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Tooele High School senior Wade Memmott (20) drives to the basket Tuesday night against Mountain Crest. <br>- photography / Maegan Burr Mountain Crest ends Tooele’s season
To beat a basketball team that has a 7-footer down low, a team can’t expect too many second chance opportunities. Tooele faced that task Tuesday night in Hyrum against Mountain Crest in the second...
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Tooele High School senior Jacob Holt (10) takes a shot against Spanish Fork Saturday. Holt scored 18 points for the Buffs in their 44-35 win.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Poised Buffs advance in 4A playoffs
It takes a large amount of poise for a basketball team to win an opening round playoff game on the road. That is exactly what Tooele showed Saturday night in Spanish Fork. Tooele shook off a rocky...
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Tooele High School senior Andy Grondahl (22, left), senior Wade Memmott (20) and junior Levi Vernon (2) defend against Stansbury High School senior Taylor Hunt (50) Tuesday night. The Buffaloes beat the Stallions in each team’s final regular season game 58-51.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Tooele sweeps rival Stansbury
After falling behind by two points, the Tooele Buffaloes scored eight straight points in the final 26 seconds of the third period to grab their biggest lead of the game at 45-39 in Tuesday night’s...
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Grantsville High School sophomore Dalen Erickson (33) drives the ball down the court Saturday against Wasatch. The Cowboys lost to the Wasps 62-34 in the state playoff game.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr GHS season ends with loss to Wasps
Wasatch came into their opening round match-up against Grantsville as the top ranked boys basketball team in 3A and left the court Saturday night with a 28-point victory over the Cowboys. The only...
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Tooele High School senior Wade Memmott (20) shoots a free throw with the game tied and 0.4 seconds on the clock against Highland Tuesday night. Memmott helped Tooele defeat Highland by scoring 26 points in the triple overtime thriller.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr Tooele triumphs in triple OT
Wade Memmott’s sixth 3-pointer of the game Tuesday night was a dagger in the heart for the Highland Rams. The 3-point bomb from Memmott’s favorite spot in the corner broke a 56-56 tie with 45 sec...
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Tooele High School wrestler Thomas Manning (left) throws Colton Ford from Payson down on to the mat Thursday during the 4A state semi-finals. Manning won the match in overtime to advance to the state championship match on Friday.<br>- photography / Maegan Burr THS grapplers grab eighth at state
Two Tooele High School wrestlers reached the finals at the 4A State Wrestling Championships Friday night at Utah Valley University in Orem, but neither could prevail in their championships matches...
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Stansbury girls nab sixth region win
by Jake Gordon
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What a difference a half makes. Stansbury girls went into halftime against Bountiful tied 23-23 and thanks to a strong second half, left the court with a 13-point victory. Marissa Robbins was the ...
Buffaloes nab sixth at 4A state meet
by Jake Gordon
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Sometimes in swimming, an event can be decided in just seconds. In the case of Casey McEachern and the 100 backstroke it was decided by three-hundredths of a second. McEachern finished with a life...
Streaking Stansbury upsets Olympus
by Mark Watson
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Stansbury’s Ms. Do Everything Marissa Robbins scored only two points in the third quarter Tuesday night against Olympus and it didn’t matter. Instead, guards Kendal Levine and Sharon Lyman knocked...
Buffs bounce rival Stallions 56-45
by Mark Watson
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Tooele put the hammer down on the Stallions in the third quarter of Friday’s game at Stansbury. The Buffaloes hit nine-for-nine from the field in the period and outscored the Stallions 19-10 to ex...
Stansbury girls nab third region win
by Jake Gordon
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With the Region 6 basketball season nearing its halfway mark, the Stansbury girls were looking to break even against East at home Tuesday night. The Stallions leveled their region record to 3-3 a...
Buffs tame rival Stallions in wrestling
by Mark Watson
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Stansbury jumped ahead of Tooele 15-12 after the first five matches Thursday night at Stansbury. But Tooele’s two talented big guys at 215 and 285 scored the next nine points to give the Buffaloes...
Team effort spurs Cowboys to victory
by Jake Gordon
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If a basketball team had the opportunity to choose which quarter they would make their free throws, they would most likely select the fourth quarter. Grantsville did just that as they started out 1...
Tooele whips region foe Woods Cross
by Jake Gordon
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After a passive offensive quarter of basketball in the third, Tooele boys came out strong in the fourth by scoring the first seven points of the period to propel themselves to their first Region 6 ...
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