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The South Summit soccer group dominated 2A second seed South Sevier on Saturday 34-0 to achieve 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 subject objective late within the first quarter. Neff continued his onslaught within the second quarter, including on one other 23-yard subject 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 capability to assault their passing protection. South Sevier quarter Bridger Bradshaw had 34 touchdowns on the season. The Wildcats shut out a group whose lowest offensive output was 21 factors of their Oct. 17 loss to San Juan, their solely loss beforehand of the season.
“The children did an excellent job of sticking to the sport plan,” stated 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 properly, and so we received her executed.”
Thompson lauded his protection for protecting South Sevier at bay, whereas his offense ultimately received going. He stated Blake Osguthorpe, Travyn Boger, Ammon Marchant, Owen Mair, Brody Larsen and Reed performed glorious on protection Saturday. Thompson thought his group’s physicality on protection and talent to disrupt the South Sevier wideouts paid dividends Saturday.
“Our protection was superior,” Thompson stated. “Offense, there wasn’t something flawed, but it surely was simply a type of days the place it took a little bit longer to get going. We had just a few errors right here and there that brought about us to not come out with factors just a few instances.”
South Summit will want their offense to click on and for his or her protection to keep up Saturday’s degree in opposition to San Juan this week. The Wildcats fell to San Juan 69-21 Sept. 12 at house 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 stated. “We didn’t present up and present who we actually are, and we had been lacking just a few guys. It’ll be good to have them again and go in at this time and begin to get our sport plan rolling for the week.”
The Wildcats might want to cease San Juan’s star working again Jagger Nieves, who has over 1,900 yards and 37 touchdowns this season. San Juan’s quarterback Beau Yeomans can also 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 largest factor with them is that you’ve got to get after it early,” Thompson stated. “Can’t allow them to come out and begin early — that’s one thing they dwell and die on. They don’t prefer it to be shut; that’s simply one thing they’re not used to. I believe the primary time we performed them, we simply got here out flat, they usually received on us early.”
Thompson stated he feels the group is true the place he thought they might be when he assumed his place. The Wildcats gained 4 state titles from 2013-18, and his objective was to return the group to that degree. Thompson stated his group proved plenty of doubters flawed with their semifinal win, however that their final objective has at all times been to win the championship.
“It was a giant win for us,” Thompson stated. “I believe lots of people didn’t assume we may get there this 12 months. … There’s no query about it; it (the title) can be enormous 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 barely a little bit over an hour for South Summit and their followers and nearly 5 for San Juan and theirs, coming from Blanding. Adults can get into the sport and the 1A and 3A title video games as properly Saturday for $13, and seniors and college students, $8. KSL Sports will also be live streaming the sport.
“I believe we’ll have a reasonably good turnout being shut as we’re,” Thompson stated. “I see the group displaying as much as that.”
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