RALSTON VALLEY MOVING ON UP

The football team where Austin attends high school (4A) got one step closer to the State Championship as they beat #1 ranked Monarch High School 17-0 on Friday evening. The #9 ranked Mustangs were all knotted up 0-0 after 3 quarters of play, but fortunes turned their way in the 4th quarter to take the victory. Next up, the Wheat Ridge Farmers. Yes, just by their team name you know they have been around awhile as they are a Denver suburb school--officially, over 100 years in existence!

The Wheat Ridge game will be the State 4A semi-final game and is a rematch of these two teams from a game that took place about a month ago! In that game, with the ball on the 10 yard line and 6 seconds left and RVHS trailing 7-0, the Mustang QB lofted a pass into the corner of the end zone for a 'miracle catch'. But in one of the most brazen coaching moves I have ever seen at any level, RV's coach decided NOT to tie the game and opted to try the 2 point converstion. A simple handoff to their running back seemed to be stopped at the 1yd line, but the entire Offensive line got behind their back and 'willed' him into the end zone--GAME OVER--8-7 winners!

RVHS has lost only one game and that was to last year's State championship team Thunder Ridge. And you ask who did Thunder Ridge beat last year at State--you guessed it, RVHS! They too are one of 4 teams left in the State. Headed for a rematch............we can only hope!