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Infielder will be joined by a familiar face ♦ When the time came for Stansbury High senior Payten Staley to figure out where she wanted to go to college, she knew one thing for sure — as a small-town girl, she wasn’t interested in moving to the big city. It turns out that she won’t have to, and she’ll be joined by a familiar face from Tooele County. Staley recently signed her national Letter-of-Intent to play softball at Dawson Community College in Glendive, Montana, a town with an estimated population of around 5,000 people. “Just driving to the town, it felt like home,” Stale...

Stansbury girls fall to Cedar at Cancer Classic ♦ After the holiday break, along with a long bus trip to southern Utah, it would have been understandable for the girls basketball teams from Grantsville, Tooele and Stansbury high schools to look a little bit sluggish on Monday in their first games of the annual Steve Hodson Cancer Classic. Instead, the Cowboys, Buffaloes and Stallions all had standout performances, with Grantsville and Tooele coming away with wins. Stansbury lost its game on Monday, but saw some positive signs, as well. Grantsville 57, Canyon View 35 Emily Backus knocked do...

Grantsville responds well after blowout loss ♦ The Grantsville girls basketball team isn’t accustomed to losing very often at all, much less in the fashion the Cowboys did in last Tuesday’s 19-point loss to Delta. Less than 48 hours later, the Cowboys took to the court again, this time on the road against county rival Stansbury for their third game in four nights. Shaking off any fatigue or other lingering effects from Tuesday’s game, the Cowboys dominated from the opening tip on Thursday night at Stansbury High School, rolling past the Stallions for a 49-32 win that improved their r...

Potential game-tying shot in final seconds won’t fall for SHS ♦ Just when things appeared to be at their worst in Tuesday night’s non-region game against Bear River, the Stansbury girls basketball team was at its best. The Stallions trailed by nine points entering the fourth quarter and hadn’t shot well all night, but suddenly found their stride on both ends of the court as they put together a 12-4 run to close to within a point of the Bears in the final seconds. However, thanks to some key late free throws, and a missed 3-pointer that would have tied the game, Bear River escaped Sta...

Stallions’ young bench learning on the job ♦ This year’s Stansbury girls basketball team is somewhat of a paradox: the Stallions are both extremely experienced, yet extremely inexperienced at the same time. Entering this season, Stansbury’s starting five of Payten Staley, Sarah Gatluak, Malia Tia, Epa Tia and Ainsley Thurber have combined to play 169 varsity games in their playing careers, with Staley and Malia Tia the only seniors. Behind them, however, the Stallions have 17 games of varsity experience coming into the 2020-21 campaign: Natalie Ogden has seen action in nine games, wh...