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2022 Southern Arizona high school football schedules — Mountain View Mountain Lions

By Javier Morales

Posted on March 30, 2022

*William Howell completed 101 of 178 passes for 1,389 yards with 12 touchdowns and six interceptions in his first varsity season (Andy Morales/AllSportsTucson.com)*

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5A

MOUNTAIN VIEW MOUNTAIN LIONS

2021 RECORD: 4-6

*Mountain View schedule graphic created by Chris Kidney of Southern Arizona Football (SOAZ*)

Matt Johnson will be in his fourth season at Mountain View and a constant remains in his tenure — playing a non-region schedule that includes at least two teams from the Phoenix area. This season, Mountain View plays at Gilbert Higley on Sept. 9, a week after the Mountain Lions open the season in the Battle of the Boot rivalry game against visiting Marana. After a bye week following the Higley game, Johnson’s team hosts Mesa Red Mountain.
Higley is now a 5A team that won a successful appeal to move down a classification from 6A. The program struggled to with a 2-8 record last season, but in recent years, it has been dominant. The Knights went 39-12 from 2016 to 2020. Red Mountain, of the 6A East Valley that now includes Salpointe, went 11-3 and advanced to the state semfinals last fall.
Last season, Mountain View played at Goodyear Millennium and hosted Phoenix Notre Dame Prep, and in 2019, the Mountain Lions played at Higley and Queen Creek Casteel.
Mountain View also plays at Nogales and hosts Walden Grove in non-region play before playing at Tucson (Oct. 14) and Buena (Oct. 21) to begin the 5A Southern schedule. The last three region games are against state-playoff programs last year — Ironwood Ridge (Oct. 28) and Cienega (Nov. 4) at home and against Desert View (Nov. 11) on the road.

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ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He is a former Arizona Daily Star beat reporter for the Arizona basketball team, including when the Wildcats won the 1996-97 NCAA title. He has also written articles for CollegeAD.com, Bleacher Report, Lindy’s Sports, TucsonCitizen.com, The Arizona Republic, Sporting News and Baseball America, among many other publications. He has also authored the book “The Highest Form of Living”, which is available at Amazon. He became an educator five years ago and is presently a special education teacher at Gallego Fine Arts Intermediate in the Sunnyside Unified School District.