Standard-Examiner Sports

05/07/2025

Spring All-Area POY Awards are live!

⚾️: https://www.standard.net/sports/high-school/2025/jun/21/all-area-baseball-poy-with-flair-and-freedom-davis-highs-talbot-put-on-masterclass-in-center-field/

🥎: https://www.standard.net/sports/high-school/2025/jun/28/all-area-softball-poy-lucy-braeggers-breakout-season-at-box-elder-was-anything-but-a-stroke-of-luck/

⚽️: https://www.standard.net/sports/high-school/2025/jul/05/all-area-boys-soccer-poy-how-patience-family-and-vigor-made-ogdens-velasco-a-steward-of-the-midfield/

02/07/2025

Morgan’s Jace Benson swinging for Junior World golf title in San Diego

MORGAN — In a short time, Morgan High’s Jace Benson is proving that not only can he compete with the best on the course, but that he can beat them. Benson is eight months removed from a top-three finish in the 3A state championship, finishing just two shots back of teammate, individual state cha...

26/06/2025

What a night in Ogden with the Ogden Raptors.

Connor Bagnieski became the first player in the 87-year history of the Pioneer League to hit four home runs in one game, and did it in front of the Raptors' second-largest crowd ever

Lindquist Field saw history and near-history Wednesday night with the Ogden Raptors hosting the Northern Colorado Owlz. A crowd of 6,149 fans cheered Ogden designated hitter Connor Bagnieski back to the plate with one out in the eighth inning and the game already in control with a 13-2 score. With o...

17/06/2025

Photos and more from race day on Capitol Hill

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 50 themed-cars ripped down Capitol Hill at the first-ever Red Bull Soapbox Utah races over the weekend, but only one Ogden-area team, “Orcs and Dorks,” took home the Maverick Fuel for Adventure award Saturday. Traveling down from Pleasant View, Team Orcs and Dorks .....

17/06/2025

Recently resigned football coach switching back to basketball

OGDEN — Jumping from the gridiron to the hardwood, Lyndon Johnson is set to replace Tanoka Beard as Ben Lomond’s head boys basketball coach beginning next season, BL athletic director Kable Smith told the Standard-Examiner on Monday. Hired in 2019, Beard, a former center at Boise State, resigned...

12/06/2025

SATURDAY 🏁

Four cars built by Northern Utahns will take part in the first-ever Red Bull Soapbox race in Salt Lake City.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Get ready to spread your wings. Or start flapping your arms. When the first-ever Red Bull Soapbox Utah race arrives Saturday at the State Capitol Building, it’ll bring a record-breaking number of entries. Teams arrive from as far as Raleigh, North Carolina, and as close to home ...

08/06/2025

PHOTOS: The 81st annual Utah High School All-Star Baseball Games in Ogden

PHOTOS: The 81st annual Utah High School All-Star Baseball Games in Ogden Click through photos from the senior games played Saturday at Lindquist Field in Ogden By CONNER BECKER - Standard-Examiner | Jun 7, 2025 1 / 25Bonneville's Jet Hirschi, center, laughs with a Roy's Jack Sorensen (right) during...

07/06/2025

All-Star Saturday with a Davis County twist

Utah sluggers gather for All-Star Games at Lindquist Field

STORY ⬇️⚾️

OGDEN — The tumultuous ride of a senior-year baseball player, navigating the emotion of one last ride while gauging the probability of college ball, made room for a bit of Sandlot-style fun for a handful of Northern Utah stars on Saturday at Lindquist Field. The 81st annual Utah High School All....

23/05/2025

IT’S A FOUR-PEAT

Brighton Wise and Shelby Wilkinson pieced together the saves, and the goals, to lead Bear River girls lax to a fourth state championship on Thursday in Herriman

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HERRIMAN — These days, it’s hard not to associate Bear River girls lacrosse and the term “state champion” in the same sentence. Leaning on Brighton Wise in goal, No. 1 Bear River used a stock of late-game saves and Willamette commit Shelby Wilkinson’s title-clinching fourth goal to deny No...

14/05/2025

Down a man, Baker’s boot lifts Weber over Layton in shootout for 6A second-round boys soccer win

STORY & PHOTOS:

PLEASANT VIEW — Mavrick Baker was lying on the sideline of the soccer field, nearly in tears. One would wonder whether those were tears of joy or pain. After regulation play and two overtime periods against Layton on Tuesday, the Weber High senior had just scored the winning goal in the fifth roun...

12/05/2025

NEW: The Ogden School District has formed new partnerships extending the reach of youth football

OSD, the Ogden Wildcats, and the Wasatch Front Football League will combine forces this fall

STORY BELOW ⬇️

OGDEN — A new partnership between the Ogden School District, the Ogden Wildcats Youth Football Association and the Wasatch Front Football League announced during a board meeting in late April suggests a new “direct pipeline” from youth football to the high school level. The district will play ...

10/05/2025

COUNT 'EM: 2

Capitalizing late on a PK, Jace Rodriguez dug deep for Ogden High's 2-1 win over Morgan in the 3A soccer state championship on Saturday

PHOTOS & MORE from a perfect 18-0 finish

SANDY — By now, Jace Rodriguez knows how the game’s won. Nothing following unbeaten, top seed Ogden High into a second consecutive 3A state boys soccer championship on Saturday ever came without a physical toll. The scratches and bruises were piling up with hardly five minutes left with No. 6 Mo...