First week of Summer Games concludes with plenty of gold

Written by Andy Griffin
June 4, 2017
Utah Summer Games, Karate, Cedar City, UT, June 3, 2017, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

CEDAR CITY – The first Saturday of the 32nd annual Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games is complete as athletes competed for gold in both individual and team sports at various venues throughout Cedar City and St. George.

Some of the events handing out gold medals Saturday include horseshoes, pickle ball, archery, youth (high school) basketball, karate and trap shooting.

The hometown Canyon View team beat Pine View in the boys varsity gold medal game in the Centrum Arena on the campus of Southern Utah University, one of the many results from a full day of competition.

The Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games celebrates excellence in the human spirit and healthy lifestyles through extraordinary sporting events and competition. Kicking off the Games will be the Opening Ceremony on Thursday, June 8, at 8:30 p.m. in the Southern Utah University Eccles Coliseum and will feature the athlete’s march, live entertainment, and fireworks.

The Utah Summer Games attracts athletes of all ages and skill level from across the western United States to compete in nearly 40 different sporting events. Since 1986, this event has been conducted in Cedar City with an average total of 9,600 participants, 50,000 spectators, and 1,000 volunteers in attendance each year.

Prior to the Opening Ceremony and new this year is a free Summer Block Party, sponsored by the KSL Read Today Initiative. The block party will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on June 8 in front of the SUU Centrum on 800 West. There will be food trucks, face painting, games and prizes

St. George News photographer Robert Hoppie was at the Miller Summer Games and captured this photo gallery Saturday.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.

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