CLOQUET — When Lee Brooks and Joseph Saice walked into gym class Wednesday morning at Duluth Denfeld, they kept getting asked about the big football game that evening.

Yes, Denfeld was on the road against Cloquet in a game that had legitimate seeding implications for the upcoming Section 7AAAA tournament, but that wasn’t the game they were talking about.

“We’re in a unified class with kids who have disabilities,” Saice said. “They’ve been looking forward to playing a game (at halftime) of our game since the beginning of the year. We want them to feel welcome and like they are a part of something, too.”

When the buzzer sounded midway through Duluth Denfeld’s eventual 25-7 win over Cloquet on Wednesday, Saice and Brooks jogged to the opposing end zone to get set up for the unified footbal

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