Greg Lee

A pair of unheralded seniors weren’t about to let Mt. Spokane’s regular season end on a sour note. Third-string quarterback Tyler Huck passed for two touchdowns and ran for another as the Wildcats pulled away from the Rogers Pirates 41-20 in a Greater Spokane League football finale Friday at Joe Albi Stadium.

The Shadle Park Highlanders can now check off that elusive win over a 4A team – a week after they thought it was going to happen in the wild free-for-all against Central Valley.

Two unheralded seniors weren’t about to let Mt. Spokane’s regular season end on a sour note.

Davian Barlow wasn’t so much making up for lost time as he was picking up where he left off. Playing for the first time in four weeks, the Mead senior running back scored four touchdowns, two coming in the final 5 minutes, as the seventh-ranked Panthers held off the Ferris Saxons 34-19 Thursday at Joe Albi Stadium to earn the Greater Spokane League’s second 4A postseason football berth.

Davian Barlow wasn’t so much making up for lost time as he was picking up where he left off.

Randy Jones wasn’t a fly-by-night placekicker in the Greater Spokane League back in the mid 1990s. In fact, he was one in a long line of highly successful kickers who have come through the league. He kicked so well that it earned the Ferris standout a full-ride scholarship to the University of Washington. He’s listed on the GSL’s all-time list three times. Until last Thursday, he was atop that list with a career-long of 59 yards. Then Jones got a text message from his father Friday morning, alerting him that he was no longer No. 1 and that a kid from Central Valley had booted one 67 yards.

A Boise player touched the soccer ball in the box, awarding Post Falls a penalty kick 28 minutes into the State 5A championship match Saturday.

The Lake City and Post Falls girls soccer teams battled through 80 minutes of scoreless play followed by two 10-minute overtime periods that decided nothing in the State 5A championship game Saturday afternoon.

The Shadle Park students had congregated near the south end zone at Joe Albi Stadium, poised to rush the field in seconds after their Highlanders upset the Central Valley Bears. Just 2 seconds separated Shadle from a momentous victory on a night when a sensational sophomore quarterback with the surname Rypien not only became the all-time Greater Spokane League’s top passer in a single season but put five fields worth of yards between himself and the runner-up. And he has one more regular-season game to put that mark out of sight.

Heavy preseason favorite Mead looked anything but the team expected to waltz through the Greater Spokane League – at least everywhere but on defense.

The Shadle Park students had congregated near the south end zone at Joe Albi Stadium, poised to rush the field in seconds after their Highlanders upset the Central Valley Bears.

In a game that was a defensive coordinator’s nightmare, the Central Valley Bears somehow managed to keep their slim postseason hopes alive Thursday with a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping 62-55 overtime win over the Shadle Park Highlanders at Joe Albi Stadium. It took a record-setting boot from their senior place-kicker and an interception on the final play for the Bears to withstand a record-setting 577 passing yards from Shadle Park sophomore quarterback Brett Rypien.

In a game that was a defensive coordinator’s nightmare, the Central Valley Bears somehow managed to keep their slim postseason hopes alive Thursday with a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping 62-55 overtime win over the Shadle Park Highlanders at Joe Albi Stadium.

The terminology has changed over the past three decades but certainly not the principle. If there’s one thing the Gonzaga Prep football teams in the modern era are known for it is running the football – and running it often.