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High school football: Defense makes the difference as Orem hands Maple Mountain its first loss of the season
After giving up 60 points a week ago in a loss to Sky View, Orem responded by taking down previously unbeaten Maple Mountain 30-28 Friday in a Region 7 battle. Following the setback last Friday, Tigers head coach Lance Reynolds Jr. talked to his father, a longtime assistant coach at BYU, looking for answers to help his defense play better in its big matchup with the Golden Eagles. “He had some good advice, which I used,” Reynolds said, “but one of the things that we really did was we didn’t overreact. … He said, ‘One of the things we’ve done in the past that was a mistake was overreacting, revamping a whole bunch of stuff, and now you’re kind of starting from scratch in a lot of ways.’ …We didn’t change much. We just said, ‘This is what we do, and we’re going to get good at it, and we’re going to be better than we were,’ and man, did (the defense) step up when we needed it.” Reynolds’ defense made the difference on the scoreboard in the third quarter after a Maple Mountain interception placed the ball at the Golden Eagles 2 yard line.
Letter: Expressing gratitude to charitable BYU fans
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