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2022 Results

2023 Schedule

HEAD COACH: AUSTIN FRY

Season, 7-14 career record

Base offense: West Coast

Base defense: 3-2

Top returners on offense: Cayden Rappleye (QB), Eli Duhm (WR), Jude Patton (C), Wyatt Shields (WR).

Top returners on defense: Jonathan Boelter (DE), Wyatt Shields (DB), Cayden Rappleye (LB).

Key losses: Landon Hermanson, Carter Aispuro, Timmy Tadler.

By Tyler Wainfeld Signal Sports Writer

“Why not us?”

It’s a question that Santa Clarita Christian School head coach Austin Fry posed after watching the growth that his team has made heading into the Cardinals’ third season in eightman football.

The Cardinals’ first season ended with the team going 0-10, but things began to click last season as they went 7-4 overall and 2-2 in Liberty League action. That included the program’s first playoff victory since its rebirth, its first two shutouts in five years — in back-to-back games, no less — and two all-CIF Southern Section first-team selections.

“Last year, we were definitely just trying to make it to playoffs, for sure,” Cardinals junior Cayden Rap-