OGDEN - Davis holds on to advance to the 5A Finals, 48-46 Friday at the Dee Events Center. Defensive specialist Blake Gardner makes his only points of the game, hitting two free throws with 0.3 seconds left to secure the win.

The Grizzlies had two turnovers in the final minute and Davis took advantage on the second turnover. Gardner stole the ball with five seconds left and was fouled, went to the line and hit the free throws.  Davis will now play the winner of Alta/Fremont Saturday @ 1:30. 

The Darts hit just 16 of 53 shots and still won the game. Landon Horne scored 14 points and Tallon Burton added 12.

OGDEN - Knocking off the defending 5A state champs has to be extra satisfying. Especially when they ended your season in 2009. Davis had to go wire to wire to knock of their second Jordan in consecutive days, this time West Jordan, holding on to a 59-52 win Wednesday.

Davis held a comfortable 29-20 lead at intermission, but the Jags scored 14 straight points at the end of the second and beginning of the third to get back in the game.

The Darts were led by Tallon Burton’s 20 points.

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OGDEN - WOW. There is no question to fans in Weber and Davis County that have followed the Fremont Silver Wolves that they are good. They have been dominant in the Region 1 season, losing just once to Region champ Davis. They have power, talent and game in nearly every position.

Bingham found all the above paragraph and then some Wednesday, losing in overtime 71-70 in the Dee Events Center, knocking out the Miners from championship contention. Bingham defeated Fremont earlier this season, giving the Wolves their first of two losses on the year.

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OGDEN - Davis has opened up a commanding nine-point lead at halftime in the opening game against defending 5A champion West Jordan. For a play-by-play overview, click here

KAYSVILLE- First round goes to the Darts and now onto the Purple Palace. Davis knocks off Jordan 59-52 to advance to the 5A quarter-finals against the defending champions, West Jordan.

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Wasatch showed why they have earned the top seed all season long, knocking off Hurricane 61-54 Friday night.

The Wasps had three players in double figures, led by Mckay Murdock with 19 points. Trevor Bamgartner added 17 and Mike Brown with 13.  Hurricane’s Anderson Rich popped in a season high 21 points in the loss.

Wasatch led nearly the entire game with Hurricane briefly holding the lead 26-25 early in the second half. But the athletic Wasatch team made all the plays, took advantage of many Tiger fouls and hit a truck load full of free throws, hitting 25 of 28 from the line. For more, click here

OREM - It was obvious within the first minute of the game that Hurricane came ready to play and had a bit of unfinished business when the opponent was Juan Diego. The Tigers, who have nearly every basketball player play football as well, still feel their life is 2.9 seconds short as they lost on a last second play to the Soaring Eagle last November to claim 2nd place in 3A football.

So Thursday, while the trophy still is in a prominent spot at JDHS, a little bit of satisfaction was felt after Hurricane knocked off JD 60-49 to advance to the 3A Semi-finals on Friday against Wasatch.

Senior Jaden Seely had one of his best games of the year, scoring a team high 16 points and got Hurricane off to a fast start. Hurricane held JD to just nine points in the opening half and met every threat posed by the Soaring Eagle.

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Juan Diego 3, Hurricane 0 is the current score over the past two seasons as these two 3A powerhouses have played each other in football and basketball. Round 4 begins Thursday morning to open up the 3A State Playoffs, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

The Soaring Eagle are now back-to-back football champions and they also knocked the Tigers out of the 2009 playoffs. This game Thursday could very well provide another result. The Region 9 champions have both size, experience and talent. They can play tremendous defense and will provide spurts of scoring stretches that keep them in games.

Hurricane has multiple weapons to score, often getting four or more players in double-digit scoring.  This may be the year.

TUP is going to display all games and the 3A winner. Here goes…

Juan Diego vs. Hurricane. Tigers too deep this season. Their defense will shut down JD. Tigers by 7.

Wasatch vs. Morgan. Wasps will get their 22 win of the season, running away from the Trojans by 12.

Emery vs. Cedar.  Cedar solid, but not worthy of Emery this year. Easy win for EHS.

Judge Memorial vs. Desert Hills. This will be the closest game of the day. DHills will get Judge everything and anything they could ask for. Will come down to the final minute. Judge wins by 2.

Hurricane vs. Wasatch. Weak Region schedule will harm Wasatch. Haven’t played a tough game in five weeks. Tigers will advance relatively easily.

Emery vs. Judge. Bulldogs will advance. Emery solid team, but Judge too many weapons.

Judge vs. Hurricane. Come back for final predictions!!!

The Salt Lake Tribune is picking Wasatch as the team to beat with Judge and Juan Diego to compete as well.

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A great third quarter locked up the Davis/Layton matchup Tuesday. Davis outscored the Lancers 27-12 in after intermission. Davis was led by Josh VanWeezep’s 20 points and three others nailed double digits. For more information, click here

In a must win game for both team, Hurricane finally pulled away from a pesky Cedar team 51-43 in an important Region 9 matchup Wednesday.

Tyler Hinton got the Tigers on a roll early, scoring seven first quarter points as Hurricane led 15-5 after one quarter. Cedar got into the flow tying the game at 21-21 at halftime.

The Tigers finally got their offense rolling in the final period, scoring 21 points to knock off Cedar for the second time this year.

Hinton led Hurricane with 12 points. Erik Naaken led all scorers with 15 points.