High school boys volleyball: 3A semifinals recap, defending champ Morgan and Ogden advance to championship
The Lehi Pioneers and Lone Peak Knights play in a boys varsity volleyball game held at Lehi High School in Lehi on Thursday, April 10, 2025. | Tess Crowley, Deseret News 3A semifinals Ogden 3, Juab 0 Throughout Day 1 of the 3A state volleyball tournament, top seed Ogden hit fast and accurately. The Tigers dominated both their quarterfinal and semifinal, including a 3-0 sweep over Juab for a spot in the 3A state championship.
“Everything just came together,” said Ogden head coach Tim Wright. “The work that they’ve been putting in really was showing up and all of the little things that we’ve been talking to them really came through and paid off. ” Outside hitter Keen Crowther led Ogden, finishing with 24 kills with a .
362 hitting efficiency. But it wasn’t just him, as James Taukiuvea and Kos Crowther added nine kills each, and Ogden hit . 337 as a team.
The Tigers played clean all around, including blocks and passing. Saturday’s championship game will be the first for Ogden despite being close the previous two years, and the Tigers plan to make the most of it. “The message to the team is, ‘We’re going to show everybody why we got the No.
1 seed and that Ogden is a force to be reckoned with,’” Wright said. Morgan 3, North Sanpete 1 If No. 2 Morgan has proved anything through the first three years of sanctioned boys’ volleyball in Utah, it’s that the Trojans will always be a contender at the state tournament.