Glacier Peak beats E-W to wrap up Wesco 3A South title

SNOHOMISH — Glacier Peak senior running back Dexter Carter made sure his Senior Night was one he will not forget.

Carter scored five times as the No. 6-ranked Grizzlies clinched the Wesco 3A South Division football championship by beating visiting Edmonds-Woodway 41-22 Friday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

Carter caught seven passes for 102 yards and three touchdowns, and rushed for 80 yards and two more scores as Glacier Peak (6-0 Wesco 3A South, 7-1 overall) earned the right to play North Division champion Arlington next week for the Wesco 3A title.

“I gotta give a big shout-out to my linemen for opening up holes for me,” Carter said in a post-game interview on STSPN.com. “My coaches told me to trust them to be there. Tonight that’s what I did and we made some big things happen.”

Edmonds-Woodway fell to 4-2 and 5-3 overall as the Warriors saw their four-game winning streak snapped.

Freshman quarterback Ayden Ziomas completed 13 of 23 pass attempts for 232 yards and three touchdowns. Justin Guffey had 120 receiving yards and Jaxsen Sweum also tossed a touchdown pass for the Grizzlies.

“It was awesome — a total team win,” Glacier Peak coach Rory Rosenbach said in an STSPN.com interview. “Our guys came out from the very first snap and let them have it from the first play to the last play.”

Carter’s fourth and fifth touchdowns, on runs of 17 and 19 yards, respectively, helped Glacier Peak pull away midway through the third quarter as the Grizzlies turned a 15-point hafltime lead into a 41-13 advantage.

An intentional grounding call in the end zone gave Edmonds-Woodway two points for a safety, and the Warriors’ Greyson Fisher added an 11-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter that completed the scoring.

Carter scored three first half touchdowns and Colton Bunt had a receiving touchdown in the first half.

Ziomas’s 5-yard touchdown pass to Bunt with 7:22 remaining in the first quarter opened the scoring for Glacier Peak, but Edmonds-Woodway’s Issac Jackson found David Woodard behind the Grizzlies’ defense for a 31-yard touchdown with 4:11 to play in the opening stanza to tie the game 7-7.

The Grizzlies later reclaimed the lead with back-to-back touchdown catches of 20 and 10 yards by Carter in the second period.

Jackson’s 13-yard keeper with 1:47 to play in the half cut the deficit to 21-13 after a botched extra point. But Glacier Peak answered in less than a minute as Carter scored his third touchdown of the half — this one on a pass from Sweum — as the Grizzlies claimed the two-score halftime advantage.

At Veterans Memorial Stadium

Ed.-Woodway 7 6 0 9 —22

Glacier Peak 7 21 13 0 —41

GP—Colton Bunt 5 pass from Ayden Ziomas (Kevin Ramsey kick)

EW—David Woodard 31 pass from Issac Jackson (Jake Stevenson kick)

GP—Dexter Carter 20 pass from Ziomas (Ramsey kick)

GP—Carter 10 pass from Ziomas (Ramsey kick)

EW—Jackson 13 run (kick failed)

GP—Carter 9 pass from Jaxsen Sweum (Ramsey kick)

GP—Carter 17 run (kick failed)

GP—Carter 19 run (Ramsey kick)

EW—Safety (GP intentional grounding in the end zone)