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Ogden’s Xavier Aldous (back) and North Sanpete’s Aaron Costello (front) pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Box Elder’s Bosten Steacie pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Ogden’s Rodrigo Torres pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Davis High’s Will Nixon (swinging) pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Bonneville’s Jaygen Noble pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Bear River’s Ethan Higgs pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Ogden’s Rodrigo Torres, left, and West Field’s Bryce Bagby, right, pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Bear River’s Dallen Rice pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Members of Team Frame gather near the mound during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Ogden’s Xavier Aldous and North Sanpete’s Aaron Costello pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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Team Frame’s dugout pictured during the Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games on June 6, 2026, at Lindquist Field in downtown Ogden.

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OGDEN – Buttoning up his jersey one last time, Box Elder’s Bosten Steacie relished the moment to play with the state’s very best.

The 82nd annual Utah High School Baseball All-Star Games, hosted by Ogden City Recreation, returned to downtown Lindquist Field on Saturday, and Steacie’s sure glad they did.

Steacie’s 4.43 ERA led the Bees in his senior campaign, but hundreds of memories, including a memorable 2023-24 postseason run, were fresh in his mind this weekend.

The 5-foot-11 College of Southern Idaho commit was voted the 10 a.m. senior game’s MVP following a 5-2 win for the visiting team, led by Timpview coach Russ Frame, over their home team opponent, led by Juan Diego coach Robby Jacobson.

“Those are some of the best guys in Utah,” Steacie said. “I think Utah talent is overlooked a lot, and our) high school baseball is overlooked a ton.”

Some of those Beehive State stars were on full display on Saturday morning, including 33 different players from Box Elder, Davis, Morgan and Weber counties.

With the start, Steacie brought his best stuff and followed it up at the plate with the first run of the weekend on a sacrifice flyout in the top of the second. Up three runs through the fifth, Ogden’s Xavier Aldous, voted the Defensive Player of the Game, delivered three different strikeouts in the sixth to give the home end a fighting chance.

After relieving his team on the mound, Aldous produced a big-time triple, setting up a two-run seventh inning for Team Jacobson. In the eighth, Mountain Crest’s Jackson Pearce scored Davis High’s Kaleb Weaver for one of two insurance runs.

“It’s always a surreal moment,” Aldous, committed to St. Clair Community College in Port Huron, Michigan, said of his experience. “High school ball is one of the biggest, best experiences you can have as a player.”

Aldous, along with fellow Ogden graduate Rodrigo Torres, represented the Tiger baseball program on Saturday, and wanted to do their coach, Kyle Bubak, proud.

“We’re making good progress slowly,” Torres said. “I really believe they’ll get better, and they’ve still got a great chemistry as a team, but I think they’ll settle down and become better together.”

“He knows what he’s talking about,” Aldous said of Bubak. “He knows the best way to play baseball.”

Teagan Adams of Westlake scooped up the Offensive Player of the Game award, and Cole Engemann of Timpview received the Coach’s Award.

The first-ever Utah All-Star Game was played in 1944, a year when high school sports were largely affected by conscription. That year also coincidentally included the University of Utah’s lone men’s basketball national championship.

Tradition’s especially important to Dallen Rice, too.

Rice spent four seasons in Donald Hawe’s baseball program at Bear River, and, after leading the team in hits (34) and runs scored (27) this past season, it’s off to Valley City State in North Dakota to continue his playing career.

This summer, Rice plans to spend the offseason with the Smitfield Aztecs of the Northern Utah League.

“I’m just glad I got to put on a Bear River jersey one last time,” Rice said. “It’s been super rewarding, and Bear River really taught me how to have a blue-collar mentality. Nothing’s given to you, you’ve got to earn it each and every day.”

With another baseball All-Star weekend in the books, it’s worth marking your calendar for the Utah All-State Softball Games slated for June 17th at the 4th Street Softball Complex in Ogden. The game is hosted by D1 Prospects, which organizes and promotes high school softball throughout Utah, Idaho and Nevada.

Connect with prep sports reporter Conner Becker via email at cbecker@standard.net, X @ctbecker and Instagram @standardexaminersports.