EAST HELENA — Last year, East Helena made the Class A state football playoffs for the first time. This year, the Vigilantes will host a game in the postseason for the first time.

“So what? Now what?” has been East Helena’s motto throughout this season, indicative of the team’s mindset of not being satisfied with just making the playoffs. And with that mindset, the Vigilantes have had yet another milestone season.

“We want to be great, strive for the next thing,” East Helena head coach Tyler Murray said. “Once you feel like you’ve made it, things start going downhill. We want to continually get great and do things the right way.”

This year is East Helena’s fifth competing in varsity football, and the Vigilantes have upped their regular-season win total every season. They went 7-2 overall

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