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Corner Canyon beats Skyridge for fourth state title in the last six years

After losing to Skyridge in the final last year, the Chargers get some revenge in a 41-27 victory.

  | Nov. 18, 2023, 12:58 a.m.
| Updated: 4:15 p.m.

The Corner Canyon Chargers are champs once again.

Behind a 443-yard game from quarterback Isaac Wilson, Corner Canyon beat Skyridge 41-27 in the 6A state title game Friday.

It was the Chargers’ fourth state title in the last six years, and its first since 2020.

“It means the world to me,” Wilson said. “To finally get these boys back on top, we’ve been here so many years. We finally got it back.”

The Chargers scored 14 points in the final 48 seconds of the first half to build a three-score lead.

First, Wilson engineered an eight-play, 74-yard drive to score on a 5-yard run.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Corner Canyon Chargers celebrate their win over the Skyridge Falcons, for the 6A State championship at Rice-Eccles Stadium, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Corner Canyon Chargers celebrate their win over the Skyridge Falcons, for the 6A State championship at Rice-Eccles Stadium, on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023.

Then with a chance to run out the clock, Skyridge ran two incomplete passes and was tackled out of bounds. It forced the Falcons to punt and give Corner Canyon an extra possession with 31 seconds left on the clock.

Wilson used the added time to run three plays, all passes, and go 70 yards to score. The final play, a 26-yard pass to the back of the end zone to Jerome Myles, gave Corner Canyon a 27-10 lead.

Myles would finish with 121 receiving yards and two touchdowns.

Skyridge rallied with two touchdowns of its own behind the play of quarterback Jackson Stevens. Stevens’ two-yard run with 7:22 remaining briefly cut Corner Canyon’s lead to 34-27.

The Skyridge quarterback accounted for 402 yards himself, with 377 through the air.

But the Falcons couldn’t do enough to beat Corner Canyon in the title game for a second straight year. Wilson sealed the win with a 54-yard touchdown run on a keeper.

Wilson ended with five touchdowns (three rushing). He ran for 192 yards and went 15-of-23 passing for 251 yards.

“Isaac has been someone we’ve leaned on offensively all year for sure,” head coach Eric Kjar said. “We just kept trying to feed him. They were kind of giving us some stuff where we felt we could keep running our [quarterback] draw plays.

“... Showed some speed too. We always tease him that he is not that fast. But he showed some a little bit there.”