Last Second TD Vaults Vikings Past #1 Sumner 31-28
Sterling debut for QB Blake Moser ends with game winner as time runs out. Vikings at #1 Bellevue Friday. Highlights, pics, stats.
LAKE STEVENS — In over two decades at the helm of the Lake Stevens Vikings football program, Tom Tri could only remember one game with comparable drama: a 2011 home playoff game that saw QB Jake Nelson walk the Viks off with a last second heave to All State WR Christian Gasca. Only one game, that is, until Friday made it two.
Fast forward 14 years and some 43 minutes of game time, and the Vikings found themselves facing a do-or-die drive in their 2025 home opener vs defending 4A champion and preseason #1 Sumner. (Story continues after ad.)
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It was time to lean on new starting QB BLAKE MOSER, and as the junior would say later — big time players have to make big time plays.
And that’s just what Moser and Junior wideout SETH PRICE proceeded to do.
With the Vikings trailing by 4 points late in the 4th quarter of the home opener Friday - facing the top-ranked Spartans’ formidable championship defense, Moser led an 80-yard, 11-play come-from-behind drive that consumed all but the last two-tenths of a second of regulation game time, connecting on the final play with Price on a 15-yard TD pass as time ran out.
The TD vaulted the Vikings (1-0) past the 2024 4A champion Sumner Spartans (0-1) by a score of 31-28.
Moser was responsible for all 80 yards covered on the drive, going 8/9 passing for 56 yards and rushing twice for 24 yards.
Ultimately, Moser found Price on the two most important plays of the game: a must-have 4th and 2 from the Spartan 20 with :23 seconds left (Price caught the ball short of the marker and dragged Spartan defenders to a first down); and the game winner one play later, wherein Moser scrambled right and hit Price in the right corner of the West end zone as time ran out.
At first, it didn’t seem like Friday’s game would come down to a last second play, that’s how dominant the Viks were in the opening frame.
In front of a standing room only home crowd on a hazy summer night, the Viks opened the scoring after holding Sumner to a quick three-and-out.
Continue through the jump for the rest of the recap + official game stats, postgame interviews and more.
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