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KEARNS — Every week, it’s someone new for the Lone Peak football team.
And that’s just fine with wide receiver Brigham Trowbridge, who had his coming-out party Thursday night.
Trowbridge caught three of quarterback Brock Jones’ four touchdown passes, including two in the second half, to help the third-ranked Knights hand host Kearns their first loss of the season, 42-24, Thursday night in Kearns.
“Brock just reads who is open,” said Trowbridge, who was the team’s third option with 324 receiving yards prior to Thursday. “I don’t think it was me he was trying to go for, but it worked out. I just got open.”
But when the Knights (4-1) needed a spark, Trowbridge proved to be the guy.
Kobe Freeman opened the scoring on a 4-yard run for Lone Peak, but the fifth-ranked Cougars (4-1) matched them through a tied first quarter.
Kearns quarterback Isaac Matua scored on a 39-yard run in the first, followed by Lone Peak’s Masen Wake on a 19-yard rush and then Kearns’ Kalux Manua on a 3-yard touchdown dive to take a 14-14 game into the second quarter.
But that was when Jones began airing it out.
The senior hit Trowbridge with a 15-yard TD strike with 9:30 left in the half, and then added a 20-yard pass to Cody Collins as Lone Peak took a 28-17 lead into the locker room.
“Brock just finds the open guys. It seems like every week, someone steps up,” Lone Peak coach Bart Brockbank said. “This week it was Brigham, last week it was Kaden — I just think he takes what they give us.”
Lone Peak’s defense held the Cougars off the board in a 7-0 third quarter, when Jones found Trowbridge with a 5-yard touchdown on the second drive of the quarter and a 35-17 advance for the Knights.
But Kearns didn’t go away, proving why they were one of just nine teams in the state’s top three classifications with an undefeated record.
The Cougar defense gave its offense a shorter and shorter field, and Matua found Journey Buba for a 51-yard touchdown on a 62-yard scoring drive with 9:31 left in the game to pull within 35-24.
“We viewed these guys as 4-0 and one of the best teams in the state,” Brockbank said. “We practiced that way, and worked that way.”
But that was as close as Kearns would come. On the next drive, the Cougars backed up the visitors to fourth and 13 on the 41-yard line.
Not wanting to risk the punt, Jones floated a perfect ball through the seam that found Trowbridge for a 30-yard gain — and the duo hooked up again two plays later for a 10-yard touchdown with 6:44 left that iced the game.
“The guy was off me a little bit, and I knew if I just ran, Brock would lead me to where only I could get the ball,” Trowbridge said. “That’s exactly what happened.”
Lone Peak opens its Region 4 slate at 7 p.m. next Friday against rival American Fork. The Cougars next play at Cyprus as the 6A calendar turns to region play.
“I don’t feel like we’ve hit our full stride yet,” said Brockbank, whose lone loss in 2017 came at 4A Dixie, 44-30. “There are some young players that need to clean some stuff up. But we’re progressing every week, and that’s most important for me. We need a good week of practice, and then we’re on to AF.”
