After 17 seasons, an era is ending. The Northern Elite Predators co-op football team played its last game Saturday at Goodman Field.
The result didn’t go as hoped in a joint homecoming game for the Goodman-Armstrong Creek and Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine schools as the visiting Oconto Falls Panthers defeated the Predators 44-8 in a Northwoods Conference matchup.
The undermanned Predators played hard from snap No. 1 until the final buzzer sounded. With Niagara also part of the co-op, the game was also the final one for 11 seniors on the Predators’ roster of 17.
“This was a good group of seniors, the entire fourth quarter we played all 11 of them together,” said Predators head coach Brian Bousley. “Nobody quit in that group of 11, none of them ever gave up all season, and most of the time the numbers were against us. They worked hard and never complained.”