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Flag Football Team Headed to Nationals
Watsonville Saints will play for national title in Florida this week.
A team of boys and girls from Watsonville are competing in a national flag football tournament hosted by the NFL this week in Florida.
The Watsonville Saints are a co-ed team of kids ages of 9-11 who are representing the Oakland Raiders, which hosted a regional flag football tournament in Alameda that the Saints won.
Flag football is a non-contact version of traditional football and the NFL hosts tournaments in the sport around the country.
The national tournament, held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., starts Thursday.
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There are eight teams each in three separate divisions, 9-11 co-ed, 12-14 boys and 12-14 girls, that are competing for the national title after winning their own regional tournament.
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The championship games will be held Feb. 26, and will be followed by an exhibition game between the winners and the champions of Gatorade NFL Tochito, the league's youth flag football program in Mexico.
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