5A boys' basketball: Pleasant Grove keeps Davis at arm's length to advance to quarterfinals

Source: www.sltrib.com --- Monday, February 27, 2017
Pleasant Grove’s 7-foot-3 sophomore Matthew Van Komen may be the tallest player Utah high school Basketball fans have seen since Emery’s Shawn Bradley played 25 years ago. The Vikings’ big man made his 2017 state tournament debut a hit in the early going as he led his team to a hard-fought 48-45 Class 5A boys’ Basketball first-round victory over a good Davis team. Van Komen scored eight of his team-high 12 points in the first quarter when Pleasant Grove took what proved to be an insurmountable 1...