MALTA — Last November was special for the Malta Mustangs football team, which capped off a 13-0 perfect season with the Class B state championship.

Now, the page has turned to this fall.

"We all know we have a huge target on our back, and honestly ... every day in the huddle I try to tell these guys that we're still the underdogs," senior Dawson Hammond said during Tuesday's practice at Malta High School. "That's what we were all last season was the underdog, and I want it to stay that way."

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"We got that target on our back, but we can't let that get to our heads," senior Landon Retan said. "We just got to kind of push last year past us and move on to what we can bring this

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