“This is going to be a great experience for our players, especially our ninth- and 10th-graders,” Humboldt coach Arnulfo Flores said. The St. Paul school was only playing a junior varsity schedule this season to help rebuild its program.
Carly Czaplewski scored six of her season career-high 18 goals in the last two games of the Wildcats' regular season. The defending Class 2A champions have won their last 10 games.
It’s been 55 years since Osberg, a Minneapolis Washburn graduate, took his first football coaching job at crosstown-rival Roosevelt. He’s had stops as a graduate assistant at the University of Nebraska and head coach at Wayzata and Augsburg College.
If Farmington goes on to become a football powerhouse — and with almost-new facilities, a rapidly growing school district and an up-and-coming coach in Adam Fischer, the pieces are certainly in place — then Friday’s 28-17 victory over Rosemount will likely be looked at as the program’s turning point.
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