CHANDLER, Ariz. — History has been made as the St. Mary's Knights have become the first-ever champions of the 4A conference in girls flag football.
This has been an incredible season for the No. 1 seed Knights, who defeated No. 2 Prescott, 10-7, in the state championship game.
The Knights finished the season 13-0 after dominating their competition from the beginning of the season to the end.
St. Mary's scored an average of 28.46 points per game, kept opponents from scoring eight times and only gave up more than seven points once, in their regular-season finale against Mesquite.
Once the playoffs arrived, St. Mary's showed they wanted to raise the golden football with a 19-7 win over No. 16 Arcadia, 33-0 win over No. 9 Eastmark and 20-3 win over No. 5 Scottsdale Christian.
The Knights were tested in the title game, however. After opening the scoring against Prescott with a touchdown late in the first half, the Badgers responded to tie the game right before halftime.
The teams would play a scoreless second half until St. Mary's was able to make a field goal with 46.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter to give them the state championship.
St. Mary's now goes down in the history books as the first team to ever win a state championship in 4A, as the conference was newly added this year.
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