(Port Angeles) - A balanced Sequim offensive assail that scored touchdowns on 3 of its first iv possessions too a defense force that created primal turnovers allowed the Wolves to become domicile from Civic Field amongst a 29-xiv victory over the Port Angeles Roughriders Friday dark.
With their third straight win in the Rainshadow Rumble football series, the Wolves (v-iii, iii-2) clinched the third place Olympic League 2A partitioning playoff berth as well as left the Roughriders (three-v, 2-iii) out of the postseason picture show for the sixth consecutive flavor.
Sequim hosts winless Kingston Friday dark at seven too a district playoff disceptation amongst the 2nd home team from the South Puget Sound League looms on Nov tertiary or 4th.
Port Angeles meets Olympic Thursday night at seven:fifteen on the turf at Silverdale Stadium inward the season finale for both clubs.
Early miscues stymie Port Angeles
Port Angeles turnovers played a big part inward Sequim jumping ahead past ii touchdowns inwards the starting time quarter.
Hayden Gresli cashed inwards on a 15-chiliad run in addition to added the 2-point conversion, as the Wolves led viii-0 with seven:43 left inwards the first quarter.
The Roughriders opened the door for another Sequim six later on an inexplicable imitation punt croak attempt by Athon Kathol brutal incomplete at the PA 36.
Seven plays subsequently, the Wolves extended to xvi-0 afterward quarterback Riley Cowan plunged inward from a G away and Taig Wiker added a ii-signal rush alongside three:04 to go in the opening stanza.
Cowan rushed for a season-high 69 yards on sixteen carries and connected on fourteen of 19 passes for 136 yards too a touchdown.
Sequim ace Gavin Velarde intercepted an Easton Joslin go at the Wolves 38 with simply a second left inward the starting time menstruum.
Both offenses stalled before Sequim got the ball at the PA 49 alongside vi:07 to get earlier suspension. The Wolves pose together a clock-grinding serial amongst 8 of xi plays on the earth that completed amongst the Wolves ahead 22-0 later on Cowan'sec 23-G touchdown snuff it to Kyler Rollness amongst ane:fourteen left in the get-go one-half.
That's when Easton Joslin too Garrett Edwards started to team upwardly too become Port Angeles dorsum into the ball game.
The Riders drove 67 yards inwards vii plays with Edwards dragging across the dorsum of the end zone from right to left earlier taking Joslin's vii-K scoring die as the kickoff one-half clock expired.
Erik Alvarez kicked the PAT to close the margin downward to 22-seven at halftime.
Third quarter Sequim fumble keeps PA inward the game
Both offenses fizzled on their start serial of the minute half.
The Wolves took possession at their own xix alongside eight:05 left inward the 3rd quarter and started a half-dozen-minute series that had the makings of a game-clincher until Hayden Gresli fumbled on the twelfth play in addition to PA took over at its own 21 at the ii:04 grade.
The dwelling house crowd had high hopes too those inward the visitors' department started wringing their hands later on Port Angeles drove 79 yards inwards 13 plays over five:18.
Joslin institute Jake Allen at the goal job for a fifteen-thousand mark that shut the margin to 22-xiv amongst 8:46 remaining inward the contest.
Joslin connected alongside Edwards twice for offset downs on the effort, including a 14-yarder on quaternary-and-11 that place the Riders downwards to the Sequim 22.
Joslin completed fourteen of 28 passes for 140 yards in addition to 2 touchdowns alongside two interceptions.
Edwards had half-dozen catches for 76 yards too a score.
Sequim drives for clincher
Gavin Velarde'sec 21-1000 render of a curt showtime set Sequim into PA territory at the 44.
A cardinal play on the Wolves serial was a xiii-yard drop dead from Cowan to Kyler Rollness that had a 15-1000 PA personal foul penalisation tacked onto its determination.
Rollness caught vii passes for 83 yards as well as a score.
On the 6th play, Hayden Gresli scored his second touchdown from iii yards alongside vi:23 to get together with Byron Rice booted the conversion for a 29-fourteen Sequim reward.
Gresli rushed for a game-high 73 yards on 18 carries.
The Roughriders terminal gasp came iii snaps after when Rollness intercepted Joslin and the Wolves took over at their own 29 alongside five:nineteen left.
Sequim drove to the PA 1 as the clock expired.
The Wolves had a 328-186 advantage inwards total yards.
Sequim had 192 rushing yards on xl carries, while Port Angeles managed merely 46 yards on xiv attempts.
Game Notes
Sequim like a shot has a nine-eight record inward games played at the "novel" Civic Field. The Port Angeles stadium was reconstructed in addition to open in fourth dimension for the Riders' home flavour opener inwards 1978, when the Wolves took a 23-eight triumph. The "master copy" Civic Field was built inward 1941.
The Wolves have won three direct against the Roughriders and 8 out of the terminal ten matchups.
Sequim has won x of the fourteen games played inwards the 21st century, outscoring PA 451-194, past an average grade of 35-fifteen.
The overall series record has PA with a 52-23-vi advantage inward the 81 games played since 1928.
Friday'sec Olympic League Scores
Sequim 29, Port Angeles 14
Bremerton 49, Kingston 0
Archbishop Murphy 56, Olympic 21 (not-league)
North Kitsap 42, North Mason 0
Olympic - 2A Football Standings
Conf. Overall
west L due west L
North Kitsap six 0 eight 0
Bremerton iv ane 7 ane
Sequim 3 ii v three
Port Angeles 2 three iii five
Olympic two iii 3 v
North Mason one four four iv
Kingston 0 five 0 viii
Next week
Port Angeles (three-5, 2-3) at Olympic (three-5, ii-iii) Th 7:15 p.one thousand.
North Mason (iv-4, i-4) at Bremerton (7-1, 4-ane) Fri 7:00 p.k.
Sequim (5-three, iii-2) vs. Kingston (0-eight, 0-v) Friday 7 p.thousand.
(More details on the Sequim - Kingston rivalry below the statistics)
Scoring by Quarters
Seq - 16 06 00 07 -- 29
PA -- 00 07 00 07 -- 14
Scoring Summary
1st Quarter
Seq - Hayden Gresli 15 function (Gresli function) vii:43 (Seq viii-0)
(Drive: 5 plays, 58 yds, 2:04)
Seq - Riley Cowan one go (Taig Wiker work) 3:04 (Seq 16-0)
(Drive: 7 plays, 36 yds, 2:46)
2d Quarter
Seq - Kyler Rollness 23 kick the bucket from Riley Cowan (Pass failed) 1:14 (Seq 22-0)
(Drive: xi plays, 51 yds, 4:53)
PA - Garrett Edwards 7 Pass from Easton Joslin (Erik Alvarez boot) :00 (Seq 22-vii)
(Drive: 7 plays, 67 yds, 1:x)
quaternary Quarter
PA - Jake Allen xv buy the farm from Easton Joslin (Alvarez kick) 8:46 (Seq 22-fourteen)
(Drive: 13 plays, 79 yds, v:eighteen)
Seq - Hayden Gresli three operate (Byron Rice kicking) half dozen:23 (Seq 29-14)
(Drive: vi plays, 44 yds, 2:eighteen)
Individual Statistics
Rushing
Seq - Riley Cowan sixteen-69-1TD, Tyler Conn 5-52, Hayden Gresli 18-73-2TDs, Chris Puksta ane-0.
PA -- Jarrett Burns 5-seven, Jake Allen i-nine, Easton Joslin 6-32.
Passing
Seq - Riley Cowan fourteen-xix-136-1TD-0INT (.735)
PA -- Easton Joslin xiv-28-2TDs-2INTs (.500), Jarrett Burns 0-one-0, Anton Kathol 0-1-0.
Receiving
Seq - Kyler Rollness vii-88-1TD, Taig Wiker one-12, Gavin Velarde v-31, Hayden Gresli ane-5.
PA -- Garrett Edwards vi-76-1TD, Jarrett Burns 1-iii, Jake Allen 3-sixteen-1TD, Marcos Lopez 2-14, Anton Kathol 2-31.
Team Statistics
Rushing
Seq - forty-194-3TD
PA -- xiv-46-0TD
Passing
Seq - xiv-19-136-1TD-0INT (.735)
PA -- fourteen-xxx-140-2TD-2INT (.466)
Total Yards
Seq - 59-328-4TD (five.5 ypp)
PA -- 44-186-2TD (iv.two ypp)
Penalties
Seq - eight-80
PA -- vii-73
Had Intercepted
Seq - 0
PA -- ii
Fumbles Lost
Seq - one
PA -- 0
Turnovers
Seq - 1 (ane FUM)
PA -- 3 (two INT, one TOD)
Next week:
Sequim (v-3, iii-2) vs. Kingston (0-viii, 0-five) Fri 7 p.thousand. at Sequim High School
Sequim leads the serial 8-ii against Kingston, the second high schoolhouse inwards the North Kitsap School District, established inwards 2007.
The Wolves relish a v-one reward inward habitation games against the Buccaneers, alongside Kingston winning a 41-28 conclusion inwards 2012.
Sequim vs. Kingston (Wolves atomic number 82 series 8-2)
2007 H 33 7 due west
2008 A 74 0 due west
2009 H 49 vi due west
2010 A 56 28 west
2011 H 27 thirteen W
2012 H 28 41 L
2013 A vii 52 L
2014 H 27 nineteen W
2015 A 13 x W
2016 H 37 x westward
351 186
35.1 eighteen.six
First coming together: 2007
Last coming together: 2016
Longest Sequim Win Streak: 5
2007-11
Longest Kingston Win Streak: two
2012-thirteen
Memorable dwelling games in Sequim - Kingston football serial
2011
A ball control, smash-oral cavity strategy most paid off for the Kingston Buccaneers Friday dark until Sequim rallied with ii huge 4th quarter plays, leading to a thrilling 27-thirteen Homecoming victory.
The Kitsap County visitors held possession for 38 of the competition'second 48 minutes.
"I realize (Dan) Novick is a actually proficient motorcoach and that'sec precisely what they wanted to do inwards sticking alongside the running game," Sequim bus Erik Wiker said. "Kingston totally wanted to go along the ball out of our hands for the whole game, taking 30 seconds betwixt plays to go along us out of our rhythm, too not hand us the ball."
Trailing thirteen-seven, Kingston drove 83 yards inward xiv plays, capped past quarterback Sam Byers' ane-K keeper alongside ix:34 left in the quaternary quarter.
Byers rushed 23 times for 92 yards too ii scores.
Attempting the get-ahead extra indicate, Kingston placement holder Ben McMullen lost command of the snap as well as was swarmed past the Wolves, keeping the score tied at xiii.
The turn-of-the-tide came on the Bucs' ensuing squib kick, taken subsequently ii bounces by Sequim'second Tyler Forshaw at his own xix.
The mercurial Wolves senior took the ball upward the correct sideline together with -- alongside the assist of two critical blocks -- evaded Kingston pursuit 81 yards to pay dirt, giving Sequim a xx-13 advantage amongst ix:xix remaining.
"He (Forshaw) is a game-changer with the long work as well as the pick (of Byer'sec at the end of the commencement half) too that'second just stepping upwards too making the play -- we take lots of guys that correspond that category," Coach Wiker noted. "I intend (the commencement return) was the key play that place them behind the 8-ball."
Emulating the strategy of old Seattle Seahawks coach Chuck Knox, the Buccaneers employed "Ground Chuck", pounding the ball into Sequim territory, reaching the Sequim 8-grand-job before a force out of Byers and a penalty left Kingston facing a 4th-too-finish from the Wolves twenty-chiliad-line of work alongside one:25 left.
Byers faced a heavy Sequim rush too his croak endeavor vicious incomplete near the goal business.
Sequim seized the moment on the side by side scrimmage play every bit Jack Wiker took reward of supreme blocking as well as raced eighty yards upwardly the center for a grade, putting the game out of achieve at 27-xiii.
Wiker packed the pigskin five times for 108 yards.
Senior quarterback Frank Catelli, who was crowned Homecoming male monarch at halftime, returned from a ane-game interruption, completing 10-of-eighteen passes for 120 yards too ii touchdowns.
Catelli at once leads Olympic League betoken callers with 12 TD strikes on the crusade.
Kingston tailback Nick Tabanera led all rushers with 136 yards on 25 carries.
Erik Wiker credited the Sequim defensive backs for give-up the ghost coverage, plus linemen Clay Charley too Jake Hudson, along with linebacker Josh McElrath for primal stops during the competition.
Wiker thought the struggle amongst Kingston volition send a message to his squad for time to come games.
"I intend we had lackadaisical practices this week where (the players) thought they would live coming together the Kingston of sometime where we win past l," Wiker mused. "They (Kingston) played harder as well as nosotros didn't come to play a league championship game."
See-saw beginning half
Kingston (three-three overall, two-2 in Olympic League play) established their clock-dominating tactics during the offset crusade of the contest, moving but thirty yards, just running 10 plays and burning half dozen minutes as well as forty seconds off the clock, earlier a quaternary-and-four faux punt rush at the Sequim 46 past Nick Tabanera was stopped a M brusque of the get-go down by the Wolves.
Sequim (6-0 overall, 4-0 inward Olympic League play) took possession, driving 53 yards inwards ix plays, as Frank Catelli connected alongside Nick Ramirez for an eight-yard scoring kick the bucket alongside ii:17 remaining in the get-go quarter, giving the hosts an initial seven-0 reward afterward Jonathan Campbell'second PAT.
Kingston responded, grinding out 76 yards inwards 13 plays, culminated with Byers' 1-1000 keeper with half dozen:02 left in the beginning one-half, creating a seven-vii deadlock.
The Wolves moved ahead subsequently a vii-play, l-thou march alongside the Catelli-to-Ramirez distich connecting for a mark for the quaternary time in ii games, this time from 4 yards, giving Sequim a xiii-vii lead alongside 4:25 remaining until break.
Kingston threatened to tie before halftime with a campaign into the Sequim cherry-red zone, simply Forshaw's interception of Byers in the cease zone with 25 seconds remaining, thwarted the Bucs' chance.
2014
(Sequim) -- The Sequim High Wolves came upwards with a huge defensive cease in the final minutes against Kingston, property on for a 27-xix victory against the Buccaneers.
The Wolves (three-0 overall, 1-0 inwards Olympic League 2A Division play) overcame a xvi-xiv deficit at break, scoring a twain of 3rd quarter touchdowns -- a twenty-yard operate past quarterback Miguel Moroles together with a five-K Moroles give-up the ghost to Ian Dennis -- in taking a 27-xvi advantage.
Sequim was driving in one case once again inwards the concluding quarter, simply Kingston defensive back Alex Barrett made a leaping interception of Moroles alongside eleven minutes remaining at mid-field.
Kingston rallies
The Buccaneers drove deep into Wolves territory, but stalled in addition to settled for Ryan Fick'second 28-1000 champaign finish with seven:51 left, closing to inside 27-nineteen.
Kingston (0-iii overall, 0-1 inward Olympic League 2A Division play) held Sequim to iii-and-out, taking over possession subsequently a punt at the Sequim 47 with v:eighteen to go.
Nine plays later on, the Bucs faced a fourth-together with-3 at the Wolves fifteen, just Garrett Rouser came upwards inches curt subsequently the official's measure, turning possession over to the Wolves with 2 minutes left.
The deal was sealed for Sequim after a Kingston offside penalization on a quaternary-as well as-four alongside 33 seconds left gave the Wolves a outset down.
See-Saw battle inwards first one-half
Sequim got on the board showtime with a 40-M Miguel Moroles function amongst ten:32 left inward the opening quarter for a vii-0 Wolves atomic number 82.
Kingston answered with Garrett Rouser's i thousand work with one:37 remaining earlier the commencement intermission, tying the mark at vii.
Moroles set the Wolves up 14-seven amongst i:35 left inward the beginning half on a i-chiliad keeper.
The pivotal minute of the outset one-half came with 6:xxx left until intermission when the Bucs blocked Adrian Espinoza'sec punt.
The ball rolled through the cease zone for a rubber, making the score fourteen-ix Sequim, merely giving the ball back to Kingston subsequently the costless kick.
The Buccaneers drove 56 yards inward 9 plays, with quarterback Jack Colleto going the terminal iv yards for the TD, putting Kingston ahead xvi-fourteen at halftime.