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Projected Starters

Offense (Shotgun Spread)

Off. coordinator: Bob Withrow*LT — Brian Cristion (Jr.) 6-0, 180*LG — Frank Hansen (Sr.) 5-10, 190C — Eric Wahl (Jr.) 6-3, 200RG — William Gorden (Sr.) 5-10, 200RT — Tyler Rixon (Jr.) 6-2, 260WR — Skyler Gray (Sr.) 5-9, 150WR — C. Braithwaite (Sr.) 5-8, 135WR — Eli Fiscalini (Sr.) 6-0, 200WR — Riley Hannam (Sr.) 5-10, 200RB — Dylan Brewer (Sr.) 5-10, 195*QB — Keenen Walker (Sr.) 5-11, 205K — Tamrat Haskins (Sr.) 5-4, 120

Defense (4-4 base)

Def. Coordinator: Vic ReykdalDE — Corey Roblan (Sr.) 6-2, 235*DT — Nick Ioffrida (Sr.) 5-11, 180DT — Frank Hansen (Sr.) 5-10, 190DE — Austin Polly (So.) 6-0, 190OLB — Nick Tweter (Sr.) 5-11, 160*MLB — Eli Fiscalini (Sr.) 6-0, 200MLB — Riley Hannam (Sr.) 5-10, 200*OLB — Dylan Brewer (Sr.) 5-10, 195*CB — Skyler Gray (Sr.) 5-9, 150CB — C. Braithwaite (Sr.) 5-8, 135S — Keenen Walker (Sr.) 5-11, 205P — Keenen Walker (Sr.) 5-11, 205Last year: 9-2 overall (6-1 in league)

* Returning starter

Riders plan to build on successPA: 9-2 mark last season is no fluke

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Port Angeles coach Tom Wahl gets ready to throw the football while running drills.

By MaTT sChuBerTPeninsula Daily news

PORT ANGELES — Tom Wahl set the bar early for his second season with the Port Angeles football program.

It came only minutes after his first came to an end with a 47-26 loss to Interlake of Bellevue in the first round of the Class 2A state playoffs.

There, standing amid a huddle of crying players — 16 of whom had just played their final game in Green and White as seniors — the first-year head coach issued a challenge to those who would return in 2011.

“The only shame there is going to be in this season right now is if you guys don’t learn the lesson that the seniors set for you and stand on their shoulders and do better next year,” Wahl said.

After guiding Port Ange-les to a 9-2 record and its first state playoff appear-ance in 18 years — 12 months after the school’s first 0-10 season — Wahl is looking for even more out of his Roughriders.

Starting a tradition

Because if the Port Ange-les football program is going to cement itself as a peren-nial contender, then the sec-ond year of his coaching tenure has to look an awful lot like the first.

“It’s kind of like when we climbed [Mount Angeles in August],” said Wahl, refer-ring to a now annual pre-season tradition for the Rider seniors.

“When you’ve accom-plished something and other people have seen that you’ve done it, then they think they can do it, too, and that’s exactly where we’re at. They’ve seen last year and they know they are as good or better than last year’s guys.

“I think they feel that confidence. They realize they’ve been there and they know they can do it.”

Indeed, confidence seems to be at a near all-time high on the Port Angeles practice field.

After a strong showing in offseason skills and con-

ditioning sessions, more than 70 athletes suited up for the first week of sum-mer two-a-days.

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“I think they feel that confidence. They realize they’ve been there and they know they can do it.”

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And even after losing 16 seniors from last year’s Cin-derella squad, many of whom started, they’re determined to prove 2010 wasn’t a fluke.

“[Last year] rose expec-tations a lot,” said senior captain Eli Fiscalini. “It was a big turnaround.

“We got a lot of pride and

now we know we have to defend that title. We don’t want people thinking it was just good luck that we won all those games.”

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Much of the responsibil-ity for that will fall on the shoulders of this year’s seniors, a group of 13 led by three-year starting quarter-back Keenen Walker.

The second-team All-Olympic League signal caller led last year’s Riders in rushing (672 yards, eight TDs) while throwing for 1,060 yards, 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions in the Riders’ shotgun spread.

Outside of junior Brian Cristion and senior Frank Hansen on the offensive line, Walker is the only major contributor returning

from an offense that aver-aged a hair under 300 yards a game.

Still, Wahl insists the Riders will do a lot of the same things offensively.

The just won’t have the passing-exclusive giraffe unit — named for its collec-tion of six-foot receivers — to throw out on the field.


The Port Angeles offense and defense square off during preseason drills at the high school.

“[Last year] rose expectations a lot. It was a big turnaround. We got a lot of pride and now we know we have to defend that title.”

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Instead, the Riders will plug athletes like Fiscalini, Riley Hannam, Skyler Gray, Dylan Brewer and Cam-eron Braithwaite into the skill positions.

“We’ve got a complement of guys who are quality guys who can do a good job with the ball,” Wahl said.

“Keenen, he’s the con-stant, he’s the guy with experience. Last year was a really good year for him because he had success and he’s confident. That means a lot when you’re the quar-terback throwing the ball.”

That speaks to the one major advantage this year’s Riders have that the 2010 edition did not: continuity.

After all, Port Angeles will be operating the same offense under the same offensive coordinator (Bob

Withrow) for first time since 2007-08.

“It’s a lot better [because of that],” Walker said.

“I have a lot more confi-dence in our coaches, because they know what they are doing and it’s not a whole new coaching staff every year. We’re starting to build some continuity.

“We’re working really hard and things are looking pretty good right now.”

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“I have a lot more confidence in our coaches, because they know what they are doing and it’s not a whole new coaching staff every year.”

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“We have a lot of good skill guys, and our line is good and that always helps.”

Of course, anyone who paid close attention to the Riders last fall knows it was the defensive side of the ball that truly sparked the team’s turnaround.

With Olympic League defensive MVP Troy Martin leading the way, the Riders held opponents to just 16 points a game, including back-to-back shutouts to begin the season.

While Martin and seven other starters are now gone from that unit, the Riders still have the same 4-4 scheme and defensive coor-dinator (Vic Reykdal) as they’ve had for three years.

The Riders also return their third leading tackler and a three-year starter in Gray at cornerback, as well honorable mention all-league nose tackle Nick Iof-frida.

With Walker expected to pull double duty at safety and Fiscalini (42 tackles in five games last season) roaming the middle at line-backer, the group figures to have a solid core.

“We lost Troy, but I don’t really think that’s going to affect us too much,” Fis-calini said. “People are going to be worried about our defense.

“We are very strong all around, we’re not really strong in just one area, and all of us have been playing together since freshman year, so we have a good mesh.”

Part of that mesh also comes from having a strong organization put together by Wahl.

Having a full year to assemble an offseason training program, Wahl got more than 25 athletes to commit to coming to sum-mer workouts three days a week.

By the time summer two-a-days came around,

the squad had little prob-lem enduring a week of 7 a.m. to noon practices.

“I’m trying to ask them to do stuff that I don’t think their opponent will do, and they’ve been doing it,” Wahl said. “They’ve had excellent commitment.

“I certainly think they are capable of winning league, and I expect that they are going to go further.

“My expectation is to be state champions.

That’s my goal and they know that.

“Whether it is their goal and they share that is up to them.”

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Port Angeles senior Keenen Walker runs through drills at a preseason practice.

“We lost Troy [Martin], but I don’t really think that’s going to affect us too much. People are going to be worried about our defense.”

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Projected Starters

Offense (Shotgun Spread)

Off. coordinator: Erik WikerLT — Alex Serrano (So.) 6-2, 250LG — Clay Charley (Sr.) 6-0, 230*C — Brendan Carpenter (Sr.) 5-8, 190RG — Jake Hudson (Sr.) 5-10, 195*RT — Jacob Cooper (Sr.) 5-11, 250*WR — Tyler Forshaw (Sr.) 5-9, 165*WR — Michael Ballard (Sr.) 5-10, 160WR — Nick Ramirez (Sr.) 5-9, 155WR — Christian Miles (Jr.) 5-9, 155FB — Jack Wiker (Jr.) 5-11, 192*QB — Frank Catelli (Sr.) 6-3, 235*K — Jonathan Campbell (Sr.) 6-1, 165

Defense (4-4 base)

Def. Coordinator: Erik WikerDE — Jake Hudson (Sr.) 5-10, 195DT — Clay Charley (Sr.) 6-0, 230DT — Jacob Cooper (Sr.) 5-11, 250DE — Andrew Shimer (Jr.) 6-3, 200*OLB — Michael Ballard (Sr.) 5-10, 160MLB — Lopaka Yasumura (Jr.) 5-7, 170*MLB — Frank Catelli (Sr.) 6-3, 235OLB — Jack Wiker (Jr.) 5-11, 192*CB — Tyler Forsahw (Sr.) 5-9, 165CB — Christian Miles (Jr.) 5-9, 155*S — Nick Rarmirez (Sr.) 5-9, 155P — Frank Catelli (Sr.) 6-3, 235Last year: 9-2 overall (7-0 in league)

* Returning starter

Wolves reload for run at title


SEQUIM — Shut off the alarm clock. It’s Groundhog Day once again in Dunge-ness Valley.

The Sequim Wolves have new faces in new places all over the football field, and head coach Erik Wiker is talking about “reloading.”

After winning six league titles in seven years, who’s going to doubt it?

Certainly not the man himself.

“I never convince myself [we’re going to be good],” said Wiker, who enters his eighth season with a 62-16 record.

“I always believe and try to be proven wrong.”

Obviously, few have been able to do so since Wiker first took over the Wolves program in 2004.

A year ago, they had to replace four-fifths of an all-league offensive line, as well as their leading rusher and top four receivers, from their fast-breaking spread attack.

And they had to do so in a league that just added four bigger schools, three of which had just dropped from Class 3A to 2A.

Best Wiker offense

All they did was go out and put up more points (481) than any Sequim team in Wiker’s tenure, out-score Olympic League oppo-nents 352-91 in seven blow-out wins and reach the Class 2A state playoffs for the fifth straight year.

So forget about what the Wolves left behind following last year’s 9-2 season — a three-year starting quarter-

back (Drew Rickerson), all-around Olympic League MVP (Isaac Yamamoto) and five other all-leaguers.

If recent history is any indicator, what they bring in is likely to be enough.

College prospect

Count college prospect Frank Catelli among the many Wolves confident this team can continue a trend that began back when they were fifth-graders.

“I expect us to go unde-feated,” said Catelli, a three-year starting player who takes over at quarter-back this fall.

“We have the talent to do that, and we have the back-ups to do it. We just have to put our mind to it.”

One of 13 seniors who will suit up for this year’s team, Catelli is arguably the Olympic League’s most

dominant returning two-way player.

He was a first-team All-Olympic League defensive end as a junior while also racking up the second-most rushing and third-most receiving yards (583 com-bined) on the team as a slot receiver and backup quar-terback.

A dual threat

Now given the keys to Wiker’s high-octane offense, he has a chance to truly unleash the dual-threat quarterbacking skills fans have seen only a glimpse of the past two seasons.

Armed with a strong arm, good touch and a quick, powerful running style, the 6-foot-3, 235-pound state champion shot putter could make the Wolves offense as explosive as it has ever been.

Given that last year’s team scored an average 40.1 points per game, that’s saying a lot.

“I’ve been playing foot-ball with Frank for a long time, and I know what he’s capable of,” senior wide receiver Tyler Forshaw said.

“[Drew] had a great arm, of course, and his run game was really good, too. But I feel like this year Frank is going to do a whole lot bet-ter than Drew did the last couple of years.

“He definitely has a great arm, so we got that passing threat still, and he’s probably one of our best running backs, so he’s got that double threat.”

Don’t expect the offense to simply be the Frank Catelli show, however.

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Sequim head coach Erik Wiker gives directions to the Wolves during preseason drills.

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“I expect us to go undefeated.”

FranK caTElliSequim quarterback


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Wiker said his receiving corps of Forshaw, Michael Ballard, Nick Ramirez and Christian Miles is as tal-ented and deep as any team he’s ever had.

And what the Wolves lost with the departure of Yamamoto at running back — namely, 1,131 yards and 16 touchdowns — could be made up for by the combi-nation of running backs Jack Wiker and Lopaka Yasumura.

Offensive line

The bigger question mark seems to be on the offensive line, where the Wolves lost three starters and will be starting a soph-omore at left tackle (6-2, 250-pounder Alex Serrano).

Not that senior starting center Brendan Carpenter is too worried about it.

“Our backups last year could have played starter on any other team, so we have a lot of just quality people coming up,” said Carpenter, a second-team all-league center last fall.

“[Last year] we kind of had to step into positions that we had played but hadn’t had experience var-sity-wise in.

“[This year] I think we have more experience in the positions we’re playing.”

It also helps that the Wolves have Wiker, a for-mer University of Idaho offensive lineman who has shown an ability to coach up his front five.

The Wolves’ fast-paced shotgun spread attack also has a way of scheming out deficiencies up front.

With the offense running a play every 15 to 20 sec-onds, it has a tendency to create a sort of “cascade effect” that opposing defenses have a hard time adjusting to, Wiker said.


Sequim’s Christian Miles catches a pass during a team practice.

Sequim’s Tyler Forshaw runs after the catch.

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Sequim’s Christian Miles drills with a teammate.


Sequim coach Erik Wiker reads off instructions to his team at practice.

“We play call to tire people out and then take it to them.”

EriK WiKErSequim head coach

“We play call to tire peo-ple out and then take it to them,” said Wiker.

“How many defenses can they run? How fast can they get it in? You limit what they can call [when you play at that speed].”

Defensively, Sequim appears to have a few more holes to fill in its 4-4 scheme.

The unit returns just four starters, although that

does include three all-league players in Catelli, Forshaw and Ramirez.

Experienced secondary

The latter two give the Wolves a strong secondary with both returning to the defensive backfield, while Catelli will shift from defen-sive end to middle line-backer.

The way Catelli looks at it, the switch just gives him

more of an opportunity to make plays.

“I think it will be a good change,” said Catelli, who had 66 tackles and 13 sacks at defensive end last fall.

“At D-end you hit some-one as soon as you get off the ball, but at middle backer you actually get to sprint and hit someone, so I can actually use my size a lot better.”

The downside of Catelli’s departure from the defen-

sive line is that it now must be completely retooled.

Team to beat

But given Wiker’s track record of being able to plug new players into the same old system, such gaps have done little to deter others from anointing Sequim as the team to beat in the Olympic League.

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The Wolves were ranked No. 8 in Class 2A by the News Tribune in Tacoma, and a preseason coaches’ poll conducted by the Kit-sap Sun tabbed them as overwhelming favorites to repeat as league champi-ons.

“I think we’ll always have a target on our back until we’re not very good,”

Wiker said. “I’d have respect for somebody else that had won league that many times.

“Last year I would have questioned it with the big teams [moving into the league from 3A], and us having so much experience gone.

“But I still would have thought, ‘They know how to win.’”


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PORT TOWNSEND — The future is now in Port Townsend.

With only two upper-classmen on a roster of 20-plus, head coach Tom Webster has no choice but to put the Redskins’ season into the hands of a whole bunch of freshmen and sophomores.

Some might take that as a reason for lowered expecta-tions on the Quimper Penin-sula, especially with the pro-gram coming off its first win-less season in 14 years.

Sophomore defensive end/wide receiver Skyler Coppenrath isn’t so sure.

“Age is just a number,” said Coppenrath, one of 11 underclassmen expected to start in today’s opening game against Coupeville.

“Most of us are pretty experienced. We’ve been in football since we were 7 [years old], and we’ve been with each other since we were 7. We know each other pretty well.

“Last year we had a big-ger team and a stronger team, and I think this year we’re just going to be a lot better because we have a lot more enthusiasm and a lot more spirit.”

Pride before the fall?In the case of these

young Redskins — possibly the youngest team in all of Class 1A — it may simply be a matter of survival.

None of the senior-laden teams of the Nisqually League is going to show them any mercy. And it’s up to the Redskins to believe they don’t need any.

“If you love the game, you want to play,” Webster

said. “A lot of times here at Port Townsend, we’ve had some quality teams where kids sat on the bench and sat behind kids.

“What do kids most want to do? They want to play. So now these kids, they are getting an opportunity to get field experience, game experience. That’s not going to be easy by any means, but they want to play.

“This is now. We have to rebuild this.”

Youth movement

Obviously, that rebuild-ing project is the product of a massive youth movement.

Sophomore Jacob King will be asked to take over the most important position on the field, quarterback, in Port Townsend’s new pistol gun attack.

And, with lone senior Austin Graham as his backup, he will operate behind an offensive line that includes three fresh-men — tackles C.J. Martin (6-2, 235) and Luke Flani-gan (6-0, 240), and right guard Ty Leeper (5-11, 165) — and two sophomores.

While the Redskins will still line up in a spread for-mation, this year’s offense promises to lean heavier on the run than in past sea-sons.

The switch is designed to not only take advantage of King’s athletic abilities, but also provide offensive coor-dinator Butch Marx the opportunity to use wide receivers like Graham in the run game in addition to sophomore running back Tim Russell.

“I thought it just fit our personnel better,” Webster said of the new offensive set.

“I like the back offset to the side, but I think the back being behind [the QB in shotgun] just gives you a little more options.

“It gives you more right and left [action] a little bit more, and on your blocking schemes you can zone block and stuff like that.

“We’re still wide open. We want to throw the ball.

“We’re going to be put in situations where you’re going to have to put it in the air some of the time, but yeah, we’d like to be able to run the ball and control the field.”

King got a chance to run the offense during team camp at Central Washing-ton in Ellensburg and said

he’s starting to feel comfort-able at the position.

Projected Starters

Offense (Spread Pistol)

Off. Coordinator: Butch MarxLT — C.J. Martin (Fr.) 6-2, 235LG— Alex Reierson (So.) 6-1, 215C — Max Ghai (So.) 5-9, 270RG — Ty Leeper (Fr.) 5-11, 165RT — Luke Flanigan (Fr.) 6-0, 240WR — Skyler Coppenrath (So.) 6-1, 170*WR — Austin Graham (Sr.) 6-1, 190WR — Matt Cain (So.) 5-7, 140WR — Layne Zack (So.) 6-0, 165RB — Tim Russell (So.) 5-7, 170QB — Jacob King (So.) 6-0, 165K — Mitiku Little (Jr.) 5-7, 155

Defense (4-4 base)

Def. Coordinator: Tom Webster*DE — Skyler Coppenrath (So.) 6-1, 170DT — C.J. Martin (Fr.) 6-2, 235DT — Luke Flanigan (Fr.) 6-0, 240DE — Ty Leeper (Fr.) 5-11, 165OLB — ALex Jones (So.) 6-3, 180*MLB — Austin Graham (Sr.) 6-1, 190MLB — Alex Reierson (So.) 6-1, 215 OLB — Tim Russell (So.) 5-7, 170CB — Layne Zack (So.) 6-0, 165CB — Matt Cain (So.) 5-7, 140S — Jacob King (So.) 6-0, 165P — Layne Zack (So.) 6-0, 165Last year: 0-9 overall (0-7 in league)

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Port Townsend quarterback Jacob King hands off to Roberto Gomez during preseason drills at the high school.

“I like it a lot more than last year’s [offense] just because it’s a lot more stuff to do,” said King, who saw time at wide receiver his freshman season.

“It’s a lot of thinking and knowing what to do; we still pass a lot, though.

“It’s different than catch-ing the ball, but I like it. I’m still working on it, but it’s a lot better than it was when I started.”

Redskin defense

Webster will once again be in charge of the defensive side of the ball as coordinator of the Redskins’ 4-4 scheme.

It’s a system he’s run in Port Townsend each of the past five seasons, the first four of which he served as an assistant to Tom Sly and, later, Brian O’Hara.

With such a small roster size, Webster will undoubt-edly have to count on a lot of two-way players to make it work.

In fact, the team’s pro-jected starting lineups include 10 such players.

Of course, Coppenrath thinks it will be just fine.

“Our defense is usually really well put together,” Coppenrath said.

“I think last year it wasn’t our defense that was lacking, it was more our offense. Since we’re chang-ing that, we’re going to do quite a bit better.”

As long as the Redskins stick to the basics, Webster is hopeful, too.

“We have to really con-centrate on the fundamen-tals,” Webster said.

“We’ve got to understand that technique is going to help us . . . because physi-cally right now, as big as

you might be, you’re not going to be stronger than [your opponent], because you’re going against some older kids.

“You can’t make as many wrong steps. You don’t have as much [room for error].

“Are we going to make some mistakes? Yeah, that’s part of the learning process, part of learning the sport.

“But these kids have really been working hard, and they are learning. Every day we get better.”

Of course, getting better is one thing. Winning is quite another.

Webster is still looking for his first win as Redskins head coach following last year’s 0-9 campaign.

Having been around long enough to experience the lean years and the fat ones — including back-to-back winning seasons in 2008-09 — Webster has

seen what it takes to do that in Port Townsend.

Whether or not his team has the ability to do so right away will come down to how quickly his players pick up the varsity game.

“Honestly, for this young team, our goals have to be to get better every day, play hard, learn technique,” Web-ster said.

“But winning games is obviously a focus, too. I can’t rule it out.

“You can’t go in there and say, ‘Well, if we won one game, that would be good enough.

“We’ll adjust our goals as the season goes, but initially going into the season we want to win every game.

“You’ve got your schedule, and you play as hard as you can and you do your very best. I think when you do that, you’re going to come out ahead.”



FORKS — The final practice leading into Forks’ annual Blue and Gold scrimmage didn’t end quite like the seniors wanted.

The effort in the team’s offensive drills was subpar. Execution of the Spartans’ new Wing-T offense was poor. And a few players on the sideline even talked openly about wanting prac-tice to end.

Having already endured a winless season the year before, Forks’ senior leaders were not about to let that go without telling their team-mates exactly what they thought about it.

Thus, taking turns in front of a huddled mass of varsity and junior varsity players — 45 total — the team leaders loudly deliv-ered their message: If you don’t want to be here, get off the field.

These Spartans aren’t interested in repeating last fall’s 0-9 showing. They are after redemption.

“We have the potential,” senior lineman Jalen DePew said following the post-practice huddle.

“We had the potential last year, but no one really stepped up and led or any-thing. Myself and Tyler [Penn] and a few other seniors are really stepping up, like right there.

“We were telling people that they need to step it up and get going.”

After one of the more turbulent seasons in recent memory — one that saw a head coaching change just weeks before summer two-a-days began in August — new head coach Mark Fea-

sel is looking to bring stabil-ity to the once-proud Spar-tan football program.

Part of that process is putting responsibility on his nine-man senior class to lead it.

“I told those seniors, ‘I’m here to organize it, this is your team. This is your last year, this is it, and you guys are the leaders of this team,’” Feasel said.

First time head coach

At 51 years of age, Feasel is taking over a varsity foot-ball program for the first time in his career.

But as a former assistant and offensive coordinator at Superior High School in Montana, and college player at Treasure Valley Commu-nity College in Oregon, he’s hardly new to football.

His first grand experi-ment on the West End: Implementing the three-back Wing-T offense at a

school that has run an I-for-mation attack for years.

While Feasel does not have any personal experi-ence with the run-heavy offense — his teams at Superior primarily used a spread formation — he has always had his eye on it.

Given that last season’s Forks offense managed just 39 points in nine games, per-haps a change was overdue.

“I’ve been champing at the bit to run this Wing-T,”

said Feasel, who already has the middle school and little league football programs working on the offense.

“I’ve had it in the back of my head to do this for years, and got the opportunity here.”

“This is the perfect Wing-T team because of the weather, because we’re strong with our backs and because we’re not really deep with our linemen that we’ll get an advantage with

angle blocks and all that.”Among the team’s three

returning starters on the offensive line, DePew is the largest as a 6-foot-3, 235-pound center.

Projected Starters

Offense (Wing-T)

Off. Coordinator: Mark FeaselLT — Jeffery Triechel (Sr.) 6-3, 185*LG — Cody Parker (Sr.) 5-9, 185*C — Jalen DePew (Sr.) 6-3, 235*RG — Nathan Brock (Jr.) 6-1, 205RT — Tanner Robison (So.) 6-1, 245TE — Michael Dean (Sr.) 5-11, 180WR — James Salazar (Jr.) 5-9, 160*RB — Shane WhiteEagle (Jr.) 5-10, 180RB — Sergio Chase (Jr.) 5-6, 155*WB — Tyler Penn (Sr.) 6-1, 165QB — Braden Decker (Jr.) 6-2, 190K — James Salazar (Jr.) 5-9, 160

Defense (4-4 Base)

Def. Coordinator: Mike MarshallDE — Michael Dean (Sr.) 5-11, 180*DT — Jalen DePew (Sr.) 6-3, 235DT — Eugene Hayes (Sr.) 5-11, 285*DE — Braden Decker (Jr.) 6-2, 190OLB — James Salazar (Jr.) 5-9, 160*MLB —Shane WhiteEagle (Jr.) 5-10, 180*MLB — Cody Parker (Sr.) 5-9, 185*OLB — Sergio Chase (Jr.) 5-6, 155CB — Reese Hagen (So.) 5-8, 135CB — Tre Harris (Jr.) 5-6, 145*S — Tyler Penn (Sr.) 6-1, 165P — Sergio Chase (Jr.) 5-6, 155Last year: 0-9 overall (0-7 in league)

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The unit will block for a stable of athletic backs, how-ever, including junior run-ning backs Shane White- Eagle and Sergio Chase, as well as senior wing back Tyler Penn.

WhiteEagle was one of the Spartans’ better runners a year ago — his 11.50-sec-ond 100-yard dash time was third-best on the Peninsula last spring — but he saw his season cut short by a knee injury.

As long as he stays healthy, he and Chase will get most of the carries.

“He’s a workhorse,” Fea-sel said of WhiteEagle. “He’d take the ball every play if he could.”

The big question mark is

at quarterback, where junior backup Braden Decker (a starting tight end) must hold down the starting spot until 6-3 senior Brady Castellano is eligible to play.

Castellano is one of three potential two-way starters — seniors Dillon Elkins and Jonah Penn being the other two — who will be forced to sit out the team’s first three games because of suspen-sions from last spring.

Another two-way player, Alexis Ayala, did not come out for the team.

That leaves Forks with five returning starters to implement Feasel’s new, nuanced Wing-T offense to begin a grueling schedule that opens with 2A teams Sequim and Port Angeles.

“It’s a confusing offense,

all of us are learning from it,” said senior guard Cody Parker. “It’s a big change, especially for us seniors.”

But, added Parker, “[Fea-sel] knows his stuff. He knows what he’s doing.

“He believes in us, and we believe in him, and we’re all going to work together and get through this.”

The one constant from last year is on defense, where coordinator Mike Marshall returns to run Forks’ 4-4 scheme.

That unit returns six starters from last season — not including the seniors returning in Week 4.

Given all the large-scale changes made to the offense, Feasel said there was a need for some familiarity on the other side of the ball.

Forks has been known for having a hard-hitting defense in years past, includ-ing former coach Ron Hurn’s winning teams from the 2008 and ’09 seasons.

But in all of the instabil-ity of last fall — Hurn resigned during the sum-mer due to professional responsibilities, forcing Andrew Peterson to take over the job in August — that was one of the things that was lost.

Feasel was named coach last spring, and came into town just in time to join the Spartans at team camp at Linfield College.

He liked what he saw.

“Last year it was a tough year for them as a team,” Feasel said. “It was a tough team year when you get beat like that and you kind of get embarrassed.

“Coming into this year there was that question mark, ‘What do we got going here?’ And then I’m a ques-tion mark. What I’m bring-ing is a question mark.

“Then we got to camp, and those guys just pulled it together. So coming in this fall, you could sense it when they came in, they were ready to go.

“The attitudes are up. They are excited.”

Tyler Penn, one of those seniors who stood up at the Friday afternoon practice to demand more of his team-mates, certainly hopes that is the case.

“I just want to be better,” he said. “I don’t care if we win or lose. I want the team motivated all the way through the game. I want them pumped up.

“I want people out there that want to be out there. That’s all I want, is people who want to play football.”


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CHIMACUM — There’s little room for specialists in the Chimacum football pro-gram this fall.

With only 24 athletes expected to be on the var-sity roster — 20 were in pads during the third ses-sion of summer two-a-days — the Cowboys are going to be a team of multitaskers.

“That’s the only way we can create depth with a squad like this,” Chimacum head coach Shawn Meacham said during a preseason practice in late August.

“We just have to have people ready to go in multi-ple spots.

“They just can’t hang their hat on being a receiver or linebacker or whatever. They have to be able to adapt to whatever we need.”

This isn’t the way it’s supposed to work in high school football.

Usually, when a head coach comes in and rebuilds a program the way Meacham did in his first two years — putting up back-to-back .500 seasons and visiting the state play-offs in Year Two — athletes flock to be a part of it.

Unfortunately for Meacham, the baseball diamond rules in the Tri-Area.

After winning two Class 1A state titles since 2007, that program holds the first allegiance of many of the school’s top athletes.

Thus, when 15 seniors leave the Cowboys football program — as was the case following the 2010 season — finding replacements is not always an easy task.

“We’ve got a lot of ath-letes at this school who aren’t playing football for a variety of reasons, baseball specifically,” Meacham said.

“That’s great for them, but in a small school it hurts, because we don’t have a lot of athletes to pick up the slack.”

With such a small num-ber asked to carry such a large load this season, Meacham appealed to his team’s sense of pride at the end of one August two-a-day.

Because if the Cowboys are to match last year’s effort — when it rattled off five straight wins after a 1-4 start to reach the state playoffs for the first time in five years — it’s going to take a whole lot of grit and determination.

“This year, more than ever, you’re going to see the heart of this team,” Meacham told his players in a post-practice huddle.

The Cowboys return just three starters on offense and two on defense from last year.

Luckily for Meacham, each of them happens to ply their trade in one of the more critical areas of the football field — in the trenches.

Tackles Daryl Settlemire (6-foot-1, 220 pounds) and Joe Modispacher (6-0, 240) and left guard Seth Ham (6-1, 230) were all impor-tant components of last year’s offensive line.

Three-year starter

Settlemire and Ham were both second-team All-Nisqually League linemen as sophomores a year ago while Modispacher is a three-year starter.

“They are really going to dictate how we play this year,” Meacham said. “They are the strength of our team right now.”

Part of the reason for that is because the Cow-boys have little to no experi-ence anywhere else.

Port Townsend transfer Mel Thornton, a junior run-ning back, is the only skill position player with any varsity starting experience, and that all came with the rival Redskins.

Meanwhile, 5-10 sopho-more Alex Morris will be asked to start at quarter-back for the first time, while

a mix of seniors and juniors take over the other wide receiver and running back positions.

“It’s going to be a big, hard job for me, but I’ve got to step up and do it,” said Morris.

“We’re [all] going to have to step up and just go all in. That’s what we always say, go all in for the team, so we’ve got to do it.”

Offense (Flexbone veer)

Off. coordinator: Shawn Meacham*LT — Daryl Settlemire (Jr.) 6-1, 220*LG— Seth Ham (Jr.) 6-1, 230C — Micah Conklin (Jr.) 6-2, 190RG — Austen Mapels (Sr.) 6-0, 260*RT — Joe Modispacher (Sr.) 6-0, 240WR — Kyle Madayag (Sr.) 6-3, 190WR — Victor Cienega (Sr.) 5-10, 160QB — Alex Morris (So.) 5-10, 150RB — Mel Thornton (Jr.) 6-0, 190RB — Trevor Hare (Jr.) 6-0, 180FB — Justin Morris (Sr.) 6-0, 170K — Kyle Madayag (Sr.) 6-3, 190

Defense (4-4 base)

Def. coordinator: Dan Dankert*DE — Daryl Settlemire (Jr.) 6-1, 220DT — Seth Ham (Jr.) 6-1, 230DT — Austen Mapels (Sr.) 6-0, 260*DE — Joe Modispacher (Sr.) 6-0, 240OLB — Trevor Hare (Jr.) 6-0, 180MLB — Gregg Shold (So.) 5-10, 165MLB — Justin Morris (Sr.) 6-0, 170OLB — Kyle Madayag (Sr.) 6-3, 190CB — Victor Cienega (Sr.) 5-10, 160CB — Rafael Pagasian (Jr.) 5-10, 150S — Mel Thornton (Jr.) 6-0, 190P — Kyle Madayag (Sr.) 6-3, 190Last year: 5-5 overall (4-3 in league)

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He and junior Trevor Hare are likely to see the bulk of the carries in the Cowboys’ backfield.

But without a lot of depth at running back, Meacham said he may have to stray from the three-back flexbone veer offense that’s worked so well the past two years.

“We’ve been lucky the last couple of years where we’ve had enough depth to run multiple schemes, depending upon the defense we were playing,” Meacham said.

“But this year we’re going to have to be a little bit more towards us and focused a little bit more on what we can do.

“We’re going to adapt. We’re going to be maybe more of a two-back set, two-back veer or an I-formation.

“We’re going to work on using an overload a little bit more, an unbalanced line a little bit more to hopefully impose our running game.”

Still in a 4-4

On the other side of the ball, the Cowboys will stick with defensive coordinator Dan Dankert’s 4-4 scheme.

Again, just like on offense, depth will be a question mark — only Modispacher and Set-tlemire, both defensive

ends, started last year. Not only will the bulk of

the unit will be made up of two-way players, it will also be hamstrung by the fact that the Cowboys will not be able to hit as much in practice because of injury concerns.

According to senior cap-tain Victor Cienega, how-ever, Meacham isn’t com-pletely taking away the physicality he brought to Chimacum practices when he first took over the pro-gram in 2009.

“He’s still kicking our butts this year,” said Cienega, projected to start at wide receiver and defen-

sive back this fall.Added the four-year

player, “Even though we lost a lot of players last year, we definitely got a lot of new talent. We’re going to pull it off again.

“I’m looking to prove people wrong.”

High expectations

Indeed, even with so many new faces in so many new spots this year, nobody is lowering the expectations quite yet in Chimacum.

“You want to play to win, and that’s what we’ve set our goals at the last couple of years,” Meacham said.

“This year is not going to be any different in that respect.

“We’re just going to work hard, we’re going to play four quarters all the way to the end, and if we do that we’re going to see some suc-cess.”

“. . . this year we’re going to have to be a little bit more towards us and focused a little bit more on what we can do. We’re going to adapt. We’re going to be maybe more of a two-back set, two-back veer or an I-formation.”

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NEAH BAY — The Red Devils are reloading. Again.

Neah Bay, one of the most successful B-8 football programs in the state, already is getting attention statewide with a No. 4 state ranking in preseason polls.

Reloading probably isn’t the right word for the Red Devils because essentially the same team is back that made it to the state semifi-nals last year.

“We only lost one on defense and two on offense,” fourth-year coach Tony McCaulley said. “Our core is back.”

McCaulley, who has a 30-8 overall record, has taken the Red Devils to the Class 1B semifinals the past two years.

Lummi lurks

Northwest Football League nemesis and defending state champion Lummi of Bellingham has eliminated Neah Bay at state the past two seasons.

Frankly, the Red Devils are tired of getting stopped a step away from the state championship game.

“We’re going for the whole thing this year,” McCaulley said.

He is expecting Lummi to be a major roadblock again even though the Blackhawks have lost seven starters to last year’s title team.

“That doesn’t mean much to them,” McCaulley said about the team losing so many seniors.

“They just reload.”The Blackhawks have

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sophomore who is a run-ning back and plays on Lummi’s line, McCaulley said.

McCaulley also is wary of Crescent and Muckle-shoot.

“I hear Crescent, with their new coach, may make a run at us with their track athletes out,” he said.

While Crescent coach Darrell Yount acknowl-edges his team will be fast this year, he insists that

Neah Bay will be just as fast.

“He’s got the kind of wheels we have,” Yount said about McCaulley and the Red Devils.

“Both teams have speed and both teams have size on the line,” Yount added.

The Red Devils are quicker than they were last year, McCaulley said.

“Our speed has improved, and we are getting stronger and older,” he said.

Muckleshoot, mean-while, should be improved in its second year of exis-tence, McCaulley said.

“They were better than I thought they would be as a first-year team last year,” he said.

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JOYCE — Crescent’s 2010 B-8 football team was slow.

Many of the same ath-letes weren’t setting speed records at the beginning of track and field season last spring.

“At the beginning of track season they were just average sprinters,” long-time Crescent track coach Darrell Yount said.

By the end of the season, though, this group turned into a pretty speedy bunch.

“They ended up being some of the best sprinters in state,” Yount said.

Eric Larson, a sopho-more, started out with times of 13.2 to 13.3 sec-onds in the 100 meters to 11.9 by the end of the sea-son.

Larson was fifth in the 200 and he anchored Cres-cent’s runner-up 4x100 relay team that captured second place in state.

Football players Beau Bamer and Joel Williams also ran on that sprint team.

“We will be tremen-dously fast on the field this year,” Yount said.

The Loggers already have the attention of Neah Bay coach Tony McCaulley.

“I hear Crescent, with their new coach, may make a run at us with all of those track athletes,” McCaulley said.

It was right back at you coach when Yount heard what McCaulley said.

“He’s got the kind of wheels we have,” Yount said.

“Neah Bay is extremely fast. Their 4x100 relay team is just as fast as ours. They were right with us but they

dropped the baton.”Neah Bay senior Titus

Pascua was second in state in the 100.

It will be an interesting game when Crescent col-lides with the Red Devils this year.

“Both teams have speed and both teams have size on the line,” Yount said.

“He [McCaulley] has big kids on the line and we have guys 245, 220 and 205 on the line.”

Still young

Last year the 3-5 Log-gers had no seniors. This season they have two.

And one of them, Wil-liams, didn’t come out for the sport his junior year.

Williams, though, could be the backbone of this team. The standout multi-sport athlete made All-Pen-insula honors in both bas-ketball and track last year.

In track he had state-

class times and distances in sprints, long distance run-ning (second in 800 at state) and javelin.

On top of that, Williams is a straight-A student.

“Joel is a great student and a great athlete,” Yount said.

The 6-foot-3, 185-pound athlete is one of two players Yount is eyeing for quarter-back.

“Joel is a super athlete.We can play him anywhere on the field,” Yount said.

“He has tremendous hands as a receiver, speed and a cannon arm.”

Last year’s starting quarterback, Joey Barnes, injured his elbow and has since enrolled in the Run-ning Start program in Port Angeles.

Williams will be playing at least sometimes at quar-terback and may even rotate at that position with former lineman Kai Story, a junior.

Yount has been working with Williams and Story at quarterback since spring training.

Story, 6-1 and 225 pounds, went to the coach during spring training and asked for a shot at the quar-terback position even though he was a center and guard as a sophomore.

“From snapping the ball to taking the ball,” Yount said. “That is a big change.

“Kai is big and strong with a cannon arm.”

Either could play quar-terback.

“Both Joel and Kai have a good touch on the football and they can throw it a mile,” Yount said.

The Loggers will have a new look this year, espe-cially on offense.

“We will throw the ball a lot,” Yount said. “We will be coming off the pistol set from quarterback.”

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CLALLAM BAY — Clal-lam Bay’s football team is on the way up.

The Bruins, who have been struggling with num-bers in recent years, may have turned that corner with 17 out right now.

Plus, second-year coach Cal Ritter is expecting a few others to turn out once school starts.

The Bruins are close to the same numbers they had last year as they seek to improve on their 1-7 record in 2010, Ritter’s first season.

“Our core group of kids turned out,” Ritter said. “And it’s a good core group.”

Like most of the other B-8 teams in the area, Clal-lam Bay still will be young in 2011.

The Bruins lost three seniors to graduation and will have only three incom-ing seniors this year.

But those outgoing seniors were important: the starting quarterback and the two key running backs.

Ritter, though, said he has good players to replace them.

The Bruins have two solid quarterback prospects and a bus-full of players who can run with the ball.

“What this team has is a good outlook,” Ritter said.

“I’m expecting a lot out of them. We have a tough league but we can compete with anybody.”

Clallam Bay will be helped right off the bat with the return of lineman Benito Burley, who missed all of last season because of knee surgery.

“Benito will anchor our offensive and defensive lines,” Ritter said. “He’s a big, strong kid.

“We expect a lot from him.”

Five starters are back, including sophomore defen-sive end and offensive line-man Matt Mohr.

Mohr also will play full-back and running back at times.

“Matt is a hand full; he’s a big, strong and fast kid,” Ritter said.

Mohr is 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds.

Ritter at quarterback

Austin Ritter, Cal Rit-ter’s nephew, will start at quarterback while Kelly Gregory may also see time at the position.

Center is Gregory’s nor-mal position while Austin Ritter will play on the offen-

sive line when he’s not the quarterback.

Austin Ritter is 5-10 and weighs 220.

Most players on the team can easily switch to different positions.

“Most kids we can flip-flop,” Cal Ritter said. “They can move around.”

Gregory and Austin Rit-ter may be platooned at times depending on what the Bruins want to do in the game, Cal Ritter said.

Both quarterbacks won’t run a lot because they lack mobility but Gregory has good footwork and funda-mentals for the position while Austin Ritter has a strong arm, the coach said.

“Austin throws pretty

well,” Cal Ritter said. “But if he goes down, we know we will be OK because of Kelly.”

Austin Ritter will run the team well, the coach said.

“We’re looking for big things from him at quarter-back,” Cal Ritter said.

Other key players to watch are tight end and defensive end Calvin Ritter, the coach’s son, junior receiver Ryan Willis, full-back and running back Bryce Hatt and running back Rickie Fowlkes.

“I like the depth of our guys,” Ritter said.

The Bruins will open the

season with two games against state Highway 112 rival Crescent.

They meet Sept. 3 in a nonleague day game at Crescent and then turn right around and play a Northwest Football League night game at Clallam Bay on Sept. 9.

Open date

That’s because both teams were looking at an open date on Sept. 3 before they decided to practice dancing together before going to the real ball the next week.

Ritter is expecting some

tough games from the Log-gers.

“Crescent is well coached and they will be pretty fast,” Ritter said.

“And I’m expecting them to pass a little bit.”

Clallam Bay, meanwhile, has been working hard with two-a-day practices.

“We have been working hard, especially on defense, but also on offense,” Ritter said.

“We’re still young but I’m expectations are high this year.

“We will go out onto the field and see what we can do.”

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New coach to lead Rangers


QUILCENE — Nic Dahl, a veteran coach with the Chimacum youth football program, is excited about taking over the Quilcene High School team this fall.

“It’s going to be awe-some,” Dahl said about coaching the Rangers.

He will be familiar with several players who he coached through the Chi-macum youth program.

“I know them and they know my coaching style,” he said.

Dahl, who also has coached the Chimacum High School boys basketball and JV baseball teams, plans to continue the success of Alan Reimann — who took the Rangers to the 1B prelimi-nary state playoffs in his third season in 2010.

“We have a good roster,” Dahl said.

“We will pick off where they left off last year. I think we have a well-balanced team.”

The Rangers have turned the program back around after struggling a couple of years ago with a JV-only program because of a lack of players.

New starting core

Quilcene did lose five seniors to graduation from last year’s playoff team.

“That’s a lot of starters on an eight-man team,” Dahl said.

“But we have a lot of players out this year.”

Dahl is working with 20 players in preseason prac-tice.

“I had less than that out last year when I coached an 11-man team,” he said.

The Rangers, though,

lost one of their best all-time athletes in multi-sport standout Brandon Bancroft, who provided the bulk of the offense last year.

“He’s a big hole to fill,” Dahl said.

There will be competi-tion for quarterback with last year’s backup, sopho-more Jacob Pleines, avail-able as well as junior Josh Steele.

“Josh improved by leaps and bounds over the sum-mer,” Dahl said.

“He made every summer practice. There will be nice competition for quarter-back.”

Pleines missed the first three days of practice because his family was camping. He will miss the first game because he doesn’t have enough prac-tices under his belt.

The Rangers will have varsity experience but will be young with only one

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coming back include juniors Edgar Perez and Colby Sch-reier, who both “had a ton of playing time last year,” Dahl said.

Anchors line

Dustin Finley, who anchors the line, is back along with sophomore run-ning back standout Josh King, who scored on a few long runs a year ago, and played linebacker on defense.

Perez also is a running back and linebacker while Schreier is another running back who has played a little bit at quarterback.

“All the kids are really athletic, and I have coached a couple of them in youth football,” Dahl said.

He has coached King before as well as incoming freshmen Tristan Williams

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“In eight-man football, you need to do that instead of trying to get the kids adjust to your style.”

A member of the B-8 Northwest Football League, Quilcene opens the 2011 season at home against Highland Christian on Sept. 3. Maybe.

“We don’t know if we will be able to get that game in,” Dahl said. “They have a total of only eight kids on their team.”

At any rate, Dahl is expecting the Rangers to continue along the road to success this year.

“I think we have a whole bunch of people who like to practice hard,” he said.

“They’re pushing it to the max. I think they want to win.”

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Quilcene’s new coach Nic Dahl explains a blocking move to Edgar Perez (16) and Lucas Murphy, right, at a preseason practice.

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“I expect them to be improved.”

Still, Neah Bay will be the team that others will paint a bull’s-eye on.

The Red Devils will still be young with only three seniors on the roster but one of them is standout running back and linebacker Titus Pascua, who is a two-time all-league player and was one of only three B players who were selected to last year’s All-Peninsula football team.

“Titus has been playing for the varsity three years now, he’s a senior, and he will be tough,” McCaulley said.

State-class speed

Pascua also has blazing speed. He was second in state in the 100 meters last spring. Pascua also is a two-time All-Peninsula sprinter on the boys track team.

Neah Bay’s leading rusher last year, Pascua had 155 carries for 1,512 yards and 19 touchdowns.

The other senior starter this year will be center Rufus Arnold.

The other two B players who made the All-Peninsula team were Quilcene’s Bran-don Bancroft, who has since graduated, and Neah Bay incoming sophomore Tyler McCaulley, a lineman.

Tyler McCaulley made the first team all-Northwest Football League as a fresh-man defensive lineman.

Standout sophomores

Tyler McCaulley is part of an outstanding sopho-more class of about seven players, that includes Josiah Greene and Zeke Greene, who both were key mem-

bers of Neah Bay’s state semifinal team last year.

Quarterback Josiah Greene threw for 204 yards on 10-of-20 passing and two long touchdown passes to Pascua.

Zeke Greene, mean-while, had 70 yards on four catches.

Josiah Greene is an exciting player who can pass and run, McCaulley said.

The Red Devils are mostly a running team who are not afraid to put the ball into the air.

Even though Neah Bay will be sophomore and junior dominated this year, there is a group of four to five incoming freshmen who could make some noise.

“We have freshmen who are trying to break into the starting lineup,” McCaulley said.

Major injury

Neah Bay has an injury heading into the season.

Layton Doherty sepa-rated his shoulder playing summer basketball and will miss the first three to four weeks of the season.

The Red Devils quickly will learn how well they will start the season as they go against state power-house Lummi at home in the first game on Sept. 2.

“They will be tough,” McCaulley said about the Blackhawks.

But Neah Bay will be tough, too.

“Titus [Pascua] has been playing for the varsity three years now, he’s a senior, and he will be tough.”

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“Expect the ball to be in the air. We have good running backs, lots of receivers and we’re big up front.

“We will use every yard on the field.

Many players on the team have multi-talents such as Bamer, who can throw, run and catch the ball equally well, Yount said.

The second senior on the team is transfer Mike Zapien, who will anchor the line with his 6-1, 245-pound frame.

Zapien, also a track and field ath-lete, transfers from Zillah.

“Mike Zapien can play any where,” Yount said. “He has great hands, good speed and he’s a tremendous hitter.”

Big lineman

Gene Peppard also will contribute beef on the line at 6-1, 220 pounds.

In addition, receiver Derrick Find-ley has history on his side.

The 6-1, 170-pound athlete had two uncles playing on Crescent’s 1996 state championship team.

“Derrick is an outstanding ath-lete,” Yount said. “He has great speed and great hands.”

Place kicker

Findley also will kick for the Log-gers.

Crescent has 18 athletes out for the sport but Yount is hoping for another four to six players once school starts.

The first-year coach also feels good about his coaching staff, which includes a couple of father-son pairs.

“I have a great coaching staff,” Yount said. “I have a huge crew of position coaches.”

The assistants include offensive and defensive line coach Rusty Buck-master and his son, Cody Buckmaster, who will coach the kickers.

Brian Scott, who will help with the line and coach defense, and his son, Devin Scott, the strength and condi-tioning coach.

Jakoba Square, from the 1996 state championship team, coaching receivers and defensive backs; and Dylan Heward, who will coach run-ning backs and linebackers.

The Loggers open the season with two games against Clallam Bay.

They host the Bruins in a non-league game Sept. 3 and travel to Clallam Bay for a league contest the next week.

“Then we jump from the frying pan into the fire with Neah Bay and Lummi back-to-back at their places the next two weeks,” Yount said.

“We will quickly know how good we are.”

Lummi is the defending state 1B champion while Neah Bay made it to the state semifinals the past two years.

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Crescent head coach Darrell Yount, left, and assistant coach Jakoba Square talk to the players during preseason practice at the high school. The Loggers will be extremely fast and big on the offensive and defensive lines this year.

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