Summit Academy at 10 a.m. Saturday at Grantsville High, with the winner facing No. 2 Grantsville. The loser will be eliminated from the playoffs.

6A BOYS TENNIS 1ST-ROUND RESULTS

Here are results from Friday’s first-round, 6A boys tennis state tournament singles matches at West Jordan High. The winners advance to next week’s round of 16 matches at Liberty Park.

Doubles matches results weren’t available at press time. Set scores weren’t published.

No. 1 singles:

No. 16 Jordan Chugg (Fremont) def. No. 17 Fabricio Perez (Cyprus)

No. 13 Ryan Hicks (Layton) def. No. 20 Coleton Winn (Copper Hills)

No. 10 Jace Fleming (Mountain Ridge) def. No. 23 Tolkien Anderson (Roy)

No. 14 Jaiden Womack (Taylorsville) def. No. 19 Wyatt Marriott (Clearfield)

No. 12 Parker Cummings (Herriman) def. No. 21 Ryan Harris (Davis)

No. 2 singles

No. 17 Joseph Kurtz (Weber) def. No. 16 Brendan Christensen (Taylorsville)

No. 20 Kaden Wright (Davis) def. No. 13 Eduardo Moreno De La Paz (Cyprus)

No. 11 Benjamin Ortiz (Layton) def. No. 22 Carson Johnson (Clearfield)

No. 10 Ryan Bird (Mountain Ridge) def. No. 23 Trevor Steiner (Roy)

No. 3 singles

No. 8 Payton Perkins (Fremont) def. No. 25 Caleb Preisler (Roy)

No. 10 Baden Record (Layton) def. No. 23 Ethan Anderson (Cyprus)

No. 11 Gabriel Olsen (Weber) def. No. 22 Parker Cummings (Copper Hills)

No. 12 Camden Senninger (Syracuse) def. No. 21 Andrew Francis (Davis)

No. 14 Hunter Davis (Mountain Ridge) def. No. 19 Nicholas Corbridge (Clearfield)

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