But at least one thing stood out to Warriors head coach Mo Cannon.

“Fight. That last drive right there, especially that third and fourth down, our message to the boys was, you’ll remember this drive for the rest of your life,” he said. “It showed us that we’ve got resilience when the money’s on the line.”

Fight helped get Weber over the line Friday on a night when it played better in some aspects of the game. Long term, the resilience Cannon talked about may help Weber down the road, especially when the region games start and the stakes get higher.

In the waning minutes against Viewmont, the Warriors (3-1) clung to its 28-21 lead as the Vikings (2-2) drove down the field, setting themselves up with fourth-and-goal at the Weber 8 to potentially tie the game.

Brett Tovey’s pass: incomplete, with no flags on the field.

Weber’s sideline: joyous and relieved.

“Just being able to rally together; I mean, our sideline’s super loud. The energy at the end of the game, the last drive there, it’s just so awesome to see that,” running back Wyatt Nielsen said.

The Warriors trailed 7-0 early, were tied 7-7 after the first of two Nielsen touchdown runs in the first half, then trailed 14-7 before reeling off 21 unanswered points to go up 28-14 with 3:35 left in the game.

“The linemen, those are my boys up there, holding it down. Without them — there’s really no me, I just happen to be running the ball,” Nielsen said.

Tied 14-14 at halftime, Weber took a 21-14 lead on the final play of the third quarter. Shortly after converting a fourth-and-2, quarterback Carter Payne ran for a 5-yard touchdown on third-and-goal.

From the 5-yard line, Payne dropped back to pass, went through his reads, rolled left, found trouble, looped all the way back to about the 20, ran to the right, cut back inside, and somehow fell over the goal line with multiple Viewmont players scattered on the turf around him.

All told, Payne probably ran 35-40 yards for his 5-yard TD.

The Warriors had a pick-six called back on Viewmont’s next drive, but still took advantage of the turnover.

Instead of choosing a long field goal into a headwind, Weber went for it on fourth-and-4 at the Vikings’ 30. Payne tossed a beautiful 30-yard touchdown pass to Creed DeVries in the corner of the end zone for what seemed to be game, set and match with 3:35 left in the fourth quarter.

One play later, Viewmont’s Josh Lewis got his third touchdown catch of the night. His first two were from 20 yards and 5 yards; the third was 65 yards and wide open. The Vikings forced a punt, got the ball back with great field position and gashed Weber’s defense all the way to the red zone.

But Tovey’s fourth-down pass, and possibly a tie game, was just out of the reach of his receiver.

“What I wanted to see this week overall was for us to be efficient in all three phases: offense, defense, special teams,” Cannon said. “I thought our special teams was a lot better today than it has been in the last few weeks, but we have yet to play a complete game. We have yet to put it all together, and when we do, this team could be very scary.”

Defensively, Friday was Weber’s first time holding an opponent under 30 points this season. Weber hosts Lehi next week before Region 1 play begins on Sept. 18 against Farmington.