St. Joseph Jayhawks

Presenting the Standard-Examiner's 2017-18 Girls Basketball All-Area teams.

Soccer season started last week, but for some area teams, region play starts this week. Get primed on boys soccer season and the region outlooks for Northern Utah high schools in 2018.

The Morgan Trojans enter the boys 3A tournament with the best overall record. Meanwhile, previewing the 3A girls and 2A tournaments, the 2A schools get to head (way) south for their first-round games.

Altamont took a 36-31 lead into the fourth quarter and shifted to a stalling offense to keep the ball away from St. Joseph.

Meet this week’s Standard Star from St. Joseph Catholic School. 

Fremont turned a 21-9 first-quarter deficit into a 60-55 win at Green Canyon on Friday.

Josh Sanders helped Davis improved to 6-1 with a win at East. Catch up on boys and girls basketball from around Northern Utah with the Thursday roundup.

Garet Rentmeister got hit in the eye and had a basketball tipped off his face early in the second quarter. The St. Joseph defense felt the pain of watching Rentmeister drain shot after shot in the period and Ben Lomond went on to drub the Jayhawks 72-34.

Ben Lomond’s aggressive defense and full court press was the story of the game, allowing the Scots to take a 32 point lead over St. Joseph going into half time and finished the game 72-34.

OGDEN — Ashley Spratlen found the back of the net in the 79th minute to break a 2-2 tie and send St. Joseph to a 3-2 victory over Utah Military Academy in a region tiebreaker to decide 2-A North playoff seeding Friday. Haley Slater scored twice in the first half to give UMA a 2-0 lead at the...