PORT TOWNSEND — Taking the field without four starting players, Chimacum fell to Coupeville 24-6.
Despite the loss, coach Mike Dowling said, “all in all, this was the best game we’ve played together as a team.”
Dowling said he had two players playing guard for the first time and another player at center who had never been at that position.
“Considering what we were facing, they fought hard,” he said.
Chimacum had a couple of shots to score more, at one point getting down to the 4-yard line, but the Cowboys weren’t able to punch it in, Dowling said.
The Cowboys (0-6, 1-8) finish their season at Klahowya on Saturday.
Sequim 37, Kingston 17
KINGSTON — In another display of offensive fireworks, Gavin Velarde and Payton Glasser each had two touchdowns and Riley Cowan passed for 341 yards and five touchdowns as Sequim outlasted Kingston 37-17.
Coach Erik Wiker said it was one of the Wolves’ best games all year, from the offensive stars to the offensive line and even the practice players that helped the team prepare.
Cowan completed 17 of 25 pass attempts and Wiker said his numbers might have been even better if not for three or four drops.
“Riley had a super game. It could’ve been one of his best games all year. He kept making correct reads,” Wiker said.
Wiker said Velarde had his usual outstanding game with 196 receiving yards on eight catches. With his two TDs, Velarde has scored 13 touchdowns in his past four games.
“He made plays like he always does,” Wiker said.
Wiker thought Glasser stood out with a couple of “amazing” diving catches and that the offensive line played great.
“[Cowan] had a lot of time to throw,” he said.
Wiker also said the defense played well, with a “bend don’t break” effort. The Buccaneers managed over 150 yards in both rushing and passing, but were only able to convert that offense into 17 points.
The Wolves (5-1, 7-2) solidified their second-place standing in the Olympic League 2A Division. They will play Eatonville, the No. 5 seed from the South Puget Sound League, at 7 p.m. Saturday at Silverdale Stadium in the first round of the West Central District 2A Football Playoffs.
Wiker said he didn’t know a lot about Eatonville, but has known their coach George Fairhart for a long time. He said he knows they will be well-coached. Eatonville has an identical record (7-2) to Sequim.
The Wolves go into the postseason red-hot, having won four straight and scoring a total of 181 points in those four victories.
Sequim 37, Kingston 17
Sequim 7 9 14 7— 37
Kingston 0 3 0 14— 17
First Quarter
Sequim—Velarde 55 pass from Cowan (Cowan kick)
Second Quarter
Kingston—Damon Ledezma 42 field goal
Sequim—Glasser 14 pass from Cowan (Cowan kick)
Sequim—Team safety
Third Quarter
Sequim—Velarde 39 pass from Cowan (Cowan kick)
Sequim—Glasser pass from Cowan (Cowan kick)
Fourth Quarter
Kingston—Waxon 28 yd pass from Jones (Ledezma kick)
Sequim—Rollness 32 pass from Cowan (Austin Leis kick)
Kingston—Johnson 5 yd run (Ledezma kick)
Individual Statistics
Rushing—Sequim: Cowan 8-(-19), Velarde 1-4, Conn 10-63, Gresli 7-45, Keeshawn Whitney 1-(-1); Kingston: Jones 12-19, Johnson 23-93, Dixon 8-40, Issa 4-16, Sloman 3-8.
Passing—Sequim: Cowan 17-25-341, 5 TD, 1 INT; Kingston: Jones 10-19-159, 1 TD.
Receiving—Sequim: Velarde 8-196, Glasser 4-73, Rollness 1-32, Gorr 1-15, Whitehead 2-24. Kingston: Dixon 2-32, Collins 1-14, Sloman 3-28, Waxon 4-85.
Olympic 48, Port Angeles 0
PORT ANGELES — The Roughriders finished off a difficult winless season, losing at Civic Field to Olympic 48-0.
“It was disappointing. You have to look at the bright side and see some of the things we were happy with. As a team, we didn’t do enough on offense and we didn’t stop people on defense,” said coach Bret Curtis.
Port Angeles finished the season 0-6 in Olympic League 2A Division play and 0-9 overall.
The team will not play a game that was proposed next week against Foss, so this was their final game of the year.
The Riders gave up 359 yards rushing to the Trojans, including 138 yards to their leading rusher Jayden Fernandez. Curtis said the Trojans were simply more physical than the Riders.
It was senior night and Curtis said the team’s seniors — Thomas Newton, Caleb Joslin, Jace Lausche, Ben Arnold, Kyle Fuller, Austin Adamire and Hayden Wickham (team manager Hailey Minks is also a senior) — played their hearts out.
“I’m real appreciative of their effort,” he said.
Curtis said there will be a lot of work to do to turn the Riders around, and that work begins immediately, particularly in the weight room. He said the successful teams in the Olympic League 2A Division all have programs, coaches and players that have been soundly in place for at least three or four years. Port Angeles were a very young team with only a handful of seniors.
“There’s things we’ll work on and change for next year. We have a pretty good idea of the direction we need to go in,” Curtis said.
Neah Bay No. 2 seed
NEAH BAY — Neah Bay and Lummi were unable to reach an agreement on rescheduling their Northwest Football League game, a contest that would have decided the league’s No. 1 seed to the Class 1B quad-district playoffs.
Lummi was unable to play the game after the father of one of the team’s players, who also was an uncle to 10 other players, was killed in a diving accident last Wednesday.
Red Devils coach Tony McCaulley said he declined the option of playing the game this Wednesday.
McCaulley said the long trip to Bellingham would make his team miss too much school during finals week and with a playoff game on tap for the No. 2 seed the prospect of playing two games in four days also was unappealing.
The teams had to go to a district-administered coin flip for the top seed and Neah Bay lost the coin flip as the No. 2 seed, will host the District 2 No. 4 seed, likely Rainier Christian, in a 1B quad-district playoff game Nov. 4 or 5.
That game will likely be played at Forks, according to McCaulley.
