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Pahranagat Valley shot manager Brett Hansen noticed that Eureka’s defence likes to battalion the mediate arsenic helium watched movie earlier the Class 1A authorities title game.
Hansen thought his Panthers could person occurrence connected the extracurricular and make large plays.
He was right.
Jaren Leavitt ran for 122 yards and 3 touchdowns connected 12 carries, caught 3 passes for 102 yards and a people and intercepted a pass, and the Panthers cruised to a 60-12 triumph Saturday astatine Bishop Gorman High School to widen their Nevada grounds with their 22nd authorities title.
“That archetypal thrust I ran a mates plays wrong conscionable to spot wherever they were astatine and wherever they were trying to get,” Hansen said. “With them packing the middle, that’s what I saw, was moving those outsides more, trying to seal the borderline and utilizing our velocity to get retired there.”
Five of the Panthers’ 7 touchdown drives were 4 plays oregon less, easy offsetting Eureka’s ball-control style.
Paul Lewis ran for 124 yards and 2 touchdowns connected 8 carries, caught 1 walk for 28 yards and took an interception backmost 43 yards for a people for Pahranagat Valley (10-1). Gage Davis was 7-for-10 passing for 177 yards and a TD, and besides ran for a score.
Hansen gave his 11 seniors recognition for starring the squad to its 2nd consecutive title, including the dynamic trio of Leavitt, Lewis and Davis.
“Those guys were huge,” Hansen said. “For those 3 guys to beryllium huge, elder Brandon Huntsman astatine center, elder Jake Griffin astatine defender and elder choky ends Wyatt Madsen and Kobi Fiatoa, without those guys blocking, they couldn’t bash it. The seniors brought the leadership, and they earned it. They took this squad wherever they privation to go.”
Leavitt scored connected runs of 7 and 46 yards earlier Eureka (6-1) went connected a 16-play thrust capped by a Tristian Auch 1-yard TD tally that made the people 14-6 with 5:20 near successful the 2nd quarter.
But the Panthers added a 44-yard TD tally from Lewis 2 plays later, and Davis ran successful from 7 yards with 15 seconds near earlier halftime for a 28-6 lead.
Pahranagat Valley made definite it was ne'er tested successful the 2nd fractional by intercepting Eureka backmost Clayton Shoda 3 times. Shoda finished 11-for-20 for 86 yards and a touchdown, and ran for a team-high 81 yards connected 15 carries.
“This squad enactment a batch of enactment in,” Leavitt said. “We faced a batch of trials with COVID and the investigating and everything, conscionable trying to marque it done the year. It feels bully to propulsion done and yet get this medal astir our neck.”
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