Prep football highlights: Beavers have three 100-yard rushers in victory

The Olympian • Published September 27, 2008

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TENINO – The Tenino Beavers amassed 418 yards on 42 rushes as they trampled visiting Winlock 42-20 on Friday night.

Three Tenino ball carriers eclipsed the 100-yard mark: Jason May had 16 rushes for 163 yards and two touchdowns, Dylan Fant was 17-147 with a score and Zach Gonia was 9-108 with three touchdowns.

Despite his team manhandling its Southwest Washington 1A League foe, Beavers coach Kevin Ridout had a few good-natured grumbles. Football coaches are genetically predisposed to see the glass half-empty, it seems.

"We made some huge special teams errors," he said. "We fumbled two punts and gave them a short field."

It's true that the Beavers saw their 21-0 halftime advantage dwindle to a 28-14 edge after three quarters, but Tenino just kept pounding away on the ground.

"We rushed the ball," Ridout said. "We blocked and ran the ball hard and played very good defense in the first half."

Ridout also said that LB/OG Josh Moss "did an awesome job on both sides of the ball."

Tenino improved to 2-2 overall and 1-1 in league play with the victory.

CAPITAL 56, OLYMPIC 14

Riley Wall ran for 160 yards and three touchdown as the Cougars throttled Olympic in an Olympic/Western Cascade League game. Twin brother Reid Wall scored on an 18-yard run for the Cougars, who did pretty much what they wanted with a balanced spread attack.

Tim Allbee, Olympic's associate head coach and defensive coordinator, said Riley Wall was the "best kid we've faced. He never stops moving his feet. It takes more than one guy to take him down."

After starting the season with 14-13 loss to Class 3A power O'Dea and a 7-0 loss to 4A Narrows League power Olympia, Capital has taken out its frustrations on Port Angeles (a 57-6 win) and now Olympic in the OWL.

"We're a lot younger even than we thought we'd be," Allbee said. "I thought our kids got intimidated early. The kids let (the Cougars) get in their heads early. Capital's very, very good."

Olympic scored first. A 54-yard run by Nollan Quinn sparked an opening drive that was capped by Larry Dixon's 1-yard run with 9:02 mark of the first quarter.