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is among a dozen former area high school players who will be chasing history when they suit up for West Florida in Saturday’s NCAA Division II football championship game in Kansas City.

The Argonauts are in only their second full season of college football.

“This is really unreal, honestly,” said Beaudry, who was named Gulf South Conference offensive freshman of the year after the Argonauts (11-3) improbable regular season. “I mean, you want to say you saw it coming but I don’t know how you can really say you saw this coming.”

Beaudry completed 15 of 23 pass attempts for 152 yards and two touchdowns as West Florida won 27-17 on the road against previously undefeated and top-seeded Indiana University of Pennyslvania 27-17 in a semifinal.

UWF plays Texas A&M Commerce in Saturday’s championship Former game at 6 p.m. Eastern time. The game will be televised live on ESPN2.

The 6-5, 240-pound redshirt freshman has thrown for 2,963 yards and 28 TDs this season. He began his high school career at Lake Nona before transferring.

Here are the other Central Florida players on the Argos roster: Oviedo’s Cox, of Umatilla,

of Winter Springs, of East River, of St. Cloud, of Windermere Prep, of Oviedo, of Lyman, of Leesburg, of Lake Minneola, and of Lake Mary Prep. Robinson, a sophomore, has 33 catches for 406 yards and one TD. Another former area standout, Timber Creek alum plays for North Dakota State in a a Football Championship Subdivision semifinal game on Friday at 8 p.m. against Sam Houston State. That game also is on ESPN2.

Board is a senior linebacker who has made nine starts in 11 games and has 46 total tackles for the Bison. He had registered a season-high nine stops last week against Wofford.

Board has tallied 116 total tackles in 55 career games over four seasons.

The undefeated Montverde Academy girls soccer team (11-0-0) takes a crack at the state’s longest active girls soccer winning streak when it plays at St. John’s Country Day (11-0-0) of Orange Park on Saturday.

St. John’s, ranked No. 1 nationally by USA Today and No. 3 by TopDrawerSoccer.com, has won 55 consecutive matches and is unbeaten in its past 68 outings.