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Sky View 66, Crimson Cliffs 58
When the 4A brackets got here out and Sky View coach Kirk Hillyard noticed his crew was penciled in for the 9:30 a.m. quarterfinal, he after all thought, “not once more.”
Final yr the Bobcats had the 9:30 a.m. quarterfinal in Richfield and endured a disastrous second quarter on their technique to the 20-point loss to Desert Hills.
Quick ahead a yr and Sky View discovered itself enjoying the early 4A quarterfinal recreation once more, this time even farther from dwelling at Dixie State.
In contrast to a yr in the past, although, Hillyard thought his crew dealt with the less-than-ideal state of affairs a lot better. No. 4 Sky View used an enormous second quarter of its personal, then held off a fourth-quarter flurry from No. 5 Crimson Cliffs to carry on for the 66-58 victory to advance to Friday’s semifinals.
Sky View led by as many as 15 factors within the third quarter, however Crimson Cliffs fought again and minimize it to 59-58 with 1:40 remaining. The Bobcats answered with a key 3-pointer from Carter Davis that pushed the lead again to 4 and from there they managed to seal the win from the free-throw line.
Davis led Sky View with 19 factors, with Logan Deal including 14 and Tanner Davis chipping in 12.
“We turned the ball over uncharacteristically just a few occasions there within the fourth quarter. We’ve simply obtained to do a greater job of caring for the ball however we made sufficient profitable performs on the finish to get it performed,” mentioned Hillyard.
Sky View endured the poor stretch within the fourth quarter thanks largely to its nice second quarter through which it outscored Crimson Cliffs 20-9.
“We pushed the ball. We obtained the ball out and ran within the second quarter. I assumed that was an enormous key for us, obtained us a few simple baskets, we didn’t haven’t to grind out offense on a regular basis,” mentioned Hillyard.
Crimson Cliffs’ Jordan Eaton scored 25 factors to steer all scorers, and got here up large within the second half as his crew fought again from the massive double-digit deficit.
For Sky View, the victory was its fifth straight, which got here on the heels of a four-game shedding streak in the course of area play.
“We weren’t enjoying excellent protection throughout that stretch, doesn’t matter who’s in, whose out, as a crew we didn’t play excellent protection,” mentioned Hillyard. “We targeted on rebounding, retaining guys in entrance of us and guarding higher. In these 5 wins that we’ve obtained I assumed we defended properly.”
Snow Canyon 58, Hurricane 34
Snow Canyon regarded each bit the a part of the No. 1 seed in its 58-34 quarterfinal win over Hurricane.
After a decent first quarter, the Warriors began to open issues up with a robust second quarter after which pulled away for good within the second half by limiting the Warriors to only 15 factors.
“Defensively I instructed them it travels, and I assumed we did a greater job particularly within the second half,” mentioned Doug Meacham.
“We've got a deal the place if we preserve a crew underneath 40 we’re getting donuts for them within the movie session. So I’ve obtained to go get donuts,” added Meacham, who mentioned the popular donuts for the crew are Lin’s Bakery.
That is the eighth time Snow Canyon’s coaches shall be shopping for donuts for the crew.
Owen Mackay led the Warriors in scoring with 15 factors, whereas Lyman Simmons added 11 and Walker Morrison 10.
Dixie 41, Cedar Metropolis 34
Regardless of enjoying an terrible half of basketball on Thursday, No. 2 Dixie nonetheless in some way discovered a technique to grind out a victory in Thursday’s 4A quarterfinals.
After scoring simply 9 factors within the first half and 20 via the primary three quarters, Dixie ratcheted up the execution within the fourth quarter by scoring nearly each time it touched the ball on its technique to the 41-34 over defending state champion and No. 7 Cedar Metropolis.
“Got here in at halftime and principally mentioned ‘that’s not us, we’ve obtained to purchase into the Fly household.’ It’s not one particular person, we have now to have all people purchase into one play at a time as a substitute of profitable the quarter or profitable the half, and we simply began constructing off of that. And the momentum sort of switched,” mentioned Dixie coach Tyler Roberts.
Grant Carter gave Dixie its first lead of the sport at 25-24 early within the fourth quarter on a baseline 3-pointer. From there, each offenses began dialing within the execution with one tie and 4 lead modifications over the following 5 minutes.
Cedar Metropolis minimize Dixie’s result in 36-34 with 59 seconds remaining on a Zeb Santana layup, and after Dixie missed the entrance finish of a 1-and-1, the Reds had been in nice place to try to tie the sport. It by no means obtained a shot off as Dixie stole the ball.
Out of the timeout, Roberts ran a set play to get a shot on the rim for large man Kean Webb, which the gamers executed to perfection resulting in a dunk and a 38-34 lead with 20 seconds left to successfully end off the sport.
Carter led Dixie with 14 factors, with Jordan Roberts including a dozen.
Ridgeline 75, Inexperienced Canyon 44
Kaden Cox and his Ridgeline teammates had been dialed in early in Thursday’s quarterfinal.
Ridgeline made 4 very fast 3-pointers to start out the sport — three from Cox — as in a blink it led by a dozen and the onslaught by no means subsided.
No. 3 Ridgeline added to its lead each quarter because it rolled previous No. 6 Inexperienced Canyon for the simple 75-44 victory at Dixie State.
Kaden Cox scored 22 factors and completed with 4 3-pointers to tempo the Riverhawks into Friday’s semifinals.
“These children have been ready for this for a very long time, and we’ve been enjoying the most effective basketball we’ve performed all yr for the previous month and a half or so and the youngsters are actually in a great place preparation sensible and mindset sensible,” mentioned Ridgeline coach Kyle Day.
Cox added to his streak of creating at the very least one 3-pointer each recreation this yr. As a crew, Ridgeline completed with eight 3s.
Ridgeline beat Inexperienced Canyon by double digits in every of their two area meets, and it raced to a 23-8 lead after the primary quarter as historical past began to repeat itself.
Peyton Knowles added 12 factors for Ridgeline, with Jake Smith chipping in with 11.
“I assumed we defended rather well and set the tone early,” mentioned Day.
“These children have been hungry for this to get right here and have a chance to show themselves so that they’re actually excited.”