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SALT LAKE CITY - 1948 and 1949. Those are the two years that it registers “State Champion” next to Hurricane High School in football. And in those two post World War II years, they didn’t even compete with 11 players. Go a few more years forward and the Tigers have been the bridesmaid, but never took the vows as the bride, the last time in 1989, losing to Delta.
So to get back to Rice-Eccles Stadium for the first time in three years and to know you are within just four quarters of making history is…historic. And you can sense in this group of players that it is time to create a new page in the books. They want it and they made sure the Morgan Trojans were not going to take it away from them as they took the Trojans behind the woodshed 26-9 Thursday night in the 3A State Semi-Final game.
Senior Gordie Dotson, proving that he is truly one of the all-time best players to ever wear Tiger gear, plowed his way to 124 yards rushing and two scores to lead the Tigers to the win. Dotson, who rarely plays on defense, ended a Morgan drive late in the first quarter with his first interception of the season. Dotson picked off the ball on the Tiger 15 and took it to the 41-yard line. The offense took over at that point as QB Jase Langston found Jacob Pugh in the end zone on a 17-yard pass to give Hurricane an early 6-0 lead.
Both teams exchanged field goals before halftime. The second half belong to the Tigers. They marched down on their first possession, running through the Trojan defense before Dotson scored the first of his two scores, this time from 15 yards.
Hurricane’s defense was stellar all evening. LB Riley Pentico had 18 tackles, 7 unassisted and played like a man possessed most of the evening. Tyler Ewell snatched his 10th interception of the year and Anderson Rich picked off two Trojan passes to end critical drives in the second half.
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Photo Mike Terry/Deseret News
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