Central Catholic was aware of all the doubters heading into the postseason.

Seeded No. 5 in the OSAA Class 6A bracket after losses to Lake Oswego and Nelson earlier in the year, plus a tough playoff road that included defending state champion West Linn and Southwest Conference champion Willamette — not many picked the Rams to reach the last weekend of the high school football season.

“Almost every big game we played, everybody was going against us,” Central Catholic senior Cole Thomas said. “And we proved them wrong. We showed that we’re a team that can compete at the state championship level. Just because it didn’t go our way this time, I think it went our way a lot more than it didn’t.” 73

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