For once, the Eagle River Wolves football team feels the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming train heralding certain, impending doom.
Granted, the Wolves fell to 0-4 with Thursday night's 47-6 Northern Lights Conference loss to visiting Palmer, but their drop this season to the medium-school division from their previous station among large-school teams has softened the blow.
Neither a 20-0 loss to Kodiak nor last week's 33-14 loss to Ketchikan in a game Eagle River led 14-13 after three quarters were anything like the sort of blowouts the Wolves routinely suffered in nearly a decade of large-school competition.
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