The Hillcrest Huskies had every week to look again finally week’s Area 4 loss to West Excessive and get well. After they returned to their residence area Friday, they didn’t waste any time making an attempt to show themselves.
Okay’Von Houston threw for 312 yards and 6 touchdowns and the Huskies impressed their residence crowd by scoring on almost each possession en path to a 48-8 win over West Jordan.
Final week’s loss confirmed that West may be the category of Area 4 and possibly even all of 5A, however Hillcrest coach Robby Kaelin feels his group is probably not far behind.
With the win, Hillcrest improved to 5-2 general, stayed in second place in area and may very well be on its strategy to its first profitable season since 2003.
“We had been prepared to reply,” Kaelin stated. “We now have the ability gamers and issues simply opened up. Final week, we had been with West for the primary quarter and a half. This time, we took benefit of each alternative. We performed an excellent sport, aside from not fairly ending it.”
Kaelin was particularly pleased Friday along with his senior quarterback, who has been a part of Hillcrest’s system for a lot of Kaelin’s four-year profession and is placing collectively breakout season. Houston accomplished 24 of 36 passes Friday and has already thrown 22 landing passes this season.
Kaelin stated his offensive sport plan is to throw about 85% of the time, and when Houston is correct, the Huskies can rating from anyplace on the sector and are in each sport.
Kaelin famous instantly that this consequence was by no means doubtful and his stress stage stayed comfy all night time because the Huskies took simply 5 performs to get on the scoreboard, beginning when Houston linked with Keli’i Batimana on a 31-yard go.
Kaelin smiled once more as he watched Houston add a pair of landing throws to Alani Latu and Collin Ence. Levi Lavaka caught one other scoring go and returned a fumble for a landing.
Hillcrest led 21-0 after the primary quarter and 40-8 by halftime. After that, the one query was whether or not the competition would finish prematurely — if the Huskies had been capable of stretch the margin to 44 factors — and ship the followers residence early by way of the UHSAA’s “mercy rule.”
West Jordan, which got here into the sport tied with Hillcrest for second place in Area 4 however fell to 2-5 general, didn’t let that occur.
The Jaguars managed a landing simply earlier than halftime, due to sequence of spectacular runs by Bryan Yang and Seteki Tuifua, after which earned some self-respect by placing up a goal-line stand late within the fourth quarter.
Two performs later, quarterback Kenyon Shockey dropped again into his finish zone and located Aiden Hendrickson, who scooted by way of the protection earlier than being tracked down by Hillcrest’s fleet secondary.