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Notice how Park City quarterback Erik Walker had 275 rushing yards on just 13 carries in Park City's 48-7 win over Morgan last night? Walker is one of the state's top offensive threats, and more and more Division I programs are starting to take notice. The seniors recently received his third scholarship offer, from Army. Previously, Walker received offers from Navy and Dartmouth. ----------------

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Happy Thursday, everyone. In cased you missed Lya's blog on the University of Utah football and basketball blog, the Utes have received another basketball commitment. Dominique Lee, a 6-foot-3 small forward from St. Mary's High in Berkeley, Calif., has committed to Utah. He also had offers from San Jose State and Santa Clara. ----------------------- Of course, on Wednesday, BYU got a commitment

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When Hunter takes on Murray tonight, the Wolverines will be back to familiar form. ''We're playing more of that smash-mouth style," said assistant coach Brandon Burt. We have 5 or 6 tailbacks who are really producing and our line is playing better." It took a while for the Wolverines to make the adjustments and find a rhythm. Hunter lost three of its four four games and struggled to get things

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The No. 1 baseball prospect in the state of Arizona has committed to play baseball for BYU, according to several recruiting Web sites. Jaycob Brugman, a senior center fielder at Desert Vista High in Phoenix, committed to BYU coach Vance Law earlier this week after a recent visit to Provo. Brugman is listed as the state's top prospect on ArizonaVarsity.com. He will sign with BYU in November, but

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Who are the best high school quarterbacks in Utah this year? I checked out the Alta-Lone Peak game last Friday, and saw two of the state's better QBs, Alta's Jordy Brown and Lone Peak's Tannon Pedersen go at it. I was really impressed with Pedersen's arm and Brown's overall athletic ability. I know Brown has an offer from Snow College. But there may be another senior QB to keep an eye on --

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Cal Hanks is going from one end of the state to the other to play his college basketball. Hanks, a 6-foot-11 senior center at Mountain Crest High in the Cache Valley, has orally committed to Southern Utah University. Hanks will sign a national letter of intent with SUU on Nov. 10. He was also recruited by St. Mary's, Weber State and Utah Valley University. An all-Region 5 selection in 2009, Hanks

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Billy Vavau, a 6-3, 295-pound senior lineman at Jordan High, has told the Laramie (Wyo.) Boomerang he has committed to Wyoming. Vavau has played on both sides of the ball, but said he chose Wyoming for the chance to play defense. Utah, Utah State and Southern Utah all looked at him as a possible contributor on offense. Vavau started his high school career at Kearns, but transferred to Jordan

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A regular recruiting trail reader noticed that Utah women's basketball coach Elaine Elliott recently tweeted that she will have three girls who have committed to the Utes on campus this weekend. Who are the three? The Tribune's Utah women's basketball writer, Tony Jones, will have more on the recruits in the newspaper soon, but here's the list: * Cierra Dunbar, a 5-foot-10 forward from Elko High

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A defensive end who originally signed with the University of Utah in February of 2008 has announced he is transferring to Hawaii. According to the Honolulu Advertiser, Siaki Cravens, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound defensive end, committed to the Warriors on Tuesday. Cravens transferred from Utah to Long Beach City College after spring semester. He will have three years to play two seasons at UH. He also

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A 7-foot-2 center from Canada who counted BYU among his five or so major college basketball scholarship offers has chosen Arizona State. Jordan Bachynski, who is currently on an LDS Church mission in Florida, will sign with the Sun Devils on Nov. 11, he said in an email to ASU head coach Herb Sendek on Tuesday morning, according to several recruiting Web sites. A source told the Tribune that

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Dixie High baseball star Dallen Reber has decided to take his talents a long ways from home. Reber, a third baseman, has committed to Kentucky of the SEC and will sign a national letter of intent with the Wildcats in November. Reber, 6-foot and 210 pounds, was also recruited by BYU. "Obviously BYU is a great school. I know if I was to choose BYU I would have a great experience there too," Reber

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It is getting close to crunch time for the state's best boys basketball player to choose where he will be playing college basketball. Provo High's Kyle Collinsworth has said he would like to decide by the middle of October, and he has started eliminating some schools and narrowing his list. According to a source familiar with Collinsworth's recruitment, the Provo senior has pretty much narrowed

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Pleasant Grove High's Kim Dahl, a junior middle blocker and outside hitter, has orally committed to play college volleyball for BYU. Dahl, who has also played for the Club Utah 16 Black team coached by Scott Lee, said she has dreamed of playing for the Cougars since she was 5 or 6 years old. Dahl started drawing interest from recruiters when her teams did well at tournaments in Las Vegas and

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Intermountain Hoops will be hosting one of the top women's high school basketball evaluators in the country at the Future Collegiate Girls Evaluation Camp. Dan Olson of the Collegiate Girls Basketball Report will be doing player evaluations at the camp. Dan Olson and the Collegiate Girls Basketball report have more than 400 colleges that are subscribed to his report. The camp will be held on

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More news to pass along regarding where some of the state's top high school basketball players will play this season. Layton Christian's Will Beard, a 6-foot-2 point guard, is playing at Wenatchee Valley College in the state of Washington. Beard broke his foot and missed most of his senior season at LCA. Bonneville High's Scott Sellers, also a point guard, has signed with Central Wyoming

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The Salt Lake Metro girls basketball club program has announced where its members of the 2008-2009 graduating class are headed to college. All 16 players from the class of 2009 who participated with Salt Lake Metro are headed to college: 14 will play basketball and two will play volleyball. Metro has now produced 65 women's college basketball players in its four years of existence, including 21

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Scout.com has come out with another of its lists of top prep players in the Western United States, this time presenting the top tight ends. No Utahns made the top 10. However, Pleasant Grove's Bryan Sampson -- who has committed to BYU -- and Spanish Fork's Jordunn Mattinson -- who has committed to Utah State -- are on the "Next 10" list. Cooper Pelluer of Skyline High in Washington, who will be

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Kyle Collinsworth, the best high school player in the 2010 class, will visit the University of Southern California this weekend, according to his father, Jeff. USC then will come back for a home visit on September 14th. Collinsworth, a four star recruit from Provo High, who is amongst the top 100 players nationally, has narrowed his choices to Virginia, BYU, USC and Kansas. He has said that he

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Pleasant Grove quarterback Dallas Lloyd, who has committed to Stanford, is the top "dual threat" high school quarterback in the West, according to some rankings released today by the Web site Scout.com. The site also lists the top all-around quarterbacks in the West, and topping the rankings is Jake Heaps, the qb from Skyline High in Sammamish, Wash., who has committed to BYU. "The nation's

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The senior whom most recruiting services call the best football player in Utah this year, Timpview defensive end Bronson Kaufusi, has played his last down of high school football. Kaufusi, tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in Timpview's 34-28 win over Highland High of Pocatello, Idaho, on Friday night, said his father, BYU defensive line coach Steve Kaufusi. Bronson Kaufusi, who has

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There's a young prep football player from Idaho that BYU fans should probably start keeping an eye on. Tanner Mangum is a sophomore quarterback at Timberline High in Boise and the younger brother of BYU senior Parker Mangum. Parker Mangum went to BYU as a walk-on quarterback after his former college, St. Mary's, dropped football, but switched to receiver this season. Tanner Mangum passed for

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This one from the "where are they now?" file: Two former Utah prep basketball stars will play for Alaska-Anchorage this coming season. The Seawolves' roster includes former Hillcrest star Donnie Lao, a 6-foot-2 junior guard, and former Lehi star Drew Robinson, a 6-1 guard. Lao played last season at Snow College in Ephraim, while Robinson played at Salt Lake Community College in 2008-09.

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Dan Sorensen of the Web site UteZone.com is reporting that Alta High linebacker Toloa'i Ho-Ching has narrowed his college choices to BYU and Wisconsin. Ho-Ching, a senior, sat out of Alta's win over Cottonwood last Friday, but is expected to play this week when the Hawks travel to Bingham to take on the Miners. Ho-Ching said last week that he will visit Wisconsin the weekend of Sept. 5-7. The 6-

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Westminster College's women's basketball program has signed three more players for the 2009-10 season, including two from Utah. Set to join the Griffins are Woods Cross guard Heather Anderson, Cyprus guard Kristie Henriod and Angela Fales, a forward from Big Bend Community College in Bend, Ore. Anderson, 5-10, played at Otero Junior College last year and shot 39.1 percent from three-point range

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Morgan Bailey, a 6-2 center from Timpanogos High in Orem, Utah, has orally committed to play women's basketball for BYU. Bailey committed to BYU coach Jeff Judkins on Tuesday after visiting the campus on Monday. She was the third-leading scorer in Class 5A last year with a 16.1 average. She also averaged 10.2 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game for the Timberwolves last season. "I just felt good

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