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Draper • Looking to spring an upset on Juan Diego, the visiting Grantsville Cowboys were getting into an offensive groove and still within striking distance Friday night.

But trouble was brewing on the other end, and soon it would become extremely difficult for the Cowboys to contain Gabe Colosimo, Maliik Fagan-Foster and the rest of the Soaring Eagle.

Juan Diego met the Grantsville challenge in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs and advanced to the quarterfinals with a 67-47 win.

The seeds for the double-digit win were, counter-intuitively, within a 10-6 run in favor of Grantsville in the third quarter.

Those six points for Juan Diego (20-4) came off long-range bombs from Colosimo.

Soon, that would open up the inside for Colosimo and Fagan-Foster. And the paint is where this Soaring Eagle crew thrives.

Ahead 43-36, the margin would balloon to 22 points thanks to a 15-0 run in which Colosimo drove inside from his guard position and Fagan-Foster muscled in seven of his 17 points.

"We're very confident we can go very far in this tournament," said Fagan-Foster, a 6-foot-4 junior who moved to Utah from Toronto last summer. "Before I came here, I actually played on the arc a lot. I used to be a shooter. And I used to be heavier, so I wasn't as quick as I am now.

"Getting into the lane and finishing, that's what I like to do now," he added.

Juan Diego led from start to finish, and it was Colosimo, the team's 6-foot senior guard, who set the tone with his 23 points.

"Colosimo just opens up so much for other people," said Soaring Eagle coach Drew Trost. "He's such a great guard that, lots of times, it just opens things up inside. It's a tribute to how unselfish he is."

Grantsville (11-13) featured a balanced attack overall, led by 12 points from Wyatt Barrus and 10 from Aaron Harrison. But the Cowboys only recovered from Juan Diego's third-quarter offensive spurt midway through the fourth period.

And when Barrus put back his own miss with 4:30 remaining, the score was 58-38.

"I thought Gabe came out hot in the first half and we switched up and got into more of a zone," Grantsville coach Bryan Detweiler said. "And [Fagan-Foster] is a bulldozer down there. He's strong around the basket, too.

"I'm proud of my boys tonight. We cut the lead down before things kind of slipped away," Detweiler added. "This season is a building block for the future here. We plan on establishing Grantsville basketball as a player every year." —

3A boys' schedule

First round, Friday

• Ben Lomond 57, Park City 46

• Richfield 55, Cedar 38

• Pine View 69, North Sanpete 46

• Uintah 65, Tooele 50

• Desert Hills 57, Juab 44

• Juan Diego 67, Grantsville 47

• Bear River 57, Union 47

• Dixie 49, Payson 48

Quarterfinals, Feb. 26

At the Maverik Center, West Valley City

• Richfield vs. Ben Lomond, 9:30 a.m.

• Pine View vs. Uintah, 11:10 a.m.

• Juan Diego vs. Desert Hills, 12:50 p.m.

• Bear River vs. Dixie, 2:30 p.m. —

Juan Diego 67, Grantsville 47

R Gabe Colosimo (22 points), Maliik Fagan-Foster (17) and Avery Ames (16) get into double figures for the victorious Soaring Eagle.

• Quarter-straddling scoring runs prove the difference for JD, which has a 19-4 run from the first into the second period and a 15-0 stretch between the third and fourth stanzas.

• Wyatt Barrus scores 12 points for Grantsville, which also gets 10 points and seven rebounds from Aaron Harrison.