Stanford Cardinal Flag Football

Pictured (from L-R): Antonio Escobar, Dominic Plascencia, Coach Anthony Solis Jr, Daniel Solis, Adrian Duarte, Maverick Blair, Kane Morton, Xavier Thompson, Brody Evans, Colin Alderete, Enzo Anderson. 

Our Athletes of the Week are the Castro Valley Next Level 6/7th Grade Division Champions Stanford Cardinal flag football team. The Cardinal were matched up against the undefeated Huskies going into the game on Sunday, March 5. 

The Huskies led by Luke Peters jumped out to an early lead and went into the half with a 21-6 lead. The Cardinal team had a lot of fight left and fought back to trim the lead to 27-26.  Scores from Xavier Thompson and Kane Morton led the charge. With the clock winding down the game was wrapping up almost the same way as the first meeting between these two teams.  This time the Cardinal would get a final chance on offense, and the offense runs out for the final play, a terrific pass is completed, but the flag gets pulled short of the end zone as time expired.  A penalty flag on the defense means one more play for the offense with no time on the clock.  This would be the final play of the 2023 season.  Adrian Duarte drops back and finds Kane Morton 20 yards downfield. Kane makes the catch in front of three Huskie defenders and takes it all the way across the field then starts up the sideline avoiding diving defenders.  He runs through the end zone for the touchdown and gives his team the championship victory with a final score of 32-27.