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High school boys soccer: American Fork breaks 40-year drought with 6A state championship victory
Junior forward Demetri Larsen spent his Wednesday practicing his shot from one particular location around the 36-foot mark. Little did he know at the time that it was the spot where he would have a chance to make a generational play for his team. Forty years is a long time for any high school team to go without a state championship. It feels especially long for a team representing American Fork, which has won state in 11 different sports since the turn of the century but hadn’t laid hands on the coveted trophy for boys soccer since 1984, back when 46-year-old Cavemen coach Casey Waldron was in the first grade. But when senior Ben Harley’s corner kick Thursday in the 6A state championship match went right where it needed to go, it got booted out of the scrum into the waiting feet of Larsen, who fired it through the hands of Farmington’s goalie for American Fork’s lone goal.
Wasatch High School softball to play in 5A championships
After beating Clearfield High 3-0 Saturday, May 11, and again Monday, the Wasps will now face off against Bountiful High School in the “Super Finals.”. The winner of the three-game series will move on to the brackets for a chance to win the 5A Utah Softball Championship. The first...
American Fork wins first boys soccer title in 40 years
SANDY, Utah (ABC4 Sports) – It took four full decades, but the American Fork boys soccer team can finally call themselves state champions. Demetri Larsen scored the only goal of the game in the first half in a 1-0 win over Farmington for the Cavemen’s first state title since 1984. “We had nothing to lose,” […]
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