Raise the flag

It’s been quite a campaign for the undefeated MacArthur Generals flag football team. 

The 9-0 bunch is on a quest for the Nassau County school’s first championship game in the short, four-year program’s history — and this may just be the group to get the job done. 

“It’s always electric. Every time somebody pulls a flag, catches a pass, everybody cheers for them,” senior wide receiver and defensive lineman Taylor Garro told The Post.

“It’s just insane, the support that we get from our teammates and from our coaches, it’s unbelievable,” added Garro, who will play flag at Iona University next year.

Coach Steve Fazzolari’s group has come close in the past, most notably in that first 2023 season, when the girls fell heartbreakingly short in the title game against Plainview-Old Bethpage, 7-6.

Garro still has the chip on her shoulder. 

“It was devastating,” she said. “But now I think that we can finally come back and get a crack at it.”

Fazzolari is also impressed by the sweat equity his team shows — and by the fact that they aren’t letting their heads get too big for the moment. 

“One thing we stress here, what the girls have bought into, is just a next-play mentality,” he said. 

“No matter what’s going on, they just focus on the next play.”

He said that a big part of their practice routine is both doing the little things right by paying attention to detail and pushing into the territory of “being comfortably uncomfortable” when adversity comes on the gridiron. 

“The girls have played well, and then they’re not close to reaching their potential yet,” he said.

“The undefeated part doesn’t mean much to me. We want to win our last game of the year.”