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California School for the Deaf-Riverside wins 8-man football championship

California School for the Deaf-Riverside’s ascent to the top is complete with its championship victory over Faith Baptist.

California School for the Deaf-Riverside’s ascent to the top is complete. With an 80-26 victory over Faith Baptist on Friday, the Cubs won the CIF Southern Section eight-man Division 1 championship, getting vengeance for last season and winning the first section title of any sport played at the school, according to the Press Enterprise.

It has been a rapid rise CSDR and its football team comprised of deaf players and coaches. Prior to last season, the team never had a winning record through the course of a season; in 2021, the team broke through, reaching the division championship but falling to the same Faith Baptist team 74-22.

Head coach Keith Adams told the Press Enterprise through a translator that “unfinished business is now finished.”

“It’s an honor to be the first team to win a title,” Adams said.

Quarterback Trevin Adams put up remarkable numbers through the air, on the ground and on the defensive side of the ball for the Cubs. He passed for 202 yards and a pair of touchdowns, ran for 202 more yards and scored on the ground six times, and had two pick-sixes. When all was said and done, he had 10 total touchdowns.

CSDR finished the season 12-0.

It’s the crowning of an unbelievable two-year run, one that has caught the attention of television executives. Disney+ is developing a series based on the football team, and executive producer Marlee Matlin attended the championship game on Friday.

Variety has more information on the upcoming series.

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Dowling Catholic goes where no Iowa team has gone before: winning 7 straight championships

Dowling Catholic football won its unprecedented seventh-straight Iowa state championship.

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CEDAR FALLS, Ia. — At some point, Dowling Catholic football will not be the state champion. The Maroons will not win the final game of the season here at the UNI-Dome. They will not add another golden trophy to the unprecedented collection currently sitting inside a glass case at 1400 Buffalo Road in West Des Moines. They will not lord over Iowa’s largest football class.

Someday that will happen, and when it does, the other 41 teams in Class 4A will breathe easy and sleep easier, knowing that it is, in fact, possible. That Tom Wilson’s mighty Maroons can be defeated. That Goliath can fall.

That’s what history says, at least, but Iowa’s long and storied football history has never seen a football team like Dowling Catholic. The Maroons have carved out a spot all their own now, piling up touchdowns and wins and titles like no team ever before.

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Dowling won the 4A state championship on Friday night. The Maroons are the first Iowa football team ever to win seven straight state titles, and their latest one looked like this: 21 unanswered points from the star running back and senior quarterback and a mean defensive effort to turn a 10-0 second-quarter deficit into a 21-16 win over crosstown rival West Des Moines Valley.

“As a young coach, I dreamed of one,” said Wilson, Dowling’s coach, who now sits second all-time with eight state titles, trailing only Harlan’s Curt Bladt (11). “To think of something like this is unbelievable. These kids are part of history now.”

The Tigers claimed a 10-0 lead, thanks to a couple of interceptions from Drew Jirak and a 79-yard touchdown by junior receiver Matthew Mahoney. But then Dowling rolled up 230 rushing yards, including 141 and two touchdowns from Gavin Williams. The defense forced three turnovers, including two with less than five minutes to play.

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The celebration began when senior Adam Brauch intercepted Valley’s Braeden Katcher with 70 ticks left. It commenced in full after the clock hit all zeroes. Dowling helmets flew and voices roared and tears rolled down their cheeks. They stormed toward their peers and looked at each other as if to make sure it was real.

It was, and it will be forever.

“I think it started when we were in sixth grade,” said Brauch. “It’s just surreal. It hasn’t hit me yet.”

Read the rest of the story at the Des Moines Register.