Snow Canyon 54, Delta 22CEDAR CITY -- The last time Snow Canyon and Delta met at Southern Utah University it was for the 1995 3A state championship that the Rabbits won -- Saturday's meeting was for the right to go to the 1999 final game.
Senior running back Darrin Hill rushed for 132 yards and two touchdowns , and the SC offense scored on its first eight possessions to vault the Warriors into their third state title appearance in their six-year history.
"I thought we played awfully well. I was pleased with the game plan," said Snow Canyon coach Bill Jacobsen.
Hill and Landon Lounsbury, who had 12 carries for 96 yards and three touchdowns, anchored the Warrior backfield that rushed for 289 yards.
Snow Canyon set the tone early offensively by going for a fourth-and-one on their own 29 two minutes into the game. The Warriors converted it then marched 60 more yards in five plays for the game's first touchdown -- a 25-yard touchdown pass from Scott Jensen to Rhett Frei.
The Warriors converted two more fourth-down plays in two of their next seven drives that led to scores.
"I told them it it was going to come down to that at some point, I didn't expect it in the first series," Jacobsen said.
Moments after the first score, Lounsbury added a 48-yard run, and Jensen hit Bron Shaheen from four-yards out after a Delta turnover to make it 21-0 with four minutes left in the quarter.
Delta answered with its first points of the game, when sophomore Storm Singleton, who had 102 yards, bulled in from one yard out for the first of his two scores after setting the TD up the play before with a 58-yard run.
SC added three more TDs in the second quarter on a Danny Filimoeatu 4-yard run, a Hill 8-yard run, and a Lounsbury 3-yard run - to take a 41-6 lead at the break.
Lounsbury and Hill had TD-runs of 5 yards each in the second half.
Quarterback Brook Rogers engineered two Delta scoring drives in the second half that resulted in 5- and 14-yard TD runs by Rogers and Singleton. Camron Eliason had 50 yards rushing for Delta.
"We got our heads down a little bit, and that's one heckuva team. That's all there is to it," Delta coach Dean Fowles said.
The Rabbits had 247 yards total offense.