Sequim improved to 3-3 overall as well as one-ii inward Olympic League 2A play, while North Mason savage to iii-3 overall together with i-three inwards league encounters.
It was a dark of big plays for the Wolves, as Sequim led 23-0 but 28 seconds into the second quarter afterward Velarde too quarterback Riley Cowan connected for scores from 38, 28 together with 65 yards.
Velarde had five catches for 148 yards in addition to rushed 5 times for 36 yards.
North Mason didn't panic in addition to countered amongst an viii-play, 90-K march, capped past a iii-chiliad Reese Smelcer run alongside vii:29 left inward the showtime half, making it 23-seven afterward the PAT by Gary Thomas.
A curt punt prepare the Bulldogs at the Sequim 20 too score was chopped to 23-xiii after a iv-grand touchdown run past Dylan Tupelo with 5:46 left until halftime.
Tupolo, a half dozen'one, 245 pound junior, carried xvi times for 122 hashes, the game-high rusher.
Things looked promising for the pelting-soaked Belfair Homecoming crowd afterwards Cole Varick intercepted a long Cowan aerial alongside three:50 earlier pause.
Down past ten, the Bulldogs took over at their own 17, hoping for consecutive scoring drives alongside the promise of receiving the instant half showtime.
However, a pivotal play happened 3 snaps later on when Sequim junior Kyler Rollness intercepted a Shawn Ward choke, giving the Wolves possession at the Bulldogs 46 with two:55 left until suspension.
Sequim covered the distance inwards half dozen plays, amongst a 33-1000 Cowan give-up the ghost to Jarrett Allen giving the Wolves kickoff-in addition to-finish at the North Mason iii.
Cowan plunged into the stop zone amongst 9 seconds left and Sequim went to the locker room ahead thirty-13.
Cowan completed x of his 24 passes for 204 yards in addition to iii touchdowns amongst one interception.
Downpour inward scoreless tertiary quarter
The Bulldogs cashed inwards after a grinding 15-play, 98-thou serial that culminated alongside a 34-M touchdown croak from Ward to half dozen'ane Austin Knight.
The Sequim advantage was dorsum down to xi at xxx-xix with 10:25 left inwards regulation.
The Wolves drove to a get-go down at the North Mason xx, only stalled together with ended upwards turning the ball over on downs back at the 24 afterward a rushing loss in addition to three straight incompletions.
The Bulldogs had but five:55 left to overcome the xi-betoken deficit together with the Wolves defence force knew a choke was imminent.
Three plays afterwards, Ward'sec throw to a slot receiver on the right hashmark was jumped past Velarde in addition to the speedster returned it 44 yards downward the sidelines untouched for the backbreaker.
Velarde caught the 2-betoken go from Wiker too it was 38-nineteen Sequim with v:27 to get.
It was Velarde'sec quaternary career Pick-vi.
The Bulldogs outgained the Wolves 356-290.
Bulldogs mistakes lead to early Sequim scores
Sequim's initial mark was set past a muffed punt past North Mason'sec Eric Jones that was recovered past freshman Taig Wiker at the North Mason 38.
Velarde lined upwards in the slot on the left together with ran a vertical road upwards the left hashmark, taking junior quarterback Riley Cowan'second rainbow spiral over his within shoulder at the v and scoring untouched merely 63 seconds into the game.
North Mason jumped offside on the PAT attempt, prompting Coach Erik Wiker to send out his ii-bespeak conversion team. The double-decker'second son, Taig, ran for the deuce in addition to a 8-0 advantage.
A iii-as well as-out possession for the Bulldogs, marred by a eighteen-one thousand loss after a high directly snap to the quarterback, left Sequim on the doorstep of some other Cowan-Velarde limited touchdown.
From the North Mason 28, Velarde centered a right-side Trips set as well as blew past two Bulldogs on a skinny mail pattern, taking the Cowan aerial v yards deep inwards the terminate zone for a xv-0 Sequim advantage amongst 9:xix left inward the opening stanza.
The 3rd Cowan to Velarde touchdown was a perfectly executed jailbreak or tunnel concealment from left to correct for 65 yards amongst xi:32 left inwards the moment flow.
The Wolves host the Olympic Trojans for the annual Sequim Homecoming celebration Friday, piece the Bulldogs travel to Forks to play the Spartans inwards a non-leaguer.
(More on the Olympic - Sequim serial afterward the statistics)
Game Notes
Velarde's three TD catches equaled his schoolhouse-record tying attempt inwards terminal yr'second 49-ix victory over Port Angeles.
- Velarde shares the record with v Wolves: Joey Hall, who as well accomplished the feat in the first half in a 49-20 win at North Mason inwards 2010; Ryan Rutherford (2004, inward a 36-29 win over Port Townsend); Scott Schindler (1992, inwards a 24-twenty victory over Franklin Pierce); Jeremy Copeland (1989, inward a 37-six win over Port Townsend) too J.D. Angiuli (1978, inwards a xl-27 conclusion over Liberty).
- The Phil Pugh Stadium surface was replaced with a shiny new Field Turf this yr, office of the improvements made possible by the North Mason community passing a bond upshot that allowed for the structure of a new high school too renovations to the old facility for use every bit a center schoolhouse.
Olympic League - 2A Standings
Conf. Overall
westward L westward L
North Kitsap 4 0 half-dozen 0
Bremerton two one 5 one
Port Angeles 2 i 3 three
Olympic ii ii three three
Sequim ane two iii 3
North Mason i three 3 3
Kingston 0 iii 0 six
Olympic League scores
Sequim 38, North Mason nineteen
North Kitsap 36, Bremerton 7
Renton 38, Port Angeles 7
Olympic forty, Kingston 12
Scoring past Quarters
Seq - xv 15 00 08 -- 38
NM -- 00 thirteen 00 06 -- nineteen
Scoring Summary
1st Quarter
Seq - Gavin Velarde 38 conk from Riley Cowan (Taig Wiker operate) 10:57
Seq - Gavin Velarde 28 expire from Riley Cowan (Byron Rice kicking) 9:nineteen
2nd Quarter
Seq - Gavin Velarde 65 conk from Riley Cowan (Kyler Rollness from Velarde) 11:32
northward.thousand.- Reese Smelcer 3 go (Gary Thomas boot) 7:29
northward.yard.- Dylan Tupelo iv work (work failed) v:46
Seq - Riley Cowan ane run (Rice kick) :01
fourth Quarter
N.grand.- Austin Knight 45 perish from Shawn Ward (kicking failed) x:25
Seq - Gavin Velarde 44 grand drop dead interception render (Velarde from Taig Wiker conk) v:27
Individual Statistics
Rushing
Seq - Hayden Gresli 8-45, Gavin Velarde v-36, Riley Cowan seven-xiii-1TD, Chris Puksta i-(-10), Tyler Conn ane-two.
NM -- Dylan Tupelo 16-122-1TD, Tyler Thomas 12-41, Ryan Nogues four-36, Reese Smelcer half dozen-17-1TD, Mario Nanez ane-vii, Shawn Ward xi-(-five).
Passing
Seq - Riley Cowan x-24-204-3TD-1INT
NM -- Shawn Ward xi-xix-138-1TD 2INT
Receiving
Seq - Gavin Velarde five-148-3TD, Hayden Gresli 2-4, Kyler Rollness 1-ten, Taig Wiker i-ix, Jarrett Allen 1-33.
NM -- Dylan Tupelo 4-45, Austin Knight ane-34-1TD, Cole Varick ane-xviii, Tyler Thomas two-24, Eric Jones two-sixteen, Ryan Nogues ane-ane.
Team Statistics
Rushing
Seq - 22-86-1TD
NM -- l-218-2TD
Passing
Seq - x-24-204-3TD-1INT
NM -- xi-xix-138-1TD 2INT
Total Yards
Seq - 46-290-4TD
NM -- 69-356-3TD
Penalties
Seq - vii-fifty
NM -- half dozen-50
Had Intercepted
Seq - one
NM -- two (ane returned for TD)
Fumbles Lost
Seq - 0
NM -- 0
Turnovers
Seq - ii (1INT, 1TOD)
NM -- three (2INT, 1TOD)
Next calendar week: Olympic Trojans (Homecoming)
Olympic trounce Kingston Fri twoscore-12 as well as is three-three overall,
two-2 inwards league play.
Olympic leads serial against Sequim fifteen-four
Olympic is eight-two against the Wolves inwards Sequim
Last habitation victory against Olympic - 63-viii inward 2010.
1979
Coach Barry Wheeler'second 1979 team defeated Olympic 22-0 on the Sequim gridiron, snapping a 4-game losing streak alongside the Homecoming victory.
Sequim scored twice in the moment quarter as well as added some other tally inward the concluding menstruum.
The Wolves rushed 33 times for 124 cyberspace yards in addition to held Olympic to merely 57 yards on 25 carries.
Sequim scored on the third play of the moment quarter to cap a five-play, 60-grand campaign.
A 14-grand perish from quarterback Mike Sherry to end John Irwin together with a second smasher of xv yards to Scott Browning, keyed the march.
Junior fullback Dave Roberts blasted into the terminate zone from the three as well as Sequim led 7-0 later on Dale McBride's PAT.
Three snaps later, the Wolves increased the lead to 14-0 later on a pick-half-dozen by defensive back Rick Cooper, who intercepted a Tom Blinkinsop aerial on the Olympic 27.
Cooper started back correct as well as suddenly veered chop-chop to the left, getting a cardinal block from Browning to mark untouched.
The Wolves concluding TD inwards the fourth quarter was set when Sherry blocked a quick-kicking endeavor at the Olympic thirty.
Mark Irwin popped inside for twenty yards. Four plays afterwards, Sherry hitting Jeff Shea over the eye for the grade.
The Wolves surged to 22-0 on a two-point conversion choke from David Angiuli to Browning.
1980-1990
The Trojans won xi consecutive matchups with the Wolves betwixt 1980 too 1990.
2010
The series resumed after twenty years inwards 2010, when Coach Erik Wiker's squad destroyed Olympic 63-eight at abode.
Isaac Yamamoto rushed for 168 yards on 17 carries together with scored iv touchdowns as the Wolves celebrated a 63-viii Homecoming victory over the Trojans.
Quarterback Drew Rickerson completed 18 of 27 passes for 230 yards too 2 TD'sec for the half-dozen-i Wolves, who kept footstep alongside Port Angeles at v-0 inward Olympic League action.
Sequim led 13-0 afterwards the beginning quarter on Yamamoto scoring runs of ane and 31 yards.
After Olympic turned the ball over on downs at the Sequim 3, the Wolves engineered an 11-play, 97-K
touchdown crusade capped by Rickerson'second one-M keeper, increasing the Pb to xx-0.
Rickerson completed seven of nine passes on the march, 2 completions each to Joey Hall, Frank Catelli together with
Tyler Forshaw.
Olympic got its alone touchdown of the game on a 37-M sprint by running dorsum Shawn Brown amongst
v:20 earlier suspension to cut it to xx-8.
Sequim blew the contest open amongst 3 additional moment-quarter scores, some other ii-thousand Yamamoto function,
a fifteen-K fumble render past Kahn Mills as well as a 35-grand Rickerson pass away to Joey Hall.
The Wolves took a 42-eight lead to the halftime locker room.
Hall caught 7 passes for 124 yards too a touchdown.
The game clock ran non-end for the concluding xvi minutes, 22 seconds afterward Yamamoto's last TD from eight yards
amongst four:22 left inward the third quarter, courtesy of the mercy rule.
The Wolves' Jack Wiker reached pay dirt from 10 yards alongside x:51 to get for the terminal points at 63-8.
Sequim also won the following season against Olympic, 35-viii at Silverdale Stadium.
2012-2015
Olympic took 4 direct betwixt 2012 together with 2015 earlier the Wolves rebounded for a 48-26 thrashing of the Trojans inward Silverdale final flavour.
2016
Last flavor, Gavin Velarde scored v touchdowns too Riley Cowan threw 2 touchdown passes every bit Sequim took command of second home in the Olympic League 2A standings alongside a 48-26 victory over the Trojans at Silverdale Stadium.
The Trojans trailed Sequim 26-xiv belatedly inward the get-go one-half, just Olympic drove to the Wolves fifteen alongside viii seconds remaining, looking to seize momentum earlier the one-half together with have the second half outset.
Olympic quarterback Evan Quitevis threw into the right flat, looking for Devin Burleigh on a hitch design that was jumped by Velarde at his ain three.
Velarde, alongside a full head of steam from his rubber place, streaked up the visitor'second sideline 97 yards untouched, giving Sequim a 34-fourteen halftime advantage.
Olympic received the second one-half get-go together with methodically drove lxxx yards inward xi plays.
Evan Quitevis constitute Kolby Johnson for a vi-G TD drop dead and the Olympic chopped the atomic number 82 to 34-20 with half dozen:thirty left inward the 3rd menstruation.
Any Trojan momentum was deflated on the ensuing kickoff as Velarde received at his own 20, finding a seam upward the correct hash, streaking lxxx yards to the touchdown as well as Sequim was dorsum upward 41-xx.
After property the Trojans to iii-as well as-out, the Wolves chewed upwardly 69 yards in 8 plays, Velarde going the terminal iv hashes to make upwardly 48-twenty with 11:52 to get.
Evan Quitevis got the terminal Olympic touchdown alongside v:55 left on a twenty-G operate about right cease in addition to a bang-up cutback into the end zone, for the concluding margin of 48-26.
Two early on Sequim TD strikes
Cowan'sec TD passes came early on, a 13-yarder inward the dorsum of the terminate zone to Payton Glasser in addition to a 50-chiliad rocket to Kyler Rollness, pushing the Wolves ahead 13-0 after 1 menstruum.
An Olympic punt deflected off the back of a Trojan lineman, giving Sequim possession at the Oly six.
Velarde got the first of his three rushing scores on the side by side play together with the Wolves were ahead 20-0 with ten:02 left inward the first one-half.
The Trojans answered alongside an viii-play, 55-grand march that took iv:01, Malcolm Dewalt scoring on a counter downward the left sidelines, that closed the margin to twenty-7 with 5:forty left until halftime.
The Wolves passing assault clicked on the next effort with a 24-K leaping grab past Glasser to the Olympic 36 and 35-K snag by Rollness to the Trojans one.
Velarde hit pay dirt afterwards side by side snap, putting the Wolves upwards 26-seven amongst 3:09 left in the minute quarter.
Olympic climbed dorsum into the contest with a 36-grand TD take hold of together with go past Darelle White that narrowed the score to 26-14 with i:44 to go until interruption.