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One Touchdown Was Enough: Legend Blanks Arvada West 7-0 for Its First Colorado 5A Flag Title

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Legend’s climb through Colorado girls flag football went step by step — the Great 8 in the pilot season, the Final 4 in 2024, a runner-up finish in 2025. On Saturday night at Trailblazer Stadium in Lakewood, the Titans took the last step.

Legend shut out Arvada West 7-0 to win the Class 5A state championship, the first flag football title in school history, in a defensive final where a single first-quarter touchdown stood up for four quarters.

That touchdown came on a pass from Addyson Law to Ella Smith, and the Legend defense handled the rest. The Titans intercepted Arvada West quarterback Emerson Drake four times — Noelle Ho grabbed two of them, Tatum Burke added another, and Reagan Steuber sealed the championship with a late interception that earned her Most Outstanding Player of the Game honors.

Both finalists finished 17-2, and both arrived the hard way. In the Oct. 21 semifinals, Legend knocked off two-time defending champion Mountain Vista 25-20 to end the Golden Eagles’ reign, while Arvada West routed top-seeded Chaparral 48-20 behind a receiving corps led by senior Macie Ferguson. Ferguson, playing her first season of flag football, finished with more than 1,300 receiving yards and 28 touchdowns and was named the Jeffco 5A Offensive Player of the Year.

None of it was enough against a Legend defense that saved its best game for last. Head coach Darren Pitzner’s team allowed 20 points in the semifinal against the two-time champs, then pitched a shutout in the final — the only way a 7-0 championship game ever gets won.

A program that had knocked on the door three straight postseasons finally walked through it. Legend is a state champion, and the Titans got there the hard way: one touchdown, four interceptions, and a defense that refused to blink.

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Revenge on Senior Night: Hewitt-Trussville Rides a Roller-Coaster Season Into the 6A Playoffs

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Few teams in Alabama have lived a season like Hewitt-Trussville’s — and few finished the regular season with a better story.

The Huskies closed their home schedule on Senior Night with a 25-15 win over Oxford, avenging a Week 2 loss to the Yellow Jackets and sending off a six-player senior class the right way. It was the last turn of a roller coaster that never really leveled out.

Hewitt-Trussville’s fall, as chronicled game by game on the team’s own feed, went like this: a 15-6 region win over Thompson in which the Huskies held the Warriors scoreless for the entire second half. A 35-0 road rout of 5A McAdory, done in three quarters, for a fourth straight win. A region win at Hoover so chaotic that, in the team’s words, no one could tell the time or the score because the scoreboard did not work. A 38-19 region-finale loss to No. 9 Prattville — followed immediately by a bounce-back win, because that is what this team does.

The Huskies play in Class 6A, Region 3, the deepest neighborhood in Alabama flag football, alongside unbeaten-in-region Spain Park, Vestavia Hills, Prattville, Hoover and Thompson. Surviving it earned Hewitt-Trussville a first-round date with James Clemens when the AHSAA 6A playoffs open Nov. 2-5.

The photo above — the whole program packed into a team dinner at Walk-On’s — is the other half of the scouting report. The Huskies are close, they are loose, and they have already proven they can beat region heavyweights and answer bad weeks with good ones.

James Clemens gets the next test. After the season Hewitt-Trussville just lived, there is not much the playoffs can show the Huskies that they have not already seen.

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