Prep football: Jaguars take wild OT win
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OREM - West Jordan certainly knows how to make things interesting.

After last week's 2-0 win over Lehi, West Jordan lit up the scoreboard at Mountain View on Friday night. And for the second week in a row, the Jaguars pulled together a game-winning play in the closing minutes, this time in overtime, to earn a 40-37 decision over the Bruins.

Through four quarters, however, it couldn't have been a more even matchup.

Mountain View got up on the Jaguars early after Chris Wright threw a 69-yard pass to Jordan Smith to put the Bruins up 6-0 after one. From that point on, the Bruins and the Jaguars held a track meet on the field, as running backs swapped 50-yard runs to set up a defensive duel on the 1-yard line on nearly every possession.

After missing last week's game, West Jordan's Damien Maestes had a huge opening night for the Jaguars, muscling in two touchdowns from the 3-yard line in the second quarter.

"[Damien] gave our team his heart," said D.J. Tialavea. "He helped us wrap it all up tonight."

Mountain View responded with a track star of its own when Tanner Houston ran in an 85-yard kick return.

In the second half, the Bruins and the Jaguars ran a game of cat-and-mouse that included six lead changes. The yo-yo scoring continued, and by the fourth quarter it was all locked up again at 34-34 with a chance for Mountain View kicker Sam Hickman to lob off the game-winner. But the kick went just wide, sending the game to overtime.

Hickman redeemed himself with a field goal on the Bruins' overtime possession. Mountain View's defense then backed West Jordan into a fourth-down situation, but Tyson Udy called out the last chance play to Tialavea who hopped in the game-winning touchdown.

"I just called it for my boy," said Udy, adding, "Our defense will get better, too. You can put that in all caps if you want."

W.J. gets field goal on its first possesion, then stuffs the Bruins
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