Brighton had its biggest win of the season with a 49-30 victory over Taylorsville Friday night to start the season 5-0.
Stanford commit Simi Fehoko, who is rewriting nearly the entire state receiving record book, is a big contributing factor to the perfect record to date.
Fehoko has been so good this season that he’s beginning to lose track of all the yards he picks up and touchdowns he scores.
“I don’t know, they said over 200 (yards), so it was a good game,” Fehoko said.
To help him out, Fehoko finished the night with 248 yards and three touchdowns, putting him in fourth and fifth place, respectively, on the all-time career state record list, according to UHSAA. Not to mention the talented wideout has already etched his named into preps royalty with his 24 touchdowns in 2014, the most any Utah high school receiver has ever recorded in a single season.
These records are nice and all for Fehoko, but there’s work left to be done. Sure, he’s seemingly breaking records left and right, but that’s not what this season is about for the senior wideout, or his teammates.
“Obviously, it’s a huge accomplishment, but overall, my main focus is winning a state championship,” Fehoko said. “That’s our whole goal for Brighton, is to bring the state championship back to Brighton.”
Balanced attack leads undefeated Lone Peak
After registering the 44-15 win over Riverton Friday night, Lone Peak has started its season in undefeated fashion, like Brighton, by going 5-0 for the lone unblemished mark in Region 4. The Knights have been consistent, and, quite frankly, nearly dominant on both sides of the ball in 2015, but running back Jackson McChesney gives the credit solely to the Lone Peak defense.
“With our defense holding teams to low-scoring points, it’s so much easier for our offense just to put up a couple of touchdowns, maintain the lead,” McChesney said.
Though scoring a few touchdowns may not be as easy as McChesney makes it out to believe, the offense has been just as good as its defensive teammates, maybe even better.
In their five wins this season, the Knights have scored 31, 35, 43, 44 and 44 points, respectively. With the exception of their last game, they have increased their point total with each passing game, and it’s clear that this team learns from its mistakes to play a better, more efficient game the following week.
Just a year removed from winnings five games the entire season and having a losing record, McChesney and company are ecstatic about their team’s undefeated start, but they aren’t done yet.
“We just need to continue going undefeated,” McChesney said. “We’re taking it one by one hoping that we win each game, and we’ll see where that takes us."
Coal Bucket domination
In their 25th meeting, Emery and Carbon high schools battled it out Friday night for the Coal Bucket, a traveling trophy awarded to the victor of the annual battle. Unfortunately for Carbon, Emery has been the dominant team in this matchup’s history, winning 22 of the last 24 meetings, including the last 12.
Adding insult to injury, the Spartans took down the Dinos in convincing fashion with a 41-7 victory. As is any rivalry game, this one was full of emotion from the start, and according to Emery head coach Jim Jones, the Spartans only ran roughly 19 plays in the first half.
"Kids from both schools get up for (this) game," Jones said. "The first half was a hard-fought, tough game."
Though Carbon has now gone 15 seasons without holding possession of the Coal Bucket, Jones believes this rivalry has been good for everyone involved.
"I think it's pretty exciting for both communities," Jones said. "It was a pretty emotional game."
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