Boys soccer: Wasatch scores in last minutes to cap off good season

SANDY — There seemed to be some dangerous omens for Wasatch.

On Wednesday, throughout the staff’s last observe of the season, the Wasps misplaced beginning centerback Caleb Smith because of a torn meniscus. Then, throughout the sport, outdoors again Jace Kirkham needed to go away because of concussion protocol.

However you do not win 30 video games in a row with out coping with some adversity.

“We at all times discover a method to win,” junior striker Jayden Cosper mentioned.

Make it 31 straight.

Cosper scored the game-winning objective with below two minutes remaining to cap off an ideal season with a 1-0 win over Roy to assert the 5A state title.

Wasatch completed 18-0 on the yr and is now formally amid a dynasty run. It was Wasatch’s second straight title and third within the final 4 years.

“I at all times dreamed of successful a state championship; we did not win only one, we received three,” senior keeper Jackson Medina mentioned. “I am simply grateful to be part of this. It is a dynasty.”

However the third one did not come simple.

Wasatch managed possession for a lot of the second half and put a great deal of strain on Roy’s backline, however could not discover the again of the web.

Medina — who had not often been challenged regardless of the Wasps’ harm woes — even started mentally getting ready for additional time and a possible shootout.

However because the clock ticked below two minutes, he noticed junior ahead Liam Davis ship in a cross. After which Cosper bought free and despatched the ball into the again of the web.

Medina was now not getting ready for an additional session; as an alternative, he sprinted down the sector to hitch the celebration.

“As soon as I noticed it go at the back of the web, my coronary heart was going via the roof,” Cosper mentioned.

He and everybody else on the Wasatch sideline.

And the Wasps do not suppose they’re carried out but.

“Thirty one video games, we’re rolling,” head coach Lance Cosper mentioned. “We’re solely going to lose six seniors. We will be good subsequent yr once more.”