Six local Ute Conference football teams won division championships on Saturday, Nov. 9.
Four teams from Stansbury won titles along with one team from Tooele and one team from Grantsville.
Most of Stansbury’s teams compete in the World League while most of Grantsville and Tooele teams play in the Patriot League. One of Stansbury’s teams won a championship in the Global Continental League.
Stansbury’s Gremlin team for ages 8-9 won a championship as did Stanbury’s Mighty Mite team for players age 11 and its Midget team for players age 12.
The Stanbury Gremlins defeated Bingham 14-6. The Stansbury Mighty Mite team defeated Cyprus 38-6, and the Stansbury Midget team defeated Bingham 31-8. The Stansbury Black team defeated Alta 35-0 for the Gremlin title in the Global Continental League.
Stansbury nearly had a fifth team win a championship, but came up one point short. In the Pee Wee classification, Cyprus edged Stansbury 26-25.
Grantsville hosted championship games on Saturday, and met up with rival Tooele in two of the games. In the Bantam divsion for players age 13, Tooele defeated Grantsville 39-13 for the title. In the Gremlin division for players age 8-9, Grantsville defeated Tooele 21-6.
Grantsville had six teams playing for championships Saturday.
The Grantsville Pee Wees, age 10, lost to Highland 32-13. The Grantsville Silver Gremlins, ages 8-9, lost to Cottonwood White 18-12. The Grantsville Mighty Might team, age 11, lost to Viewmont 22-6. The Grantsville Black Gremlin team lost in a championship game to West Black 26-25.
Grantsville Ute Conference President Keysha Mecham said Saturday was a huge day for the Grantsville little league program. “We hosted the championship games for Patriot, United Continental and Mountain Continental divisions of Ute Conference and raised a lot of money for our program,” she said.
Teams and fans came from Tooele, Westlake, Highland, Viewmont, Cyprus, Bountiful, Corner Canyon, East, Park City, South Summit and Skyline.
Team photos of the championship squads will appear in next week’s editions of the Transcript-Bulletin.