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The South Summit soccer crew dominated 2A second seed South Sevier on Saturday 34-0 to succeed in this upcoming Saturday’s state title sport, when the Wildcats will tackle high seed San Juan.
South Summit kicker, wideout and defensive again William Neff opened up the scoring Saturday with a 28-yard area objective late within the first quarter. Neff continued his onslaught within the second quarter, including on one other 23-yard area objective and 23-yard receiving landing, thrown by star quarterback Ian Mair.
The Wildcats put the sport out of attain within the second half, when Theus Reed scored on a two-yard, third-quarter rush, Mair on a 34-yard, fourth-quarter run of his personal and Bryce Pulver on a last-second, 76-yard interception return.
Getting into Saturday, South Summit was involved with South Sevier’s potential to assault their passing protection. South Sevier quarter Bridger Bradshaw had 34 touchdowns on the season. The Wildcats shut out a crew whose lowest offensive output was 21 factors of their Oct. 17 loss to San Juan, their solely loss beforehand of the season.
“The youngsters did a superb job of sticking to the sport plan,” mentioned South Summit Head Coach Levi Thompson. “We went in and knew we would have liked to get stops on protection, and our offense, offense and particular groups clicked effectively, and so we received her accomplished.”
Thompson lauded his protection for protecting South Sevier at bay, whereas his offense ultimately received going. He mentioned Blake Osguthorpe, Travyn Boger, Ammon Marchant, Owen Mair, Brody Larsen and Reed performed glorious on protection Saturday. Thompson thought his crew’s physicality on protection and talent to disrupt the South Sevier wideouts paid dividends Saturday.
“Our protection was superior,” Thompson mentioned. “Offense, there wasn’t something incorrect, however it was simply a type of days the place it took a bit of longer to get going. We had a number of errors right here and there that induced us to not come out with factors a number of occasions.”
South Summit will want their offense to click on and for his or her protection to take care of Saturday’s stage in opposition to San Juan this week. The Wildcats fell to San Juan 69-21 Sept. 12 at dwelling however report feeling a lot more healthy and taking part in higher ball, particularly on protection, this time round. South Summit’s final state title got here in 2018.
“I’m excited to get to play them once more as a result of our first go round wasn’t us,” Thompson mentioned. “We didn’t present up and present who we actually are, and we had been lacking a number of guys. It’ll be good to have them again and go in at present and begin to get our sport plan rolling for the week.”
The Wildcats might want to cease San Juan’s star operating again Jagger Nieves, who has over 1,900 yards and 37 touchdowns this season. San Juan’s quarterback Beau Yeomans can be able to hurting South Summit, with over 3,100 yards passing and 38 passing and speeding touchdowns this season. Thompson is assured his offense can rating in opposition to anybody.
“The most important factor with them is that you’ve got to get after it early,” Thompson mentioned. “Can’t allow them to come out and begin early — that’s one thing they stay and die on. They don’t prefer it to be shut; that’s simply one thing they’re not used to. I feel the primary time we performed them, we simply got here out flat, and so they received on us early.”
Thompson mentioned he feels the crew is true the place he thought they may very well be when he assumed his place. The Wildcats received 4 state titles from 2013-18, and his objective was to return the crew to that stage. Thompson mentioned his crew proved a number of doubters incorrect with their semifinal win, however that their final objective has at all times been to win the championship.
“It was an enormous win for us,” Thompson mentioned. “I feel lots of people didn’t assume we might get there this yr. … There’s no query about it; it (the title) can be large for our program.”
The championship sport will kickoff at 4 p.m. Saturday at Zions Financial institution Stadium in Herriman. The trek to the stadium is simply a bit of over an hour for South Summit and their followers and virtually 5 for San Juan and theirs, coming from Blanding. Adults can get into the sport and the 1A and 3A title video games as effectively Saturday for $13, and seniors and college students, $8. KSL Sports will also be live streaming the sport.
“I feel we’ll have a fairly good turnout being shut as we’re,” Thompson mentioned. “I see the neighborhood displaying as much as that.”
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