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HYRUM — The Sky View football team wanted to prove it was the top team in the newly restructured Class 4A.
Friday night's rivaly battle pitting the top-ranked Bobcats against No. 2-ranked Mountain Crest was as good a chance as any.
Cole Stokes’ 1-yard touchdown plunge as time expired gave the Bobcats a 16-13 win over the Mustangs in the biggest game in the Cache Valley that put two of the final 10 undefeated teams against one another Friday night.
“You know, we want to be the best team in 4A,” Sky View quarterback Jackson Siddoway said. “Any team can play hard against us. We just have to keep on coming out and playing hard.”
Siddoway connected with favorite target Mason Falsely for a 21-yard touchdown that gave the Bobcats (6-0) a 10-6 lead at halftime.
But Mountain Crest (5-1) would come back. Cameron Modern hit Brady Hall with a long 38-yard touchdown strike in the third quarter, and the Mustangs had a 14-10 lead going into the final quarter.
Mountain Crest’s defense had to hold off one final drive — and the Mustangs nearly did it.
Siddoway was rocked by Nicholas Nethercott on third-and-goal from the 3-yard line with 15 seconds left, forcing a winner-take-all fourth down play.
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It would’ve been easy to go to Siddoway in the final seconds, but Sky View didn’t overthink it. Stokes took the hand off, found a hole off the tackle and powered into the end zone for the win that kept Sky View’s undefeated season alive.
“We went for it on fourth down, and well, it worked,” Sky View coach Danilo Robinson said. “It was a tough call. But the kids really talked me into it.”
The Bobcat players never doubted their run game, Stokes said.
“The coach came over and was like, we’re going to pass it,’” Stokes said. “We just said, ‘let’s run it’ and we got in.”
Click the video above for highlights from the best games of Week 6 of the 2017 high school football season, including Kearns’ win over Cyprus in the KSL Game of the Week, Lone Peak’s takedown of rival American Fork to open Region 4 play, and East’s rally to avoid an upset loss to Herriman.
