{"id":687484,"date":"2026-05-23T00:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:43:24","slug":"high-school-boys-soccer-bountiful-prevails-in-double-ot-on-pk-to-win-5a-state-title-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687484\/","title":{"rendered":"High school boys soccer: Bountiful prevails in double OT on PK to win 5A state title \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gutty, gritty and grueling are ways to describe fifth-seeded Bountiful and sixth-seeded Maple Mountain\u2019s battle for the 5A boys state soccer title Friday at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman.<\/p>\n

Both teams had willed their way into the championship game after trailing in their respective semifinal, and that same grittiness carried over into Friday as a defensive battle ensued over regulation and into double overtime, where the Redhawks prevailed 1-0 on Cameron Martin\u2019s penalty kick.<\/p>\n

The PK as time was winding down was a tough pill to swallow for Maple Mountain\u2019s defense that was outstanding all day behind Palmer Croshaw and Wyatt Witt\u2019s great play. <\/p>\n

The backline thwarted several Redhawk runs and chances, but the continuous pedal to the metal mentality Bountiful showcased eventually broke through.<\/p>\n

As Ezra Christiansen was rolling, he drew contact and was awarded the penalty that set up the game winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had phenomenal defense, but you know, at the end we just kept trying to penetrate through and we eventually got it,\u201d said Christiansen.<\/p>\n

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Bountiful\u2019s Cameron Martin catches his breath after scoring a penalty kick that won the game against Maple Mountain in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful celebrates their 5A soccer state championship victory against Maple Mountain at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful celebrates their 5A soccer state championship victory against Maple Mountain at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful celebrates their 5A soccer state championship victory against Maple Mountain at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful celebrates their 5A soccer state championship victory against Maple Mountain at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful\u2019s Ezra Christiansen, right, celebrates their 5A soccer state championship victory against Maple Mountain at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful\u2019s Cameron Martin celebrates after making a penalty kick that won the game against Maple Mountain in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Maple Mountain\u2019s Colton Ashby and Bountiful\u2019s Jack Byaombe compete for the ball after a corner kick in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful\u2019s Ezra Christiansen tries to score against Maple Mountain\u2019s goalie Ethan Antonino in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Maple Mountain\u2019s Sam Swain and Nash Bryan double team Bountiful\u2019s Cameron Martin during the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Bountiful and Maple Mountain compete in the 5A soccer state championship game at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman on Friday, May 22, 2026. | Laura Seitz, Deseret News <\/p>\n

Christiansen and Martin moved the Golden Eagle defense up, down and across the field, and in the end made sure the champion wasn\u2019t going to be crowned in a shootout. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of times we could have scored and didn\u2019t score, I mean, it gets in your head for sure,\u201d said Martin. \u201cAnyone who\u2019s telling you it doesn\u2019t is a liar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very, very hard, but I think if you guys saw that last little push, everybody was giving their voice and giving their mind, and that\u2019s what a real family is.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Bountiful coach Gabe Johnson, who is in his first season at the helm, there was a clear choice to take the penalty kick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a handful of guys that I trust, and when the moment arises, we all just rally around each other and trust whoever feels it in the moment,\u201d said Johnson. <\/p>\n

\u201cCam was feeling it, the boys rallied around him and I\u2019m proud of him for getting it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin didn\u2019t flinch when given the opportunity, as he calmly approached the ball and went just under the crossbar and just out of the reach of an extended Ethan Antonino, who had made several highlight reel saves to keep the Golden Eagles in the game.<\/p>\n

The championship ties Bountiful with Alta for the most boys soccer titles in state history at 10. Bountiful proudly wears nine stars on its jersey to represent its program\u2019s championships and now gets to add a 10th, which was the goal all year.<\/p>\n

Part of this year\u2019s storyline is that the Redhawks had to beat the top-seeded Hawks in their semifinal before getting a chance at the championship win to tie them. They made good on both opportunities to bring the title back for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fortunate to take over a very rich program,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of history in this program, and so being able to be a part of this history is wonderful. All props to the boys for how hard they\u2019ve worked this season to bring this win back to Bountiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Equally good for Bountiful was its keeper play from Jovany Lobato, who earned the clean sheet after keeping the Maple Mountain offense off the scoreboard. \u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a doubly special day for the Redhawk seniors as Martin and Christiansen, along with their classmates, participated in a graduation ceremony on the field before the game. <\/p>\n

The senior class missed their school\u2019s graduation Friday to play in the championship, but Martin noted that several friends and family were still there to celebrate the victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think one thing I wasn\u2019t really aware of coming into this, like this big day for sure, is how much it\u2019s going to hit you that this is that last push,\u201d said Martin. \u201cSo, this means the world. So many mixed emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christiansen, who has signed to play for San Diego State, echoed Martin, who will decide on his college club this weekend, in what the day meant. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, it\u2019s crazy,\u201d Christiansen said. \u201cGraduating right before the game and then playing our last game \u2014 winning a state championship, I can\u2019t put into words how good it feels.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gutty, gritty and grueling are ways to describe fifth-seeded Bountiful and sixth-seeded Maple Mountain\u2019s battle for the 5A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[213420,49,48,3166,561,82],"class_list":["post-687484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-boys-soccer-high-school","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news-feed-local","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687484","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=687484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}