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Maxfield belted a home run in each of the two remaining games Saturday, and older sister Olivia went 4-for-5 with a home run, three RBI and three runs scored over two games to help Bear River clinch its 10th state title and third since 2016 with a 14-6 win Saturday afternoon over reigning champion Tooele at Spanish Fork Sports Park.
SPANISH FORK — After Bear River's McCall Maxfield lost to Tooele in the first game of the best-of-three Class 4A state championship series Friday afternoon, she did what any competitive softball teenager would do to get back on the right track. She fired up a karaoke machine with a freshman after going to an escape room with the team and sang along to a collection from the Frozen soundtrack and a few Taylor Swift albums. And it worked like a charm. Maxfield belted a home run in each of the two remaining games Saturday, and older sister Olivia went 4-for-5 with a home run, three RBI and thre...
TAYLORSVILLE — One of the first calls Quincy Lewis made when he took the head coaching job at Lehi High School was to Noa Gonsalves, the Pioneers' up-and-coming senior star who recently signed with Dixie State. Gonsalves couldn't believe that Lewis — the coach with seven state championships at Lone Peak, including MaxPreps' mythical national championship in 2014 — would be his coach. More so, however, he couldn't believe something he told Gonsalves before the year even began. "As soon as he came in, he called me up and said 'we're winning a state championship.' I thought he was crazy, a...