Football in Utah

This has been a GREAT weekend for football in Utah.

BYU beat TCU on Thursday night, 27-22. BYU is the only team in the MWC to be undefeated in conference play. Every other team has lost at least two conference games.

Timpview High School (Dallin & Brandon's school) won their semi final game against Mountain Crest, 38-0. They move on to the 4A state championship game next weekend against Pine View. Timpview has had an incredible season, going undefeated and winning every game by an average of 35 points.

Alta High School (where our kids may some day go) won their 5A semi final game last night against Bingham. Bingham was ranked #1 in the state and had beat Alta in their last 5 meetings. Alta won in a nailbiter game, 21-17. Our next door neighbor is the star linebacker for Alta and hopes to go to BYU next year. Packer's summer camp soccer coach plays for Bingham. He is playing in the All-American prep game as the kicker, and has a full ride to BYU next year. Unfortunately, he missed two field goals in this semi final game which cost the team the game. We were excited that Alta won, however. Alta will play Layton next week for the 5A State Championship game.

In other sports news, Holland started Junior Jazz Basketball this week. He has an excellent coach who is doing a great job teaching them how to play. He is also alot of fun -- Holland loves it! He is playing with 4 other friends from the neighborhood. We learned last night that this will be a long season. The team doesn't begin games for over a month (has 5 weeks of practices) and then the season lasts through March! All the games are at the Sandy rec center by Grandpa Noal's house. We drove by grandpa's house and there were 3 cars in the driveway. Obviously the house has new owners. We wished we could have picked up grandpa to come watch some basketball.

Packer begins basketball next week. He is playing with his friends Will and Joseph.