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If you’re anywhere near Arcata and can spare some time this afternoon, you may want to make your way down to the parade route, fill your lungs with air and make some noise for the Arcata High School football team and its stalwart cheerleader squad, who will be celebrating Saturday’s nail-biter, overtime victory in the state championship game with a procession through town. 

The parade will commence from Arcata High’s campus at 1:30 p.m., proceed along 16th Street to H and then down to the plaza for a victory lap before returning to campus.

It has been a remarkable season for this Tigers squad, which won the school’s first-ever North Coast Section championship, first-ever NorCal Regional crown and first-ever Division 6-AA state championship by defeating Portola in SoCal over the weekend.