Manti’s Chase Keisel, seen here rounding bases, made second team Deseret News 3A Baseball All-State. Photo by Robert Stevens. Sanpete County athletes collected 31 spots on the Deseret News All-State teams announced this month, earning first-team honors in baseball, softball, boys volleyball and boys soccer and crowding the second-team and honorable-mention rolls across the 2A…
The Messenger’s Athlete of the Year 2025, Maison Starkweather, smiles for a photo to accompany this article taken on his home field. Photo by Robert Stevens. MANTI—The old mantra of “It takes a village to raise a child” has been quoted ad nauseum over generations, but there are times when the old saying is just…
A happy North Sanpete Unified Basketball Red Team, with its coaches, poses with the state championship trophy it won in the Player Development Division. The site is the Delta Center. (L-R) Kyson Taylor (manager), Coach Debbie Miller, Coach Halli Bennett, Andre Castro-Lemus, Callum Elrick, McKay Schlappi, Christian Gipe, Kaige Rees, Tina Fox, J.B. Sandefur, Ellie…
A line of barrel racers stands ready for their ride during the high school rodeo on Saturday in Mt. Pleasant. Intense concentration is evident on the face of this barrel racer while competing at the Contoy Area on Saturday. A participant in Saturday’s rodeo scrambles to tie up a small goat. This aerial view of…
Snow’s Sean Felts goes for a basket during Monday’s heartbreaking loss to Conners State College. Photo courtesy of Snow College. HUTCHINSON, Kansas—A historic season for Snow College men’s basketball came to a heartbreaking close Tuesday, as the team fell 63-62 to Conners State College of Oklahoma in the first round of the National Junior College…
The Snow College men’s basketball team after winning the R18 championship, Photo by Kyle Parry. EPHRAIM—For the fourth time in program history, the Snow College men’s basketball team has won the Region 18 Championship. The Badgers got past rival Salt Lake Community College, 87-84, last Friday in the Region 18 tournament semifinal before blowing out…
Volleyball Tuesday, Sept. 13 N. Sanpete 3 Delta 1 DELTA— North Sanpete bashed the Rabbits in four contested sets, winning their first region game of the season; 25-22, 26-24, 19-25, 25-20. *** Gunnison 0 Duchesne 3 DUCHESNE— The Eagles swept the Bulldogs in three sets, 11-25, 25-27, 11-25. This was Gunnison’s first loss in region…
ARIZONA—EPHRAIM— The Snow College football team exploded for 85 points in a shutout victory against Gila River Junior College Saturday night inside Terry Foote Stadium. The 85-0 victory was the Badgers first shutout of the season and tied for the highest point total in the era of Head Coach Zac Erekson. Snow also won a…
MT. PLEASANT—Homecoming ended on a sour note for North Sanpete football as the Hawks gave up a 12-point lead and fell to Canyon View, 34-32, last Friday. The Hawks led, 19-7, in the first half, but the Falcons scored before halftime, continued on a 20-0 run through the third quarter, and kept North Sanpete at…
MANTI—As Templar alumni returned to the stadium, senior quarterback Kayson Douglas returned to the field in style as he led Manti football in a dominant win over Carbon, 42-13, at Homecoming last Friday. Douglas completed 9 of 15 passes for 159 yards and three touchdowns. Senior Larsen Pogroszewski was unstoppable as he had nine carries…