When we last caught up with Bingham’s girls basketball team, they were riding a yellow bus to an eventual victory in Utah County. 

Nothing has changed since. 

Well, except for the area in which the Lady Miners are doing their most damage. 

Aside from a bit of a letdown in Oregon at a holiday tournament and one loss in Region 2 play, the Lady Miners have gone rather unblemished, record-wise. 

Bingham (10-3, 2-1 Region 2 at press time) is still making noise, whether that’s home or away. 

Two days after an 18-point triumph at Provo Dec. 11, Bingham was at home against Skyridge in a non-region tilt. 

Evy Roberts continued her hot hand, and the family legacy, by pouring in 20 points on six 3-point makes. The Bingham junior also added seven rebounds and six assists in the 64-47 win. 

That hot hand would not continue, however, in the team’s holiday tournament opener in Salem, Oregon, as the Lady Miners fell to West Linn (Portland) by 16 points, 61-45. Junior Veanna Pau’u paced Bingham with 10, while sophomore Lanie Smith and junior Brizzy Cottle each had eight. 

It marked the first time that Bingham lost a game since Nov. 20, but the Lady Miners were onto something—even if it was a slow night for Roberts, who was held to 10 points in the loss. 

In the next game in Oregon, the Lady Miners held on for a 39-36 victory over Beaverton, getting 10 and nine points, respectively, from Smith and Cottle. 

Bingham then closed out the holiday tournament, and 2025, with a resounding 60-46 win against West Albany, a game where Roberts again found her shooting stroke. The Bingham junior drilled four 3-pointers en route to a game-high 18, while Smith had eight, Cottle seven and junior Quinn Porter, six points each. 

To finish the holiday tournament at 2-1 on the strength of two straight wins had to be somewhat satisfying for a Lady Miners team that had not lost since mid-November. And yet the biggest tests of the season were still to follow for a Bingham team that advanced all the way to the semifinals at state in the last school year. 

That’s where Region 2 play comes into view, the next step for this Lady Miners team. 

Heading into 2026, Bingham is led by Roberts’ per-game average of 13 points. The junior is No. 1 in Utah Class 6A in 3-point makes, No. 8 in the state, and ranks in the top 500 nationally in that category. 

Smith is the Lady Miners’ second-leading scorer, putting the ball in the basket at a rate of nine points per game. The sophomore point guard has big shoes to fill, having taken over for the recently graduated and record-setting phenom Addy Horsley, who now plays her basketball at Chandler-Gilbert Community College (Arizona). 

Perhaps the most versatile player on Bingham’s roster, however, doesn’t lead the team in any major category. 

Pau’u is the Lady Miners queen of efficiency, averaging eight points, six rebounds, one steal and one block—in just six minutes of action per game. The Cyprus High School transfer has certainly made a mark in her first season at BHS. The 6-foot-2-inch center is giving Bingham the kind of inside presence the team did not have last season. 

That was important heading into a congested league slate beginning in early January—one that included newcomers such as a vastly improved Westlake and a Cedar Valley team that ruled the lower classifications. Bingham also no longer has rival Corner Canyon to worry about. 

But, as coach Hector Marquez stressed to City Journals back in December, this is still a young team. With teams chock full of youth, it’s hard to tell whether or not they’ll fill the fountain and forget about the tasks at hand or recall how they fell to Copper Hills at the Huntsman Center in last year’s 6A state semifinals. 

The hope is that in year two of Marquez’ rein, these Lady Miners will chip away at the doubters and get back that bad loss versus their Region 4 rivals.