Four turnovers doomed the Emery High football team as it dropped a 2A State Tournament at Manti 34-6.
The Spartan defense played well throughout the game, but the defensive unit couldn't overcome fatigue and regularly short fields.
Manti repeated a dominant week three performance in which it took advantage of multiple Emery turnovers and won going away. This season's two meetings between the teams were quite similar in nature.
Emery High begins two 2A State Tournament campaigns Friday, and both the volleyball and football squads face tough matchups.
In a rematch of last week’s opening round football matchup, the Lady Spartan volleyball team matches up against Enterprise at 9:30 in the Utah Valley University gymnasium.
Enterprise enters the matchup as the Region 13 Champions and one of a few State Tournament favorites. Emery earned a fourth-place Region 15 slot by defeating South Sevier in the last region game of the season.
The Emery High School football team extended its season by at least a week with an exciting win Thursday at Enterprise.
The win earned the Spartans a quarterfinal matchup at Manti on Friday at 7 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ETV Channel 10.
The Emery High football team played its way into the 2A State Football Tournament with a narrow 20-18 win at Enterprise on Thursday afternoon.
Bailey Faimalo's 40-yard interception return for a touchdown with less than four minutes left in the game proved to be the difference as the Spartans gutted out a hard-fought win.
Faimalo's score and the ensuing extra point put Emery ahead 20-12. A poor kickoff combined with questionable officiating gave Enterprise a chance to tie the game, and a freak touchdown on a fumbled option play got Enterprise to within two points at 20-18. Emery's defense flexed its muscle on the two-point conversion as the Spartans stopped another option run.
The Carbon High Football team secured another losing season Wednesday as the Spanish Fork Dons left Price with a 42-0 victory over the Dinos.
Carbon simply couldn't get anything going, and Spanish Fork went into cruise control in the second half after putting up all 42 points in the first two quarters.
Carbon High head coach Jeff Blank said he would greatly miss his group of outgoing seniors.
North Summit’s 14-point, fourth-quarter outburst guaranteed Emery would travel for its opening round playoff game.
Emery fell 43-29, and would travel to Beaver, Enterprise or Richfield for the first round of the 2A State Playoffs. Emery’s opponent would depend on the tiebreaker rules.
Tabiona rolled into Green River on six-game winning streak and swept Green River 10-2 and 8-4 to remain in Region 18.
Green River had some outstanding individual performances, but couldn’t overcome costly mistakes against the talented Tabiona side.
The Green River High School baseball team lost both games of Friday’s doubleheader on walk-off hits.
Tintic’s McKade Holman hit a two-run double to end game one 6-5. Travis Green laced an RBI triple to end game two 7-6.
Justin Johnson threw an abbreviated no-hitter striking out 13 of 16 batters in game one of a two-game sweep over Manila on Friday in Green River.
Johnson also led the offense with two doubles. Hunter Jones contributed with a double of his own.
The Green River baseball team finished up the preseason with a convincing doubleheader sweep of Intermountain Christian on Friday.
Winning pitcher Chance Pfander got all the run support he would need as the Pirate bats exploded for 10 first-inning runs in a 19-9 route.
Spencer Marshall led the offensive attack with a homerun and double. Greg Johnson, Hunter Jones and Justin Johnson also recorded doubles.
The Helper American Legion baseball team completed two late-inning comebacks to defeat Taylorsville 6-5 at the Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah field Tuesday.
After spotting Taylorsville four early runs, Helper pulled even by scoring four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Helper Little League opened with a bang as the Rockies beat the Royals 12-3 in five innings Saturday.
The Rockies jumped out to an 11-0 lead that was complimented by outstanding pitching efforts by multiple pitchers.
Orangeville and Ferron girl’s softball teams where declared Co-tournament Champions Monday at the Huntington Softball Complex after weather shortened the tournament.
The 11 to 13-year-old softball teams from Ferron and Orangeville met at the Emery County Softball Complex on Monday night with Ferron winning the contest 12-6.
The Emery High Lady Spartans won their opening-round State Tournament game in dramatic fashion over Wasatch at Cedar High School in Cedar City on Saturday.
Emery secured the 11-10 victory when short-stop Bryton Hess snagged a hard line drive and tagged a Wasatch base runner to end the game. The moment was one of redemption for Hess who had two errors earlier in the inning.
The Lady Dinos’ season came to an abrupt end as they dropped a pair of State Tournament games Saturday at Bear River.
Carbon lost the first game 4-3 as North Sanpete scored a dramatic run in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Emery High Lady Spartans closed out the regular season with an 8-3 win over Delta on Tuesday.
Emery closed out the Region 10 season in third place with a 6-4 record.
Trailing 4-3 in the top of the seventh inning, Emery was robbed of a home run and was doubled off on a line drive to end the game on Friday at North Sanpete.
MarKette Tanner led off the frame with a shot to dead-center field only to have the wind hold the ball just enough for North Sanpete’s Anna Ledingham to stab the ball as she fell over the top of the fence.
The Carbon High Lady Dinos dominated the Payson Lions Thursday in Price, scoring a 42-21 victory over their Region 12 opponents.
A 21-8 third-quarter run doomed the Carbon High Dinos at Delta on Wednesday evening as Carbon fell 80-71.
Carbon fell into a fourth-place tie with North Sanpete in Region 12; however, North Sanpete owns the tiebreaker by virtue of defeating Carbon. Four teams from the region will make the State Tournament.
The Emery Spartan basketball team went on the road and defeated Parowan 63-44 in a non region contest Wednesday.
Dallon Cologie led a potent Emery attack with 18 points. Brendon Jorgensen added 12 points
A furious second-half comeback and dominant overtime period propelled the Carbon High Lady Dinos past Delta 45-37 Tuesday in Delta.
Emery used a remarkably even offensive performance to defeat San Juan 53-43 Saturday in Castle Dale.
Seven Spartans scored in the game, and five players scored eight-or-more points. Dallon Cologie and Dawson Jensen led Emery with 11 points each. Landon Palmer of San Juan led all scorers with 12 points.
The EHS Lady Spartan Basketball team dropped a hard-fought contest 56-53 at San Juan on Saturday.
A second-half comeback fell just short as Emery fell to 2-2 in region and just 3-10 overall.
The Emery High wrestling team traveled to Spanish Fork and defeated the American Leadership Academy Eagles on Wednesday.
Emery won more matches via forfeit, seven, than by wrestling, four. However, ALA was only able to win two matches and Emery went on to victory.
The Emery High School wrestling team traveled to Manti to take on the Templars on Wednesday.
Manti won the meet because Emery couldn't field enough participants to fill out the card.
The Emery High School wrestling team traveled to the Sevier Valley Center in Richfield to compete in the 2A Duels on Friday and Saturday.
The team saw mixed results as Cezly Collard, Ryan Cox, Brett Sorenson and Chet Funk were the only Spartans to win their matches.
The Emery High wrestlers outdueled South Sevier in a 41-35 victory Wednesday in Castle Dale.
The Emery High wrestling team outscored Carbon 72-6 Tuesday in Price.
Emery swept all nine of the wrestled matches, with Carbon’s only points coming via forfeit in the 170 lb. division. Carbon forfeited six matches.
San Rafael Junior High School hosted the Junior High Region wrestling tournament Tuesday. Canyon View Junior High School won the tournament. Helper Junior High School won the regular season title. Tournament results were as follows:
