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Coeur d’Alene’s boys and girls meet again Jan. 22 at Coeur d’Alene.

“I was shaking before that,” said Hagel, a quarterback on the junior varsity two years ago, who switched to receiver on the varsity last year as a junior. “I caught that pass back, and I just saw him wide open and I just said, ‘This is it, man, this is it.’”

“I’m so proud of our guys,” Coeur d'Alene senior linebacker Shea Robertson said. “To make it to the state championship was awesome. I would have been happy just making it to the state playoffs after last year, but to go all the way to the state finals is a dream come true. The only thing that would have made the season better is if we had won it.”

Coeur d’Alene (8-2) will play at Eagle (10-0) next week in a semifinal game. Eagle rallied in the fourth quarter to beat defending state champion Rigby 17-14 on Friday night at home.

Coeur d’Alene (6-2, 2-0 5A IEL) can wrap up the league title, the top seed to state from the North and a first-round bye in the playoffs with a victory over visiting Lewiston (4-4, 1-1) next Friday.

Next Friday, Coeur d'Alene hosts Post Falls and Lake City hosts Lewiston.

A learner driver who was living in his Audi TT claimed he sped off from police because his father and friends had ‘bad experiences’ with the law.

“That’s a good football team,” said Criner, son of former Coeur d’Alene coach Herb Criner, of the Vikings. We’ll see those guys again. There’s no question in my mind; that’s a good football team.”

“When you play a team like Rigby, it’s not always going to be pretty,” Coeur d’Alene coach Shawn Amos said. “Responding to what they do, that was the key. We’ve got a ton to get better at, because it doesn’t get any easier next week.”

As Wesleyan heads toward its last commencement Saturday, nearly 100 will cross the stage to collect a diploma.