Washington High School Football News

The Curtis High football team welcomed the challenge. In the week leading up to the Class 4A state quarterfinal against second-ranked Skyline, the Vikings talked about wanting to prove themselves among the state's elite teams.

Alex Martinez walked in for the winning touchdown, but it was far from easy for Archbishop Murphy.

An expected game between high-powered football offenses instead became one that hinged on defense.

One more big play on offense. One more defensive stand. They had become standard practice for the third-ranked Auburn Trojans this year.

PULLMAN This afternoon, barring an upset that would rank with the biggest in Pac-10 history, Sam Tennant will become part of the most infamous senior class in Washington State football history.

Trailing by 20 points at halftime, it would have been easy for the Nooksack Valley football team to give in and start thinking about packing up the bus for the drive back north.

All the pieces were in place for Issaquah. Down 10, the Eagles were set to receive the ball to start the second half.

Frank Cange can outrun most football players. But his mother knew he couldn't outrun the kind of trouble chasing him in their Tampa, Fla., neighborhood.

They mangle offenses like saws chew wood. Furious, relentless, machine-like. "Our motto is, - Fly around,'" said junior defensive lineman Jake Brouker.

Having multiple football teams in the state quarterfinals is nothing new for Whatcom County.

The Montesano football machine just kept rolling in the opening round of the Class 1A state playoffs, no matter what Meridian tried to do to stop it.

The little team that could finally ran out of gas. The Port Townsend football team's bid to reach the Class 1A state tournament fell one game short Tuesday night as the Redskins fell 25-0 to Northwest Conference power Meridian.

Kamiakina s Jesse Houser fumbles and Brendon Olson of Ferris moves in to make the recovery on the first of his two first-quarter takeways.

Bremerton beat Evergreen for the second straight season, this time in the inaugural Puget Sound Kiwanis Bowl.

Meadowdale was at its best when facing long odds Saturday night. On third-and-14, trailing by 10 in the second quarter, quarterback Danny McDonald picked up 15 yards that preserved a touchdown drive.

Forty times Black Hills running back Cody Peterson carried the ball, and 40 times the Lynden defense didn't really have an answer for stopping him.

Like his father did 30 years ago, Skyline receiver Kasen Williams made a Tacoma football field his personal playpen.

KITSAP SUN Central Kitsap's Monterill Anderson is brought down by Curtis High's C.J. Langlow and Seth Hunthausen during the first half of Saturday's playoff game at Curtis High School.

Two catches. Two impact plays. It's what Union's Mitch Saylor does. And there was little the Capital Cougars could do to stop the speedy 6-foot-6 wide receiver on those plays.

Trailing 15-0 midway through the second quarter of its first-round Class 4A playoff game, third-ranked Auburn needed to roll up its sleeves.