ILWACO RUNS STRAIGHT INTO 'NOOK BUZZSAW
Too much running game. Too much special teams. Way too much defense. The Kalama Chinooks did not play the hospitable hosts Friday night in a Trico Conference matchup with the Ilwaco Fishermen. The Chinooks displayed for all to see that they deserve their #4 Washington State 1A ranking and the top spot in the Trico.
The only thing that went wrong for the Chinooks was a 5-yard delay of game penalty before the opening kickoff assessed against Kalama because their pre-game festivities on Senior night ran about 5 minutes too long. No bother, the 4th-ranked Chinooks then went to work on a business-like 49-0 drubbing of the injury-plagued Fishermen in Southwest Washington 1A Trico Division football action.
This was basically a dress rehearsal for next Friday's titanic matchup at La Center for Kalama and featured a goal-line stand by the Chinooks at the 1-yard line just moments into the game, after the Fishermen seized the home team's attention with an impressive opening drive. Jake Nesbitt hit Matt Kaino on the second play from scrimmage with a 45-yard pass that put the ball on the Chinook 6-yard line. After two short Eddy Knick runs put it down to the 3 yard line, an incomplete pass brought up 4th down, and the Chinooks stuffed Knick just shy of the goal-line on 4th down. Little did anyone know that this would be the closest Ilwaco would get to paydirt.
From there, it was classic Chinooks. Trevor McCain dashed for 38 yards on the first play from scrimmage. After an encroachment penalty on Ilwaco, McCain slipped on the turf for no gain. Then the player who will challenge Castle Rock's Lucas Myers for Player of the Year, Charlie Ashlock, took a handoff from Jeff Vossen, burst past the line of scrimmage, lowered his shoulder into a Fishermen defender and turned on the jets for 55-yard touchdown. Three plays, 99 yards.
It was basically over from there. The Chinooks were rolling, and the Fishermen could do nothing to stop the onslaught.
Kalama coach Mark Buchanan, whose Chinooks (7-1, 5-0 league) take on La Center (6-2, 4-1 league) next Friday with a chance to clinch the Trico crown outright, started subsituting liberally in the 2nd quarter, but the train kept rolling.
Ashlock, who also burst for an 80-yard touchdown in the third quarter, and finished with an incredible 143 yards on just four carries, also stood out on special teams. Ashlock broke through and blocked a Jordan DeSimone punt on Ilwaco's next possession, which was plucked out of the air by Chase Berry and returned 36 yards for a touchdown to make it 14-0 with 3:53 left in the first quarter. The Fishermen's next series started with Mike LaRoy's 10-yard sack of quarterback Jacob Nesbitt, and Ilwaco went three-and-out. Then Kalama punched it in quickly, after just four plays, Chris Pierce darted in from 14 yards for a 21-0 lead.
The Chinooks made it 28-0 after Buchanan decided to insert starting offensive guard Sean McDonald into the backfield for a Refrigerator Perry flashback, with the 260-pounder blasting straight up the middle from 1 yard out. Pierce's 41-yard touchdown ramble on a toss sweep vaulted Kalama's lead to 35-0 by the half. Pierce finished with 104 yards on six carries, all coming in the first half.
Ilwaco's Eddy Knick, the No. 2 rusher in the Trico behind Castle Rock's Lucas Myers, managed 21 yards on 12 carries in the first half and just 24 yards for the game. But he still managed to eclipse the 1,000-yard barrier for the second straight season (1,019). Things started off well for Ilwaco in the third quarter after it recovered a fumble on Kalama's second play from scrimmage. But Nesbitt, who has shown steady improvement over the course of the season and struggled through a 3-of-14 for 73 yards performance on this night, was under constant heavy pressure, and was intercepted by Pierce on fourth down from the Chinooks' 12-yard line. On the Pierce's runback, Ilwaco senior R.J. Jamieson was hit near the Fishermen's sideline and stayed down for 15 minutes while medical personnel attended to him. He was placed onto a stretcher and transported by ambulance to St. John Medical Center, where he was treated for a neck injury.
Ilwaco coach Ned Bittner said that part of Jamieson's first vertebrae in his upper neck area had "broken off," but that he was not expected to experience any lasting damage. And although Jamieson's injury shouldn't cause any permanent and lasting damage, his football season is over.
After the long delay due to Jamieson's injury, Ashlock took off on his 80-yard touchdown dash on the first play back from scrimmage for a 42-0 lead, and Robby Sanders' 23-yard TD run finished the scoring with 2:46 left in the third.
Bittner was hoping his team could come out and score quickly on the Chinooks. And they nearly did. "That was our game plan. We got down there close, but we couldn't punch it in," he said. "But our kids played hard. I was happy with the way they competed against a very good team."
Bittner's squad has now lost to all three at the top of the heap in the Trico. Alex Martin led Ilwaco (1-7, 1-4 league) with 44 yards on 11 carries, which only generated 122 yards in total offense on the night. Kalama, which rushed for 409 yards, amassed 449 yards in total offense.
ILWACO 0 0 0 0 - 0
KALMAMA 21 14 14 0 - 49
1Q-K - Charlie Ashlock 55 run (Jason Merritt kick)
1Q-K - Chase Berry 36 blocked punt return (Merritt kick)
1Q-K - Chris Pierce 14 run (Merritt kick)
2Q-K - Sean McDonald 1 run (Merritt kick)
2Q-K - Pierce 41 run (Merritt kick)
3Q-K - Ashlock 81 run (Merritt kick)
3Q-K - Robby Sanders 23 run (Merritt kick)
RUSHING- K, 19-407 (Ashlock, 4-143); IL, 28-47 (Martin, 11-44)
PASSING- K, (Vossen, 1-2-1 TD, 40 yards); IL, (Nesbitt, 3-14-1 INT, 75 yards)
RECEIVING- K, Peacock, 1-40; IL, Kaino, 1-45
TURNOVERS- K, 2; IL, 1
The only thing that went wrong for the Chinooks was a 5-yard delay of game penalty before the opening kickoff assessed against Kalama because their pre-game festivities on Senior night ran about 5 minutes too long. No bother, the 4th-ranked Chinooks then went to work on a business-like 49-0 drubbing of the injury-plagued Fishermen in Southwest Washington 1A Trico Division football action.
This was basically a dress rehearsal for next Friday's titanic matchup at La Center for Kalama and featured a goal-line stand by the Chinooks at the 1-yard line just moments into the game, after the Fishermen seized the home team's attention with an impressive opening drive. Jake Nesbitt hit Matt Kaino on the second play from scrimmage with a 45-yard pass that put the ball on the Chinook 6-yard line. After two short Eddy Knick runs put it down to the 3 yard line, an incomplete pass brought up 4th down, and the Chinooks stuffed Knick just shy of the goal-line on 4th down. Little did anyone know that this would be the closest Ilwaco would get to paydirt.
From there, it was classic Chinooks. Trevor McCain dashed for 38 yards on the first play from scrimmage. After an encroachment penalty on Ilwaco, McCain slipped on the turf for no gain. Then the player who will challenge Castle Rock's Lucas Myers for Player of the Year, Charlie Ashlock, took a handoff from Jeff Vossen, burst past the line of scrimmage, lowered his shoulder into a Fishermen defender and turned on the jets for 55-yard touchdown. Three plays, 99 yards.
It was basically over from there. The Chinooks were rolling, and the Fishermen could do nothing to stop the onslaught.
Kalama coach Mark Buchanan, whose Chinooks (7-1, 5-0 league) take on La Center (6-2, 4-1 league) next Friday with a chance to clinch the Trico crown outright, started subsituting liberally in the 2nd quarter, but the train kept rolling.
Ashlock, who also burst for an 80-yard touchdown in the third quarter, and finished with an incredible 143 yards on just four carries, also stood out on special teams. Ashlock broke through and blocked a Jordan DeSimone punt on Ilwaco's next possession, which was plucked out of the air by Chase Berry and returned 36 yards for a touchdown to make it 14-0 with 3:53 left in the first quarter. The Fishermen's next series started with Mike LaRoy's 10-yard sack of quarterback Jacob Nesbitt, and Ilwaco went three-and-out. Then Kalama punched it in quickly, after just four plays, Chris Pierce darted in from 14 yards for a 21-0 lead.
The Chinooks made it 28-0 after Buchanan decided to insert starting offensive guard Sean McDonald into the backfield for a Refrigerator Perry flashback, with the 260-pounder blasting straight up the middle from 1 yard out. Pierce's 41-yard touchdown ramble on a toss sweep vaulted Kalama's lead to 35-0 by the half. Pierce finished with 104 yards on six carries, all coming in the first half.
Ilwaco's Eddy Knick, the No. 2 rusher in the Trico behind Castle Rock's Lucas Myers, managed 21 yards on 12 carries in the first half and just 24 yards for the game. But he still managed to eclipse the 1,000-yard barrier for the second straight season (1,019). Things started off well for Ilwaco in the third quarter after it recovered a fumble on Kalama's second play from scrimmage. But Nesbitt, who has shown steady improvement over the course of the season and struggled through a 3-of-14 for 73 yards performance on this night, was under constant heavy pressure, and was intercepted by Pierce on fourth down from the Chinooks' 12-yard line. On the Pierce's runback, Ilwaco senior R.J. Jamieson was hit near the Fishermen's sideline and stayed down for 15 minutes while medical personnel attended to him. He was placed onto a stretcher and transported by ambulance to St. John Medical Center, where he was treated for a neck injury.
Ilwaco coach Ned Bittner said that part of Jamieson's first vertebrae in his upper neck area had "broken off," but that he was not expected to experience any lasting damage. And although Jamieson's injury shouldn't cause any permanent and lasting damage, his football season is over.
After the long delay due to Jamieson's injury, Ashlock took off on his 80-yard touchdown dash on the first play back from scrimmage for a 42-0 lead, and Robby Sanders' 23-yard TD run finished the scoring with 2:46 left in the third.
Bittner was hoping his team could come out and score quickly on the Chinooks. And they nearly did. "That was our game plan. We got down there close, but we couldn't punch it in," he said. "But our kids played hard. I was happy with the way they competed against a very good team."
Bittner's squad has now lost to all three at the top of the heap in the Trico. Alex Martin led Ilwaco (1-7, 1-4 league) with 44 yards on 11 carries, which only generated 122 yards in total offense on the night. Kalama, which rushed for 409 yards, amassed 449 yards in total offense.
ILWACO 0 0 0 0 - 0
KALMAMA 21 14 14 0 - 49
1Q-K - Charlie Ashlock 55 run (Jason Merritt kick)
1Q-K - Chase Berry 36 blocked punt return (Merritt kick)
1Q-K - Chris Pierce 14 run (Merritt kick)
2Q-K - Sean McDonald 1 run (Merritt kick)
2Q-K - Pierce 41 run (Merritt kick)
3Q-K - Ashlock 81 run (Merritt kick)
3Q-K - Robby Sanders 23 run (Merritt kick)
RUSHING- K, 19-407 (Ashlock, 4-143); IL, 28-47 (Martin, 11-44)
PASSING- K, (Vossen, 1-2-1 TD, 40 yards); IL, (Nesbitt, 3-14-1 INT, 75 yards)
RECEIVING- K, Peacock, 1-40; IL, Kaino, 1-45
TURNOVERS- K, 2; IL, 1
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