The cycle starts anew for Dysart football, but players and coach John Ganados hope it will not be another four-year build to get into the playoffs.
Technically it was a 3A play-in game. But the Demons’ loss to eventual state champion Snowflake was the program’s first postseason game of any kind since 2016.
A large senior class graduated but the core of a few seniors left and some promising underclassmen last year gained a huge boost from beating Phoenix Central to go 3-2 and qualify for the play-in, as well as the trip to the White Mountains.