Nov 18th, 2007
Alta Hawks win 5-A Football Championship
Alta High School (Sandy, Utah) capped off its 2007 football season with a 19-7 win over the Layton Lancers at Rice Ecceles Stadium this past Friday afternoon (11/16/07) in the 5-A championship game.
The win capped off a 13-1 season for the Hawks, whose only loss of the 2007 campaign (20-23) came in the second game of the season against the Bingham Miners, the 2006 5-A champs.
Nearly 20,000 fans watched Layton score on the opening kickoff with a 97-yard runback. But Alta’s stellar defense shut down the Lancers’ vaunted run attack, leaving Layton with -9 yards rushing (an all-time 5-A Championship Game record).
Alta graduates 43 seniors, but has 55 juniors slated to return for the 2008 season.
Oh, and did I mention that this same group of juniors was undefeated this year as a Junior Varsity squad and last year as the Sophomore team?
Congrats, Hawks — 2007 5-A Football Champions!
