WARREN – Marysville did something Thursday that few teams have done in the state tournament the last few years. That’s get an early lead on Warren De La Salle.

All that did was awake a sleeping giant.

De La Salle came back from an early 1-0 deficit to score a pair of first-half goals before tacking on two others in the second half in recording a 4-1 victory over Marysville in a Division 2 district finals match at De La Salle.

The Pilots (17-4-2) have now won nine straight district championships and 35 district trophies in coach Thaier Mukhtar’s 38-season coaching career at De La Salle, which has spanned from 1983-2011 and then again 2018 to the present.

Marysville (15-7-1) came out and played tight, physical defense and looked to counter offensively. The plan worked at the beginning fo

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