In just a second year under new ownership, Hatfield
Football Team is Prestige Champions of the league
for 2023 - defeating the Tomcats 133-??! After a
2-3 start in Week 5 and 4-4 at the Midseason point,
Football Team went on a tear. In November the team
went 3-1 averaging over 113 points per game. December
they went 3-1 with an average of 120 points per
game. The 133 points in the Prestige Championship
is the second highest total ever in a finals. While
this is the sixth Prestige title for the franchise,
current ownership get its first. They failed to
reach the Prestige playoffs in their first season
(taking over a team that had only won 10 games total
the two season prior). This year everything really
started to click especially when qb Dak Prescott
was emerged into the starting lineup. Prescott was
an offseason acquisition and this is a team that
was defined by the players the new ownership built
in two years - through draft picks (Zay Flowers,
Sam Laporta, etc), free agent acquisitions (Kyren
Williams, etc), trades acquisitions (Prescott).
The only real established key contributor was Christian
McCaffrey who had a Player of the Year type season.
McCaffrey did get hurt in the final week, scoring
a season low 7 points. But Football Team was more
then one player and in the Championship rb Kyren
Williams picked up the production with a 25 point
performance to earn Prestige Championship MVP honors.
Tough loss for the top seeded Tomcats, who were
playing in its owners first Prestige Championship
game since joining the league in 2000. They overcame
serious injuries to the QB position but continued
to find the right QB to fill-in. They remain the
only franchise in the league without a Prestige
title, but they should be a contender once again
next year.
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