(Radio Iowa) – Tri-Center won the Class A State Football Championship Game Thursday with 14-10 victory over West Hancock at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. The school’s first football championship comes about seven months after a tornado rolled through Minden–one of the communities served by the district. Superintendent Angela Huseman says the championship has everyone happy.

Huseman says the championship brings everyone together, just as they did when the E-F-4 tornado rolled through Minden on April 26th.

Though Minden is rebuilding from the tornado, Huseman says many students are still not in their houses as Thanksgiving approaches. She hopes the Trojans’ championship eases some of the lingering pain from the disaster.

Huseman says the district took an additional step in recovery efforts by hiring an interventionist to help students still coping with the tornado. Despite the disaster, the superintendent says Tri-Center’s enrollment is actually up 10 students over last school year’s numbers.