The Seton Catholic football team had seen this movie before.

Just like two years ago in an eventual loss to Trico League foe La Center , the Cougars watched Friday as the Wildcats whittled down their two-score lead under a steady rainfall on the Cougars’ home turf.

To avoid the same result, Seton turned to a unit that’s set the tone over the last six weeks — its shutdown defense.

With La Center driving inside Seton’s 20-yard-line with less than a minute left, the Cougars forced a fourth-down incompletion to seal a 12-7 win, and a second consecutive Trico League title.

“It was something we knew we had to do,” senior linebacker/running back Caden Sullivan said. “We just had to put ourselves up to it, fighting for one another.”

On a night when points were hard to come by, the Cougars (

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