3A softball: Warriors split, Falcons bow out at state tourney

Written by Andy Griffin
May 15, 2015
Snow Canyon catcher Skylar Gates looks to the umpire to make a call on the play at the plate, the runner was called safe, Snow Canyon vs. Stansbury, Softball, St. George, Utah, May 14, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

ST. GEORGE — The jury is out and the results are in from the first day of the 3A State softball tournament and Region 11 is every bit as good as advertised.

Stansbury celebrates after scoring a run, Snow Canyon vs. Stansbury, Softball, St. George, Utah, May 14, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Stansbury celebrates after scoring a run, Snow Canyon vs. Stansbury, Softball, St. George, Utah, May 14, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

Grantsville, Stansbury and Bear River all rolled to second-round victories and even fourth-seed Tooele staved off elimination with an easy win over Region 10 champ Uintah at the softball complex at Little Valley.

Meanwhile, Region 9’s best compiled a 1-3 record on the day with top-seeded Snow Canyon getting mercy-ruled by Stansbury 16-6 and second-seeded Canyon View dropping a 7-3 game to Grantsville and ending the season with a 9-5 loss to Carbon.

The lone bright spot for the only remaining team from the region was the Lady Warriors 6-1 victory over Union.

The Warriors couldn’t contain the hot bats of the No. 2-ranked Stallions as Stansbury scored at least two runs in each of the first four innings. It was 16-1 heading into the bottom of the fourth and SC avoided the “15 after three” run-rule by scoring two in the fourth.

Snow Canyon celebrates Camryn Johnson's (25) home run, Snow Canyon vs. Stansbury, Softball, St. George, Utah, May 14, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon celebrates Camryn Johnson’s (25) home run, Snow Canyon vs. Stansbury, Softball, St. George, Utah, May 14, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

Snow Canyon added three in the fifth, but could get no closer in the big loss. Stansbury, 23-4, moves on in the winner’s bracket and will face region rival Bear River at 10 a.m. Friday.

The Warriors, 18-5, beat up on 8-19 Union to extend their season. SC will battle Tooele (16-10) at 10 a.m. Friday with the loser going home.

The Falcons end the season with an 11-14 record after the two losses. Grantsville, 23-3 and ranked No. 1, led 7-0 before CV pushed home three runs in the seventh. In the elimination game, Carbon (20-7) staved off its season’s ending with the four-run victory.

The other semifinal will pit Juab (22-3) against the Cowboys. Juab is the only non-Region 11 team ranked in the top five. The winner’s bracket semifinal is Friday at 4 p.m.

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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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