With the poetic name of Baroni Nicoli Fiore, a wide receiver from the Massachusetts North Shore, could have been a freshman at MIT. Instead. known to his teammates as Baron or The Baron, he was studying engineering in a Silicon Valley-based college with eminent engineering faculty -- and a Coach, who was a former NFL Wide receiver.

On this early September afternoon, in with Huygens in possession of the game, The Baron caught River's second down long pass. Pulling away from Humboldt's defense, with incredible speed, he was down the field and into the Red Zone where he was taken down unharmed by what seemed like an Army of Humboldt defenders. Huygens was first and goal.

The Humboldt Rangers Coach was pacing the sidelines. Caydance refilled her silver cup. River Angelos handed the ball to Gerald Sun.

How Sun managed to evade the formidable Humboldt defense was not easy to determine. But there he was raising the ball aloft to cheers in the Huygens stands and tears of joy from his Mother, who, representing the family, had travelled all the way from Southern California.

Once again Will O'Arragan kicked the ball right down the center of the goal posts. Huygens 14 Humboldt 14.