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Reports for games played Oct. 11
In a game that saw Tualatin roar back from an early deficit to claw within 19-16 at the half, the Wolves eventually came up a bit short in the second half as West Linn held on for a 32-16 victory over the fifth/sixth-grade Black Wolves.
The Wolves were lead by another strong outing by quarterback Kyle Bradish, who ran and passed his team down the field, including a 5-yard TD run. Also coming up big for Tualatin on offense were Calder Fettig and Eric Breyer, who both came up huge on pass receptions, Nathan Senger and Pono Auwae-Lanford with runs out of the backfield, and Chase Anderson, who ran it in from four yards out for the Wolves other score.
Also contributing to the Wolves first half surge were outstanding play from Troy Woodward, Michael Galluzzo, Evan Block, Myles Davis, Devon Chapman, and Ryan Faeth. Tualatin also benefited from another outstanding kicking game from Jacob Bennett, who drilled both extra points and continuously pinned West Linn deep in their own end with booming kick offs.
The Wolves stymied West Linn’s offense in the second quarter with Senger, Fettig, Breyer, and Micah Brandt contributing tackles. Tualatin was also bolstered by Anderson, who caught several West Linn runners from behind with TD saving tackles. The defense was also led by Mitch Matthews, Benjamin Jacobson, James Johnson, Xavier Limones, and Ivan Enriquez.
Second half highlights included tackles in the West Linn backfield by Bennett and Fettig, and a beautiful interception by Breyer. Despite stellar play by Danny Williams, Hayden Givens, Levi Carrion, Dylan Godden, Samuel Sigman, Brenden O’Neill, and Brandon Dauphinais the Wolves were unable to close the gap. However, the game ended with Tualatin fighting to the end and knowing that they had given their all.
The Tigard JV Black Bandits played a well Coached and athletic Tualatin Cardinal in an overtime thriller.
The Tigard JV Black offense was led by the determined running trio of Joe Lobbato, Cameron Yarnell, and Maclain Bartley. Each scored with extra effort on the ground. Braxton Latt and Justin Alvarizares also contributed needed yards on the ground as well. Jett Even also connected with Braxton Latt on a pass play on the day. The O line also opened up nice holes for the Running Backs and were led by Ray Barlow, Ryan Cleveland, Janek Ward, John Ellavsky, Jacob Mullen, Nathan Wick, and EJ Albaugh.
The Tigard JV Black Defense was led by Jacob Mullen and Nathan Wick on the Defensive line. Both sacked the quarterback and had several tackles behind the line of scrimmage. The linebacker trio of Joe Lobbato, Cameron Yarnell, and Jett Even made several individual and gang tackles on the day.
Justin Alvarizares and Ryan Cleveland also made individual contain tackles on the day. Braxton Latt also intercepted a pass on the day. Janek Ward, Maclain Bartley, Conner Lebrun, and John Ellavsky also contributed solid tackling on the day.
Jacob Mullen led the special teams with three converted extra points. Ray Barlow punted a +30 yarder from deep in his own zone. Jett Even and Braxton Latt also made nice kickoff returns giving Tigard Black solid field position on the day.
Football is a game of inches, and last Saturday's game for the Sherwood third/fourth-grade Black team against Canby proved that point as the difference in the game was a missed extra point at the end of the game. The Knights fought hard until the very end of the game and did not give up even though they were playing from behind most of the game.
The Knight offense moved the ball against a tough Canby defense, and reality only stopped moving the ball due to a few penalties, fumbles, and missed assignments. John Sandilands led the offense showing great poise in the pocket to complete keys passes to Caleb Silver, Isaiah Jackman, Cameron Dandini, Brady Pierce, and Derec Church. Sandilands, Jackman and Church also ran for hard yards and first downs, with Sandilands scoring a touchdown late in the fourth quarter with his teammates assisting on pushing the pile across the goal line. The Offensive line did a great job pass blocking and had a solid effort all day. The line of Jacob Forsyth, Pierce, JT Ruff, Zane Sands, Noah Cootz, Griffin Murphy had their best performance of the season.
The defense played solid and with the exception of a few mistakes contained Canby. It really was a team effort with the key play being an interception return on a ball tipped by Church, by Sandilands who took it to the house while Canby was driving in Knight territory. The defensive line of Luke Peters, Ruff, Pierce and Church did a good job on creating problems in the Candy backfield. Forsyth, Jackman and Sandilands played tough in the linebacker spot, with Sandilands also recovering a fumble in the second half. The Canby Offense kept the defensive backfield on their toes and for the most part they responded. Dandini, Jarret Scott, Jack Corno, Kyle Meidinger, Caedan Martin, Ben Thrasher, and Jack Warzsalek all made contributions.
The Sherwood fifth/sixth-grade Gray football team defeated Wilson Black 44-12 Saturday night to improve their record to 6 and 0. Sherwood wasted little time in the first quarter with two touchdown runs by Evan Kitto, one on a 1 yard and the second one on a 70-yard run. Sherwood’s defense never allowed Wilson to get going forcing them to punt several times.
Sherwood added two more touchdowns in the second quarter with Kitto running one in for 40 yards and Jakob Eisenbiess ran one for 82 yards. Kitto also ran in the PAT and Sherwood had a 25-0 halftime lead.
In the third quarter, Wilson scored a touchdown, however Sherwood came right back and scored another touchdown on a 31 yard run by Eisenbeiss. Later in the quarter, Max Jaeger scored a touchdown for Sherwood on a 4 yard run and Caleb Carter ran in the PAT to extend Sherwood’s lead to 38-.
In the fourth quarter, after a Wilson touchdown, Sherwood put the game away on a 5-ard touchdown run by Bryce Aeillo. Sherwood’s defense dominated Wilson with great plays by CJ Alley, Alec Harp, Jared Ringer, Mitchell Robbins, Adrian Villarreal and Black Knight recipient Joey Brookhouse. The final score was Sherwood 44 and Wilson 12. Sherwood will host Tigard White next Saturday night at 5 p.m.
The Sherwood Varsity Black Knights racked up a well-executed home field victory against St. Helens to move to 5-1 on the season. Sherwood got off to a shaky start when St. Helens took the opening kick off and marched down the field to score. After missing the PAT, St. Helens lead 6-0. That would be the only time they saw the end zone against the Knights.
Sherwood struck back immediately when Jordan Skoubo took the St. Helens kick off and ran it back 67 yards to get the Knights on the board. Marcus Campbell’s successful PAT kick made the score 8-6 Sherwood. After a quick three and out by St. Helens, Sherwood’s offense took the field for the first time. On the first snap, Quarterback Joseph Balfour connected with Tyler Aytes for a gain of 12 yards. Balfour would go 6 for 12 on the day including 4 passes to Halfback Christian Morris for a total of 84 yards and a 25-ard touchdown pass to Tight End Jacob Brooks. Aytes also completed a 15-yard pass to Brooks to cap off a successful Sherwood air attack.
The Sherwood scoring was spread across the team as all five touchdowns were scored by different players including rushing touchdowns by Heath Mckinney, Morris and Aytes. All 348 yards of the Knights offense were made possible by the battle being won in the trenches by linemen Joe Chamberlain, Andy Hennings, Brooks, Nick Rowlands, Brandon Whitely and Mitchell Brannen. An additional 8 points came off the kicking foot of Campbell who went 4 for 4 on PATs.
After St. Helen’s first scoring drive, Sherwood turned the defensive effort up to eleven and brought tremendous pressure on the Lions quarterback for the rest of the night. This pressure included sacks by Brooks (2), Hennings, Morris and McKinney. The secondary was equally defended with interceptions being recorded by Corner Grant McLaughlin and Skoubo. Add to all this the fact that every Sherwood player that suited up on Saturday night recorded either a solo tackle or an assist to contribute to the powerful defensive effort. Multiple tackles were recorded by Balfour, Skoubo, Morris, Campbell, Austin Scoggin, Reggie Lee, Harrison Shelburne, Chamberlain, David Villalpando, Rowlands, Brooks, Whitely and Hennings.
The Sherwood Varsity Black Knights look to get better every day, and did so on Saturday night under the lights.
The Sherwood fifth/sixth-grade Black Knights continued their strong running game by defeating Aloha Blue on Saturday, 25-0. The Knights were a force to be reckoned with, both offensively and defensively.
Ryan Hobbs setup the Black Knights first score by taking the opening kick off 40 yards deep into Aloha’s territory. Tye McCarthy scored on the second play from scrimmage running 32 yards for a touchdown. On Sherwood’s next possession, Jacob Boren scored his first-of-the-season touch down, running 6 yards for the TD. Jake Richards darted into the end zone for the PAT to put Sherwood up, 13-0. Sherwood’s offense also dominated the second half of the game.
In the third quarter, Alex Dalebroux completed a perfect pass to Mason Rivers who ran into the end zone scoring the Knights third touchdown of the day. In the fourth quarter, Rivers ran a punt return back 65-yards for another touchdown. Hats off to the punt return team of Payden Sternkopf, Joel Haggard, Cameron Clem, Dakota Krieger, Ryan Carroll, Brenden Sotelo, Justin Dady, Hobbs, James Nappe and McCarthy who providing excellent blocking to allow Rivers into the end zone. Also, huge kudos to Dalebroux and Nappe who provided excellent leadership at the QB position the entire game. The Knights had 396 all-purpose yards, with individual carries for yards gained by Nappe (4 carries for 77 yards), McCarthy (4 carries for 41 yards and 2 punt returns for 38 yards), Boren (4 carries for 18 yards), Rivers (3 carries for 16 yards, 1 reception for 60 yards and 3 punt returns for 103 yards), Richards (5 carries for 15 yards), Lukas Adams (2 carries for 10 yards), Hobbs (1 carry for 2 yards and one kick return for 40 yards), Brady Sullivan (2 carries for 2 yards) and Parker Crowell (1 carry for 1 yard). Sherwood’s domination on offense would not have been possible without the outstanding offensive line led by Caleb Anderson, Adams, Evan Hager, Matthew Brooks, Ricky Vita and Connor Whitely opening up giant holes on every play.
The Knights defense was equally dominating, denying the opponent the chance to score. The defensive line of Robbie Hunt, Emmett Floyd, Krieger, Dady, Sotelo, Vita, Richard Schmidt, Clem, Hager and Andrew Wagner provided an essentially impenetrable wall. Leading tacklers Rivers and Sullivan had five tackles each followed closely by Vita, Hager, Brooks and Hobbs who had four tackles each. Other score stopping tackles came from Adams, Dalebroux and Nappe (each with three tackles) while Hunt, Floyd, Wagner, McCarthy, Sotelo, Ryan Dehning, Crowell and all had one tackle each.
The 5-6 Black Knights improved their record to 5-1 and are looking forward to their game against Sunset Purple next Saturday. Congratulations to Ricky Vita as the Black Knight recipient and to Ryan Carroll for the Fitz Patch (sportsmanship) honors.
Sherwood third/fourth-grade Red team played its best game of the season against Wilson. The defense was tenacious and the offense was polished.
On offense, fullback Jordan Craig had his best game of the season with 14 carries and 103 yards. Jordan was literally carrying the defensive players down the field. On one play, he had 9 defensive players hanging on to him as he went down. Jordan hit the hole hard, kept his feet moving and lowered his shoulder. Jordan’s effort at fullback allowed QB Kevin Skurdahl to pass to Jacob Maddox for a 37-yard touch down. His efforts also allowed both halfbacks, Criscola and Maddox to gain 80 plus yards and get into the end zone. Isaiah Burns also made a great catch from Skurdahl for an extra point conversion.
It sounds like the fullback had a great game, but without the offensive line creating the huge holes, Jordan and company would not have been able to make the accomplishments that they did. The offensive line consisted of Jackson Travnicek (tight end), Luka Nixon (left tackle), Ethan Darby (left guard), Jordan Plemmons (center), Tanner Stewart (right guard), Lion Lee (right tackle) and Isaiah Burns (tight end).
The defense was lead by defensive end Jordan Craig and linebacker Kevin Skurdahl with 8 tackles each. Tanner Schellhase and Isaiah Burns stepped up at outside linebacker for a combined effort of 8 tackles. At nose guard, Jet Krieger filled in for the starting nose guard and had a personal best of 6 tackles. The starting safety, Noah Eliason had a great game by coming up and making some big hits and causing a fumble. Great job! Next weeks game is against a hard hitting West Linn team. Good luck guys on your last regular season game.
The quick score by the Apollos in the first quarter did not deter Benny "and the Jets" Wick and his teammates from sticking to their game plan. With Sunset in possession again, Bryan Cabral zoomed into the backfield and sacked the quarterback on a crucial fourth-and-5 play, giving the ball back to the Tigers at mid-field. Wick turned on the afterburners immediately and left contrails on field as he rushed down to the two-yard line. The Tiger's offensive line (Jake Miller, Nick Smith, Ken Timmins, Andrew Hungerford, Aaron Andrus, Cain Adams, and Chance Taylor) and fullbacks Matt Franz and Ethan Lange provided a direct route to the end zone for "the Jet" with crucial downfield blocking. Hayden Flake capped off the drive with a two yard thrust up the middle for a touchdown.
Tigard's defense was the main attraction in the second quarter forcing Sunset to turn the ball over on downs and then to punt. Defensive contributors included: (Smith, Taylor Courtney, Adams, Hungerford, Jeruebe Phillips, Parker Garland, Ken Haskett, Xiao Liang, Lange, Bryan Cabral, Will Schaer and Andrus on the line and, Wick (10 tackles), Flake, Franz (7 tackles) and Justin Evans at the linebackers and Ryan Bickel (7 tackles), Mark Hall at the corners and Chandler Kelly at the safety position. The score remained tied at the end of the half.
The Tigers were pinned deep in their own territory at the beginning of the second half and had to punt out of their own end zone. The defense stiffened-up in the red zone and held Sunset to a field goal on their next possession. Starting from deep within their own territory again, Wick's jets were recharged as he broke the sound barrier carrying the ball 85 yards for another Tigard touchdown. The Tigers now had the lead at 16-11. A defensive struggle ensued over the next few possessions with the D-line pressuring the backs and QB, linebackers sealing the gaps and the DBs swatting down all pass attempts. The defensive highlight in the second half was Kelly's interception and 28 yard run. This forced the ball into Sunset territory were it stayed as the two teams pounded each other. Tigard put together one final offensive push which was capped off by a Wick 11-yard TD run through a hole as wide as the Grand Canyon. Great job boys and coaches.
The boys were all smiles after earning that illusive “W” in their victory over Oregon City Varsity Red. The Wolves played like a well-oiled machine and it paid off. It was a great afternoon for football with blue skies, no wind, and temperatures in the mid 60’s.
Oregon City won the toss and elected to receive.
Austin Green booted a 25-yarder and OC began their first set of downs. OC went forwards and backwards with tackles by Brandon Yee, Tyler Baggenstos, Green, Paul Sheffield, Conner True, Tyler Riley, Andrew Schlottmann, and Brennan Symes. OC turned the ball over on downs and the Wolves went to work.
The Wolves gained 9 rushing yards with plays by Connor Scott, Derek Rodrigues, Green, and Schlottmann. Key blocks were thrown by Sheffield, Green, and True. It was 3 and out with a 30-yard punt by Schlottmann and OC gets the ball.
On first down Tualatin’s Brandon Day, Jamey Gates, Derek Senger, and True rocked OC back on their heels but a break away pass and a rush up the middle earned OC a TD. A fumble on the kick gave OC the ball back on their own 40-yard line but they were not able to capitalize on it. A bone crushing tackle by Garrett Medvec spoiled the 1st down. Dakota Billington, Yee, Day, Green, and Kyle George continued to discourage yardage and OC was forced to punt from the 50-yard line.
Scott led the team in a series of plays that included keepers and rushing by Schlottmann, McDonald, and Symes. A key block by Green broke Scott loose for a final run up the middle and a TD for Tualatin. The score was tied going into the second quarter.
A well-placed on-side kick by Green gave OC the ball on the 50-yard line. Tackles by Green, Day, Riley, Yee, Senger, Medvec, True, Symes, Cooper Sprunk, Ryan Baron, and Jamey Gates prevented any real penetration by OC. Tualatin fans cheered as Sheffield continued to terrorize the offensive line and break up plays.
The Wolves got the ball back on their own 40-yard line and headed to the end zone. Day, Symes, and Scott led a consistent march down the field. On third down Jon Fishback proving once again “it’s the size of the fight in the dog” executed a perfect open field block breaking Symes loose for a fourth gear blast to the end-zone. The play was called back for a very questionable “block to the back” but the Wolves were not to be discouraged. A completed pass to Schlottmann took the Wolves down to the 1-yard line and Symes punched it in behind blocks by Cody Summers, Sprunk, and Sheffield.
OC went three-and-out and the sure-footed Day juked the ball back to the Tualatin 30-yard line. On first down Scott handed off to Schlottmann. Key blocks by Green, Billington, McDonald, and Sheffield turned him loose for a fleet footed sprint to the end zone.
OC made little progress due to tackles by Green, Day, Riley, Sheffield, and True. A fumble on fourth down gave the Wolves the ball back on the OC 28-yard line. Tualatin went out on downs and OC got the ball. On second down a 70-yard run produced a TD for OC.
The break away run by OC must have charged up the Wolves because we visited the end zone once again. Schlottmann could not be stopped and put it to OC with runs for 60 and then 8 yards for a TD. Blocks by Sheffield, Summers, Riley, and Green let the rocket propelled Schlottmann do his work.
In the next two possessions both OC and Tualatin went out on downs as the game went into fourth quarter. Starting from its own 22-yard line OC punched one in for TD. The Wolves went out on downs and OC exploded with 78-yard run for another TD. OC and Tualatin again traded the ball in the next 2 possessions. With less than 3 minutes on the clock Green threw a perfect block unleashing Symes for a 33-yard sprint and a final TD. The clock ran out and it was Tualatin 32 and OC 18. Randall Tainer cheered his team on from the sideline, as he is our only injured Wolf.
The Timberwolves traveled to Milwaukie Saturday night to take on the Mustangs and came away with a convincing win playing under the lights on Milwaukie’s new turf field.
The Wolves started fast as Daren Rodrigues returned the opening kickoff 40 yards up the right sideline to give Tualatin excellent field position. Consecutive runs by tailback Alec Trecker and QB Cooper Brunner moved the ball to the 20, where Brunner finished the scoring drive with an off tackle run to give Tualatin a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. The EXP was blocked, but minutes into the game the Wolves led 6-0.
Milwaukie’s first possession resulted in a 3 and out and after a punt, Tualatin took over at its own 30. The Wolves continued to pound the ball behind center Graham Russell, guards Brandon Guyette and James Porter, tackles Devin LaBar and Bryce Stubbs and tight end Mark Toda. Running backs Trent Warren and Rodrigues along with fullback Mychal Makarowsky took turns and moved the ball down the field where Makarowsky finished the drive on a 3-yard dive up the middle. The EXP kick wasn’t executed but the kicker Trecker managed to run the ball in for the 1-point conversion. Five minutes into the game Tualatin was up 13-0.
On Milwaukie’s next possession, the Wolves defense forced and recovered a fumble as Porter secured the loose ball. Tualatin used more running backs as Justin Hastrich, Jacob Friedhoff and Conner McCullough took turns running the ball and moving the chains. McCullough finished off the drive on a well-executed counter play from 20 yards out to push the score to 19-0. The Mustangs stopped Tualatin’s 1-point EXP play.
Milwaukie surged a little late in the second quarter, but the Wolves defense didn’t allow a score. Tualatin’s defense was led by defensive end McCullough with 9 tackles, several for a loss. Middle linebacker Makarowsky had 5 tackles. Defensive tackle LaBar had 4 tackles. Nose guard Porter had 5 tackles. Cornerback Jackson Ceserani had 1 interception and 20-yard return on a deflected pass. Others who played well on the defensive side were defensive ends Russell and Toda, defensive tackles Stubbs, Lucas Polischuk, Ben Platter and Griffen Gehring, linebackers Jarod Schmidt and Friedhoff and cornerbacks Rodrigues, Jonny Torgeson, Jake Creasey and Bradon Ackles and safety Hastrich.
In the second half, Tualatin continued moving the ball with ease as backup QB McCullough guided the offense the entire half. Makarowsky scored his second TD from his full back spot and Rodrigues scored a TD on an exciting 50 yard run in which he had to cut back to elude defenders to get into the end zone. Multiple backs got carries included eligible linemen Russell, Porter and Polischuk.
The Wolves moved to 4-1 on the year with archrival Tigard up next on the road.
Tualatin fifth/sixth-grade Gray suspected they were going to be in for a fast game when they took on Hillsboro Red at Hare Field and the final score of 60-33 certainly didn’t do anything to prove them wrong.
In the first quarter, the Timberwolves jumped to a quick 18-0 lead, thanks to back-to-back-to-back turnovers by Hillsboro. On the first turnover, a failed backwards pass resulted in Daeton Harris picking up the ball and running for a 61-yard touchdown. The second turnover wasn’t much different. Hillsboro attempted another backwards pass that was incomplete. Chase Morrison picked this one up and ran 93 yards for the second touchdown. The third turnover occurred, thanks to a beautiful one-handed interception by Alex Reid at the Tualatin 43 yard line. On the next play (Tualatin’s first offensive play of the game), Chase Morrison ran the ball 62 yards for another Tualatin touchdown. On Hillsboro’s next possession, they managed to hold onto the ball and quickly drove down to score. They also managed the extra point attempt, making the score 18-7.
In the second quarter, the Timberwolves were again able to capitalize on a turnover, when Ben Rahier picked off a Hillsboro pass at the Spartan 27 yard line. On the next play, Alex Reid ran it in for a touchdown. After the missed extra points kick, the score was 24-7. Hillsboro was able to answer back on the next possession, and their extra point attempt was successful again, which made the score 24-14. At that point, Tualatin slowed it down a little, by pounding the ball down the field eating up a lot of clock, before Ben Rahier ran the ball in from the one-yard line. Alex Reid kicked the ball through the uprights to make the score 32-14 with 2:14 left in the half. On Hillsboro’s next drive, Tualatin’s defense came alive. Thanks to some nice tackling by Ryan Doty and Tucker Leneve, the Spartans were unable to get back on the board before halftime.
Hillsboro’s defense continued to struggle against Tualatin in the second half. On Tualatin’s first play after the kickoff, Chase Morrison following a crushing block by Luke Davis for a 53-yard scamper into the end zone. Alex Reid was successful with the extra points kick, which made the score 40-14. On Hillsboro’s next possession, despite some solid defense by Bryce Haskin and Reynaldo Ceja, the Spartans were able to drive the ball down the field for a touchdown and an extra point to make the score 40-21. Tualatin’s lucrative offense again was able to make a big play when Chase Morrison broke off a 53-yard touchdown run. Dante Reid threw the ball to Luke Davis for the extra point try, to make the score 47-21. Then after some nice tackling by Tucker Trost and Kobe Nelson, Tucker Leneve forced a fumble that was pounced on my Drew Butz at the Tualatin 45. Six plays later, Bryce Haskin broke free for a 31-yard touchdown. The PAT was no good, so the score was 53-21 with 1:22 left in the third quarter.
Hillsboro took over on their next possession and drove the ball down the field on an eight-play drive to score one minute into the fourth quarter. Reynaldo Ceja stuffed the Spartan runner on the extra point try, making the score 53-27. On Tualatin’s next drive, the offensive line of Luke Davis, John Ayers, Treves Lindstrom, Marquise Saucedo, Cooper Rentfrow, Dane Strength, and Jared Welter really showed their skill by bullying the Hillsboro defense to allow their running backs to go straight up the gut five times for a combined 54 yards. Daeton Harris scored on the final wedge from 14 yards out. Dante Reid threw to his brother Alex Reid for the PAT to make the score 60-27. With three minutes left in the game, Hillsboro was able to run the ball into the end zone one more time but Reynaldo Ceja stuffed the runner on the extra point try to make the final score of the game 60-33.
Next week, Tualatin Gray looks to stay undefeated when they take on Aloha White at Aloha High School.
Forty minutes of regulation wasn’t enough time to settle the game between Tualatin fifth/sixth-grade White and Sherwood Cardinal last Saturday. The teams had to play a Kansas Plan overtime to determine the winner of this one.
The game started with both teams giving the ball to the other on fumbles. Tualatin was the first to take advantage. Jordan Wilson picked up 10 hard-earned yards on fourth down behind textbook blocking from Cameron Frey, Evan Gang, Kaleb Olsen, Doug Skinner, Jorge Severiano and Zach Reynholds. On the next play, Harrison Visse scampered 55 yards on a reverse for a touchdown. Olsen boomed the extra point kick for an 8-0 lead.
The defense held Sherwood with Brian Davis and Garret Cutright stopping the ballcarrier on fourth down. On the Wolves’ next play, Jake Day blew through a gaping hole up the middle and eluded a host of would-be tacklers to go 55 yards for the score to make it 14-0, Tualatin.
Olsen put up a brick wall on the next series, denying Sherwood any positive yardage with some help from Jack Dupuis and Severiano. Again, Tualatin wasted little time by scoring on its second play – this one a 38 yard reverse by Wilson who received a key block from Reynholds to free him into the open field. Suddenly it was 20-0 in favor of the Wolves.
Sherwood responded by grinding out a 10-play drive and converting two fourth downs to get their first score. It wasn’t easy as defensive pressure was applied by Day, Jackson Hale, CJ Dahm, Malachi Seib, Frey, Jared Platt, Enzo Allen, Blake McDill, Billy Calder, Todd Pasquale-Uhlman and Alex Burley. The score at halftime was Tualatin 20, Sherwood 8.
Sherwood began the second half with yet another 10 play scoring drive in which they converted two fourth-down plays. Frey wreaked havoc with help from Visse, Hale and Seib making Sherwood earn every yard.
Momentum had now swung to Sherwood as Tualatin went 3 and out on its next possession. Both defenses tightened up as the game entered the fourth quarter. Big hits were provided by Allen, Olsen, Wilson and Frey. With about 3 minutes to go, Sherwood mounted their final lengthy drive of the day – this one 11 plays. They took to the air and were nearly thwarted by the coverage of Cutright and Visse. An unfortunate pass interference call kept the drive alive and then with 20 seconds left Sherwood connected from 40 yards out for the TD. Visse blocked the kick to send it into overtime.
Tualatin got the ball first and gained to the 1-yard line on its first 2 plays but a false start backed them up on third down and they were unable to score. Sherwood’s tremendous quarterback took it in for the winning score 2 plays later for a final score of 26-20. This was a hard-fought, well-played game by two teams that left everything on the field.
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