Selah upsets Othello

Almira/Coulee-Hartline 54, Pateros 26; Royal 60, Warden 0; Ellensburg 41, Quincy 6

Area football recaps

SELAH - Marc Garza accounted for 183 passing yards and three touchdowns, but it wasn't enough to keep the Othello Huskies from suffering a devastating 36-35, double overtime loss to the Selah Vikings on Friday night.

Garza, who completed 8 of 17 throws, found Gabriel Cantu on a 15-yard touchdown pass to bring the Huskies within a point in the second overtime. Head coach Roger Hoell elected to try and win the game with a two-point conversion, but Garza's pass fell incomplete.

Selah's winning points in the second overtime came on a 12-yard pass play from Kyle Washut to Brett Dodeward.

Garza opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 30-yard TD pass to Michael Harvey. The pair connected again in the second quarter, this time from 14 yards out, as Othello took a 14-0 lead.

The Vikings tied the score in the third quarter on a 28-yard pass from Washut to Cody Collier, but the Huskies went ahead again on James Valdez's 72-yard run. Valdez finished the game with 108 yards on 14 carries.

Selah knotted the score at 21-21 on a 5-yard pass from Washut to Tyler Porter, sending the game to overtime. Othello's David Walker, who rushed 29 times for 138 yards, scored on a 3-yard run. A 15-yard pass from Washut to Dodeward forced a second OT.

Othello (2-3 overall, 1-2 Central Washington Athletic Conference) returns home this Friday, facing the Wapato Wolves at 7:30 p.m.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline 54, Pateros 26

COULEE CITY - The Warriors responded well to their blowout loss at Odessa last week, getting big games from Jordan Hughes and Josh Goodwin in a Northeast League eight-man victory over the Billygoats.

Goodwin, who carried 18 times for 185 yards, opened the scoring with a 37-yard TD run. After Pateros took a 10-6 into the second quarter, Hughes got into the act with a pair of scoring runs, the first from 55 yards and the second from 3 yards, putting ACH up 18-10 at the break. Hughes had 17 carries for 200 yards on the night.

"After last week's loss at Odessa it was important that we put together a good game this week," Warriors head coach Brandon Walsh said. "I thought we did a nice job of that. This was a good bounce-back win for our team."

ACH (4-1 overall) scored three more times in the third period, getting a 26-yard Hughes run, a 57-yard gallop from Grayson Sizemore and a 23-yard jaunt from Cody Leander. Nate West got the Warriors' final score, a 5-yard run, in the fourth period.

ACH hosts the Wellpinit Redskins this Friday at 7 p.m.

Royal 60, Warden 0

WARDEN - The Knights buried the Cougars in a South Central Athletic Conference game, rolling up a 34-0 halftime lead and enacting the mercy rule after three quarters.

Tailback Hector Ledezma carried 10 times for 105 yards and two touchdowns for Royal (4-1, 3-1), and quarterback Austin Allred went 10 for 12 through the air for 201 yards and a pair of rushing TDs.

Cash Brown's 18-yard jaunt and Ledezma's 3-yard burst accounted for the Knights' first-quarter points. Allred scored on runs of 12 and 43 yards, and Ledezma got his second from 3 yards out in the second quarter.

Royal scored four more times in third quarter. Colt Brown had a 23-yard TD run, Jacob Christensen and Jorge Marmelejo returned interceptions for scores, and Johnny Barerra scored off a blocked punt.

Royal limited Warden (1-4, 1-3) to 140 yards of offense, and Cougar quarterback Scott Phillips was just 3 of 11 for 15 yards. Ivan Cuevas had 45 rushing yards and Arturo Martinez 41 for the Cougars.

Royal hosts the Columbia-Burbank Coyotes this Friday at 7 p.m. Warden travels south to face the River View Panthers at 7 p.m.

Ellensburg 41, Quincy 6

ELLENSBURG - The Jackrabbits played three solid quarters, trailing the host Bulldogs 14-6 with 12 minutes to play, but things quickly fell apart from there.

Quincy, which managed just 150 yards of offense, got its only points in the second period when Skyler Perez scored on a 2-yard run. The Jacks missed the point-after kick and trailed 7-6 at halftime.

Ellensburg stretched its lead in the third period as quarterback Joe Jenkins scored on a 1-yard The Bulldogs dominated the final quarter, getting a 36-yard pass play from Jenkins to Wes Ferrell, a 5-yard pass play from Jenkins to Ethan Sterkel, a 35-yard Sterkel interception return, and a 2-yard Mike McKinney run.

The Jacks picked off three passes, but Jenkins finished 11 of 20 for 150 yards. Quincy quarterback Jesse Gonzales was limited to 5 of 15 passing for 94 yards and an interception.

Ellensburg's Drew Ronning led all runners with 125 yards on 31 carries. Colby Melburn carried 10 times for 23 yards for the Jacks, and Quincy receiver Manny Ybarra caught two balls for 59 yards.

The Jacks (1-4, 1-3 CWAC) host Prosser, the state's top-ranked 2A team, this Friday at 7:30 p.m.