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Moapa Valley’s Kasen Hughes, left, and Lane Stringham celebrate a touchdown against Show Low during their game at the Sollenberger Classic Saturday, August 20, 2011 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Moapa upset the Arizona Class 4A state champions 28-26.
Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 | 12:27 a.m.
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Debating the valley's best kicker
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Las Vegas Sun sports reporters Ray Brewer and Case Keefer engage in a wide-ranging high school football conversation. In addition to their usual recap and upcoming picks, they discuss the area's best kickers.
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In case anyone wasn’t convinced of Moapa Valley’s place among the top teams in Southern Nevada this season, the Pirates proved it again Friday night.
Moapa Valley took down perennial Henderson power Del Sol, 49-40.
“It was a good win for us,” Moapa Valley coach Brent Lewis said. “We dominated the line of scrimmage. We were in control of the whole game, other than our boneheaded mistakes to start.”
Moapa Valley fumbled on its opening two possessions to give Del Sol the ball on a short field. The Dragons got points out of both miscues to go up 10-0.
But Moapa Valley settled down and proceeded to pull away from Del Sol by the third quarter behind 198 rushing yards and two touchdowns from Conner Mortensen.
“Our running game was so solid,” Lewis said. “They had to pack the box to try to stop it, so we popped a couple long passes on them.”
Dakota Watters completed six of 10 passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns.
The Pirates were ahead 49-27 with three minutes left in the game when Lewis substituted in his second team, which gave up two late touchdowns.
Del Sol running back Chris Marshall scored on three long touchdown runs.
Case Keefer can be reached at 948-2790 or case.keefer@lasvegassun.com. Follow Case on Twitter at twitter.com/casekeefer.
Ray,
I went to this game because I keep hearing you talk about Del Sol. Honestly Del Sol is pretty bad, I have to give some credit to Moapa. But, Del Sol is not a good football team.
Thanks for the coverage. Moapa dominated Del Sol at the line of scrimmage! Del Sol had plenty of good players but weren't used right and their coaches couldn't make right adjustments. That said Del Sol was a very mediocre team although they did capitalize on Moapa mistakes early and late in the game, but couldn't control the line. The score definitely did not reflect who dominated the game. Once again thanks for the coverage.