Castlegar Vikings complete rags to riches season by stopping Our Glass in WKMFFL Final
By The Nelson Daily Sports
The Castlegar Vikings realized its better to get results at the end of the season than at the beginning.
The Vikes, bottom feeders for most of the 2012 season, scored early and often en route to a 33-14 pasting of Nelson’s Our Glass in the final of the West Kootenay Men’s Flag Football League Sunday at Mount Sentinel Field.
The title is the sixth in the past seven years for the Sunflower City squad.
Castlegar struggled for most of the season as the club had difficulty getting a full contingent of players on a weekly basis.
However, with the playoffs on the horizon the Vikes began to roll.
Sunday, Castlegar completed the run by riding the hot hand of quarterback Steve Mota as the scrambling pivot tossed four touchdown passes for the Vikings.
The field general tossed first half scores to Paul Laratta and Jay Trower to give Castlegar a 19-7 lead going into the second half.
John Lloyd intercepted a Dan Farden pass in the first quarter to put the winners on the board early.
Mota then connected with Jaime Simpson and Trower, on a beautiful catch at the edge of the end zone, to put the game away.
Farden passed for a major score and ran in for a touchdown to lead Our Glass.
The Vikes, finishing fourth in the regular season standings, advanced to the final by knocking off defending champion Dam Inn Mates.
Hour Glass got past a short staffed Brewers team in the other semi final.
