Add this name to the list of Utah prep baseball players who are moving to the next level: Bryce Anderson.

The Cedar City High pitcher has signed with Dixie State. Anderson, 6-foot-3, 170 pounds, also drew interest from Salt Lake Community College, Southern Utah and Utah Valley University.

Utah State has signed three more players to its women's soccer program for the 2009 season, increasing the total to 11 signees for the Aggies.

The new signees are:

Rachel Feuz, a midfielder from Eagle High in Boise, Idaho.

Ellen Larsen, a sophomore defender who is transferring from Idaho State. Larsen played high school soccer at Murray High.

Aleena Shelton, a junior transfer from BYU. A goalkeeper, Shelton played high school soccer at Layton High.

According to the Orange County Register, the Utes have offered Josh Quezada, a running back singled out as one of the best in the area.
BYU, Stanford, Washington, Fresno State, Hawaii and New Mexico State have also offered the 6-foot, 200-pound running back according to Rivals.com.

Our list of baseball signees continues to grow.

Braden Warren, a member of Spanish Fork's 5A state championship baseball team, has signed to play baseball for Southern Utah University.

Warren, an infielder and designated hitter, hit .433 for the Dons his senior season. He had 18 RBIs, 10 doubles, two triples and a home run.

We have another college baseball signing to report. Tooele High's Matt Medina has signed to play for the College of Southern Nevada.

An infielder, Medina was an honorable mention all-state selection as a junior.

Cyprus pitcher/infielder Taylor Jones has also signed with Southern Nevada.

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Former Layton High star Sheila Adams is switching schools. Adams, who started 15 games for Idaho State last season, is transferring to Salt Lake Community College.

Adams averaged 26.6 minutes per game for the Bengals last season.

Marcus Littlewood, a junior at Pine View High in St. George, is the 2009 Utah Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year, the sports drink maker announced Thursday.

Littlewood is the son of Dixie State baseball coach Mike Littlewood, a former BYU standout.

Marcus Littlewood is now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year award to be announced in June.

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound shortstop and right-handed pitcher led the Panthers to a 14-8 record and a berth in the Class 4A state postseason tournament, where they fell to Payson High.

Littlewood batted .531 with five home runs, 22 RBIs and a 1.047 slugging percentage this spring. On the mound, he posted a 2-1 record with a 1.53 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 17.2 innings pitched.

Littlewood has maintained a 3.6 GPA in the classroom. "Littlewood is as good as advertised," said Dixie High Head Coach Jeff Messerly. "He's the one kid you don't want to beat you. He's just getting bigger and stronger and he hits from both sides of the plate. There's nobody that's in his class."

Littlewood has orally committed to play baseball for the University of San Diego.

He was also the state winner in 2008. The 2006 and 2007 winner was Cottonwood's Tanner Robles.

Alex Drecksel, a 6-foot-4 wing player from Pocatello, Idaho, who played for the IMG Basketball Academy his senior season has signed with Westminster College.

Drecksel signed an NAIA letter of intent to join the Griffins in time for the 2009 season and is the third player from the class of 2009 to sign with coach Tommy Connor's program.

Drecksel averaged 14.4 points and 5.7 rebounds and helped IMG win the NCSAA National Championship and the Hoop Group Jam Fest.

He was the conference player of the year as a junior at Pocatello High and a first-team all-stater that same season.

Westminster went 30-5 last season and made its first ever trip to the NAIA quarterfinals.

Because the preliminary games ran long and they had a flight home to catch, Olympus' team had to forfeit the finals of the Reno Memorial Day Classic on Monday.

The team was supposed to play Bishop Manogue of Reno in the championship game.

However, Olympus' junior varsity team won the junior varsity division of the tournament, beating the Delta Force Purple (Calif.) in the championship game.

We've got more college-bound baseball players to add to the list we presented a few weeks ago.

Juan Diego's Caleb Olsen and Park City's Parker Morin have signed with the College of Southern Idaho.

At CSI, they will join two other Utahns -- West Jordan's Travis Huber and Bingham's Vince Giron on coach Boomer Walker's club.

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Also, Taylor Larsen, a left handed pitcher who recently helped Mountain Crest with the 4A state baseball championship, has signed with Salt Lake Community College.

American Fork pitcher Josh Mooney and American Fork catcher Bo Fisher have also signed with SLCC, along with Viewmont pitcher Kyle Bilbry.

Olympus will play for the championship of the Reno Memorial Day Classic on Monday.

The Titans won a pair of games on Sunday to advance in the varsity division.

First, the Titans defeated Clovis of Fresno, Calif., 73-46 in the quarterfinals as Ryan Reynolds scored 20 points and Connor Brady and Nicholas Paulos added 13 each.

In a semifinal Sunday afternoon, Olympus defeated the Cameron Park (Calif.) Bruins 51-39 as Paulos scored 13 and Brady added 12.

Monday's final will be played at Galena High in Reno against Nevada's Bishop Manogue High.

Spencer Harris, Andrew Pellatt, Will Watkins and Manny Riak also contributed to Oly's wins on Sunday.

Also, in the junior varsity division, Olympus' junior varsity will play for the championship on Monday.

The Olympus Titans defeated the West Coast Eagles (Walnut Creek, Calif.) 92-57 in the first round of the Reno (Nev.) Memorial Day Classic on Saturday.

The Titans were led by Will Watkins with 23 points and 12 rebounds and Nicholas Paulos who had 21 points and 10 boards.

The Titans' roster includes Connor Brady, Spencer Harris, Andrew Pellatt, Ryan Reynolds and Manny Riak. They play a team from Clovis, Calif., in the quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon.

Utah State's women's basketball program has signed two more players -- both transfers -- to its 2009 signing class.

Coach Raegan Pebley announced that Ashlee Brown is transferring to USU from UC Santa Barbara and LaCale Pringle-Buchanan is transferring from the College of Southern Idaho.

Both players will enter the program as juniors, although Brown must sit out a year before playing.

Brown, from Chandler, Ariz., averaged 3.4 points and 2.6 rebounds per game last season.

Pringle-Buchanan, from Seattle, averaged 11.9 points and 6.3 rebounds per game last season for CSI.

Devyn Christiensen (Caldwell, Idaho), Jenna Johnson (Wasilla, Alaska) and Ashley Mitchell (Long Beach, Calif.) signed with the Aggies earlier this year.

BYU football coaches picked up their eighth commitment from a member of the class of 2010 recently, getting a pledge from A.J. Moore, a 5-foot-9, 195-pound running back from Murrieta Valley High in Southern California.

Moore rushed for 1,040 yards and 10 touchdowns last season on 135 carries. He also caught 60 passes for nearly 700 yards and four TDs.

For more on Moore, check out our BYU sports blog.

We have another player to add to our list of where Utah's top baseball stars are heading to college.

West Jordan's Travis Huber, an infielder and pitcher, has signed with the College of Southern Idaho. CSI is in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Huber was a three-year starter for the Jaguars and is widely considered to be one of the state's best hitters.

Bingham infielder Vince Giron has also signed with coach Boomer Walker's Eagles.

Another school has jumped into the sweepstakes for Brighton High defensive tackle Ricky Heimuli. That's No. 21, if you are scoring at home.

According to Ricky's brother, Sefo Heimuli, Wyoming just became the third Mountain West Conference school to offer a scholarship to the four-star recruit, joining BYU and Utah.

"Wyoming went to Brighton HS today and offered Ricky on the spot," Heimuli wrote. "Ricky was really excited and spoke with the coach for little bit and was impressed and Ricky thought the coach was really cool."

This is a big week for high school baseball in Utah, with the 5A state tournament going on at Utah Valley University's Brent Brown Ballpark and the 4A state tournament going on at Kearns High.

Last week, Juan Diego won the 3A state tournament at UVU, downing Judge Memorial in the championship game.

Scouts say this is a rather deep class of talent (2009), but lacks superstars who could go high in June's Major League Baseball Draft.

That could happen next year, as the class of 2010 includes Pine View's Marcus Littlewood, Lone Peak's Dillon Robinson, Cedar City's Kai Eldredge and Spanish Fork's Adam Duke.

But first things first. Here's a list of where many of the state's top seniors will be playing next year:

Zach Adams, Cottonwood, pitcher: Utah

Brock Duke, Spanish Fork, pitcher: Utah

Kendall Mayer, Cottonwood, pitcher: Washington State

AJ Carman, Judge Memorial, pitcher: Washington State

Keenyn Walker, Judge Memorial, outfielder: Central Arizona

Court Zollinger, Judge Memorial, infielder: Utah Valley University

Mike Dedrick, Canyon View, pitcher: Univ. of San Diego

Blake Krahenbuhl, Bingham, pitcher: Utah Valley University

Colton Yack, Bingham, infielder: Dixie State

Rhett Nelson, Timpanogos, pitcher: Santa Clara

Kyle Bilbry, Viewmont, pitcher: Salt Lake Community College

Josh Mooney, American Fork, pitcher: SLCC

Chunner Nyberg, Dixie, pitcher: BYU

Bo Fisher, American Fork, catcher: SLCC

Taylor Jones, Cyprus, pitcher: College of Southern Nevada

Justin Campbell, Alta, pitcher: Utah Valley

Vince Giron, Bingham, infielder: College of Southern Idaho

This is obviously an incomplete list. If you know of any others, send an email to drew@sltrib.com and we will list them here in future posts.

Bountiful High basketball star Sean Carey has signed to play for Angelina College, a junior college in Tuftin, Texas.

Carey, a 6-foot-7 forward, helped Bountiful go 16-6 last season. He averaged 15.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game for the Braves.

The Angelina Roadrunners also signed Trent Brantley of Springhill, La., Antonio Holmes and Joe Mitchello of Zwolle, La., Takoby Jackson of Lancaster, Texas, Travis Smith of San Antonio, Texas, Ronald Steward of Zion, Ill. and Steven Walker of South Holland, Ill.

Judge Memorial basketball player Dee Crandall has decided to walk on at Weber State while teammate Oliver Hughes will attend Willamette College in Salem, Ore., the high school has announced.
Both players were part of the 2008 state championship team. Crandall was a first-team All-State player and Hughes was a second team All-Region 10 player.

In May, college basketball coaches can call high school juniors once a month. In June, they can call once a week, which is why Provo High's 6-foot-5 superstar Kyle Collinsworth is bracing for a deluge.

Collinsworth is by far the most-recruited player in the state's class of 2010 crop.

His brother, Chris, played his freshman year at BYU before leaving on a church mission to Australia. Chris will return to BYU in time for the 2010-2011 season.

As for Kyle, speculation is running rampant as to which school he will choose. One thing is certain: he will have a lot of options, and BYU isn't necessarily the leader for his services just because his brother is a Cougar.

Kyle was highly recruited before he helped his Utah Pump N Run club basketball team make it to the championshp game of a tournament in Las Vegas in late April, but since then interest in him is off the charts.

Several recruiting Web sites have said he was the top player at the tournament.

ESPN's Scouts, Inc., service gave him a 92 rating, saying that prospects rated between 90-100 are "immediate impact prospects" who have the "potential to start as a freshman for a national, top-25 program."

A source with knowledge of his recruitment said big-name programs such as UCLA, Kansas and Oklahoma State have jumped into the picture. Those schools, along with UNLV and Arizona State, are trying to get Collinsworth to attend their elite camps so they can evaluate him on their own campuses.

Last year, Lone Peak's Tyler Haws, Provo's Brandon Davies and Pleasant Grove's C.J. Wilcox drew a lot of national interest and recruitment, but it appears that Collinsworth's offers will surpass theirs.

Recently, Collinsworth was invited (and accepted) to attend the NBA Players Association Top 100 camp in June in Virginia. Many call it the top-rated camp for elite prospects in the country.

Scout.com has Collinsworth as the 71st best player in the country, and 16th best at his position.

So far, Stanford, Virginia, UNLV, BYU, Utah, Utah State and Washington State have offered. Arizona State will likely be the next to offer.

All those schools visited during the recently concluded spring visiting period, along with USC.

When former Washington State coach Tony Bennett took the job at Virginia, one of his first offers went to Collinsworth, whom he had recruited heavily when he was in Pullman.

Collinsworth said he would like to have a decision made by early September.

He averaged 18.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game for Provo last season and was the Tribune's 4A MVP.

Another SEC football program has offered Brighton High defensive tackle Ricky Heimuli.

Just got word that over the weekend the University of Tennessee offered the junior standout.

It is Heimuli's 20th offer.

"Ricky spoke with coach [Jim] Chaney over the phone and Ricky really liked what they have to offer so he's really excited to build that relationship," noted his brother, Sefo.

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University of Utah women's basketball coach Elaine Elliott has offered a high school freshman for the first time in her tenure at the U.

Brittney Martin, a freshman at Syracuse High in north Davis County, received the scholarship offer from the Utes after she made an unofficial recruiting visit to Utah with here parents last week.

Last year, Martin averaged 12.7 points, 10.5 rebounds, 2.04 assists, 3.5 steals and 2.2 blocks for the Spartans.

Westminster College in Salt Lake City has announced the signings of five volleyball players who will join the team in 2009, including two Utahns.

Megan Evans, Stephanie Jones, Talita Ramos Kresser, Ashley Marchant, and Jessica Schmidt have all signed an NAIA letter of intent with Westminster.

Evans, a 5-8 setter from Sandy, will join the Griffins after leading Juan Diego Catholic High School to the best season in school history as a senior. She was named First Team All-State by The Salt Lake Tribune.

Marchant, a 5-9 outside hitter from Sandy, was the top hitter for Alta High last year. She finished her senior season with 294 kills, 245 digs and 58 service aces. She was an honorable mention all-state selection.

Jones is a 6-0 outside hitter from Issaquah, Wash.

Kresser is a 6-1 middle blocker from Sao Paulo, Brazil, who played for Salt Lake Community College the past two seasons.

Schmidt is a 5-8 setter from Michigan City, Indiana, who played fro Walsh University last season.

Riverton's Joe Darger found success playing basketball for UNLV, and now Springville's Ashley Kroneberger will give it a try.

Kroneberger, the Tribune's 4A MVP last season, signed a national letter of intent to play for UNLV's women's basketball program earlier this week.

A 5-foot-10 guard, Kroneberger helped the Red Devils go 20-4 last season. She averaged 16.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.6 steals and 2.1 assists per game as a senior.

"Ashley is going to give us her best every time she's on the floor," said UNLV coach Kathy Olivier. "A very smart player and a hard worker, Ashley will be a good addition to our team and a great fit with the players we have returning."

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Former Judge Memorial star Brandon Veltri is the new coach at Carroll College in Montana, and he will be coaching at least one Utahn next year.

Veltri's first signing class includes Highland High's Taylor Janoe, a post player. Actually, Janoe committed to the previous coach, but just recently signed.

"Taylor has a ton of potential," said Veltri. "We are very excited about his strength and size." Janoe, 6-7, helped Highland to a second-place finish in Region 6 last season. He's also an excellent student, with a 3.8 GPA.

Another day, another offer from a big-time college football power for Brighton High defensive tackle Ricky Heimuli.

Wednesday's offer came from LSU, according to Ricky's brother, Sefo Heimuli, a sophomore at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.

"Ricky spoke with Coach Miles, Coach Haley and with Coach Yanowski who's the one recruiting him," Sefa said. "Ricky is excited about the offer because he loves what they have been doing there at LSU and the success they've been having. Ricky is going to try and make a trip out there as well.

The offer from LSU is the 19th for Heimuli, a junior.

Cheyanne Mulcock, a junior at Bingham High, has committed to play women's soccer for the University of Utah.

Mulcock, a goalkeeper, was a second-team all-state selection by The Salt Lake Tribune last fall. She will sign with the Utes this November, shortly after her senior season with the Miners concludes.

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Also, Utah women's soccer coach Rich Manning announced that he has signed a seventh athlete to his team for 2009.

Allie Wisner, an attacking player from Bozeman, Mont., recently signed a national letter of intent to play for the Utes.

Wisner was a four-time all-state and all-conference pick in Montana, and helped Bozeman High to three straight 2A state championships.

Brighton High defensive tackle Ricky Heimuli can now cross the Pac-10 off his list -- his list of conferences where every school in that conference has offered him a football scholarship.

Heimuli's brother, Sefo, said in an email Tuesday morning that Oregon just gave Ricky his 18th offer.

Now, every school in the Pac-10 has offered, along with Utah, BYU, Utah State, Michigan State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado.

Heimuli said that Oregon defensive line coach Jerry Azzinaro was at Brighton High today and made the offer and seeing the 6-foot-4, 285-pound junior in person.

We mentioned last week that Utah State had received a commitment from Tyrone White, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard from Portland, Ore.

The Aggies made it official today, announcing that White has signed a national letter of intent. Utah State also said that Preston Medlin, a 6-3 guard from Hebron High in Texas, has signed his letter.

White averaged 16.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game for the Air Force Academy Prep School last season and helped the team go 25-7. White played for Portland's Jefferson High before moving on to Air Force Prep.

Medlin averaged 22.5 points per game as a senior and helped Hebron High go 20-11. He shot 53.0 percent from the field and 44.0 percent from three-point range.

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Ryan Strong, a 6-2 guard from Lewiston High in Lewiston, Idaho, has signed to play for Salt Lake City's Westminster College. Strong helped lead Lewiston to the Idaho Class 5A state championship as a senior.

He averaged 10 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.8 assists for a team that went 22-4 and won the school's first state title in more than 60 years.

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Maggie Thach of the Tribune is reporting on our prep sports blog that three Bingham High girls basketball players are moving on to college programs next year.

Malori Dixon will play for Snow College, Maddie Hind will play for the College of Eastern Utah and Nicole Yazzie will play for Westminster College.

Former Lehi High star Ben Walker, a 6-foot-8 forward, has signed to play for Westminster College in Salt Lake City.

Walker spent last year playing for Salt Lake Community College. Prior to an LDS Church mission to the Phillipines, Walker spent a year at the Air Force Academy.

Walker shot 63.2 percent from the field for the Bruins, and is expected to help replace National Player of the Year Geoff Payne at Westminster.

He chose Westminster over Penn, Princeton and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Westminster went 30-5 last season, won the Frontier Conference Championship and made it to the NAIA quarterfinals.

Lone Peak High's Dillon Smith signed to play basketball for Air Force last week, but don't expect the 6-foot-2 shooting guard to play for the Falcons for quite some time.

Smith, who averaged around 10 points a game for the 5A runner-up last season, expects to receive his LDS Church mission call next week and will leave for two years in the middle of the summer.

When he returns, the plan is for him to play a year for the Air Force Academy Prep School, then join the Mountain West Conference's Falcons.

Because of the time frame "the signing was [symbolic]," Smith said. "Just to get a commitment from me on paper, I guess."

Smith said he chose AFA because it is a good fit for him and because he likes the offensive system. Although Northern Arizona offered him a scholarship prior to the season (which he declined), he said he had no other Division I offers.

Some schools that had expressed interest cooled when they learned Smith was leaving on a mission this summer.

He was invited to be a preferred walk-on at several schools, he said.

Surrounded by several other D-I players at Lone Peak, Smith wasn't able to put up impressive numbers.

However, he had a strong summer AAU season in 2008 playing for the Utah Swoosh, averaging more than 28 points per game and shooting 65 percent from the field, according to his club coach, Dave Houle.

In one game he scored 40 points against the Oakland Rebels, shooting 13-for-17 from the field, including 9-for-10 from three-point range.

It is quickly becoming apparent that Pleasant Grove High's Dallas Lloyd will complete his high school career as the most-recruited quarterback in state history.

More than Scott Mitchell or Jim McMahon. More than Brandon Doman. More than Riley Nelson or James Lark. When Bruce Hardy came out of Bingham High in 1974 and was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, he was highly recruited (he ended up playing tight end at Arizona State). But nothing like this.

Just follow the offers.

Lloyd, the 6-foot-3, 205-pounder who helped the Vikings make it to the 5A state semifinals last year, received offers No. 8 and No. 9 recently -- from Nebraska and Miami.

Lloyd's father, Casey, noted in an email that the Miami offer was significant to Dallas because the Hurricanes have been his favorite team growing up.

Other schools that have offered include BYU, Utah, Utah State, Wyoming, Syracuse, Tulsa and Stanford.

Dallas is also receiving a lot of interest from Vanderbilt, Oregon, Kansas State, Michigan State, Arizona State, Washington and TCU, according to his father.

Stanford sent coaches out to visit and observe last week. Nebraska, BYU, Utah, MSU, Utah State and others have also stopped by the PG campus. Miami is scheduled to visit this week.

Casey Lloyd said his son will attend a lot of camps and workouts this summer and wants to get in a few visits and make his decision before the Vikings' season begins in August against three-time defending 4A champion Timpview.

Stephanie Rovetti, a junior at Reno High School in Nevada, has orally committed to play basketball for BYU's women's team.

Rovetti told the Reno Gazette-Journal that she has wanted to play for the Cougars since she was a small child.

She averaged 11.5 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.8 steals and 2.8 assists last season and said she will sign a national letter of intent with coach Jeff Judkins' program in November.
Rovetti was an All-North (Nevada) pick her sophomore and junior seasons and her team finished second in state both years. She was a third-team all-state pick last season.
She's also a track star, having placed third in the 100 meters and second in the 200 at last year's Nevada state track meet.

Utah State's football program continues to add to its 2009 signing class.

The Aggies announced recently that they have signed two more players to national letters of intent.

Linebackers Connor Williams of Kanata, Ontario, Canada, and Devin Johnson of Glendora, Calif., signed with USU last week.

Willams, 6-3, 226, will be a freshman in the fall. He also had offers from Rice, Buffalo and Toledo. He played high school football at Holy Trinity High, where he was a two-time first-team all-region pick.

Johnson, 6-3, 240, will have two years of eligibility after playing for Citrus College last season. He also had an offer from Iowa State. Johnson played high school football at Rancho Cucamongo H.S. in California.

Another college football power has thrown its hat into the ring for Brighton High defensive tackle Ricky Heimuli.

The junior received his 17th offer on Friday, this one from the University of Michigan.

"Michigan emailed him and told him they sent his official offer in the mail earlier this week," Heimuli's brother, Sefa, reported in an email to the Tribune.

A 6-foot-4, 285-pound junior who rates four stars (out of five) from Scout.com, Heimuli now has offers from every Pac-10 schools except Oregon, Utah's three major college programs (BYU, Utah and Utah State), Oklahoma, Nebraska, Colorado, Michigan State and Michigan.