In a much-hyped up contest that was a rematch of the 2A state playoff semifinal from a yr in the past, the defending champ San Juan Broncos continued their dominance over the Summit Academy Bears on Friday.
This time, it was with an offensive juggernaut of a efficiency from quarterback Parker Snyder, who guided his crew to a 42-28 win.
Snyder had a recreation to recollect, throwing for 3 touchdowns whereas scoring one himself and serving to out on protection with an interception to cap his night time.
“Parker is an absolute stud. Individuals wish to speak about Jayce Palmer and I don’t wish to take something away from him as a result of he was actually good for us final yr, however folks must take discover of Parker Snyder as a result of he’s the true deal,” stated San Juan head coach Barkley Christensen.
It appeared like the sport was going to show right into a blowout early on, as Snyder discovered receiver Jersey Nieves deep down the sideline within the 1 st quarter, connecting on a 65-yard bomb to open up the scoring.
Just some minutes later, Snyder discovered Nieves once more on virtually the very same play with one other deep ball, this time going 60 yards on the play to double the lead.
A 21-yard landing run by operating again Zach Conway opened up a 21-0 benefit, and it appeared like San Juan was nicely on its approach to one other lopsided victory over its area rivals.
Summit made factor considerably fascinating within the second half, taking benefit of some turnovers and penalties on the a part of San Juan.
“I assumed we began out scorching and appeared actually good. We’re like a curler coaster the place when issues are good then issues are actually good and when issues go down its fairly unhealthy,” Christensen stated.
“We simply have to wash up some issues and get some consistency, however total it was a superb efficiency.”
Summit quarterback Devin Watson did all that he may to present his crew a preventing probability, throwing for
4 touchdowns within the second half. Ultimately nevertheless, Snyder and the San Juan protection proved to be an excessive amount of.
“All the fellows on the crew are superior. I’m surrounded by such nice guys. My line blocks nice and there’s a number of guys on the crew which might be continually making large performs for us,” Snyder stated.
Whereas Snyder was clearly the important thing on the night time, Conway did lots as nicely by dashing for 2 touchdowns and grabbing one by way of the air.