No time to blink for Morgan girls soccer
Aug 01, 2024 12:43PM ● By Brian Shaw
A Trojans player sprints away from her defender. File photo
For the Trojans girls soccer team, tryouts get underway bright and early this week at Morgan High under head coach Bryan Searle.
Six days later, the Trojans under Coach Searle will go right into the heat of battle as they start the preseason Aug. 6 with a game at 5A Box Elder.
Life moves at you fast if you’re this Morgan High team; last year, the Trojans fell 2-1 in heartbreaking fashion to Ogden, this year’s consensus No. 1 in all of 3A, in the 3A championship game.
This year, the Trojans will be wasting little time getting down to the brass tacks that will be holding down the goals at Morgan High.
3A’s consensus No. 2-ranked team according to the Deseret News, Morgan will go from that Aug. 6 road matchup at Box Elder one day to a home contest the next [Aug. 7] against 5A Roy at 4 p.m.
Two days later, the action still comes fast and furious to the Trojans, who will be playing their third game in four days on Aug. 9 when they host Bonneville.
If this preseason slate looks similar to the one the Region 13 champion boys played this past spring, it does. The difference, however, is that the Trojans girls will be playing twice as many non-region games.
Morgan then wraps up the preseason slate with a home contest vs. 4A Bear River Aug. 12 before it is scheduled to play all three Salt Lake City-based Catholic schools and 3A Region 14 foes: at Rowland Hall on Aug. 13, home on Aug. 21 to Juan Diego Catholic and at Judge Memorial Aug. 22.
Playing such a variety of schools in different classifications also gives the Trojans a few weeks to get all the kinks out before Region 13 action begins on Sept. 5.
By the time Morgan travels to Ogden Sept. 5 to open the Region 13 season for the first time since that ill-fated 3A championship game, everything counts more for this Trojans team that wants to take it one step further for the 2024-25 school year.
For this Trojans team, a hot start in preseason play will be vital to keeping the home fires burning, so to speak. They’ll want to have some success early in order to retain a high RPI, the system responsible for seeding schools for the 3A state tournament. λ
