South side teams prevail in key week for SE Eights

Touchet and Pomeroy, the two SE Eights teams from the south side of the Snake River, booked big wins in last Friday’s round to set the tone for the balance of the league run.

Touchet’s Indians booked a strong start on their home field Friday afternoon and survived a Wildcat rally in the second half for a 48-38 win at home. The win advanced the chiefs to the top of the league standings.

Pomeroy finished with three straight TDs at Washtucna for a 40-20 win to remain in contention. The Pirates are now 4-1 in league play with their next round set Friday at Palouse against the Vikings, now number two in the league.

GARFIELD/PALOUSE, now 2-0 in league play, will host the Pirates Friday at Palouse in what is expected to be a collison of two ground power teams. The Vikings will host after a 62-20 crunch of St. John/Endicott on the Eagles’ turf in the Friday round.

The game shut down after three quarters under the 40-point lead rule.

Viking back Riley Hodges booked 209 yards at St. John with TD runs of 40, 11 and 9 yards.

Quarterback Anthony Floyd hit TD passes to Nathan Cocking for 21 yards and to Wyatt Mitchell for 28 and 35 yards. Floyd also scored two more Viking TDs on runs.

Dallas Schluneger escaped for 63 yards for the first SJE score in the first quarter. QB Sam Raynor hit Wade West for a 35-yard scoring pass and returned an interception for the other SJE score.

POMEROY’s Tory Knebel logged 274 yards and scored four times in the Pirates’ win at Washtucna Friday. Knebel, booked a lot of those yards after fast start breaks through the LW defensive line.

He had scoring runs of 69, 57, 35, and 89 yards against the Tigercats

Austin Reisdorph, the 200 pound Pirate junior, also had crash runs for scores.

Knebel scored the second Buc TD and added two points to lock the game at 14-14 with 4:27 left. The teams took the tie score into the halftime break after a frantic Tigercat triple option play ended on three yards short of a score.

Knebel put the Pirates in front with a score after the break, but Sawyer Hostetler upped the ante with a 37-yard run after he shook off a last-chance Pirate tackles. That made it at 20-20 with 7:04 left in the third, but the Tigercats never scored again while the Pirates added three TDs.

“It was a great football game for three quarters, but they just wore us down,” Coach Jeff Nelson noted.

The Tigercats draw another tough assignment this week when the travel south to play league-leading Touchet.

COLTON Friday travels to Pasco for a non-league game against Liberty Christian.

The Wildcats scored first last Friday afternoon at Touchet on a 12-yard run by QB Josh Straughan, but after that Touchget booked the next three TDs on pass plays to Cori Ochoa, Eric Hines, and Vincente Flores.

Straughan hit Dustin Devorack and a 29-yard TD shot before the half, but the Indians came out after the break to score 20 in the third quarter and take a 42-17 lead after three quarters.

The Wildcats stacked a 20-point charge in the last quarter with QB Straughan scoring on a plunger at the end of a drive and hitting Jake Straughan for the last two scores.