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HERRIMAN — All three boys lacrosse finals were won by repeat champions on Friday at Zions Bank Stadium.
6A boys
The most successful boys lacrosse program in the state added another trophy to its case in the first game Friday as the Corner Canyon Chargers won their third state title in a row in a dominant 19-5 win over Fremont.
The Chargers came out firing following a 15-0 shutout win over Farmington in the semifinals with Blake Franckowiak opening the scoring just two minutes in. Carson Isaacson responded for Fremont a minute later to tie it and it looked like fans might get another tight 6A title game after last night's girls final.
Corner Canyon quickly shut that door, however, and scored seven-straight goals in 2 minutes, 43 seconds to take a commanding 8-1 lead with 4:50 left in the first quarter. Porter Wells and Landon Bethers capped off the quarter with two goals in the final four seconds to all but seal the win with a 10-1 lead.
"Unselfish play and one of our pillars of being 'all in,'" head coach Aaron Ika said when asked how his team put together the dominant first quarter. "I think they embodied all of that today. We have guys that just go out and do their job. And we are very much not a 'me' team."
Fremont brought it within six, 10-4, early in the second quarter, but managed just one goal the rest of the game in a one-side championship.
4A boys
Neighboring Cache Valley schools Sky View and Green Canyon faced off for the second year in a row in the 4A title game, with almost an identical result to last year's 9-8 Green Canyon win.
Connor Wilcock had an unusually large scoring impact for Green Canyon, putting the Wolves up 4-1 early in the second quarter, and then scored the eventual game-winner in the fourth quarter to give Green Canyon the 8-7 victory.
"Great kid, hard worker, but it's always big when someone who doesn't score as many goals goes and gets a juice goal like that," teammate Conner Dockery said. "It really changes the momentum."
Despite being the reigning champs, Green Canyon struggled during the regular season and didn't reach .500 until the final game of region play. The Wolves entered the playoffs as a six-seed, with Sky View as the one-seed.
"I've always known these guys had what it took," head coach Troy Oldham said. "It just took us a while to finally get it."
Oldham sees the back-to-back Cache Valley matchups and Green Canyon titles as opportunities to "build lacrosse in the valley."
5A boys
Park City capped off the day of repeat champions with a dominant second-half performance that resulted in an 11-6 win over top-seeded Olympus — just the second loss of the year for the Titans.
The game was back-and-forth early with a 3-3 tie in the second quarter. Park City eventually took a 5-3 halftime lead, but Olympus brought it back within one, 6-5, thanks to a goal from Luke Bryant with 2:10 left in the third quarter.
That's when the Miners really put the clamps down. Park City scored five straight goals between the end of the third and start of the fourth quarter, and allowed just one more goal from the Titans.
"When those boys had to buckle down, they did," Park City head coach Michael Persky said. "They threw their hearts into it; they did it as a team. They were physical, they were smart, they were fast. They were just great."
