Kelowna and Vernon square off in high school football championship
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Kelowna Secondary School topped Vernon Secondary in a back-and-forth tilt for the Interior/North High School Championship.
It’s not the championship game either team was expecting, but it was a championship game nonetheless for Vernon Secondary and Kelowna Secondary.
It was called the Interior/North Championship as the double-A Vernon Panthers took on the triple-A Kelowna Secondary Owls Friday night at the Great Vernon Athletic Park, the Owls coming away with the win.
Both teams had their provincial playoffs cancelled, which would typically be held in Vancouver at B.C. Place, due to the extreme flooding and damages on B.C. highways.
Unfortunately for the Panthers, the reigning double-A Subway Bowl champions won’t be able to compete for a chance to three-peat.
“We got thrown a curveball and this is not the playoffs we were expecting but you know what? The energy is just coming from our kids, who just want to play,” said Chris Cartwright, Kelowna Secondary’s head coach.
Cartwright said his team was ecstatic to have a final game to close out their season.
“We thought our season was done after the floods and everything but B.C. high school sports figured out a way for us to finish our season off and the boys are just excited to play so that’s what it’s all about,” said Cartwright.
Sean Smith, Vernon Secondary School’s head coach, said his team “would normally be playing in the double-A playoffs in B.C. Place right now.”
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