Hot, hot, hot 7-on-7 football in Mesquite

Written by Andy Griffin
May 30, 2015
A picture of the two teams that participated in the championship game, with Dixie (in blue) and Desert Hills, Mesquite 7 on 7 Shootout, Mesquite, Nevada, May 30, 2015 | Photo by Robert Hoppie, ASPpix.com, St. George News

MESQUITE, Nev. — The summer Mesquite 7-on-7 Shootout was red-hot, quite literally as Desert Hills survived a double-overtime battle with Dixie in the 105-degree heat in southern Nevada to take the title Saturday at the Mesquite Sports and Events Complex.

Eighteen teams from Utah and Nevada attended, but it was the Thunder who won it. Nephi Sewell caught the game-winner from Nick Warmsley and some new young stars emerged for the local teams, with DH, Dixie, Snow Canyon and Pine View representing at the event.

Seven-on-seven football can be an acquired taste, with no real interior play and a pass-rush that is literally a stopwatch. But it can also give football fans a sneak peek at the potential gridiron stars for next fall. Hobbs Nyberg of Dixie and DH’s Zak Fuchs and Quinn Kiser were a couple of the young stars Saturday.

St. George News photographer Robert Hoppie was at the toasty event all day and put together this photo gallery for us:

Click on photo to enlarge it, then use your left-right arrow keys to cycle through the gallery. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andy Griffin has been in sports media since 1989 and has covered BYU, Utah State and the Utah Jazz as well as all sports in southern Utah. A journalism graduate of USU, Andy has carried on a dual career as both a sports writer and a sports broadcaster and has been heard around the country. He has also been published in USA Today, Sport magazine, The Sporting News, Fairways magazine, the Los Angeles Times and locally in the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune and the Spectrum. Andy was “The Voice of Region 9 sports,” for many years. He also hosted a daily sports talk show for three years called AG in the a.m. Andy has been married to his college sweetheart Shelly for 28 years and has five children ages 13 to 25.

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