By Brian Shaw | [email protected]

After ending their seasons at the 6A quarterfinals, the Bingham boys and girls basketball teams start over.

With the help of six seniors, the boys won all but three of their games the entire season, and were expected to rule the 6A state tournament—but the hot streak came to a screeching halt a lot earlier than they expected.

At the 6A quarterfinals, the boys met their match against a 15-10 Westlake team that had played their way into the state tournament.

Having lost six players to graduation, including their top three leading scorers, the Miners will return their fourth scoring option from that squad in junior guard Ace Reiser who averaged 10 points per game last season.

Along with seniors Tyler Langston and Brayden Whitehead, who offer both size and versatility, the Miners will still have key pieces from that team that went 22-3 last year.

Girls

The girls team season was not as glamorous as the boys, but they fought their way to the Region 3 title, which they sharled with crosstown rival Herriman.

The girls surprised some at the 6A state tournament and made a run all the way to the quarterfinals, where they were finally outmatched.

For this Miners team though, they’ve lost five of those players that made that surprising run at state.

The good news, however, is that their third leading scorer returns in junior guard Brianna Badonie [10.6 ppg] as does one of their top playmakers, senior guard Ane Henderson.

Other players to watch that played in all 25 games last year on that 17-9 Bingham team include senior guard Sarah Broederlow and senior forward Hallie Bayles.