BY KYLE GOON
The Salt Lake Tribune
| First published Nov 18 2011 09:05PM
Updated Nov 19, 2011 12:55PM
The Hurricane football team was cursed. No doubt about it.
But the Tigers hadn’t worried about black cats, broken mirrors or stepping on a crack. They would always get to the Class 3A championship, and they would always lose in the game’s final seconds.
So no one can blame coach Chris Homer, even when he had an insurmountable lead, if he wanted to wait until the clock reached zero before anybody started celebrating the championship they were seconds away from winning.
"I was still yelling at them," Homer said. "I was a little mad we started celebrating early."
Maybe the team was still looking over its shoulder, wondering what could befall it next. But at the end of a snowy, gritty title game, Hurricane had shattered the hex that had given it so much misery the past three seasons.
The fourth time turned out to be the Tigers’ year to take state, as they crushed Region 9 rival Desert Hills 21-0 at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Friday night.
It seemed Hurricane had waited eons to win its first 11-man football championship. When the moment had arrived, the Tigers didn’t seem quite to know what to say.
"I can’t explain it," fullback Brian Scott said. "It’s just the best feeling. So huge."
|
|
Activities 
