New era at Snow Canyon as Sorensen leads team to 1st win

Written by Andy Griffin
November 30, 2016
File photo of Snow Canyon's Braden Baker (3), Snow Canyon vs. Enterprise, Boy's Basketball, St. George, Utah, Nov. 30, 2016, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

ST. GEORGE – To say folks at Snow Canyon were a little nervous Wednesday night might be a bit of an understatement.

But the all new Warrior coaches and players worked through the nerves and played an excellent second half in a 62-48 win over Enterprise at the Jungle gymnasium.

snow-canyon-logo“Right now, I feel great,” first-year SC head coach Jameson Sorensen said. “Before the game, I was as nervous as can be and I think the players were, too. The first two quarters were pretty bad, with all the nervousness and excitement.”

Snow Canyon trailed 24-20 at the half and, with the exception of Braden Baker, had very little offense to speak of.

Snow Canyon's Braden Baker (3), Snow Canyon vs. Enterprise, Boy's Basketball, St. George, Utah, Nov. 30, 2016, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon’s Braden Baker (3), Snow Canyon vs. Enterprise, Boy’s Basketball, St. George, Utah, Nov. 30, 2016, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

“Guys were trying to go one-on-one and iso and we had a lot of bad passes and turnovers,” Sorensen said. “But at halftime we talked and calmed everyone down and then we slowed things down and started running our offense and trusting it and things started to open up for our scorers.”

Baker kept the Warriors in it early and Kameron Webster had a big second half as Snow Canyon outscored the Wolves 42-24 after intermission.

Sorensen praised the play of point guard Christian Sullivan and post players Tyson Deland and Joey Robertson.

“Christian was solid all around,” he said. “He had 10 points and played some great defense as well. And we had good, solid post play with Deland and Robertson. Robertson’s just a sophomore, but he has already shown a lot of poise. He has good footwork and a soft touch inside.”

Baker and Webster led the team with 20 points each.

The Warriors will board a bus at 5:30 a.m. and head for the Bear River Winter Classic, with games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. SC opens with a 6 p.m. contest against North Sanpete Thursday night.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m. Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.

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