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Yokota’s Josh Low, stiff-arming Perry defender Aiden Ealey, accounted for 205 yards total offense for the Panthers.

Yokota's Josh Low, stiff-arming Perry defender Aiden Ealey, accounted for 205 yards total offense for the Panthers. (Kevin Rossiter/Special to Stripe)

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – Facing fourth down at Matthew C. Perry’s 10-yard line, with the fourth quarter just beginning, Yokota’s football team was in dire straits.

The Panthers trailed the Samurai 10-0 in the Far East Division II final Friday. They couldn’t get anything going on offense and needed something, anything, to get on the scoreboard and back in the game.

“I’m just going to throw it up to you and if you go up and get it, you get it,” Panthers quarterback Josh Low recalled on what he told receiver Kicoh Guenther in the huddle.

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