Box Elder wrestling coach Mike Ripplinger is excited. He’s excited that 16 members of this year’s team competed at state last year and that eight of them placed. “We’ve got a real good foun...
A matter of time
The Box Elder High School football team’s season certainly didn’t live up to the hopes or expectations of players, coaches or fans. The Bees went 2-7 with no wins in Region 5, in games that were ...
Doing that thing they do
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got, they say. Which was exactly what Steve Brooks had in mind last Saturday when he and his football team of 8th graders traveled...
A dream come true
For five years, Brigham City’s Steve Brooks has been relentlessly chasing a dream. It’s not a big dream like traveling the world, curing cancer or winning the lottery; in fact, it would be absolu...
Smash mouth football
Just one Brigham City team took advantage of their home field and escaped the second round of the Wasatch Front Football League’s playoffs last Saturday. The Brigham City Purple Midget football t...
Still Perfect
Quarterback Shad Watson was a force that the Clinton Blue team could not reckon with during the Brigham City Purple Midget football team’s 42-0 playoff win last Saturday. Watson either passed or r...
Then there were two
Two Box Elder High School tennis players are all that remain standing after the North Divisional Tennis Tournament in Ogden last week. Kristie Jensen and Michelle Braithwaite entered the division...
Change is good, they say, and no more so than for the Box Elder High School volleyball team who swept two teams last week, Tooele (25-8, 25-21, 25-13), and Ogden (25-12, 25-15, 25-22). Accordi...
It was a bit of an up-and-down night for the Box Elder High School volleyball team last Thursday when they earned a five-set win (25-21, 18-25, 25-9, 18-25, 15-7) over the Preston (Idaho) High S...
Jordan Gerfen had already missed two field goals—of 25 and 39 yards—before he started lining up his third attempt with a little less than six minutes remaining in a tied ball game last Friday. ...
The Box Elder High School football team took the field against the Copper Hills last Friday, but the Bees weren’t competing against just the Grizzlies. Without question, the Grizzlies were simpl...
Two defenders from Bear River try to bring down the Bees’ Matt Williams (above) during the opening weekend of little league football last week. Williams finally went down after a third defender jo...
The Box Elder High School boy’s golf team will get as much out of this season as they put into it, according to head coach Kevin Peterson. “We can make it to state,” said Peterson in an email la...