Three to see: Week 1

Lake Oswego (Ore.) (0-0) at Olympia (0-0), 7 p.m., Friday, Ingersoll Stadium
Outlook: Lake Oswego (pronounced Lake AUS-WEE-go) has been one of Oregon’s premiere football teams over the past decade in Oregon’s largest classification (6A). The series with Olympia will be a home-and-home; the Bears will travel to Lake Oswego, a city of 37,000 south of Portland, to open the 2013 season. The Lakers’ head coach is Steve Coury, a former Oregon State wide receiver who begins his 21st season as head coach. Since 2001, he’s guided the program to eight state semifinal appearances and four state title games. Last year, LO won the program’s first football state title, and finished the season ranked No. 23 nationally by ESPN. Olympia will be missing a handful of starters for at least Week 1, from injuries to ineligibility, coach Bill Beattie said. One of the injuries is to senior lineman Connor Wilmovsky (shoulder), a first-team all-4A Narrows honoree in 2011.

Timberline (0-0) at River Ridge (0-0), 7 p.m. Friday, South Sound Stadium
Outlook: If offense is what you like, this game could feature a lot of it. Seniors Brad Wallace (River Ridge) and Spencer Crump (Timberline) are explosive players who tallied a combined 2,180 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns in 2011. Timberline is expected to have more success in the rushing attack with the addition of Anthony Hicks, a former Tumwater running back who was an All-American at Pacific Lutheran, who is the Blazers’ new run-game coordinator. River Ridge hadn’t won a game in this series since 1998, when the Dale Chase-led Hawks team defeated Timberline, 29-14, and eventually went on to the state quarterfinals. Timberline leads the all-time series, 15-2.

Tumwater (0-0) at Shelton (0-0), 7 p.m. Friday, Highclimber Stadium
Outlook: For the first time since both teams were members of the Pacific-9 Conference, Shelton and Tumwater meet up. Shelton coach Matt Hinkle played for Tumwater coach Sid Otton in the late 1970s. The game also will feature future Division I and Pacific-12 football players: Shelton tight end David Ajamu (Oregon State commit) and Tumwater lineman Jaimie Bryant (Washington). The Highclimbers didn’t have much success with its spread offense in 2011, and decided to switch back to their traditional power-run game, led by senior running back Ralph Kinne. Bryant is Tumwater’s lone starter from the 2010 team which defeated Archbishop Murphy for the 2A state title.

WEEK 1 FOOTBALL GAMES

Thursday's game
Capital 29, Newport (Bellevue) 22

Tonight's games
All games at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Lake Oswego (Ore.) at Olympia
Tumwater at Shelton
Centralia at Hoquiam
Clover Park at Black Hills
Port Angeles at WF West
River Ridge at Timberline
Yelm at Highline, 5 p.m.
North Thurston at Steilacoom
Tenino at Raymond
Hockinson at Elma
Ridgefield at Rochester
Rainier at Naselle