Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
CEDAR CITY — The action was hot at the Utah Summer Games Friday and for good reason, with temperatures soaring into the high 90s.
But the rising thermometer didn’t deter competitors from across the state from going for the gold in their chosen sports, including track and field, table tennis and 3-on-3 soccer.
Hundreds of track and field athletes braved the heat to compete for gold at Eccles Coliseum, while dozens participated in the table tennis event at Cedar Middle School and more than 40 teams played in the individual age brackets to try and get gold in 3-on-3 soccer, which is played on a smaller field, with smaller goals and no goalkeepers.
St. George News sports editor Andy Griffin and his family of photographers were there Friday to capture some of the action. Here’s their photo gallery:
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Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Table tennis at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Table tennis at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Table tennis at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Table tennis at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Table tennis at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Holly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Holly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Holly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Andy Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Playing 3-on-3 soccer at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
Track and field at the Utah Summer Games, Cedar City, Utah, June 19, 2015. | Photo by Shelly Griffin, St. George News
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Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m.
Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.