Dane Lucero (John Fisken photos)
Jake Pease
The second crack at the beast went about like the first one.
Port Townsend is ripping teams apart on the gridiron this season, and Monday’s JV football game went pretty much like Friday’s varsity one did.
But, while the young Wolves fell 44-0 to the visiting Redhawks, the game was close for a good chunk of the way and CHS coach Ryan King came away pleased with a lot of what he saw.
“The boys played really hard,” he said. “We had interceptions and fumbles our boys caused and recovered.
“We were fighting them till the very end.”
Port Townsend carried a 16-0 lead into halftime, then broke the game open in the second half.
While Coupeville didn’t break into the end zone, it came close, with Axel Partida recovering a fumble and bringing it back 65 yards.
He was brought down just short, tackled on the five-yard line.
Freshmen running backs Chris Battaglia and Teo Keilwitz ripped off solid yardage, while fellow ninth grader Matt Hilborn recovered a bad snap and turned it into a first down for CHS, while also having “a really good night defensively.”
King also praised the play of his offensive line of Matt Stevens, Ryan Labrador, Jake Pease, Josh Robinson and Dane Lucero.
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