Football Recap: Summit Academy Skates Past American Leadership Academy with Ease

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Summit Academy). They blew past the American Leadership Academy Eagles, posting a 49-10 victory. The win continues a trend for the Bears in their matchups with the Eagles: they've now won six in a row.

Liam Larson

Rushing Yards

09/19/25 @ American Leadership Academy	246
09/12/25 vs Delta	95
09/05/25 vs San Juan	99
08/29/25 vs Timpanogos	103
08/22/25 @ North	13
+ 1 more games

Liam Larson had another great game (as he tends to do), rushing for 246 yards and four scores while picking up 12.3 yards per carry, and also catching one TD. With that strong performance, he is now averaging an impressive 120 rushing yards per game. Another back making a difference was Deegan Roper, who rushed for 125 yards and one touchdown on only five carries.

Wins are hard to come by when you can't run the rock, something Summit Academy proved: they limited American Leadership Academy to a paltry 2.1 yards per carry. The team can thank Aidan Matagi for the heroic effort on defense: he. Summit Academy's run defense has been on the up-and-up: they allowed 1.9 yards per carry earlier this season, but they've only allowed 6.43 on average over their last five games.

Summit Academy's defense didn't let Nicolas Marble., get away unscathed either: they got into the backfield for four sacks. Leading the way was Tug Wilbur with three sacks. He is becoming a predictor of Summit Academy's success: when he posts at least two sacks the team is undefeated (and 0-3 when he doesn't).

The victory got Summit Academy back to even at 3-3. As for American Leadership Academy, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 2-4.

Summit Academy has already played their next contest, a 41-34 defeat against South Summit on the 26th. As for American Leadership Academy, they also didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next matchup, a 31-26 win against Providence Hall on the 26th.