With total sobriety required, St. Joseph could have netted that many in this game alone, so what follows is not an embellishment of the facts.

The Jayhawks scored early and often, dismantling North Summit 26 goals to zero – backing off at the end – in a 2A blowout halted with 30 minutes left in the second half.

By doing so, the Jayhawks set a boys state record for most goals scored in a game in any classification, according to Utah High School Activities Association stats dating back to 1983, smashing Springville’s total of 16 in 1990.

Because a recap would be redundant, yet some of the players in the game might not usually see action, here is a summary of a game where everyone on the roster scored: Daniel Argolo Fontes (5 goals), Ricardo Aparicio (4), Christopher Neil (3), Keanu Mccrea (2), Jonathan Ramirez (2).

Garret Aust, Felipe Faria, Matthew Gough, Malaik Ajmal, Keaton Gill, Brandon Vo, Armando Escobedo Garcia, Braeden Beverly, Joshua Ortiz and Edward Ramirez scored one each.

“We know our assignments. (North Summit) is a respectable school, but we knew this could happen. This is why the whole team scored today. We looked at everyone,” St. Joseph coach Paulo Franco said. “I was able to play my bench players almost the whole match. In the playoffs, most of the time they won’t have a chance to play a lot, like a match today.”

St. Joseph scored in the first minute of the game, had nine goals in the first 10 minutes, then later tallied four goals over a 1 1/2 minutes to make it 13-0 at the 16-minute mark.

Fontes, a freshman striker from Brazil, leads the state in goals scored with 19 in 11 games for St. Joseph (10-1, 7-1 2A North).

“This is my first year in high school, but I’ve played soccer my whole life, since I was seven years old,” Fontes said. “It’s due to the hard work I’ve put in; I hope I can do the job the next games and keep it up.”

His team coach in Brazil knows Franco, so it was a natural to bring Fontes stateside.

“I’m a Brazilian guy too; I know his family, his daddy is my friend, so his dad was thinking bring him to the states to study, to play soccer,” Franco said. “It’s natural for him. He was born with the gift of God and you can see how clean he plays soccer.

“He’s having a lot of fun; he’s happy here, already learning a lot of English — this is a main goal, of course,” Franco said.

Looking ahead, Franco said his team has a much bigger goal.

“We have good opponents like Waterford and Rowland Hall, but we trust our players and our goal right now for this season is going to state and bringing home the trophy,” Franco said. “We are focused and we hope with what we’re doing, of course stay humble and practice a lot, that we can win state.”

On the lighter side of a lopsided match, the scoreboard only goes to 24, so when the Jayhawks scored their last two goals in the second half, it reverted back to one. The scorekeeper didn’t even bother to add the final goal in the 44th minute.