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Pleasant View • The last time the Weber Warriors and the Fremont Silver Wolves met on the soccer field, the referee ended the match five minutes early citing "too physical" of play. It looked as if the two squads were going to gain those five minutes back when their match headed to overtime Thursday afternoon, but Weber midfielder Max Price decided that three minutes would do as he scored a beautiful full-volleyed goal to clinch a 2-1 victory for the Warriors.

"I got excited, I thought 'I might actually score off this — I better make it count,' " Price said. "I'm telling myself I've got to score this or we're probably not going to win this game. I just waited on the ball and shot it. I felt so happy after that."

Price was mobbed at midfield by the rest of his team in a jubilant frenzy that ended a soggy afternoon of effective, yet ultimately disappointing offensive soccer for both teams.

Before Price's goal, neither team had scored in the run of play. Fremont got on the board early thanks to a slip-up by the Weber backline when the wet ball took an unexpected deflection off a Warrior defender. The ball trickled past the helpless goalkeeper for a 1-0 Silver Wolves lead in the third minute of action.

The Weber attack continued to find space to work with in the offensive third of the field. Despite their hard work, the Warriors were turned back again and again by a swift Fremont defense and the stubborn woodwork of the Fremont goal.

"The offense just kept clicking," Weber forward Eric Morris said. "We were getting shot after shot, but just couldn't score. We felt the whole game that the goals were going to come, we just had to keep shooting. It was bound to go in eventually."

Weber's equalizer came in the 55th minute. After a charging Jeff Burnett was taken down inside the 18-yard box by a Fremont defender, Morris stepped to the spot and buried the penalty kick to level the match at 1 with just over 20 minutes remaining.

"I have a certain spot I like shoot for," Morris said. "I just put it in that spot, try to send the keeper the other way and hope for the best. It worked out today."

Price said that the penalty could not have come at a better time for the Warriors and that his team needed to see the ball hit the net in order to take control of the game from there.

"After that point in the game, the intensity rose so much for our team," Price said. "We definitely had the upper hand the rest of the way."

The overtime win improved Weber to 2-1 in region play while knocking off Fremont from the ranks of the unbeaten in Region 1. The Silver Wolves fall to 3-1 in region, leaving the door open for their Weber County rivals to contend for the top spot.

"It's a big win because this is a big rivalry for us," Weber head coach Jan Swift said. "[Fremont] was won a lot of games and scored a lot of goals. To knock them off sends a message and it gives us confidence, but I was confident that we could win today. We work hard for times like this." —

Weber 2, Fremont 1

R Eric Morris scores on a PK and Max Price finishes a full-volley shot in overtime to claim the victory.

• Weber joins American Fork as the only teams to shut out the Fremont offense (Fremont's score came via a Weber own-goal).

• Weber improves to 6-1 overall and 2-1 in Region 1, three points back of Fremont (7-2, 3-1).