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Show i Bs ee _ TheSalt Lake Tribune FOOTBALL Sunday, November21, 1999 CLASS 3-A FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS 2-A FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Manti Caps Dream Season, Beats South Summit BY LYA WODRA‘ THE SALT LAKETRIBI OREM — When Manti coach in thetitle gamelast year to San juan. Although Manti entered as the favorite, the Wildcats believed Brenan Jackson met with his this would be their day. Quarter- team at the end oflast season and said he would retire after this year, he never imagined how his coaching career would end. It was too muchofafairytale to hope for, but one that his team madea reality Saturday as Manti beat South Summit 34-15 at Mountain View High to win its first Class 2-A football championship. The victory markedthe end ofa dream season for the Templars (13-0). Mantiled the state in fewest points allowed (7.8 ppg) and was second only to Class 5-A champ Skyline in margin ofvictory (28.2). Steve Yates/The Salt Lake Tribune Snow Canyoncelebratesits victory over Emery in the Class 3-A football championship game on Saturday. Snow Canyon Romps Warriors earn secondtitle in four years with 41-6 shellacking of Emery i t. I will just have to write all ie a ay Snow Canyon ran all over Emery on Saturday afternoon. Landon Lounsburyran for four touchdowns behind a dominating performance fromhis offensive line and the Warriors pounded out an easy 41-6 win at Southern Utah i Eccles Coliseum. It close. The Warriors scored the first three times they touched the landhad 410yards ofoffenseto ‘ds for the Spartans. “Theiroffensive anddefensive lines just controlled the game,” Emery coach JimmyJonessaid. “They wi too od for us up front. It wasn't just us that couldn't stop them. It was all of 3-A.” Lounsbury finished with 177 yards on 17 carries and had we hdown runsof 4, 49, 9 and 10 is, but he was quick to credit his offensive line of Jess Hacker, Tyler Beck, Jon Ence, Brant Nikolaus. Drew Adams and Josh Willard “Iamso in shockright now I 's second state football championshipin its sixth year of existence and further stamped the Warriors as 3-A’s most dominant program. “T told my wife way back in the ean hardlythink,” Lansbury said . Who hinted strongly that this washis final game. “This team was on a mis: sion. And because of the talent of Gubler (13 yards) in the first quarterandfinished with 92 yards going to be now Canyon this team, I don’t knowthat we wereevertested.” The marginof victory was fitting for a 11-1 Warrior team that wasthe highest scoring team(41.9 points per game) in the entire state. Emery (11-2) wastrying to AMERICAN. ir WT Pet PP BA | Indian Mia! amidasea ofgreen and goldclad SnowCanyonsupporters. niorshave dreamed aboutthis our wholelives. Quarterback Scott Jensen threw touchdownpasses to Gar rett Jacobsen(31 yards) and Ryan bassin e there was ever a doubt wewere going to lose,” said Jacobsen, the coach's son. arp scored Emery’s only TD on a l-yard run in the third quarter. The Spartans opened the gamelike they were going to make it one. Quarterback BradStilson | | | Dallas NY Giants Washington Gwen Bat hea ss A AT I Nene a ‘ iw 1 TW second play, but that was the team's longest play, and it didn’t result in a score. assistant principal at the school. While hewill be able to look back on Saturday’s gameand enjoy the memories, South Summit's players have nothing but bitterness toward their luck in thetitle game. TheWildcats, who finished 11-2 with both losses to Manti,lost thestate’s career touchdown pass leader(62). However, except for an 82-yard drive early in the game that culminated with a 15-yard touchdown run by Jarin Leavitt, Edmunds wasineffective against Manti’s defense. He was inter- cepted three times and fumbled twice, losing one. The turnovers Jed to three Manti touchdowns as the Templars scored 34 unan sweredpoints. “Wejust didn’t match up with them well,” South Summit coach Garry Walker said. “Our guys are short, and they have some tall kids, so certain matchups didn’t go well for us. Their defense did a good job.” Manti's defense held South Summit to 17 yards on 17 carries, while Edmundsfinished 19-of:35 for 208 yards. In contrast, Manti’s fleet of running backs rolled over Manti quarterback Steven Jones was 8-of-11 for 134 yards with two touchdown passes. He added a 6-yard TD run in the third quarter. Manti took the bite out of the Wildcats in the second quarter whenJones found Brady Nielson for a 55-yard touchdown. “We've been practicing that touchdown pass all week,” Nielsonsaid. “I knew was going to get that one.” Nielson intercepted Edmunds on the next play at the Manti 45, and the Templars scored three minuteslater on a 24-yard pass to Jeremiah Church. That gave the Templars a 21-7 halftime lead, a margin the Wildcats could not make up. South Sanu(112) ans Leni 1run Mente Bek) M Tiel ranGales Nilson Church pasefrom Jones(Ci mai NTiwel3ena ‘M-Jones 6run (kick fale S- Lewis | run (vewis pas romEdmunds) Snow Canyon’'s defensive front of Wayne Hill, Derek Terry, Nate Caplin, Dan Rowe, Stewart So- lomonson,Jordan BundyandFrei gave up yardage grudgingly, allowing only a couple of long PAit throws. “Wehave35 seniors, the most ever at our school, on the team, and we'reall friends,” Frei said. “We dreamedofthis since middle school, and we had some good coaches that made it happen for tam(rte Dreher us.” Coach Jacobsensaid the 1999 Warriors maybetheywill have enoughconfidencein their guys to print the year on the caps next time are moretalented than the last Snow Canyon team to win the championship,in 1996, “but the '96 team would not be denied. They hadto win a lot of close games.” 79 SERIES SNOW TIRES Not so with the '99 bunch, whoseonlyloss was to 4-A semifinalist Provo (25-7). 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Last week, Edmunds became yards and two touchdowns. “This whole season has been like World WarII, and each game has been battle,” Tidwell said. “We wonthis for each other and Coach, We should all be MVPs. aFOTNAT < pions” that were passed out didn’t include the year the Warriors won to SnowCanyon, but never came ae grateful to coach this group of ids.” 1p210.@).9 Nig Miami's phins (7-2) any tiebreaker they play Sunday when NewEngland isits Miami (/1 @.m., Ch. 2). The Dolphins went to Buffalo have with theBills andgained101 yards in a23-3 loss to the Bills. Suddenly, the return ning back, broke a leg last week, leaving another rookie, J.J Cecil Collins, the starting runJohnson, to c Thanksgiving Day in Dallas againis critical to Miami's hopes in the AFCEast, where four teams are within a game of the top onlyother tailback ontherosteris Autry Denson a dismal showing. 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