LONGMONT — It’d been a year since Silver Creek’s Kaden Riedel broke his foot in the opening half of the 2024 regular-season finale against Centaurus.

Here he was again: The Warriors in front of him. A league title again on the line.

Déjà vu — nahhh. Thursday was more like redemption for the senior standout.

Riedel’s foot feels just dandy a year later, he said. Yet it was his header in the 63rd minute that proved the difference in the Raptors’ 2-1, 4A/3A Granite Peaks League-clinching win over Centaurus.

“Every single year we’re playing for top of the table, conference champs, and it’s always against these guys,” Riedel said. “For me personally, the league title has been decided against these guys four years in a row. And last year, this was the team I broke my foot against. So deep dow

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