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Southern Utah women top Abilene Christian in conference shootout
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CEDAR CITY — The Southern Utah women’s basketball team ended a four-game skid Saturday with a 82-80 victory over the Abilene Christian Wildcats.
The win moves the Thunderbirds to 5-13 on the season and 3-6 in Western Athletic Conference play. Just ahead of Southern Utah in the WAC standings, the Wildcats now have an 8-10 overall record and 4-5 conference record.
Both teams shot over 50% from the field, with Southern Utah going 30-of-57 and Abilene Christian going 32-of-64. Despite making fewer shots, Southern Utah made twice as many 3-pointers than its visitors. Their 10 made shots from beyond the arc gave them their highest total this season, with five of them coming from the hands of senior guard Samantha Johnston.
Johnston attempted nothing but 3-pointers in the game, plus two free throws, to give her a total of 17 points on the afternoon.
Freshman sensation Ava Uhrich was the star for the Thunderbirds, though, recording her sixth double-double of the season. She scored a career-high 25 points to accompany her 12 rebounds.
Leading all scorers was Abilene Christian’s Payton Hull, who had 27 points on 11-of-18 shooting, including 4-of-8 from 3-point range.
The teams traded the lead just twice in the first half, and both times happened in the first three minutes of play. Southern Utah led for the other 17, building their largest advantage to 11 points. Uhrich scored 13 of the Thunderbirds’ 50 first-half points to lead all scorers, and the teams headed into halftime at 50-41.
Southern Utah maintained a double-digit lead for the majority of the third quarter and it was their best shooting period. They went 7-of-11 from the field while holding the Wildcats to 8-of-17.
It wasn’t until there was 2:25 left in the game when Abilene Christian knotted up the score at 77-all.
The Wildcats stayed steady to score 19 points in the final period of play and kept Southern Utah to 10 points, allowing just four field goals. After a layup by Uhrich returned the Thunderbirds’ lead, Hull made a 3-point shot to give Abilene Christian a 1-point edge.
One more Uhrich layup put the Thunderbirds back on top. The final eight seconds featured a steal from Southern Utah’s Ashley Banks, a successful Uhrich free throw and a block of the Wildcats’ final shot by Johnston, sealing an 82-80 win.
Southern Utah, as they frequently have this season, struggled when it came to turnovers. They lost the ball 15 times, more than double Abilene Christian’s total. The Wildcats scored 20 points off turnovers, accounting for 25% of their scoring.
WAC play will continue for both teams on Thursday as Southern Utah takes on UT Arlington and Abilene Christian takes on Tarleton State.
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KANOSH, Utah — The United States Geological Survey recorded multiple earthquakes near Kanosh Sunday morning, each of them having an average magnitude of 3.0.
The first earthquake, magnitude 3.0, was detected just after 12:30 a.m., with the epicenter located half a mile south of Kanarraville.
The second quake, magnitude 3.2, was detected around 5:45 a.m., with the epicenter nearly five miles south-southwest of Kanosh. This was followed by two more quakes in the same area, a magnitude 2.5 quake coming in around 6:35 a.m., followed by a third around 7:45 a.m, which measured at magnitude 3.3.
This has since been followed by another quake, measuring at magnitude 3.7, being detected around 8:45 a.m. The geographic location in the USGS report places the epicenter approximately over two miles south of the Dry Wash Trail, about six miles south-southwest of Kanosh.
FOX 13 News previously spoke with researchers at University of Utah, who said that earthquake swarms are relatively common. A study published in 2023 posits that swarms may be triggered by geothermal activity. The findings came after a series of seismic swarms were detected in central Utah, within the vicinity of three geothermal power plants.
The study also says that the swarms fall into a different category than aftershocks that typically follow large quakes, such as the magnitude 5.7 earthquake that hit the Wasatch Fault back in 2020.
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