PORT ANGELES — The fireworks at Civic Field went off despite the final score of Friday night’s Narrows League football game, a 21-14 North Kitsap win over Port Angeles.
The Roughriders Nick Haffner was tackled at the 6-yard line with seven seconds remaining and Port Angeles, with no timeouts and a chance to tie the Vikings, was unable to run a final play.
The Riders (2-3 in league, 3-4 overall) had first-down-and-goal at the 5½-yard line with 15 seconds remaining after the Vikings (4-1, 6-1) were called for pass interference on fourth-and-10.
Quarterback Dane Caldwell threw two incomplete passes into the end zone before hitting Haffner near the 5 on third down. Haffner was smothered by the Vikings’ defense and still on the ground as time ran out.
It was a sour end to Port Angeles’ homecoming game, and also the team’s final home game of the season. A game which for a time was Port Angeles’ to lose.
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The rest of the story appears in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.