DES MOINES — Defending 1B state football champion Neah Bay (2-0) keeps rolling after pounding Evergreen Lutheran 54-8 in nonleague action Friday night.
This was another whole-team effort as Josiah Greene threw two touchdown passes while Zeke Greene and Michael McGee had two touchdowns each.
Cole Svec also had two long scoring runs but the first, a 65-yarder, was called back because of a block in the back.
Unfazed, Svec turned around and sprinted 73 yards for a score to give the Red Devils a 30-0 lead in the second quarter.
Neah Bay led 22-0 at the end of the first quarter and 46-0 at halftime.
Evergreen finally scored with only 4 minutes left in the game.
Michael McGee’s second score came with three-tenths of a second left on a 7-yard scamper.
Michael McGee also scored on a 24-yard pass from Kenrick Doherty.
Josiah Greene passed 55 yards to Zeke Greene for one score and 25 yards to Leyton Doherty for another.
Josiah Greene went 5 for 6 with no interceptions and 114 yards to go with his two passing touchdowns.
Zeke Greene also had an 85-yard interception return for a touchdown to go with his scoring reception.
Mitchell McGee, who scored on the first play of the game after going 50 yards on a kick return, also recovered a fumble by Evergreen quarterback Ryan Gonzales.
That fumble recovery led to the Josiah Greene to Leyton Doherty touchdown pass.
Michael McGee and Svec were the workhorses in the ground game as Svec carried the ball three times for 98 yards, and McGee had 97 yards on 12 carries.
The Red Devils had a total of 268 rushing yards and 161 passing.
Defensively, they had two interceptions. Christopher Martinez had the other interception to go with his eight total tackles.
Tyler McCaulley, who had six total tackles, earned a sack while Cameron Buzzell and Dale Dawson had a half-sack each.
The Red Devils have a bye this coming week and don’t play until Sept. 21 when they host Muckleshoot of Auburn at 7 p.m.
Neah Bay 54,
Evergreen Lutheran 8
Neah Bay 22 24 0 8— 54
Evergreen 0 0 0 8— 8
First Quarter
NB—Mitchell McGee 50 run (run fails)
NB—Zeke Greene 55 pass from Josiah Greene (Tyler McCaulley run)
NB—Zeke Greene 85 interception return (McCaulley run)
Second Quarter
NB—Cole Svec 73 run (Zeke Greene pass from Josiah Greene)
NB—Leyton Doherty 25 pass from Josiah Greene (Zeke Greene pass from Josiah Greene)
NB—Michael McGee 24 pass from Kenrick Doherty (Elijah Winck run)
Fourth Quarter
EL—John Hanning 5 pass from Ryan Gonzales (Kyle Leitzke run)
NB—Mitchell McGee 7 run (Winck run)
Individual Stats
Rushing— NB: Cole Svec 3-98, Michael McGee 12-97, Tyler McCaulley 2-24, Elijah Winck 4-21
Passing—NB: Josiah Greene 5-6-0, 114 yards; Kenrick Doherty 2-5-0, 47 yards.
Receiving—NB: Zeke Greene 3-61, Leyton Doherty 2-53, Michael McGee 1-24, Cole Svec 1-23.
Port Townsend 24,
Coupeville 6
COUPEVILLE — The Redskins ended their 20-game losing streak Friday night, winning for the first time since 2009.
“It’s good to get the monkey off the back, and early [in the season],” Port Townsend coach Nick Snyder said.
“The kids were ecstatic.”
Snyder said he didn’t think any of the Redskins were on the team when the Redskins won their last game.
Despite the long losing streak, Port Townsend (1-1) hasn’t timid in the first two games of Snyder’s second tenure leading the Redskins.
“Coupeville is a tough, physical team,” Snyder said.
“But we hit them hard.”
Skyler Coppenrath had four sacks and 10 tackles for the Redskins, including what Snyder called the biggest play of the game.
Early in the fourth quarter with the score 10-6, Coppenrath hit the Coupeville (0-2) quarterback from behind to force a fumble that was recovered by Port Townsend.
Coppenrath also caught two passes for 29 yards from the tight end position on offense.
Quarterback Jacob King led the offense with 85 rushing yard and 128 passing yards.
The Redskins open Nisqually League play on the road against Eatonville on Friday.
“They’re really good,” Snyder said.
“But if we can play with intensity like [against Coupeville] for four quarters, we can beat anybody.”
Port Townsend 24, Coupeville 6
Port Townsend 10 0 0 14— 24
Coupeville 0 6 0 0— 6
First Quarter
PT—Jacob King 3 run (Dylan Ralls kick)
PT—Ralls 35 field goal
Second Quarter
C—3 run (kick failed)
Fourth Quarter
PT—Tim Russell 12 run (Ralls kick)
PT—Metiku Little 10 run (Ralls kick)
Individual Stats
Rushing— PT: Jacob King 14-85, Metiku Little 9-51, Tim Russell 6-49, Matt Cain 2-35, Wesley Wheeler 4-8.
Passing—PT: Jacob King 7-11, 128.
Receiving—PT: Layne Zack 3-67, Skyler Coppenrath 2-29, Matt Cain 2-32.
Clallam Bay 60,
Muckleshoot 12
AUBURN — After sitting out the opening week of the high school football season due to a bye, the Bruins exploded out of the gate.
After opening the game with an 8-yard touchdown run by Matt Mohr, the defense took over.
Clallam Bay (1-0) scored three defensive touchdown on Muckleshoot’s first six offensive plays.
First, Austin Ritter returned a blocked punt seven yards for a score.
Then, Evan Messenger returned an interception one yard for a touchdown.
Kelly Gregory finished the defense’s scoring spurt by taking an interception 28 yards for a score.
“The defense had one of its best games in three years,” Clallam Bay coach Cal Ritter said.
“They brought the whole package.”
By the time the offense got the ball back, the score was 30-0.
They kept things humming, adding a 14 yard touchdown pass from Ritter to Ryan Willis to make the score 38-0 after one quarter.
The Bruins only put eight points on the board in the second quarter, a 47-yard run by Ritter.
They added one score in each the third and fourth quarters, both on throws from Ritter to Willis.
On defense, nose guard Joe Maneval had six tackles and four sacks, and Messenger had eight tackles.
Clallam Bay begins league play next week at home against Highland Christian on Friday.
Clallam Bay 60, Muckleshoot 12
Clallam Bay 38 8 6 8— 60
Muckleshoot 0 0 6 6— 12
First Quarter
CB—Matt Mohr 8 run (pass fail)
CB—Austin Ritter 7 block punt return (Ryan Willis pass from Austin Ritter)
CB—Evan Messenger 1 interception return (Calvin Ritter pass from Austin Ritter)
CB—Kelly Gregory 28 interception return (Austin Ritter run)
CB—Willis 14 pass from Austin Ritter (Taylor Wrziesen pass from Austin Ritter)
Second Quarter
CB—Austin Ritter 47 run (Wrziesen pass from Austin Ritter)
Third Quarter
CB—Willis 5 pass from Austin Ritter (pass fail)
M—5 run (pass fail)
Fourth Quarter
CB—Willis 9 pass from Austin Ritter (Austin Ritter run)
X—25 run (run fail)
Individual Stats
Rushing— CB: Matt Mohr 8-79, Austin Ritter 7-65.
Passing—CB: Austin Ritter 10-15, 95; Jeremy Rock 1-1, 48.
Receiving—CB: Ryan Willis 5-67, Calvin Ritter 3-35, Matt Mohr 2-22, Jeremy Rock 2-15, Taylor Wrziesen 2-10.
River Ridge 34,
Sequim 0
LACEY — The Wolves fell to 0-2 for the first time in the Erik Wiker era, but they also started the season with the most difficult nonleague schedule in his tenure.
Even though they’ve been outscored by a combined score of 76-0, Wiker said the games against River Ridge and Shelley (Id.) were beneficial.
“We always want to challenge our kids,” Wiker said.
“And we learned a lot more about ourselves against these two games than we would have beating teams by 20 points.”
Wiker said Sequim can still be an Olympic League contender if it executes better and improves on fundamentals like blocking and tackling.
The Wolves open league play at Bremerton (1-1), their third straight road game, on Friday night.
River Ridge 34, Sequim 0
Sequim 0 0 0 0— 0
River Ridge 14 13 7 0— 34
First Quarter
RR—Wesley Coates 40 pass from Colby Shultz (Chris Behnke kick)
RR—Jonathan Roberts 20 pass from Shultz (Behnke kick)
Second Quarter
RR—Behnke 34 field goal
RR—Coates 28 pass from Shultz (Behnke kick)
RR—Behnke 34 field goal
Third Quarter
RR—Chris Leiba 50 run (Behnke kick)