On a picture-perfect day for fall football in Sudbury, the Lo-Ellen Park Knights junior girls team delivered the picture-perfect play. Article content

Having already run for a major to open the scoring, Knights quarterback Lia Gallo eased back into the pocket and let sail with a beauty of a spiral jettisoned some 30 yards downfield. In full stride and with arms stretched out wide, receiver Rya D’Amour hauled in the sphere without missing a beat, sprinting her way to the end zone. Article content Article content

The play was clearly a big part of a 35-6 quarter-final victory for Lo-Ellen over the Bishop Carter Gators in junior Division A action — but it was also emblematic of the advances made in the sport in recent years, with athleticism and football IQ very much part and parcel of

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