{"id":663547,"date":"2026-05-12T02:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:33","slug":"jace-rodriguezs-late-game-winner-clinches-ogden-a-3a-3-peat-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663547\/","title":{"rendered":"Jace Rodriguez\u2019s late game-winner clinches Ogden a 3A 3-peat \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jace Rodriguez has scored a lot of goals during his Ogden High School career, over 70 in fact.<\/p>\n

His final goal in a Tiger uniform on Monday afternoon is arguably the biggest of his career.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez scored the only goal in the 3A championship game at Zions Bank Stadium, a 66th minute tally on an assist from Harry Hoskins, as Ogden eked out the 1-0 win over Morgan for its 43rd straight win and third consecutive state championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one was way different. My last goal of my high school career,\u201d said Rodriguez. \u201cNothing better than that three-peat. That felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ogden coach Todd Scott said once the winning streak passed 30 he stopped keeping track as that\u2019s never been the goal. Everyone in that department is a bonus as the end goal of winning a state championship is all he cares about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate to have just great boys, but seeing them year-round makes a big difference and then being on campus and having them in class, honestly,\u201d said Scott. \u201cAnd so just having that bond, that brotherly and family bond, I think that\u2019s what we pride ourselves and that\u2019s why we\u2019re able to kind of stick together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Temperatures on the turf at Zions Bank Stadium were over 90 degrees, and during the second half hydration break round the 60th minute, Rodriguez was subbed off in an effort by the coaches to keep players fresh.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Rodriguez stood on the sideline just itching to get back in the match as the minutes ticked away on the scoreless match.<\/p>\n

Less than a minute after re-entering, but put his final stamp on the season.<\/p>\n

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Ogden celebrates after defeating Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game to win their third straight 3A title at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Trace Henderson (9) dribbles past Ogden\u2019s Andrew Smith (25) during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Trace Henderson (9) dribbles past Ogden\u2019s Adam Jenks during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Harry Hoskins (23) gets a drink of water during a cooling break during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Adam Jenks (7) clears the blocks the ball on the goal line during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Harry Hoskins (23) looks to pass the ball during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Jace Rodriguez (29) controls the ball during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Zeke Snow (9) dribbles past Morgan\u2019s Brody Kinney (12) during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Fans cheer after a goal by Ogden\u2019s Jace Rodriguez (29) during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game between Ogden and Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Cody Adams (20) clears the ball during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Ogden at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Jace Rodriguez (29) celebrates after scoring during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Ty Ward (3) dribbles past Morgan\u2019s Max Lane (14) during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Parker Grow (21) collides with Ogden\u2019s Parleu Gladwell (19) during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Zeke Snow (9) controls the ball during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Will Staats (16) plays the ball out past Ogden\u2019s Harry Hoskins (23) during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden head coach Todd Scott has water dumped on him by his team after Ogden defeated Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game to win their third straight 3A title at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Jace Rodriguez (29) celebrates after scoring during the second half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Morgan at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Max Lane (14) controls the ball during the first half of the 3A boys soccer state championship game against Ogden at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Morgan\u2019s Max Lane (14) wins a header over Ogden\u2019s Jace Rodriguez (29) during the first half of he 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Grant Aardema (8) consoles Morgan\u2019s Trace Henderson (9) after Ogden defeated Morgan 1-0 to win the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden goalkeeper Xavier Peregrina (1) celebrates after Ogden defeated Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden\u2019s Harry Hoskins (23) leads a cheer after Ogden defeated Morgan 1-0 to win the 3A boys soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden celebrates after defeating Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game to win their third straight 3A title at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden celebrates after defeating Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game to win their third straight 3A title at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Ogden celebrates after defeating Morgan 1-0 in the 3A boys soccer state championship game to win their third straight 3A title at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, on Monday, May 11, 2026. | Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News <\/p>\n

The play developed up the left sideline as Andrew Pierce nutmegged a Morgan winger freeing up space to dribble into up field, which pulled Morgan out of its defensive shape. Pierce squared a pass to a wide-open Harry Hoskins in the middle of the field who had no one within 10 yards of him.<\/p>\n

Hoskins was able to dribble straight at Morgan\u2019s back line, with three teammates making runs toward the box. Eventually one of the Trojans\u2019 center backs stepped toward Hoskins to slow his run, and that\u2019s when he slipped a perfectly-weighted ball into the path of Rodriguez, who got there first and tucked a left-footed shot past the keeper with than 14 minutes remaining in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it. I subbed off at the water break and I came right back on and one of my coaches, JJ (Muniz) said \u2018This is your moment, this is your last game.\u2019 And I got emotional and I scored and I ran straight over to the corner flag and I started crying with my boys,\u201d said the senior USU Eastern commit.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez said this year\u2019s 16-0 season had different challenges than a year ago as the program\u2019s depth really got challenged with a lot of new contributors this season. He was proud of how that depth became an asset as the year wore on.<\/p>\n

Two of Ogden\u2019s toughest games during the regular season came against Ogden, including a 3-2 win and then a win in penalties.<\/p>\n

Scott fully expected another grind in the championship game as the team\u2019s tried to made adjustments and exploit any advantages they could.<\/p>\n

\u201cMorgan always comes in, they give us a good battle. They\u2019re well-coached and we knew that they were going to bring their A game, especially here with the championship game and we just made a little adjustments, but basically being disciplined and stay home and doing our job,\u201d said Scott.<\/p>\n

As a group, Ogden stayed composed defensively as a group and kept the clean sheet so that Rodriguez\u2019s tally proved to be the game winner.<\/p>\n

Scott wasn\u2019t surprised at all that it was Rodriguez who clinched it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe puts in the extra work. I\u2019ve been coaching these boys since eighth grade and he\u2019s just a workhorse, you know, and he wants it. It\u2019s a mental aspect, always tell my boys it\u2019s 90\/10, 10% physical, 90% mental and he always brings it,\u201d said Scott. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have that drive because as teenagers you lose focus real quick, but he just has that drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan\u2019s best chances of the match ironically enough didn\u2019t come until the frantic final three minutes of the match as Ogden\u2019s defenders scrambled to clear dangerous balls in the box and keeper Xavier Peregrino was forced into a handful of championship-level saves.<\/p>\n

That included punching away a 22-yard dipping free kick with just a minute remaining.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my goodness. I mean Xavier, he\u2019s the best keeper in the state for a reason. he\u2019s unbelievable. No one expects him to be good because he\u2019s not the tallest keeper but he is seriously the best keeper that I\u2019ve ever played with in my life,\u201d said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jace Rodriguez has scored a lot of goals during his Ogden High School career, over 70 in fact.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[213420,49,48,245098,3166,245097,561,82],"class_list":["post-663547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-boys-soccer-high-school","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-morgan-utah-high-school-sports","tag-news-feed-local","tag-ogden-utah-high-school-sports","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}