PAWTUCKET – Speed kills.

But so does size, strength and pure athleticism – things the St. Raphael football team has in droves.

The Saints didn’t have their starting quarterback available Thursday night against Burrillville, but it didn’t matter because they had everything else on display. The defense dominated, Brendan Cardoso showed why he’s the best big-play receiver in the state and St. Raphael put together its best effort of the season to date in a 42-13 win over the Broncos.

“It feels very good going into the next two weeks,” St. Raphael’s Aiden Fortes said. “We had to make sure we showed up to play because Burrillville’s a very good team.”

“It feels magnificent. It actually feels so great because we had some adversity at the start of the week but our whole team came together toda

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