4A high school football preview: Bonneville at Dixie

Published: Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 6:09 p.m. MST
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Bonneville (7-4) vs. Dixie (7-3)

4A state tournament quarterfinal

Friday, 2 p.m.

Parry's Power Guide: Bonneville by 3

All-time series: First Meeting

Coach vs. Coach: Dixie's Blaine Monkres leads Bonneville's Matt Williams, 1-0 (met in 2006 when Monkres was at Fremont)

Last meeting: First Meeting

Professional and college teams do it all the time. Even the small classification high schools in Utah are used to doing it, but for Bonneville, traveling six hours on a bus for a football game is new.

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"We've never had to do that before, so we are going to try to just make it all about football," said Lakers coach Matt Williams of taking his team to St. George to face Dixie in the 4A quarterfinals. "We will go down Thursday night for the Friday afternoon kickoff. We want to take our time and practice somewhere on the way down. We are still working things out, but this is new for the kids and we want to make it a great experience for them, treat it as much like a college type game as possible and hopefully they will respond on the field."

The Lakers responded in their first round upset of Bountiful in overtime. In a game that had most expecting the Braves to advance, Bonneville rose to the occasion.

"I didn't really tell the kids anything different," said Williams. "I have kind of left that up to our senior captains, and just like they have been doing all season, they took over and got the guys to make plays."

When Williams first gathered the team to choose captains, he got a surprise. After the vote, he had three players that were voted in easily, but he then had three more players tied for his normal fourth captaincy seat. Rather than eliminating two, Williams decided for the first time in his career to have six captains.

"It wasn't what I was expecting, but I would have to say it has turned out to be one of the best things for us," he said. "Every one of those guys has stepped up and become a leader and a go-to guy for our team. They have been the ones getting it done on the field and off all season."

Recent comments

The coaches daughter must be a blond.

wow | Nov. 7, 2009 at 12:43 a.m.

GO FLYERS!! You guys did great tonight! Good luck against Springville...

DHS Flyers student | Nov. 6, 2009 at 9:22 p.m.

The other day I predicted Flyers 32 Lakers 17. I was wrong. It was...

PV for Dixie | Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:20 p.m.

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Bonneville players and fans celebrate a surprising overtime victory over Bountiful last week, and they hope to be doing the same thing this Friday when they travel to St. George to take on Dixie in the 4A quarterfinals.

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