Sandy • When the euphoric blob that was the Pleasant Grove Vikings dissipated, Chris Jenkinson sought out his head couch, bent his 6-foot-6 frame down low and squeezed Chris Ecalono. The Viking coach was sopping wet, the beneficiary of a bucket of water dumped over his head, but Jenkinson grabbed tight and apologized.
The Pleasant Grove goalkeeper told Ecalono that he didn’t mean to make his coach nervous, that his first-half mistake that put the Vikings under it early on in the Class 6A championship match Thursday night at Rio Tinto Stadium was something that wouldn’t define him or his team or this magical season.