October 23, 2026 - 10:14 pm

When Arbor View’s football team was looking for a big play to get its offense going, star quarterback Thaddeus Thatcher turned to his legs to give the Aggies a jolt against rival Centennial with a championship on the line.

Facing a third-and-5 in the first quarter, Thatcher scanned the field for his receivers and decided to tuck it and run. The Oregon State commit slipped through Centennial defenders, laid a hit with his shoulder and raced 44 yards for the game’s opening touchdown.

Arbor View kept on rolling, and the Aggies, for the first time in program history, ended their season with a victory in a 56-17 home win over Centennial to win the inaugural CCSD Division I Superintendent’s Cup.

“It just feels so surreal,” Thatcher said. “We worked so hard for this since spring football. We’ve been working for this so it feels so good to do what we wanted to accomplish.

“We did it.…