BELLINGHAM — The Neah Bay football team shed one heck of a monkey off its back Friday night.
The Red Devils finally took care of their old tormentors in their Class 1B state quarterfinal, knocking off the top-ranked Lummi Blackhawks 58-40 with a dramatic fourth-quarter rally at Civic Field in Bellingham.
The win puts Neah Bay in the 1B semifinals at the Tacoma Dome for the third year in a row.
It also gives the team a measure of revenge, as it was the defending 1B champion Blackhawks who had eliminated Neah Bay from the state semifinals each of the past two seasons.
