When the dust settled Saturday night at the Russell Cotton Athletic Complex at St. Anne , Cardinals head coach Alan Rood told his team one thing.

“Coach Rood said it’s the best game we’ve ever played in the history of [this program],” Senior Matthew Langellier said.

And that statement was backed up with the No. 6 Cardinals’ 39-20 win over No. 11 Metro-East Lutheran in the first round of the I8FA playoffs.

While the final score was in St. Anne’s favor, early on, it wasn’t.

After both teams’ opening drives stalled, the Knights capitalized on an Abe Oberhauser screen pass to Isaak Broekemeier for a 7-yard touchdown to make it 6-0 late in the first quarter.

The Cardinals picked up two unanswered touchdowns from Grant Pomaranski in the second quarter. The first was a 15-yard pass to Bran

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