NEAH BAY — The Port Angeles B White team earned a playoff position by beating Neah Bay 27-20 in a youth football game Saturday in Neah Bay.
Port Angeles, the fourth seed, travels to Sequim to open the playoffs this Saturday.
Against Neah Bay, Port Angeles’ Cody Kuch scored a touchdown on the first play of the game.
Then scored again on Port Angeles’ next possession, making it 13-0.
Neah Bay drove down the field at the end of the first half, snapped the ball with about 4 seconds left and scored a touchdown with no time left, making it 13-7.
Neah Bay started the second half with a touchdown to tie the game 13-13.
Later, both teams scored touchdowns to make it 20-20.
With just under 3 minutes left in the game, Kuch broke a 60-plus-yard run to put the White squad up 27-20.
Neah Bay was driving down the field with time ticking down but the Port Angeles defense held to end the game.
PORT TOWNSEND VS. PORT ANGELES
PORT ANGELES — The Port Townsend Braves traveled to Port Angeles on Saturday in must-win games to make the playoffs for the C squad (6-7 years old) and A squad (11-12 years old).
The Braves won those two games and the B team contest to sweep Port Angeles Green.
The playoffs open Saturday in Sequim.
The Port Townsend defending champion C squad started the day off fired up and beat Port Angeles Green 34-0.
After weeks of working closely with the Braves’ undefeated B squad, the C team has turned into a confident and aggressive squad.
Payton Lake scored two touchdowns, Bruce Seton added one more score to his impressive season, Jeremiah Thetford scored once and the leader on the offensive and defensive line, Melvin Tuulaupua, rushed for his first touchdown of his young career.
The Braves clinched the final spot of the playoffs and hope to take this momentum to the championship.
B SQUAD GAME
The Braves B squad (8-10 years old) finished with its second consecutive undefeated regular season with a dominating 53-0 win.
The defense added its fifth shutout this season along with holding an opponent to negative offensive yards for the fourth time.
Detrius Kelsall started the day off rushing 20 yards for a score, then threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Carson Marx, and then on the next possession, tossed a 25-yard score to Isaiah Mason.
Kelsall finished 7-of-10 for 160 yards and two touchdowns passing, and one rushing score on the day.
Mason rushed for one more score as well as taking a fumble recovery into the end zone.
Berkley Hill scored his 11th touchdown of the year, Joe Hoffmann scored his second and Kaiden Parcher rumbled in 15 yards for his first touchdown.
Extra points from Chase Steinfort-Smith, Jacob Boucher, Cody McLain and Matthew Widmer sealed the victory.
The Braves are waiting to see who they play in the first round of the playoffs.
A SQUAD GAME
To avoid a three-way playoff later this week for the final postseason spot, the Braves A squad needed a win and they got one.
The Braves beat Port Angeles Green 33-13.
After a 13-12 halftime lead, the Braves changed their offensive line-up and dominated the second half with a fierce rushing and passing attack.
Roberto Gomez Jr. scored four times for the Braves and Alex Jones caught a pass from Jeff Seton for a score.
The defense for the Braves tightened up in the second half to hold the Port Angeles team scoreless.
The Braves face off against undefeated Neah Bay Saturday in Sequim. Kickoff times will be announced later in the week.
Times will be posted on the Braves’ website http://ptbraves.org/.