Springville wears down Maple Mountain to nab rivalry win
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- Springville’s Lisiate Valeti (2) carries the ball against Maple Mountain in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Springville’s Max Harris (20) carries the ball against Maple Mountain in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Cole Allred (16) escapes a Springville tackle in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Springville’s Tuiono Valeti carries the ball against Maple Mountain in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Mosese Kolomalu carries the ball against Springville in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Kyren Jones (1) runs away from the Springville defense in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 27, 2025.
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- Springville’s Beau Halvorsen (17) throws a pass against Maple Mountain in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Cole Allred throws a pass against Springville in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Springville’s Tua Naufahu (8) carries the ball against Maple Mountain in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Kasen McLay (3) defends against Springville in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
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- Maple Mountain’s Frank Schwenke carries the ball against Springville in a high school football game on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025.
Maple Mountain’s containment of Springville’s powerful rushing attack could only last for so long in a Region 7 matchup Friday.
The visiting Golden Eagles threw everything they had at the Red Devils to force a single first-half touchdown, but Springville’s continual ground churn broke things open in the second half on the hosts’ way to a 28-0 win.
Springville coach Dave Valeti expected a hard-fought game despite opposite records — Springville entered the game 5-1 and Maple Mountain was 1-5 — due to the nature of the matchup.
“It’s a rivalry game,” Valeti said. “We told them all week, it doesn’t matter the records. We knew Maple would bring all they had and they put up a really good fight.”
Maple Mountain’s fight came despite being down 20 players due to injury, according to coach Harry Schwenke.
After Springville scored on its opening drive on a Tuiono Valeti 24-yard rush, Maple Mountain held the hosts to just 24 yards on its final four possessions by swarming to the ball and capitalizing on the Red Devils’ snapping issues.
“Based off of the guys that we have out there, they were impressive,” Maple Mountain coach Harry Schwenke said. “They did what we wanted to do.”
The hosts prevailed, though, thanks to a dominant defense and 194 rushing yards produced by a committee of Tua Naufahu, Tuiono Valeti, Lisiate Valeti, Max Harris and Treyton Harris.
Lisiate Valeti had two second-half scores — a 15-yard touchdown in the third quarter and a seven-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter — and Treyton Harris chipped in a one-yard rush on fourth-and-goal to ice the game.
“We just told them at halftime, we’re going to come out and be who we are,” coach Valeti said. “We’re not going to panic, we’re not going to do anything out of character. We’re just going to rely on what we do and play great defense, and the running game started going there. And we’re a tough team to hang with for four quarters.”
A second half awakening may not have been necessary to win the game, though, because Springville’s defense was so absolute.
The hosts bullied a Maple Mountain offense led by the freshman tandem of quarterback Cole Allred and running back Apollo McQuivey. Allred spent much of the evening evading pressure while McQuivey struggled to get past the line of scrimmage.
The Golden Eagles did, however, cobble together a few promising drives, including a late first half trip to the red zone, but a 34-yard field goal sailed wide left. In the third quarter, Allred’s 25-yard pass to Brooks Ross put Maple Mountain in business, but the Red Devils forced a turnover on downs on fourth-and-goal.
“(Allred’s) our only quarterback right now, so we had to manage the game to where we couldn’t take a whole lot of risk with him,” Schwenke said. “He didn’t turn the ball over once, and that was our that was our goal, to take shots at times when we had it, protect him and just making sure that he wasn’t giving the ball away.”
Springville was familiar with Allred because his father was a Red Devil alum and they’d seen him coming up through the youth leagues, coach Valeti said.
“We knew what kind of player he was. He played a great game tonight,” Valeti said. “Our guys on defense, I thought they were ready. I thought they communicated well and got a couple big stops.”
Springville (6-1) will look to stay in the region race in a road game at Timpview next week, while Maple Mountain (1-6) faces another rival in a home game against Spanish Fork.
SPRINGVILLE 28, MAPLE MOUNTAIN 0
Maple Mountain 0 0 0 0 – 0
Springville 7 0 7 14 – 28
S-T. Valeti 24 run (Smith kick)
S-L. Valeti 20 run (Smith kick)
S-L. Valeti 2 run (Smith kick)
S-T. Harris 1 run (Smith kick)
