Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
ST. GEORGE – League leaders Snow Canyon and Dixie both captured impressive wins Friday night, with the Warriors blasting Hurricane 5-0 and the Flyers hitting the road for a 2-0 win at Canyon View. The two victors remain tied atop Region 9 with identical 6-0-3 records and 21 points with three games left for each.
Here’s a quick glance at the action, with excellent photos from St. George News sports photographer Robert Hoppie:
Snow Canyon 5, Hurricane 0
Austin Mild got his fourth shutout of the season and the Warriors broke open a 1-0 halftime game with four unanswered goals in the second half.
Ben Kemp started things off with a goal in the first 40 minutes off an assist from Dillon Hoskins that made it 1-0.
After halftime, it was all SC. Kemp assisted on a goal by Yetzel Carrillo to make it 2-0. Hoskins then scored on a rebound to up the advantage to 3-0. Carrillo’s second goal came on an assist from Jacob Wittwer that made it 4-0 and Jaxon Gates notched his first goal of the season late in the contest on an assist from Kirk Brown.
Carrillo and Kemp are now tied for the team lead with nine goals each this season.
Snow Canyon, 6-0-5 overall, is off Tuesday and next plays at Pine View next Friday. Hurricane, 1-10-0 overall and 1-7-0 in region play, is at Cedar Tuesday at 4 p.m.
Dixie 2, Canyon View 0
It was a chilly, blustery day in Cedar City, but the Flyers stayed tied for first with the road win at Falcon Field Friday afternoon.
Trey Hoskins and Oscar Quintero had the only goals of the game, both notching a score before halftime. Dixie’s defense, and goalkeeper Kieran Atkin, held the line from there. Atkin earned his fifth shutout of the season.
“It was cold and windy,” said Dixie coach Burt Myers. “I felt that we played better today than we did on Tuesday at Cedar. Our spacing was better. Our defense did a great job in the windy conditions. We moved the ball quicker. CV put a lot of pressure all over the field. Our ball movement tired them out.”
Quintero’s goal was his team-leading ninth of the season. For Hoskins, it was net-finder No. 8.
Dixie, 8-0-3 overall, hosts Pine View Tuesday night. Canyon View, 5-5-2 overall and 4-5-0 in region play, is at Desert Hills Tuesday.
Thursday night’s result Pine View 1, Desert Hills 1 (F/2OT)
Region 9 boys soccer standings (region, points, overall)
Dixie 6-0-3, 21, 8-0-3
Snow Canyon 6-0-3, 21, 6-0-5
Desert Hills 4-1-4, 16, 6-2-4
Canyon View 4-5-0, 12, 5-5-2
Pine View 3-3-2, 11, 4-6-2
Hurricane 1-7-0, 3, 1-10-0
Cedar 0-8-0, 0, 1-9-0
Next Tuesday’s games Hurricane at Cedar, 4 p.m.
Canyon View at Desert Hills, 7 p.m.
Pine View at Dixie, 7 p.m.
Snow Canyon's Dillon Hoskins (3), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Benton Kemp (2) and Hurricane's Conner Jensen (7), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Conner Jensen (7), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Kirk Brown (20) and Hurricane's Blakely Wright (18), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Brett Gonzalez (13), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Austin Mild (00), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Benton Kemp (2), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Benton Kemp (2), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Anthony Vargas (10), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Dayton Elison (2) and Snow Canyon's Brett Gonzalez (13), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Benton Kemp (2) and Brett Gonzalez (13), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Gary Esplin (33) and Hurricane's Blakely Wright (18), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Conner Jensen (7) and Snow Canyon's Dillon Hoskins (3), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Gary Esplin (33), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Blakely Wright (18), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Kirk Brown (20) and Hurricane's Bryce Hubbard (1), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Zach Foster (6), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Dayton Elison (2), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Jack Reeve (22), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Bryce Hubbard (1), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Sean Keetch (11), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Tokina Yoshii (11) and Snow Canyon's Cameron Morris (99), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Snow Canyon's Dillon Hoskins (3), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
Hurricane's Bryce Hubbard (1), Snow Canyon vs. Hurricane, Boys Soccer, St. George, Utah, Apr. 13, 2018, | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m.
Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.