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EPHRAIM — With an overwhelming 73-6 win in Tucson, the Snow Badger football team has earned a share of the 2014 Western States Football League (WSFL) regular season title. The seventh ranked Badgers were too much for the Pima Aztecs, racking up 52 points in the first half as they improved their season record to seven wins against only one loss.

Snow is tied with Arizona Western and Scottsdale atop the standings but will head into the WSFL post-season playoffs as the third seed. By virtue of a coin toss on Sunday, Arizona Western will be the number one seed and host fourth place Glendale (5-3) on Saturday, Nov. 1. That same day Scottsdale, which took second place in the coin toss, will host Snow in the other Championship Bracket game. Coming in third in the coin toss means that the Badgers will not play again at home this year.

The winners and losers of those games will face each other the following week, Nov. 8, at a neutral site, the 5,500-seat Round Valley Ensphere in Eager, Ariz., the only domed high school football stadium in the country. The WSFL played its inaugural championship game in this venue last year with top-seeded Scottsdale beating second-seeded Mesa, 45-31.

In the Consolation Bracket of the playoffs, ninth place Pima (1-7) hosts Phoenix College (0-8) in this weekend's only game. Then on Nov. 1 the winner of that game will play the fifth seed Eastern Arizona (4-4) while the seventh seed New Mexico Military (2-6) plays at the sixth seed Mesa (3-5). The winners and losers in the Consolation Bracket will play each other on Nov. 8 at the home of the higher seeded team in each game.

Snow did not let Pima have any chance on Saturday, scoring seven times on the ground, three times through the air and throwing in a 32-yard field goal by Conner McRae. Running backs Darrell Millburn and Louie Hamilton, along with quarterback Alex Kuresa, each ran the ball in twice for the Badgers, and backup quarterback Tommy Jewell scored once. Kuresa hit wide receiver Jonah Trinnaman twice on scoring passes and Jewell connected with tight end Chris Copier for another score.

Millburn had a game high 85 yards rushing on 13 carries to go with his pair of touchdowns. Pima's quarterback Donovan Moore ran for 84 yards on 11 carries, 81 of those yards coming on the Aztec's only score of the day. Jewell finished with 72 yards rushing on eight carries, which included a 14-yard pickup when he ran from punt formation, the only time Snow was forced into a punting situation all day.
Trinnaman, a freshman from Mountain Crest High School, had his biggest day as a Badger, with five receptions for 141 yards and two touchdowns. Snow racked up 642 yards of total offense while holding Pima to only 147.

Defensively, free safety Eric Takenaka picked off one pass to keep him tied for the national lead in that category with eight picks on the season. Parker Preator also had an interception, his second of the year, which he returned 54 yards, and Johnny Luke had his first pick of the season.

This was the fourth time this season that the Badgers have held their opponents to under 10 points, and they now rank fourth nationally for stingiest defense by allowing an average of only 13.8 points per game.