Edmonds-Woodway falls to Lakes 21-14 in 3A playoffs
Published 9:30 pm Friday, November 4, 2016
EDMONDS — The Edmonds-Woodway football team twice led the Lakes Lancers in Friday’s tri-district playoff game at Edmonds Stadium.
But the Lancers answered each time they faced a deficit and held the Warriors scoreless in the second half before going on to score a late touchdown and defeat E-W 21-14 to eliminate the Warriors from the Class 3A playoffs.
Lakes quarterback Cody Roe, who yielded the spot to Jaylen Antoine late in the first half, returned in the fourth quarter and scored the game-winning touchdown with a 46-yard run at 5:08 in the fourth quarter to send Lakes (6-4) to the first round of the state playoffs next week.
“Antoine just came back this week,” Lakes coach Dave Miller said. “He’s been out for awhile. He’s our thrower, so we kind of loosened him up with some throwing in the first half. Cody’s more of an athlete so those two are our 1-2 punch. I’m just proud of our kids for fighting and fighting and finding a way to win. Just a great ball game.”
Edmonds-Woodway finishes its season 6-4 after finishing second in the Wesco 3A South regular-season standings. The Warrriors had first-half leads of 7-0 and 14-7, but found difficulty moving the ball in the second half.
“We didn’t have any tempo,” E-W coach John Gradwohl said. “We’d have one or two good plays and then one or two bad plays. We never got a rhythm going.
“We’d get one or two first downs and then nothing.”
Lakes made the quarterback switch on its final drive of the half and Antoine immediately completed passes of 27 and 36 yards. The second completion left the E-W sideline and fan section clamoring for an offensive pass interference call, but no flag was forthcoming. Instead it set up Antoine’s 12-yard scoring strike to Che Rogers and the teams entered the half tied at 14-14.
The teams traded interceptions in a scoreless third quarter and E-W finished with three picks in the second half, but were not able to convert those into points. Anthony Lindamood twice intercepted the ball deep inside E-W’s own territory, but the Warriors couldn’t move the ball either time.
“It wasn’t that (we didn’t capitalize) as much as (it was) field position,” Gradwohl said. “We’d get the ball deep in our own territory and we weren’t able to move it, so that was to their advantage.”
Noah Becker added a fourth-quarter pick at E-W’s 34 midway through the fourth quarter, but the Warriors went three-and-out and punted. Three plays later Roe scored the go-ahead touchdown.
Antoine was 9-of-16 for 130 yards, a touchdown and three interceptions. Roe rushed for 11 yards and a touchdown on 77 carries.
“Both of them are definitely guys that we have to use,” Miller said. “We’ve used both. Some of it’s been because one’s been out with injury or the other’s been out with injury. Now that they’re both healthy, we’re going to use both of them.”
E-W’s Cappassio Cherry rushed for two first-half touchdowns, each of which gave the Warriors the lead. His first came on a 1-yard touchdown run on E-W’s first possession at 8:49 in the first quarter. Cherry’s second score came at 3:37 in the second on a 49-yard scamper with the Warriors facing a fourth-and-2 situation just on the Lakes side of midfield.
That made it 14-7 and came after Lakes had tied it on a 3-yard touchdown run from Daeon Hudson at 8:35 in the second. The Lancers took advantage a 3-yard net punt by E-W that gave Lakes possession at the Warriors’ 17-yard line.
Cherry finished with 176 yards and two touchdowns on 34 carries.
