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Mountain Pointe's first season of AIA girls' flag football concluded with a second-round playoff exit after finishing with a 2-2 conference record and 6-7 overall. While the team did not achieve its goal of a championship, the head coach was proud of how the team competed despite injuries limiting several key players. Standout players included senior Erin Clark on defense and Noreal Sparks on offense. The team had more success playing on the road, with five of its six wins coming away from home. Looking ahead, the team is young with a promising future despite battling injuries throughout its inaugural season.

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Game Story 2

Mountain Pointe's first season of AIA girls' flag football concluded with a second-round playoff exit after finishing with a 2-2 conference record and 6-7 overall. While the team did not achieve its goal of a championship, the head coach was proud of how the team competed despite injuries limiting several key players. Standout players included senior Erin Clark on defense and Noreal Sparks on offense. The team had more success playing on the road, with five of its six wins coming away from home. Looking ahead, the team is young with a promising future despite battling injuries throughout its inaugural season.

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Evan Rodriguez

11/10/23
Game Story #2- Season Recap
PHOENIX—Injuries is the word to sum up Mountain Pointe’s first official AIA season.
The first official AIA season for Mountain Pointe high school girls’ flag football team has
concluded following their second-round playoff exit to Xavier College Prep on October 24.
College Prep got the best of Mountain Pointe in the postseason winning 14-6.
Mountain Pointe beat College Prep earlier in the regular season 12-0.
Pride finished their flag football campaign in the middle of the pack with a 2-2 6A central
conference record and one game below .500 with a 6-7 overall record.
“Our end goal did not turn out how we wanted to,” Mountain Pointe head coach Sergio Ramirez
said. “Our end goal is always to win a championship. Not reaching our goal in that perspective
does feel a little bit under achieved. But I’m proud of what my girls did this season. They
competed until the very end week in and week out. We had some road bumps along the way, but
overall, it was a good first season with plenty more to come hopefully.”
Although the team didn’t achieve the goal they wanted to, Some girls stood out amongst the
others that helped them get a playoff spot.
“We had a couple of bright stars and a couple unexpected players this season,” Ramirez said.
“Senior Erin Clark was a much-improved player this year. “Last year, she played in our club
setting and didn’t really do very well. This season, she ended up becoming a captain midway
through the season.”
Clark turned her playmaking skills around and became more coachable to become a bright spot
on the defense, according to Ramirez.
On the offensive side, Noreal Sparks was the best player on that side of the ball, according to
Ramirez.
“In terms of on the field attributes, she had rushing touchdowns, receiving touchdowns, and
would play both sides of the ball,” Ramirez said.
Mountain Pointe was very much more of an effective road than playing at home this season.
Five of their six wins were on the road this season giving them a 5-2 away record.
The Pride defense was a force to be reckoned with when playing away from home.
The defense shut down opponent’s offenses holding their opponents to zero points in four of
their five away victories.
They’ve also outscored opponents 146-46 while playing on the road.
Things cannot be said the same about playing at home though.
Mountain Pointe only had one win at home giving them a 1-5 home record.
Over the course of the season, Pride had a very tough time dealing with injuries throughout the
year, according to Ramirez.
“It started happening about our fourth or fifth game in,” Ramirez said. “We had our outside
receiver Kaylynn Esters start us off going out with an injury. Ended up being a sprained mcl and
couldn’t finish out the season so that was a blow.”
After losing Esters for the season, their injury luck did not get any better.
Pride would lose more players due to injury.
“Most importantly, our starting quarterback Amaya Moreno suffered a fractured finger and had
to miss some games,” Ramirez said. “Luckily, she rehabbed pretty well and fought through the
injury to get cleared to only miss three games.”
Players Amiyah Dedrick and Jordynn Carriere also had to miss sometime due to injury.
Even though this team battled through injuries, they were still able to clinch a playoff spot and
achieve a playoff win.
This young Mountain Pointe team has a very promising future looking forward.

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