First state ticket since 2013:

Colfax football players have earned a ticket to the state football playoffs as one of the top 16 teams in the state, and they have been rated among the top eight teams in the state.

Colfax will host Toledo, a semi-final team last year, in the first round here at noon Saturday.

Coach Mike Morgan noted this will be the first state entry for Colfax since the 2013 Colfax team nailed a ticket and advanced to the quarter-final round.

Colfax landed the state ticket with a runaway win Friday over Lind/Ritzville/Sprague on the Schmuck Park field. The Bulldogs erupted for 27 points in the first quarter in a game which finished at 59-13.

Colfax fueled Friday's crossover win over the Broncos with four interceptions and one fumble recovery. The Bulldogs rolled up 460 yards and never punted during the game.

Other NE league qualifiers for the first state round are Asotin with a 35-7 crossover win over Northwest Christian; Davenport, a 36-14 winner over Liberty, and Chewelah, a 36-23 winner over Reardan.

Toledo will make the cross-state trip Friday. They have booked rooms in Cheney for Friday night because most of the rooms in this area have been booked by Cougar football fans for the Stanford game Saturday.

Toledo is located off I-5 about 20 miles south of Chehalis and listed on Google as 314 miles from Colfax via Highway 12 across White Pass to Yakima.

Colfax was ranked seventh on the state playoff grid, and Toledo was ranked 10th.

Toledo will arrive with a 7-3 record in the tough District 4 2B league. Their losses have been 6-42 to Kalama, the defending state champs; 7-41 to Napavine, and 8-29 to Adna.

"They're big, and they like to move the ball on the ground like most of the schools in that league," Morgan commented.

Toledo runs the same type of offense as Colfax, except they position their quarterback directly behind the center, Morgan noted.

Friday night against the Broncos, Colfax led 39-7 at the half and scored early in the third quarter to peg a 40-point lead and kick the game clock into fast time.

Coach Morgan called out the reserves early.

Colfax scored twice in the first three minutes with Layne Gingerich hitting Matt Hockett on a 46-yard pass play for the first score. The second TD came when lineman Anthony Becker stopped Bronco runner Drew Kelly, who fumbled. Jacob Brown scooped it up and went 37 yards for the first of his four TDs for the night.

Brown and Gingerich each added TDs on short runs for a 27-0 Colfax lead after the first frame.

Gavin Hammer and Brown scored in the second quarter, before the Bronco's Austin Thompson broke a run up the middle and galloped 71 yards to finish out the half at 39-7.

Brown scored on a five-yard run early in the third and ran a two-point conversion to post the 40-point lead.

Bronco back Hayden Melcer scored the other LRS touchdown with a 69-yard run.

Trenton Ensley broke out an 18-yard run late in the third quarter, and freshman Wyatt Bodey capped the Colfax night with an 11-yard TD run.

Last year Toledo dropped Reardan 35-3 in the first round of state action, and then topped Tri-Cities Prep 34-23 in the quarterfinal.

They were stopped by Kalama 47-22 in the semi final, and Kalama went on to take the 2018 title with a 34-25 win over Napavine.

Chewelah tops the four NE state entrants with a number-four state rating, and they will host 13th-rated Tonasket.

Asotin was rated eighth, and they will host ninth-rated Tri-Cities Prep.

Davenport was rated 12th and will be on road to Adna which was rated fifth.

Colfax 59-Lind/Ritzville/Sprague 13: 27/0 12/7 14/6 6/0: Colfax stats: 49 plays for 460 total yards; 42 for 337 yards rushing, 4-7 passing for 123 yards, 6 penalties for 50 yards, 23 first downs with 18 rushing, 4 passing, one on penalty, 26:51 time of possession. Rushing: Jacob Brown, 12 for 152 yards; Wyatt Bodey, 12 for 54; Layne Gingerich, 3 for 47; Trenton Ensley, 4-39; Gavin Hammer, 6-24; Danial Demler 4-12; Blake Holman 1-9. Passing: Gingerich 2-5 for 57 yards; Demler 2-2 for 66. Receiving: Garrett Dingman 1-51; Hockett 1-46; Brandon Lusting, 1-15; Brown 1-11. Solo tackles: Ensley 3, Dingman 3, Becker 2, JD Peterson 2.

Lind/Ritzville/Sprague stats: 39 plays for 267 yards; 19 for 163 rushing; 7-20 passing for 104 yards with 4 interceptions; 3-35 penalties, 12 first

downs with 6 rushing, 4 passing, 2 on penalties; Passing: Chase Galbreath, 4-7 for 53 yards, 1 interception; Drew Kelly 3 for 51 yards, 3 interceptions; Rushing: Austin Thompson, 7-94; Hayden Melcher, 2-75; Spencer Gering, 3-10; Cooper Miller 2-8; Galbreath 2 minus 8. Solo tackles; Gering 6, Melcher 5, Doug Morris 3, Garrett Frederick 3, Cole Cameron 2, Miller 2.