MEDICAL LAKE — A variety of standpoints made the Medical Lake Cardinal football team’s first game of the 2021 spring schedule hardly an envious task.

For starters the contest was on the road at perennial Northeast A League power Colville where the Indians have been the dominant force since joining the league in 2014, dropping from 2-A play.

Then consider the Cardinals had not played a down of football since November of 2019 and a roster featuring just one senior with game experience and the 48-0 defeat on March 6 was maybe not all that unexpected.

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