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Carlos Cadet (1) is Kubasaki’s quarterback and one of three threats out of the Dragons backfield.

Carlos Cadet (1) is Kubasaki's quarterback and one of three threats out of the Dragons backfield. (Tiffany Mae Okamura/Special to Stripes)

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Kubasaki put together an unbeaten football season, recorded its last three wins by shutout –

including a 33-0 semifinal playoff triumph over Nile C. Kinnick – and stands at the cusp of its first Far East Division I title since 2013.

Dragons coach Tony Alvarado doesn’t seem impressed at his team’s accomplishments thus far, though. Not when Kubasaki is facing a Kadena team in Friday’s title game that has won a Pacific-record eight D-I crowns, including last year’s.

Read more at stripes.com.

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