PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend’s youthful football team continued to take its licks Friday night.
Orting (4-2, 4-4) was the latest team to educate the winless Redskins (0-6, 0-8) with a 43-12 Nisqually League win on Friday night at Memorial Field.
This loss stung a little more than the others because it was on Port Townsend’s homecoming.
Still, the Redskins are taking the experience to heart as they played one of their best games, head coach Tom Webster said.
“The score may not show it, but this was one of our better defensive games,” Webster said.
“Our defensive line played its best game of the year,” he added.
The defensive line would be playing JV almost anywhere else with all sophomores and freshmen.
Austin Graham led the defense with nine solo tacklers while Alex Reierson had seven solo tackles.
The Redskin offense also scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter that Webster hopes carry over to this week’s showdown with archrival Chimacum.
“Those late scores should help us against Chimacum,” Webster said.
The youthful Cowboys (1-5, 1-7) also have been struggling this season. They lost 49-7 to Cedar Park Christian on Friday night.
Both the Cowboys and Redskins are out of the playoff race.
“Chimacum is our biggest game of the year,” Webster said. “It is our rivalry game and we always take it as a big challenge for us.
“Hopefully, it will be a good game, and we will be ready for that and we know they will be, too. They are well-coached.”
The Redskins scored on two pass plays against Orting with Jacob King throwing a 5-yarder to Tim Russell and Layne Zack catching a 20-yard TD throw from Jeff Seton.
King threw for 134 yards in the game while Russell was the top receiver with four catches for 63 yards.
Rushing yards were hard to come by as the Redskins earned just 24 yards on 19 carries.
“They came out and stopped our running game,” Webster said.
Orting 43, Port Townsend 12
Orting 16 21 6 0— 43
Port Townsend 0 0 0 12— 12
First Quarter
O—Yoro 75 pass from Grzelak (Grzelak run)
O—Casey 22 run (Rose run)
Second Quarter
O—Rose 1 run (run failed)
O—Hines 21 pass from Grzelak (Hines pass from Rose)
O—Yoro 45 pass from Grzelak (Meek kick)
Third Quarter
O—Rose 3 run (kick blocked)
Fourth Quarter
PT—Russell 5 pass from King (pass failed)
PT—Zack 20 pass from Seton (pass failed)
Individual Stats
Rushing— No individual stats.
Passing—Port Townsend: King 11-20-1, 134 yards; Seton 1-2-0, 20 yards.
Receiving—Port Townsend: Russell 4-63, Zack 3-29, Coppenrath 2-34.
Tenino 30, Forks 12
FORKS — The Spartans let one get away in the second half after trailing only 13-12 at halftime.
Turnovers and other mistakes hurt the Spartans during their second-half slide.
Forks had a chance to take the lead early in the third quarter as it marched down the field only to lose the ball on a fumble at the Tenino 1-yard line.
Forks, 2-4 in SWL-Evergreen Division play and 2-6 overall, still has a chance to make the playoffs, however.
If Forks wins at Elma (3-3, 4-4) and Rochester (0-6, 0-8) beats Rainier (2-4, 3-5) next Friday, it gets the league’s fourth and final seed into the Class 1A preliminary state playoffs.
If Rainier and Forks both win, the three will meet for a Kansas City tie-breaker the following week.
“This is a must win for us, and we need to get help,” Forks coach Mark Feasel said.
But this is a good time to play Elma, which is struggling after losing eight varsity players two weeks ago after they got caught smoking pot.
“I feel sorry for Elma; they’re not the same team they were two weeks ago,” Feasel said. “But this game is not a gimme. We still have to play them.”
Feasel is concerned about Elma’s offense, which has several looks, including a triple-option wishbone, spread and no-huddle.
“They keep you on your toes,” Feasel said.
The Spartans, who had some injuries to contend with, played better against Tenino than the score indicated, according to Feasel.
Fullback Sergio Chase missed the game and is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury, but sophomore Brett Pederson played well in his place, Feasel said.
“Brett stepped up and filled some pretty big shoes.”
Chase, though, also is the punter, and quarterback Brady Castellano — filling in for Chase at the punter position — left the game with a shin injury while punting in the fourth quarter.
Feasel, however, expects Castellano to be back for the Elma game.
Standout running back Shane WhiteEagle had a painful hip pointer and played on and off.
“Shane played well despite playing with the injury,” Feasel said.
WhiteEagle scored on an 8-yard run while the other touchdown was an 18-yard pass from Castellano to Tyler Penn.
“Defensively, we did a great job of containing their quarterback, who is really fast,” Feasel said.
“Nose guard Jalen DePew had a huge game for us. Even Tenino’s coach talked about how he dominated the middle.
“And outside linebacker Braden Decker had a great game.”
No game statistics were available.
Cedar Park Chr. 49, Chimacum 7
BOTHELL — Cedar Park Christian (4-2, 6-2) had its way against the youthful Cowboys in Nisqually League action Friday night.
Cedar Park led 21-0 at halftime and 42-0 going into the final period.
Chimacum scored in the final quarter to keep from being shut out as Mel Thornton had a 1-yard run.
Kyle Madayag had the extra-point kick.
Quarterback Trevor Hare connected on 8 of 17 passes for 64 yards. He had two interceptions.
Victor Cienega led on receiving with three catches for 36 yards. Thornton was right behind with 26 yards on three catches.
Cienega also led on defense with 10 tackles, seven solo. Daryl Settlemire had nine tackles, seven solo.
The Cowboys conclude the season with a home game at Memorial Field in Port Townsend against archrival Port Townsend this Friday night.
Cedar Park 49, Chimacum 7
Chimacum 0 0 0 7— 7
Cedar Park Ch. 7 14 21 7— 49
First Quarter
CP—Scoring not available
Second Quarter
CP—Scoring not available
Third Quarter
CP—Scoring not available
Fourth Quarter
C—Thornton 1 run (Madayag kick)
Individual Stats
Rushing— Chimacum: Thornton 4-22, J. Morris 7-18, Ajax 10-9.
Passing—Chimacum: Hare 8-17-2, 64 yards.
Receiving—Chimacum: Cienega 3-36, Thornton 3-26, Ajax 1-1, Madayag 1-1.
Klahowya 26,
Port Angeles 7
SILVERDALE — The injury bug continued to hit the Roughriders (4-2, 6-2) hard in Friday night’s Olympic League game.
As a result, the Eagles (1-5, 2-6) dealt Port Angeles an upset loss that has it going into its annual rivalry game against Sequim hobbled and fighting to hold on to a No. 3 playoff seed.
“We had opportunities to win, but just a couple of silly mistakes and they capitalized on them,” Rider head coach Tom Wahl said.
“[The Eagles] did a nice job of capitalizing on and taking advantage of the opportunities that were there.”
First and foremost, the Eagles took advantage of a team missing several key players by the time they made their four-touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
Rider quarterback/safety Keenen Walker may have broke his arm near the end of the first half. Starting running back Dylan Brewer was hobbled by a possible hernia.
And senior wide receiver/defensive back Skylar Gray was out due to a respiratory injury from a week ago.
With leading receiver Cameron Braithwaite still out with his own knee injury, the Riders had to rely on a lot of young, inexperienced players Friday.
“We gave them a lot of reps during the week, but they are just young guys with not much experience,” Wahl said.
The Riders scored on a Walker 1-yard run in the first quarter but were shut out the rest of the way.
Sophomore backup quarterback Larsson Chapman, who entered the game after Walker’s injury, had the Riders in position to score twice in the second half.
Unfortunately for the Riders, both resulted in turnovers — one on an errant snap and another on an interception.
The Eagles eventually rattled off four unanswered touchdowns in the fourth quarter to end a 22-game losing streak in league play.
“[Klahowya] came alive and they did a nice job,” Wahl said.
“They just kept rolling there and got confidence.”
Eli Fiscalini, who has also battled injuries this year, led the Riders with 170 yards of offense, 134 of which came on the ground.
It wasn’t enough to keep the Riders from dropping their second straight, however, after starting the year with six wins in a row.
Klahowya 26, Port Angeles 7
Port Angeles 7 0 0 0— 7
Klahowya 0 0 0 26— 26
First Quarter
PA—Walker 1 run (Haskins kick)
Fourth Quarter
K—Sheets 22 run (Barnes-Trask kick)
K—Sheets 9 run (run failed)
K—Simpson 53 run (kick blocked)
K—Simpson 2 run (Barnes-Trask kick)
Individual Stats
Rushing— PA: Fiscalini 9-134, Lasorsa 13-67, Walker 5-39, Brewer 3-9. K: Simpson 28-155, Sheets 11-81.
Passing—PA: Walker 0-4-0, 0; Chapman 3-5-1, 36. K: Ganowski 9-18-0, 120.
Receiving—PA: Fiscalini 3-36. K: Campos 3-55, Sheets 4-51.
Neah Bay 70, Quilcene 27
NEAH BAY — Josiah Greene scored seven touchdowns Friday night to put the Red Devils in position to battle for the Northwest Football League title against nemesis Lummi next week.
Defending 1B state champion and top-ranked Lummi (6-0, 8-0) of Bellingham will host No. 4 Neah Bay (6-0, 6-1) on Friday night at 7.
The two teams locked horns in a nonleague battle in the first game of the year with the Blackhawks coming out 38-36 winners to give the Red Devils their only loss of the year.
Lummi has been a thorn in Neah Bay’s side, knocking the Red Devils out of the 1B semifinals the past two years.
In a tune-up for that game, Josiah Greene, who had 167 yards on six carries, scored four times on the ground, another two times with passes and a seventh time on a 48-yard kickoff return.
The Red Devils led 24-0 after one quarter and 36-8 at halftime.
Quarterback Jake Pleines had three touchdowns for the Rangers, including two runs and a 76-yard TD pass to Kolby Schreier.
Pleines ended up with 235 passing yards, 215 of them to Schreier, who had seven catches.
Josiah Greene led Neah Bay with 115 passing yards for a total of 282 offensive yards.
Quilcene (2-4, 3-4) hosts Clallam Bay (4-2, 4-3) on Saturday afternoon in a game it must have to keep its 1B playoff hopes alive.
Neah Bay 70, Quilcene 27
Quilcene 0 8 13 6— 27
Neah Bay 24 12 20 14— 70
First Quarter
NB—J. Greene 31 run (Z. Greene pass from J. Greene)
NB—Pascua 16 run (J. Greene run)
NB—Pascua 13 run (Hawkins pass from J. Greene)
Second Quarter
NB—J. Greene 19 run (run failed)
NB—Dulik 15 run (pass failed)
Q—King 35 run (Steele run)
Third Quarter
Q—Pleines 5 run (Pleines kick)
NB—McCaulley 51 pass from J. Greene (Z. Greene pass from J. Greene)
Q—Pleines 24 run (kick failed)
NB—J. Greene 48 kickoff return (pass failed)
NB—J. Greene 55 run (pass failed)
Fourth Quarter
Q—Schreier 76 pass from Pleines (run failed)
NB—J. Greene 25 run (Hawkins run)
NB—Reamer 55 pass from J. Greene (no attempt)
Individual Stats
Rushing— Q: Steele 8-62, King 16-59. NB: J. Greene 6-167, Pascua 4-43, Dulik 4-35, McCaulley 1-27, Z. Greene 1-25, Hawkins 4-11, Halttunen 1-7.
Passing—Q: Pleines 8-21-1, 235 yards. NB: J. Greene 5-10-0, 115 yards; Dulik 3-8-1, 42 yards.
Receiving—Q: Schreier 7-215, Colton 1-20. NB: Reamer 1-55, McCaulley 1-51, Moss 1-7, Z. Greene 2-6, Tyler 1-5, Hawkins 1-3.