Grantsville tennis
The Grantsville girls tennis team finished the region season with a perfect 8-0 record in each position. The Cowboys cruised past Stansbury on Tuesday at Stansbury 6-0. Singles winners for Grantsville were Jen Christensen 6-2, 6-1, Bailie Sandberg 6-1, 6-1 and Morgan Matthews 6-1, 6-1. First doubles winners were Madi Linares and Whitney Castagno 6-3, 7-6 (8-6), second doubles winners were Lexi Jackson and Becca Toone 6-1, 6-4 and third doubles winners were Kayla Johnson and Sam Rowberry 6-1, 6-0. Grantsville will host the region tournament on Oct. 2-3.
Felt’s Facts
Halfway through the regular season, eight teams savor perfect records while a dozen others remain winless. There’s just two possible meetings between undefeated teams during the rest of the regular season — and they’re both non-region games: Desert Hills at Tooele in 3AA on Oct. 9 and Corner Canyon at Woods Cross on Oct. 15. However, three games this week — all region contests — pit undefeated squads against once-beaten teams: San Juan (5-0) at Beaver (4-1), Bingham (4-1) at Brighton (4-0) and Bountiful (4-1) at Woods Cross (5-0). In a matchup of winless teams this week, Ogden entertains Ben Lomond in the Iron Horse battle. With 5-0 starts, second-year school Corner Canyon continues its fastest start and Desert Hills has matched its best-ever start of 2013. Woods Cross aims to match its best-ever 6-0 start of 2012. Tooele’s resurgence continues: a home victory over Juan Diego gives the Buffs a 6-0 record for the first time since 1965. Tooele has already earned its most wins since 2006 when it went 7-4. Roy (5-0) now has its best start since the Royals marched to the 1975 semifinals with a 10-0 record. San Juan last started 5-0 in 2012 when the Broncos won their first 11 and Timpview last opened 5-0 in 2010 when the T-birds started 10-0.
Utes open PAC-12 play
Utah (3-0, 0-0 Pac-12) hosts Washington State (1-3, 0-1 Pac-12) in homecoming on Saturday at 6 p.m. in Rice-Eccles Stadium. The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. Kyle Whittingham’s next win will be career victory No. 80 as Utah’s head coach. Whittingham is 79-39 in his 10th season. He has participated in 164 wins in 21 total years on Utah’s staff — including 10 years as an assistant coach — which is the most by any football coach in school history. The Utes are off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 2010, when they won their first eight games. Saturday’s game against WSU is Utah’s 2014 Pac-12 Conference opener. The Utes are 0-3 in Pac-12 openers, losing to USC in 2011 (23-14), Arizona State in 2012 (37-7) and Oregon State in 2013 (51-48 in overtime). The campus has a variety of events planned during a weeklong celebration of its 2014 homecoming, which is themed “Believe in U.” Utah leads the series with Washington State 7-6. The series is tied 3-3 in Salt Lake City and Utah leads 4-2 in Pullman, Washington. Gionni Paul, Andy Phillips and Kaelin Clay combined to win three national and two Pac-12 player of the week awards for Utah’s win over Michigan last Saturday.
Aggies face Cougars
Utah State and BYU have byes this week before they face each other on Friday, Oct. 3 at LaVell Edwards Stadium at 8:15 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN.
Duck hunt starts Oct. 4
There is good news for those who like to hunt waterfowl. Duck, geese and swan hunts start Oct. 4 The number of Canada geese produced in the state is the second highest in the past 10 years. Couple that with good production in Montana and western Canada, and this could be a banner year for Canada goose hunting in Utah. Duck hunters can expect plenty of birds to migrate through the state. The questions is, how long will ducks remain in Utah? The water level on the Great Salt Lake is close to its lowest point on record. A smaller lake means ducks won’t have as many places to escape hunters when hunting pressure builds on the marshes. To learn more about hunting waterfowl in Utah, see the free 2014–2015 Utah Waterfowl Guidebook at wildlife.utah.gov. or call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR’s Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.