Playoff Football: Lake Stevens Rushes for 512 Yards in 56-28 Win Over Woodinville
Watch video of Jay Ferrell’s 243 yard night & Blake Moser’s 64 & 54-yard electric TD runs as the Viks outlast a tougher than expected Kingco opponent. J425 has interviews, stats & upcoming schedule.
Watch below: Jay Ferrell’s 243 yard effort and video of Blake Moser’s 162 yards rushing and three breakaway TDs. Also: box score, season stats, a postgame interview with Tom Tri, the upcoming playoff schedule and game analysis from Friday.
LAKE STEVENS — Late in the third quarter, with Woodinville doubling Lake up on time of possession and plays run, defensive coordinator Eric Dinwiddie called an all hands stand up meeting with his defense.
What was said is not known to history, but unease was palpable.
The Viks had run just 13 first half plays to over 50 from Woodinville — and an inexperienced Falcon QB - starting just his fourth game — was seemingly shredding the Viking defense to the tune of 350 yards passing and 4 touchdowns (one of the jaw-dropping variety to freshman standout DREW SORENSON, whose one-handed snag of an CADEN VAN DE WEGE intermediate sideline ball boarded on the indefensible, see video further down this post).
On the other side of the formation from #1 Sorenson, First Team All-Kingco senior wideout OWEN MILNES was operating in a new uniform number (15) in place of his normal 14.
And operate he did, putting in work on a series of Lake DBs and linebackers.
The frustration on the Viking sidelines peaked in the first half after Woodinville put together drives of 15, 13, 9 and 12 plays, two resulting in touchdowns, effectively preventing Lake’s dangerous offensive from controlling the game.
The ball control Falcon offense coupled with a rare Moser interception had Woodinville, the #31 seed, within a TD of the #2-ranked Viks at intermission.
The second half arrived with a star-turn from QB BLAKE MOSER, reeling off a 64-yard TD run on a QB keeper around right end — on the first play from scrimmage.
The defense bit hard on the fake to JAYVIAN FERRELL, which made sense given he’d compiled two scores and over a hundred yards rushing in the first half despite just 8 touches.
Just one false step from the edge contain and/or linebackers spells doom when Moser’s 4.47 speed is breaking the boundary.
At least three Falcons bit though, and Moser was gone for at least 50.
It looked like pursuit may have hemmed the junior in on the right sideline around the 20, but Moser showcased his unique ability to execute 90 degree changes of direction in a manner that not only maintains speed — he appears to accelerate out of the turns, as pursuit loses a yard with every yard Moser gains.
Moser cut across the field, holding the ball out with his right hand towards the end zone for the last ten yards.
He’d add another 54-yard TD burst in the fourth quarter, and Ferrell would hit from 50 while piling up 243 yards on 19 carries.
The Viks did not punt and their 511 rushing yards was their most in a game since 2012 and second most rushing yards ever.
Moser attempted just five passes, completing for. The Viks ran the ball 32 times for 512 yards and 8 TD.
Still, Woodinville — 0-5 in Kingco — kept scoring and kept dominating possession.
With two 4th quarter scores, the Falcons put up as many points on Lake as current holders Sumner did, while vastly out-statting Lake in (supposed) dominance stats.
Woodinville:
ran 87 plays to Lake’s 49;
passed for 350 yards to Lake’s 26;
gained 26 first downs to Lake’s 20.
lost by 28.
And to be fair to the Viks, the ball-control imbalance surfaced earlier this year: Kamiak and Ferndale both ran more plays and gained more first downs than the Viks.
Jackson had a two-to-one timed possession advantage. Typically these are concerning trends. But Jackson was losing 42-0 on a running clock in less than thirteen minutes of game time. When the mercy rule is employed, the game is over and a new exercise begins: the losing team does all it can to waste time and avoid a closed casket inducing trouncing. This is thin defense for macho egos though. Forget the score. The refs called the game and spun the clock down for your safety. A 42-0 mercy rule win just doesn’t get you the numbers compiled by dominant teams who are not quite to the level of test over year supremacy that results in mercy rule games 70% of the time. In Wesco, the mercy rule is deployed when a team opens a 40+ point lead before halftime. At that point, the clock no longer stops. The game ends in 24 minutes. If the side judge drops a contact or the center gets blood on his jersey, that’s the third quarter spoken for.
In Lake’s 42-0 win at Jackson, the T-Wolves got the ball to start the 3Q and managed to keep the sane drive going until the game ended. Without getting past the Lake 40.
All this is to say that Ferndale got more first downs than Lake as a function of Lake’s own success: Coach Tri averaged 17.4 yards per play that game and Viking skill players scored four TDs of 50 yards or more. Those are one play, zero first down, :17 second drives. Not very manly compared to a good ol’ 11 play 77 yard mollywhopper topped off by a 37 yard field goal. But it’s something. To be more direct I’m saying it’s counter productive ro think a kit ball control when accomplishing said goal would require a Viking player to take a knee mid touchdown-jaunt. There’s no hope for impressive ToP ratios when star players reel off ten burst plays of more than 25 yards on the ground including TD runs of 64, 54 and 50 yards and non scoring runs of 40, 40, 34, 34, 31, 27, 25, 22 and 16. In a half.
Hit the jump for HD video of Lake’s 512 yard rushing effort and highlights including Woodinville freshman WR Drew Sorenson’s unbelievable grab.
