OKINAWA
Kubasaki's football team is hoping to raise its first Far East Division I title trophy since 2013 and halt a run of two straight years of losing to Kadena in the season finale.

Kubasaki's football team is hoping to raise its first Far East Division I title trophy since 2013 and halt a run of two straight years of losing to Kadena in the season finale. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

Second in a series of high school football previews in DODEA-Pacific.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – Some years, the PCS plane blesses a football team. Other times, it’s a curse.

For Kubasaki, the coming season definitely fits the latter category: Three experienced skills-positions players who helped boost the Dragons to the Far East Division I championship game a year ago departed for stateside destinations.

Thus, Kubasaki, last year’s D-I runner-up, is counting on senior Carlos Cadet, a wide receiver last season, to become Kubasaki’s starting quarterback. And the transition has been anything but easy, he said.

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