Basketball: Schools busy as late signing period begins
I'm back, and, not surprisingly, the e-mail basket is extremely full. My apologies if some of this is old news, or if you've read it or heard about it before.
Following are some basketball recruiting developments that have happened in the last week. We'll have some football recruiting news later today or tomorrow.
* McKenzie Jessop, a Salt Lake Community College star who played at Murray High, has orally committed to play for Westminster College. Jessop, who also played for the club team Salt Lake Metro, was sixth in assists and ninth in rebounding in the Scenic West Athletic Conference last season. She will join SLCC teammates Keshia Catten and Michelle Pace at Westminster.
* Lone Peak's Ryan Littlefield and Juab's Dana Allred have committed to sign letters of intent with Southern Virginia University. Both were Tribune first team all-staters last winter, and both also played for Salt Lake Metro.
* Utah Pump-N-Run's 16-year-old boys team was eliminated in the round of 16 (Gold Division) of the Kingwood Classic in Houston. UPNR lost 52-49 in overtime to Pro Skills Elite of Dallas on a last-second half-court shot. The 16-year-old division included 127 teams from around the U.S. in the tournament.
Bingham's Shad Sommerville and Oly's Nicholas Paulos and Will Watkins led the team in scoring and Bingham's Ben Clifford led the squad in rebounding. The team also included Oly's Connor Brady, Alta's Jordan Brown, Copper Hills' BJ Caver, Woods Cross' Peter Howey, Timpanogos' Joe Kruger, Copper Hills' Steven Larson and West's Nate Levine. Coaches were Brandon and George Sluga.
* Salt Lake Metro's 17-year-old team also played at the Kingswood Classic and performed well. More on their showing in a later post.
* A team of boys who mostly attend Olympus High won the Bay Area Basketbrawl last weekend in California, defeating the Oakland Cougars 65-52 in the championship game. The Titans won four games en route to the championship. The team consisted of Joey Bourne, Connor Brady, Corbin Green, Adam Mahas, Nicholas Paulos, Sam Spafford, Spencer Hille and Wil Watkins.
* A pair of Southern Utah University commitments have been posted here previously, and they became official last week as the T-Birds signed former Alta star Tyson Koehler and Lucas Jones, a center from Volunteer State (Tenn.) Community College.
Koehler, 6-9, played for Grayson County (Texas) Community College last year and plans on an LDS Church mission before enrolling at SUU. He was a first-team all-league selection at Grayson after averaging 9.6 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
* Last year, College of Eastern Utah's point guard, Tyler Kepkay, signed with Utah. This year, CEU's point guard, Kal Bay, will sign with Idaho State. Bay began his college career at Colorado, but left when the school fired coach Ricardo Patton and the new staff decided not to honor his scholarship.
CEU's Felix Casperi, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Brazil, will also sign with ISU.
* Utah State was interested in Jeremy Granger, a 6-foot-1 point guard from Elgin High in Illinois. However, Granger will signe with Eastern Illinois, it appears. Army and Wisconsin-Green Bay also made late pushes for Granger.
* Dixie State College's women's progam has signed SLCC's BreAnne Haslem, along with Jessie Ingraham, a 5-10 point guard from Pima (Ariz.) Community College. Courtney Spawn, a guard/forward from nearby Virgin Valley High in Mesquite, Nev., has also signed with Dixie State.
* Park City's Lauren Deane has signed with Weber State. The 6-foot forward earned second-team all-state honors after averaging 15.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. Deane played her first two seasons of basketball at Judge Memorial.
Weber State also signed Sarah Conner, a 5-8 guard from Guernsey, Wyo.
Following are some basketball recruiting developments that have happened in the last week. We'll have some football recruiting news later today or tomorrow.
* McKenzie Jessop, a Salt Lake Community College star who played at Murray High, has orally committed to play for Westminster College. Jessop, who also played for the club team Salt Lake Metro, was sixth in assists and ninth in rebounding in the Scenic West Athletic Conference last season. She will join SLCC teammates Keshia Catten and Michelle Pace at Westminster.
* Lone Peak's Ryan Littlefield and Juab's Dana Allred have committed to sign letters of intent with Southern Virginia University. Both were Tribune first team all-staters last winter, and both also played for Salt Lake Metro.
* Utah Pump-N-Run's 16-year-old boys team was eliminated in the round of 16 (Gold Division) of the Kingwood Classic in Houston. UPNR lost 52-49 in overtime to Pro Skills Elite of Dallas on a last-second half-court shot. The 16-year-old division included 127 teams from around the U.S. in the tournament.
Bingham's Shad Sommerville and Oly's Nicholas Paulos and Will Watkins led the team in scoring and Bingham's Ben Clifford led the squad in rebounding. The team also included Oly's Connor Brady, Alta's Jordan Brown, Copper Hills' BJ Caver, Woods Cross' Peter Howey, Timpanogos' Joe Kruger, Copper Hills' Steven Larson and West's Nate Levine. Coaches were Brandon and George Sluga.
* Salt Lake Metro's 17-year-old team also played at the Kingswood Classic and performed well. More on their showing in a later post.
* A team of boys who mostly attend Olympus High won the Bay Area Basketbrawl last weekend in California, defeating the Oakland Cougars 65-52 in the championship game. The Titans won four games en route to the championship. The team consisted of Joey Bourne, Connor Brady, Corbin Green, Adam Mahas, Nicholas Paulos, Sam Spafford, Spencer Hille and Wil Watkins.
* A pair of Southern Utah University commitments have been posted here previously, and they became official last week as the T-Birds signed former Alta star Tyson Koehler and Lucas Jones, a center from Volunteer State (Tenn.) Community College.
Koehler, 6-9, played for Grayson County (Texas) Community College last year and plans on an LDS Church mission before enrolling at SUU. He was a first-team all-league selection at Grayson after averaging 9.6 points and 6.3 rebounds a game.
* Last year, College of Eastern Utah's point guard, Tyler Kepkay, signed with Utah. This year, CEU's point guard, Kal Bay, will sign with Idaho State. Bay began his college career at Colorado, but left when the school fired coach Ricardo Patton and the new staff decided not to honor his scholarship.
CEU's Felix Casperi, a 6-foot-8 power forward from Brazil, will also sign with ISU.
* Utah State was interested in Jeremy Granger, a 6-foot-1 point guard from Elgin High in Illinois. However, Granger will signe with Eastern Illinois, it appears. Army and Wisconsin-Green Bay also made late pushes for Granger.
* Dixie State College's women's progam has signed SLCC's BreAnne Haslem, along with Jessie Ingraham, a 5-10 point guard from Pima (Ariz.) Community College. Courtney Spawn, a guard/forward from nearby Virgin Valley High in Mesquite, Nev., has also signed with Dixie State.
* Park City's Lauren Deane has signed with Weber State. The 6-foot forward earned second-team all-state honors after averaging 15.4 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. Deane played her first two seasons of basketball at Judge Memorial.
Weber State also signed Sarah Conner, a 5-8 guard from Guernsey, Wyo.
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Snow Canyon's Dalton Groskreutz has verbally committed to Dixie State. The 6-foot-6 forward will sign on April 28, according to his father Biff. This was reported in The Spectrum last week.
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