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SALT LAKE CITY — High school hoops is headed down the home stretch, and we saw a theme this week: buzzer beaters.
We take a look at some of our favorites and also bring you highlights from the state wrestling tournament.
But first, the exciting finishes started with an important game in Class 4A's Region 5, where Woods Cross hosted Highland. Tied at 55 with 4 seconds left, the Wildcats inbounded the ball and Trevor Knell found a wide-open Colby Richardson underneath the basket for an open layup, giving Woods Cross a 1.5-game lead over East for the region title.
Copper Hills' girl's basketball team kept its undefeated season alive with a little help from Kiarra Gasu. The junior scored just eight points and one 3-point shot — but she made it count, bagging the game-winner to give the Grizzlies a 49-47 win over Taylorsville and a 20-0 record.
Copper Hills joins Layton as the only two undefeated girl's basketball teams in the state.
Meanwhile, Bear River's boy's basketball team had a dogfight at Morgan. But with 3.2 seconds on the clock, the Bears' Gavin Fronk floated a half-court shot that put Bear River into the 3A playoffs behind Logan and Juan Diego in Region 11.
That got us thinking about past buzzer beaters this season. Former West Jordan star Jordan Pryor nailed a game-winner for Westminster at Western New Mexico, and ex-Springville High standout Lexi Eaton Rydalch hit a half-court shot to lift BYU women's basketball by San Francisco this week.
Meanwhile, our minds drifted to days past: in 2013, when Jalen Moore hit a game-winner for Sky View in the semifinals of the Class 4A state tournament over Bountiful, Lone Peak's TJ Haws hit a bomb to lift the Knights past Virginia's Bishop O'Connell 49-46 in the Great Western Shootout, Davis' Abel Porter hit a game-winner against Olympus in 2012 and Emery's Steve Gordon nailed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer in overtime to lift the Spartans to a win over Richfield in the 1989 Class 2A state championship.
Click the videos above to relive the highlights, and more, from the past week of high school sports.
