The weekend's last final out West arrived from Oahu, where the wind was still working while the mainland slept. By Saturday morning the Friday slate was finally countable. So we counted.
| What closed overnight | The number |
|---|---|
| Orem at Kamehameha Kapalama (moved up a day by the storm) | Orem 16-7 |
| Churchill County at Bishop Manogue | 32-30, settled |
| Liberty (Henderson) at Mililani | Mililani 31-24 |
| California teams in Hawaii, four verified finals | Combined 186-14 |
Here is the Out West weekend in one sentence: Utah's Power 10 went 6-0 against opponents from outside the board, with both losses delivered in-house, while Nevada's board lost its No. 3 in Salt Lake City, its No. 5 to a team we left off the rankings, and, before Saturday's sun came up, its No. 2 in Hawaii.
Utah finished what Friday started
Friday night the audit went out with one game open: Orem was still on the field in Honolulu when we filed. The final is in. Orem beat Kamehameha Kapalama 16-7 in a game Tropical Storm Lala shoved from Saturday to Friday, which makes the board 6-0 against outside opponents in week one. The only teams that beat Utah's top ten were Utah's top ten.
The headliner aged well overnight too. Our own reporting from the stands in Kaysville has the full run at 37 unanswered points, 7-6 to 44-6 with a 30-0 third quarter at the heart of it; the Deseret News game story called the second-half surge 30 straight, and the paper's Week 1 roundup put the yardage gap at 460-268. A one-point halftime lead became a 37-point final without the Chargers attempting anything exotic. They just kept playing. The full SPIN recap from the building runs separately.
The neighbors will not enjoy the comparison, and the calendar is about to make it louder: IMG Academy lands at Lone Peak this Friday, Mater Dei visits Orem on Aug. 29, and Bishop Gorman comes to Lone Peak on Sept. 4. Three weekends running, the country's top ten will be playing on Utah grass.
Orem's storm game gets its own story today. So does the team the storm could not stop.
Fallon, the number is yours now
On Friday night we told you Churchill County had beaten Bishop Manogue, Nevada's No. 5, and that the exact score was still being argued between scoreboards, so we would print it when the books agreed.
The books agree. Churchill County 32, Bishop Manogue 30.
The Greenwave held their two-point win in Reno through every correction cycle, and the team we benched on process grounds now owns the loudest result by any Nevada team not named Gorman. Our own ruling said one result would move them onto the board. Two points moved them.
The rest of Nevada, in weather and in doubt
Bishop Gorman's 41-0 win turned out to be even shorter than it looked: the Review-Journal reports the game was called at halftime after a 90-minute lightning delay. Half a game, 41 points, and an opponent finishing with negative total yardage. Max has the national angle in his wrap.
One score we are not printing as settled. MaxPreps records Centennial of Las Vegas 7, Coronado of Henderson 0 as a final called at halftime in Friday's lightning, while the Review-Journal lists that game among nine postponed or cancelled. A final and a cancellation cannot both be true, so Nevada's No. 10's opener stays an open question until the scorekeepers agree.
And Liberty of Henderson, Nevada's No. 2, lost 31-24 at Mililani, the top team in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser rankings. Max has the full story of the first-start quarterback who beat the Patriots.
Add it up honestly: outside Gorman, Nevada's opening weekend has nothing to frame. Utah's problem this weekend was choosing which win to lead with.
It got no better after this filed: Faith Lutheran of Las Vegas, also ranked on our board, lost a two-day game on Saturday. That story runs separately.
California came early
The calendars say California's season opens next Friday. Nobody told the Southern Section. Eight CIF-SS teams put games on Hawaii schedules this week, per SI, working around the same weather as everybody else.
The four finals we can verify were not close. San Clemente beat Kapa'a 23-8 on Thursday. San Juan Hills beat Castle of Kaneohe 67-0. Villa Park beat Farrington 55-6. Newport Harbor beat Nanakuli 41-0. That is a combined 186-14, with a caveat: two of the four finals still rest on a single source while the California papers catch up. Two more games, Edison of Huntington Beach at Iolani and Capistrano Valley against Damien of Honolulu, were scheduled for Saturday.
None of it moves a SPIN board, because our California boards measure teams against California. But if you wanted a preview of how the Southern Section travels, Hawaii provided one.
The weekend owes us nothing now
Every open item from Friday night now has an answer or an honest flag, from Honolulu to Fallon to a 7-0 score nobody can agree happened. The season the storm rearranged has played exactly one weekend, and the scoreboards finally went quiet before dawn.
They will not stay quiet long.
