The live event will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
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| Class | Game | Time | Notes |
| 5A | Fairview vs. Valor Christian | 2:30 p.m. | Championship |
| 4A | Montrose vs. Pine Creek | 11 a.m. | Championship |
| 4A | Coronado at Silver Creek | 1 p.m. | Championship |
A complete schedule and scoreboard for football’s championship games this week.
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| (1) Fairview | 16 | (2) Valor Christian | 56 |
| Class 4A (Playoffs: Final) | |||
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| (1) Montrose | 14 | (3) Pine Creek | 49 |
| Class 3A (Playoffs: Final) | |||
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| (6) Coronado | 28 | (9) Silver Creek | 24 |
Pine Creek players celebrate their 4A football title. More photos. (Kevin Keyser/KeyserImages.com)
DENVER — Pine Creek senior Matt List gave a kiss to the Class 4A state football trophy and proudly handed it off to a teammate Saturday afternoon at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
“This is indescribable,” said List after his Eagles defeated Montrose 49-14 in the 4A final. “We played our hearts out and the score shows it. We played a great game. I’m so excited for the guys, happy for the seniors and the community.”
It was the second trip to the state championship football game for Pine Creek (12-2) in three years. The team from Colorado Springs lost in the 4A title game to Valor in 2011. List, who started in the 2011 championship game, pointed out a group of seniors from the state runner-up squad who came out Saturday to support this year’s championship team.
Montrose (12-2) was attempting to win its first football title since 1950.
No. 3 Pine Creek’s rushing attack of seniors Austin Schultz, Lavanson Coffey and Scott Savage was too much for top-seeded Montrose to handle. The trio combined for 334 yards on the ground and five touchdowns. List and junior Avery Anderson both added rushing touchdowns. The Eagles scored all seven touchdowns on rushes.
“It’s all the O-line,” List said. “They played a great game.”
Pine Creek coach Todd Miller broke propensity on Pine Creek’s first scoring drive, calling on Coffey to run the ball. The fullback had three carries for 40 yards on the drive, including a 21-yard touchdown run to cap things off.
“(Coffey) is our heart and soul,” Miller said. “He blocks and does all the things nobody wants to do. If he was at any other school he’d be carrying the ball.”
More photos. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com)
Coffey finished the game with 79 yards on just seven carries.
“(Coffey) is such a great fullback and he deserves to get his own highlights,” Schultz said.
Just over a minute after Coffey’s touchdown, Pine Creek scored on a 30-yard touchdown run by Schultz to widen the Eagles’ lead to 14-0.
Schultz had a monster first half with 11 carries for 97 yards and two touchdowns. Schultz’s second touchdown carry in the first half capped off a 13-play, 93-yard scoring drive. The Eagles took a 21-7 lead in at halftime. He finished with 178 yards on 20 carries.
“Austin just runs hard,” Miller said. “If you know the kid you’ll like him even better. He has great passion.”
Pine Creek scored two quick touchdowns on both 1-play drives in the second half to take a 35-7 lead. Savage took a reverse for a 59-yard touchdown and Schultz scored on a 45-yard run after Montrose turned the ball over on downs.
“We didn’t play great, but Pine Creek is a reason why we didn’t play great,” Montrose coach Todd Casebier said. “Give them credit. It was their day.”
Montrose senior Angelo Youngren was instrumental in both of Indians’ touchdowns. The tailback scored from 2 yards out to finish a 16-play, 51-yard touchdown drive early in the second quarter to cut Pine Creek’s lead to 14-7.
Youngren caught a 57-yard touchdown pass from Montrose junior quarterback Kameron DeVincentis in the fourth quarter on a fourth-down play. The Indians’ tailback missed a handful of games this season with a broken hand and broken collarbone finished with 64 yards rushing and two catches for 63 yards.
“We came up short, but we left it all out on the field,” Youngren said. “Our seniors are happy that we got Montrose here to play on this field.”
Junior Mike Rocha led the Indians in rushing with 84 yards, but Montrose had just three carries over 10 yards.
“We tackled very well,” Miller said. “We didn’t want to give up big plays and we did.”
Pine Creek’s defense also forced four Montrose turnovers to aid in the Eagles winning their school’s first state football title.
“Our defense is phenomenal,” Schultz said. “A great core of linebackers really leads the team with Matt List, Josh Odom and Kacin Nowlin. I could not ask for a better defense.”
Pine Creek players celebrate with the 4A championship trophy. More photos. (Kai Casey/CHSAANow.com)
Coronado’s players celebrate winning the 3A football championship. More photos. (Pam Wagner)
LONGMONT — History doesn’t have to wait any longer for the Coronado High School football program.
Quarterback Joah Smith capped an improbable comeback with an 11-yard touchdown run around the right corner with just over four minutes remaining, vaulting the Cougars to their first state title with a 28-24 win over defending state champion Silver Creek Saturday in the Class 3A state championship game at the Everly-Montgomery field.
“This feels amazing,” said the senior Smith, who scored with 4:15 left. “It is everything we worked for. This is something I dreamed about as a kid.”
Coronado (13-1) was playing in only its second state championship football game in school history, losing in the 3A finals 14-12 to Loveland in 1982.
“I can’t describe the feeling, it is incredible,” said Coronado coach Bob Lizarraga, whose team was trailing 17-0 with 8:31 remaining in the second quarter. “Being down (17-0) wasn’t something we had not been in before. I think it was supposed to be this way.”
Reaching the state 3A football summit for the first time is even more special for the Cougars since they had am 0-10 record two years ago.
More photos. (Pam Wagner)
“The kids had determination and believed in this program,” Lizarraga said. “They knew they had something to offer and they just kept working at it and here we are.”
Silver Creek (10-3) was playing in third state championship game in a row. It beat Rifle 32-15 last year and lost to Windsor 14-7 in 2011.
“First of all a ton of credit goes to them (Coronado),” Silver Creek coach Mike Apodaca said. “They made plays and we didn’t. We had them in a lot of long distance situations and couldn’t come up with plays and their kids did. You play this game, and we have been fortunate to be in three of them, and comes down to the team that plays the best on that day and today they played the best and kudos to them. I thought our kids battled hard we just let them out of too many holes.”
Trailing 24-21, the Cougars had the odds against them as they took over possession at their own 1-yard line with 11:31 on the clock.
Coronado moved the ball to its own 31-yard line, but it was facing another tough obstacle at 3rd-and-24. The pressure didn’t quarterback Smith or his twin brother Sam, a receiver for the Cougars.
Joah dropped back and lofted a deep pass to his brother who leaped over Silver Creek defenders and made the catch and run for a 43-yard gain at the 6:50 mark.
“That was all him,” said Joah about the huge third-down conversion. “I just threw it. He makes plays and he jumped up and caught it.”
Just under three minutes later, Joah made the biggest play in Coronado football history by rolling right and scoring from 11 yards out. Jose Perez’s PAT was tipped at line of scrimmage, but the football had enough steam to get over the bar with 4:15 left.
“It does take a quarterback with a lot of poise, and Joah has grown tremendously over the last four years,” Lizarraga said. “He’s a leader on and off the field. The Smith boys have that telepathy and they kept that last drive going.”
Silver Creek had a chance to win the game, but its last drive ended when they only managed 14 yards on a 4th down and 24 play from their own 44-yard line. Coronado took over possession with 1:02 remaining and ran out the clock.
More photos. (Pam Wagner)
“We didn’t a good enough job of consistently moving the chains,” Apodaca said. “The first two or three first downs (on that last drive) we were doing what we wanted to do and then we tried to make a big play instead of continuing to move the chains. Again, credit to them, they made plays that put pressure on us and we just didn’t come up with it (Saturday).”
Coronado riding a tidal wave of momentum in the second quarter where it scored 14 points, kept things rolling in the third quarter. Isaah Duvall busted through the line and sped 80 yards for a score, giving the Cougars their first lead at 21-17 with 4:27 left in the third quarter.
The reeling Raptors answered back with a quick pass from Silver Creek quarterback Ben Sjobakken to Brock Ricks. Ricks cut across the middle of the field and didn’t stop until he scored 58 yards later, giving the Raptors the lead back at 24-21 at 3:34 of the third.
It appeared Silver Creek, the defending state champion, would run away from the game in the first half.
The Raptors’ Anthony Kasper raced 97 yards on the opening kickoff. Silver Creek then went ahead 14-0 on an 18-yard reverse by Eric Machmuller with 2:05 left in the first quarter.
The Raptors were in business again when Levi Cecil recovered a fumble by Coronado quarterback Joah Smith. That led to a 49-yard field goal by Ryan Charles which put Silver Creek up 17-0 with 8:31 remaining in the second quarter.
The Cougars did claw back into the game when Zeb Foster rumbled 8 yards for a score with 4:19 showing on the second-quarter clock. It was a 13-play, 80-yard scoring drive.
Coronado’s Austin Micci intercepted a pass from Silver Creek quarterback Ben Sjobakken with 31 seconds left. Moments later, Coronado quarterback Smith hooked up with Junior York for 61 yards. Foster capped with the frantic march with a 5-yard scoring scamper with 9 seconds on the clock. Smith then completed a two-point conversion pass to Sam Smith to get the Cougars within 17-14.
“We just never quit,” Micci, a junior, said. “We wanted this state championship more than anything in the world.”
LONGMONT — Coronado won the 3A football championship on Saturday with a win over Silver Creek.
Montrose coach Todd Casebier, left, and Pine Creek coach Todd Miller. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com)
DENVER — When Pine Creek football coach Todd Miller looks at game film of his opponent — Montrose — for the upcoming Class 4A football championship game he sees a mirror image of his own team.
“I look on film and Montrose is the same as us,” said Miller during Tuesday’s press conference for the 4A title game, scheduled to kickoff at 11 a.m. Saturday at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
Top-seeded Montrose (12-1) and No. 3 Pine Creek (11-2) have used physical play on both sides of the ball to reach the championship game. The three losses both teams have combined for this season all came to 5A squads — Grand Junction, Columbine and Lakewood — which all made the 32-team 5A postseason field.
Montrose will attempt to win its first football title since 1950, while the Pine Creek Eagles will attempt to win the school’s first football championship trophy.
“In order to be the champion you have to beat the best teams,” Montrose coach Todd Casebier said Tuesday after flying in from the Western Slope for the press conference. “I think it’s a perfect situation where we have to beat the best.”
The detail that Montrose and Pine Creek scored victories against last year’s 4A state champion, Monarch, during the season is glaring evidence that the two best 4A teams in the state will square off for the state title Saturday. The Montrose Indians knocked off Monarch in late September. The Pine Creek Eagles pulled off the same feat in the semifinals last week. Both victories were on Monarch’s home field.
Pine Creek beat Monarch in last week’s semifinals. (Pam Wagner)
“The fact that we beat Monarch, and Pine Creek beat them, I do believe the best two teams are playing,” Casebier said. “Now it’s about who plays the best on Saturday.”
One of the most important battles Saturday will pit Montrose’s vaunted ground game versus Pine Creek’s stingy defense. Indians’ running backs Mike Rocha (1,492 yards, 26 touchdowns) and Angelo Youngren (995 yards, nine touchdowns), along with Montrose’s offensive line, will attempt to find a weakness in the Eagles’ defense that held Monarch to 133 yards and no offensive touchdowns last week.
“The offensive line has been the mainstay of our offense,” Casebier said. “It starts up front for us.”
Youngren has been sensational during the Indians’ postseason run. The senior missed a handful of games during the season with a broken hand and then broken collarbone, but since returning to the field for the playoffs, Youngren has 490 yards rushing and five touchdowns in three playoff games.
“Anytime (Youngren) touches it, he can go,” Miller said. “He makes people miss in the hole and has great vision.”
Miller gives credit to his defensive coordinator Andy Colgate for Pine Creek’s defensive success. The Eagles have held six of their opponents to single digits.
The Eagles’ starting linebacker core of Matt List, Josh Odom, Kacin Nowlin and JoJo Domann will have the task of slowing down the Indians’ running game.
“We do play on a razor’s edge,” Miller said of his defense. “We aren’t really big, but we play very physical and hard. Since the playoffs I think we’ve kicked it up just a notch.”
Pine Creek does have some recent familiarity playing in the championship game. The Eagles faced Valor Christian in the 2011 4A title game. Pine Creek suffered a 66-10 loss.
“The experience was great, being a young pup out there,” said List, who started as a sophomore in the championship game. “The loss was tough. It was tough on the seniors. What I took from that is I didn’t want my senior class to go through what they went through. We are going for that ring this year. We are putting everything on the line.”
The total population of nearly 19,000 in Montrose County might very well descend on Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Saturday. Despite a five-hour drive covering 300-mile to Denver, Casebier expects a good crowd from the Western Slope.
“It will be one of those deals where the last one out shuts the lights off,” Casebier said. “Hopefully we’ll have a great following. We’ve had a great following all year. Our town does a great job supporting us.”
Fairview, and quarterback Anders Hill, like to throw the ball. But they don’t hesitate to switch to a double wing offense. (Kai Casey/CHSAANow.com)
DENVER — Tom McCartney has long been a double wing guy. He borrowed concepts from Phil Bravo, who mastered the rush-heavy offense at Centaurus and now Monarch. It’s only recently that McCartney has become this spread guru whose teams throw it all over the place.
McCartney’s experience with the double wing is paying off. And now, the Fairview coach has his Knights switching between the two vastly different offensive schemes at a moment’s notice throughout games.
Saturday, in the Class 5A football championship against Valor Christian, Fairview hopes that provides an edge of sorts.
“It’s a different personality that you have to prepare for,” said Valor Christian coach Rod Sherman.
Fairview has thrown for 3,786 yards this season, the most in the state among all classes. Dakota Ridge is second — more than 1,000 yards behind — with 2,729. The Knights can sling it.
Yet, when Fairview needs short-yardage — be that on a third-and-1 or deep inside the red zone — it overhauls its offense. Record-setting receiver Sam Martin and super wideout Cam Frazier turn into running backs. Owen Harris, normally a slot guy, also moves to the backfield. At times, the Knights even bring in 6-foot, 233-pound linebacker Daniel Hoskins.
“It’s a lot of fun. It’s a little more smash-mouth football,” said Frazier, who had a rushing touchdown out of the formation in Fairview’s semifinal win over ThunderRidge. “It’s pretty much just trying to get that extra yard when it’s fourth-and-1, or third-and-1. It’s a lot of fun, and I think we’re pretty good at it.
“Most teams like to sub in their big guys for it, but if we go fast enough, we can catch them off-guard which is pretty effective. It’s just another thing defenses have to worry about.”
If Fairview can run the play before the defense can substitute, “that’s maybe one of the only times we have a size advantage,” quarterback Anders Hill said.
Ten different Fairview players have scored rushing touchdowns this season. Running back Jason Harvey has five, Martin and Hill each have four, while Frazier and Harris each have three. It’s Hoskins, though, who leads the way with seven scores.
“He’s one of the strongest kids to ever come to Fairview,” Hill said of Hoskins. “We know that if we give him the ball down on the goal line, or if we just need 1 yard to get the first down, that he and the whole O-line is going to do that.”
Fairview coach Tom McCartney. (Kai Casey/CHSAANow.com)
McCartney picked up the offense in the late 1990s because “we weren’t very good at short yardage,” he said.
“We wanted a better plan to move the ball when it was short-yardage when the field was shrunk, to have a plan to get in the end zone,” McCartney said. “Or at the end of the game, if we needed to run the clock out. Or if we get pinned inside the 10. So it meets a lot of different needs for us.”
So why isn’t Fairview exclusively a double wing team?
“It’s all about what you can execute,” McCartney said. “There are some years that we can execute the double-wing better. So maybe we spend more time in that. But when we’re able to execute some of the things in the spread at a high level, there are some times we don’t even take a snap in the double wing.”
Clearly, this year’s bunch is suited for both.
“They’re up for it,” McCartney said. “They just want to be on the field.”
Fairview was last at this point during the 2002 season. The Knights also to the 2001 championship game, but lost both times. Fairview hasn’t won a championship since 1987.
“We all really want to do it for coach Mac,” Hill said. “He’s been here for 21 years. He’s a great coach; he’s left a long legacy. Not only for just our high school, but the whole city.”
Add Frazier: “It’s been 11 years since we’ve been to a title game, and we’ve never played at a title game at Sports Authority. So it’s a big step. I remember watching the ’09 team go to the semifinals and looking up to them. It’s just big for the whole town.”
(Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots)
Silver Creek went 8-4 in 2010, then was playing for a 3A championship a year later. Last season, the Raptors won their first title.
Coronado? Well, the Cougars went 2-8 in 2010, 0-10 in 2011, then 5-5 last year.
Not the likeliest of pairs for Saturday’s 3A football championship, is it?
Coronado’s massive turnaround — the program is 12-1 this season and playing in a championship game for the first time since 1982 — has been the story of the 3A playoffs this season.
“A few years ago, we were pretty low on our numbers,” Cougars coach Bobby Lizarraga said this week. “As a matter of fact, the year before I took over (2009), we didn’t even have a JV program. We went basically freshman to varsity, and the varsity team was somewhere around 30 players.”
So Lizarraga’s initial mission wasn’t anywhere in the realm of championship games, or even the playoffs. It was getting kids to simply join the team.
“I knew there were a lot of athletes in the building — I worked in the building — and I believed that we could get the interest of our players that were walking the halls and not being a part of the football program,” Lizarraga said. “They were needed in the football program. I knew we could convince them to come out. Over the past three years, we slowly were able to do that, and gained our confidence back.”
Coronado now has a junior varsity team. And, four years after Lizarraga took over, a chance at a championship. It would be the school’s first.
“It’s been amazing,” Lizarraga said. “Especially for the students who walk the hallways, to have their fellow student body there for them and wishing them luck in the next game, and wishing them the best here as they take the bus ride to Longmont for a potential state title.
“Before, it was the other side,” the coach continued. “It was the other comments: ‘Oh, you know the football program’s not going to compete against anybody. I’m not going to go out there and be a part of that.’ It took a lot of courage for our athletes, especially our current seniors, to endure all that — and now reap the benefits of their hard work.”
Coronado, the No. 6 seed in the playoffs, opened 2013 by winning its first nine games. The Cougars dropped their regular season finale to Discovery Canyon, but rebounded to beat Rifle, Roosevelt and The Classical Academy in the postseason.
Those three victories have come by a combined six points. What’s more, Coronado trailed Rifle by 17 points and Roosevelt by 14 during the course of those games. The Cougars then had to stop a two-point conversion in the final seconds to top TCA in the semifinals.
“They’ve come from behind in their three playoff games and won close ones,” Silver Creek coach Mike Apodaca said. “That, in itself, is something you can’t teach: that ability to hang in there and play.”
Saturday’s championship game, which has a 1 p.m. kickoff, is at Everly-Montgomery Field in Longmont.
No. 9 Silver Creek has had a target on its back for much of the season, and got everyone’s best shot. It comes with being a defending champion. And it’s part of the reason why the Raptors dropped two midseason games, to Frederick on Sept. 27 and to Roosevelt on Oct. 18.
“We just didn’t finish the games,” Apodaca said of the losses. “We had leads at the half in both of them and just really kind of stopped playing in the second half and those two teams took advantage.”
His group has learned from both losses.
“I don’t think anyone’s ever really happy with a loss — they weren’t very happy afterwards,” Apodaca said. “But when you look back, I think it’s a group that, now (when trailing) they feel like, ‘Boy, this could be the end of it if we don’t get going,’ I think they do a great job of buckling down.”
Silver Creek rebounded from those early losses and has now won five games in a row. The Raptors are on a roll, of sorts. And history is on their side as they’ve now made three-straight appearances in the 3A championship game.
“That’s a great program,” Lizarraga said. “We see nothing but a great program.”
Also at play on Saturday: Silver Creek returned 16 starters from last season’s 3A title team. So this week isn’t anything new.
“You can’t replace 16 kids that have played in this kind of game and understand what the week looks like and the focus it takes,” Apodaca said.
Valor Christian coach Rod Sherman. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com)
DENVER — Not much has changed in Valor Christian’s football program from a year ago. And that’s exactly what Rod Sherman had hoped for.
Sherman is in his first year as head coach of the Eagles, who have made a return trip to the Class 5A championship game where they’ll face Fairview. He’s been the school’s athletic director since it opened in 2007, and was also the offensive coordinator under former coach Brent Vieselmeyer.
When Vieselmeyer left for a college assistant position at Houston Baptist in January, Sherman became the interim coach. Eventually, he became, simply, the coach.
“Coach Sherman has been with us since the beginning, but he’s really emphasized that just because one coach leaves, it’s not the end of the world,” said Valor Christian senior Christian McCaffrey. “We still have our main principles that coach Vieselmeyer implemented into our program.
“(Sherman has) done an excellent job at it and us players have the upmost respect for him. He helps us with recruiting, trying to get into college and all that. He’s like a mentor to all of us, and we really look up to him and admire what he does.”
Vieselmeyer was 55-11 in five seasons. He led Valor to titles in 3A, 4A (twice) and 5A. So, yeah, that’s a lot to follow. Yet it wasn’t like Sherman was an outsider. He had a major hand in building the program from the ground up. Perhaps that’s why the transition has been so smooth.
“Because I really partnered with Brent over the years, I asked our players, and they don’t feel like anything really’s changed in the program,” Sherman said. “We wanted a seamless transition.”
This year, Valor Christian is 12-1 and seeded second in the 5A playoffs. The Eagles are in a title game for the fifth year in a row; they’re at Mile High for the fourth-straight time. That’s a major performance for a first-year head coach at the 5A level. But Sherman, always the humble type, deflects most of the credit.
Valor Christian coach Rod Sherman, right, speaks during a press conference at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Tuesday. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com)
“We decided as a staff, we were going to come together and we were going to have shared leadership, shared responsibility,” Sherman said. “It’s not about me being head coach, it’s really about all of us sharing in those roles. What really made the transition wonderful for me was our 18 seniors that embodied faith-based leadership, how much they cared about their teammates. It’s really just been a joy.
“I don’t think I stand up to lead them. I think I’m able to stand with our coaches and our players together.”
Said McCaffrey: “That’s something we also look up. He gives us all the credit, he gives the other coaches the credit, and the community the credit. When really, a lot of it is him. He puts so much into it, and I think that’s what makes him the coach and the person that he is.”
Sherman often talks about relationships and journeys. He says his most rewarding time as head coach so far has been the team’s three-day retreat to Buena Vista before the season. He’s not one to focus on winning, though it’s something he’s done a lot of this season.
“I think society will look and say, ‘Winning is successful.’ Really, for us, winning is a total byproduct,” Sherman said. “We wanted to buy another week of having the players and coaches together and that community. So we don’t, in our program, talk about winning.
“Certainly, on game day, we’re going to play hard, but it’s more about the process and the journey. That, for me, has been the most rewarding part: the relationship with the coaches and the relationship with the players.”
Mind you, Sherman’s doing this while managing a dual role — that of athletic director and head football coach, one that’s not at all common at the 5A level.
“There are busy days, but this week’s nice,” Sherman said. “We’re out of school this week, so we have a little more time to prepare (for the championship game). But, really, our staff has taken on that responsibility.”
Sherman has continued to direct a potent offense — and, actually, made it even more potent. From 2009-12, Valor Christian averaged 40.4 points per game. This season, the Eagles are averaging 46.5 points per game, the most in school history.
Valor Christian quarterback A.J. Cecil. (Jack Eberhard/JacksActionShots.com)
A lot of that is McCaffrey, the best player in the state, and among the best to ever play in Colorado. Now a senior, he’s scored a state-best 42 total touchdowns this season.
But Sherman has also developed quarterback A.J. Cecil, who has thrown for 1,974 yards and 29 touchdowns against just seven interceptions. Cecil is also the team’s second-leading rusher with 406 yards and eight touchdowns.
So it makes sense that Valor Christian has made its return to a state title game. New coach, same result.
“Our practices are run the same, our film sessions are the same,” McCaffrey said. “With a couple of new players here and there, and some freshmen moving up, I would say our principles are the same and our main things we need to focus on are all the same. I think that’s why, despite the fact that players come and go, we’ve held up strong.”
DENVER — Replay of a press conference from Sports Authority Field at Mile High featuring coaches from the Class 4A and 5A football finalists.
The press conference, which begins at 10:30, is being broadcast by the Valor Sports Network.
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