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What a wild, whacky and yes, wonderful way to end a football season – in a driving snowstorm on a series of mind-numbing plays on a day of body-numbing cold.

Coach Eddie Fultz and his hardy band of Horsemen wrapped up the 2020 football season with a wild 6-0 win over the visiting Seeley-Swan Black Hawks in the middle of an October blizzard to finish the season with a 3-4 record.

The Horsemen pulled out the dramatic win by driving 95 yards on their last drive and scoring the only points of the game on a one-yard touchdown run by senior Tristan Subatch with only 53.7 seconds remaining. Subatch keyed that long drive with a few key passes to fellow senior Gavin Regalado, including a 35-yard strike that set up his touchdown run. Plains then held Seeley out of the end zone in the closing seconds to secure the win.

That the Horsemen were able to rise up and finish the season with a big, feel-good win for Plains was a fact that was not lost on Fultz, after all the trials and tribulations his team went through this season.

"We went through a lot this year with the COVID, losing players to transfer and having some suspensions," he said. "But this was a really good way to end the season, winning a game on the last possession of the season, the kids really put in a good effort and I am proud of them for it."

Both teams spent most of the game trying to gain their footing and see through the fast-falling snow, which never let up all day, and ended up dumping well over a foot of the white stuff on the community of Plains before it was done.

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GAVIN REGALADO celebrates after making the catch that set up Tristan Subatch's game-winning touchdown.

"It was a sloppy field, there wasn't much passing, everything was a grind," Fultz said. "For being a low-scoring game it was pretty exciting too, both teams made some goal-line stands and our fans were really into it. It was a fun one."

No Horsemen had more fun than their three senior team leaders Subatch, Regalado and Tucker Foster. Subatch completed three passes each to Regalado and Foster, and scored the game-winning touchdown, Regalado set up the game-winning score and added 75 yards rushing, and Foster keyed the Plains defense by pulling down an amazing 21 tackles , including a quarterback sack and a forced fumble.

Subatch and Regalado also had 14 tackles each.

"Those guys helped will us to that win," Fultz said. "They were down in the trenches slugging it out for us, and they got it done."