Morgan girls soccer regular season schedule released

With tryouts looming right around the corner on July 29, it is time to start preparing for the upcoming Region 13 season. 

For those around the Morgan girls soccer team, they’re still putting the finishing touches on the preseason games that the Trojans will play before Region 13 action gets underway. 

The Region 13 schedule has already been published for a Trojans squad that went 8-2 in league play a year ago and advanced as far as the 3A Championship where Morgan lost to Ogden, 3-1. 

The Trojans will open the 2024-25 regular season at Union on September 10. Morgan will be at home two days later on Sept. 12 when it takes on South Summit.  

The next week will see the Trojans back on the road on Sept. 17 when they travel to Grantsville. Morgan will host Ben Lomond on Sept. 19. The Trojans had a combined 8-0 record when they played those four teams last year. 

Ogden, however, was the one puzzle that the Trojans could not solve last year. In addition to the 3A championship game loss from which the Trojans were playing from behind for the entire game in that 1-3 loss last October 21, Morgan also suffered a 1-5 loss at home to the Tigers and when the Trojans traveled to Ogden they suffered a similar outcome, giving up four goals in a 1-4 setback. 

This year will see the Trojans playing host to Ogden on Sept. 24. If there is one game that people will have circled on their calendars, it’s this one for the simple fact that the 3A championship game proved that Morgan could play with the Tigers. 

That’s a big ask for any program that wants to tangle with an Ogden team that has won two of the last four state titles and was the runner-up the other two years. 

But, under head coach Bryan Searle who has a career 128-50 record going into the season, and helped the Trojans to two state titles back in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years, he already is well aware of what it will take to get Morgan girls soccer back to the proverbial mountaintop. 

The Trojans will wrap up the month with a game at home against Union—the only time in Region 13 play that Morgan will have two straight games on its home field. 

After that, it’s a sprint to the finish for the Trojans who will play three league games in a week starting with an Oct. 1 tilt at South Summit, a home contest against Grantsville on Oct. 3 and an Oct. 8 showdown at Ben Lomond. 

Then it will be time for the second league game against the mighty Tigers of Ogden and a second opportunity at righting the Trojans’ wrongs. 

There is no question whatsoever that a memorable season is ahead. λ