On Saturday at high noon in the 3A state championship game, the DCG Mustangs found themselves in an intense overtime situation against the Des Moines Hoover Huskies. With the first championship banner in DCG boys soccer program history on the line, DCG  turned to the foot of senior Tate McDermott two minutes and eight seconds into overtime on a corner kick,  he drilled a perfect pass to fellow senior Brogan Fuller who knocked home the game winner and put the Mustangs into euphoria, winning the state championship 3-2 and stunning the top Huskies in the process.

DCG finishes the season at 17-4 while Des Moines Hoover finishes a tremendous year with a 18-3 record.

To get to that moment in overtime, it provide a ton of  action during the regulation 80 minutes to get to that moment. In the first half, it was a fast paced back and forth affair with senior Ben Jackson for the Mustangs getting the first goal of the day at 27:37 in the first half, before Des Moines Hoover’s Sadi Ellite getting the equalizer just a few minutes later at 23:21 to take it to 1-1 at halftime.

The high stakes intensity continued in the second half, with Jackson delivering again with a creative goal with the left foot through traffic to make it a 2-1 game with 15:28 to go in the game, feeling like a potential winner. Des Moines Hoover showed why they were the 1 seed though, with Javier Flores delivering a clutch goal with 8:43 and setting the stage for the OT dagger.

DCG showed great poise throughout the entire match, and relied on a tremendous senior class through times of changes and uncertainty, delivering when it counted most.

DCG will be graduating eleven seniors from their roster in Fuller, McDermott, Jackson, AJ Angus, Will Harris, Wisley Kabamba, Cyrus Khosravi, Jack Every, Nick Kessler, Canton Naderman, and Nathan Scholl. For this specific group, they will be walking away as state champions.

DCG will have to replace this tremendous group next year with some return vets and a lot of new faces, but coach Collin Lane and staff love the present and are excited about the future as well.

Conference champions, regional champions and now state champions. Dallas Center – Grimes boys soccer is the 2023-24 state champion for boys soccer!