Prep football: Wildcats pounce on Mavericks, dominate in 55-20 win

Meadowdale quarterback Drew Tingstad is sacked by Oak Harbor's Zoren Yabao during a Wesco 3A crossover game Friday at Edmonds Stadium. (Photos by David Pan)
Meadowdale quarterback Drew Tingstad is sacked by Oak Harbor’s Zoren Yabao during a Wesco 3A crossover game Friday at Edmonds Stadium. (Photos by David Pan)

Meadowdale was pushed around Friday night.

With offensive and defensive lines that dominated the line of scrimmage, Oak Harbor steamrolled Meadowdale 55-20 in a Wesco 3A crossover game at Edmonds Stadium.

The physical play took its toll on the Mavericks, who had one player on crutches, another with his arm in a sling and their starting quarterback on the sidelines.

“It’s kind of been the story of our season,” Meadowdale coach Matt Leonard said. “I said before the game that it’s the healthiest we’ve been in five weeks and we just lose three more guys.”

Junior running back Kela Marshall gave the Mavericks a 7-0 lead on a 2-yard touchdown run at the 7:49 mark of the first quarter. But that would be the last time Meadowdale (5-4 overall) saw the end zone until the fourth quarter. In between, the Wildcats scored five unanswered touchdowns to take a 41-7 lead at the end of the third quarter.

Oak Harbor's Savion Hollins-Passmore is pursued by Meadowdale's
Oak Harbor’s Savion Hollins-Passmore is pursued by Meadowdale’s Markus Ward.

Marshall scored on a 2-yard run and quarterback Maxwell Johnson added a 57-yard touchdown run for Meadowdale in the fourth quarter.

Quarterback Drew Tingstad, who was starting for the first time in five weeks, hit his hand on a helmet on the final play of the first half and was held out for the rest of the game. The hand was the same one he broke in practice in late September. Tingstad’s play in the first half was understandably ragged.

“It looked like he hasn’t played in five weeks,” Leonard said. “The feel for the game and the speed of the game, it’s really hard to replicate, especially when you’ve been in a cast for four weeks. He battled tough.”

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Meadowdale’s Tyree Carson (1) and Dakota Ralls (4) tackle Oak Harbor’s Dyllan Harris (22).

But Meadowdale’s offensive woes could be traced to other issues.

“It wasn’t our best game. We gave him no time up front,” Leonard said. “We couldn’t run the football. You’re a sitting duck in the pocket when that happens.”

Leonard knew that his team was facing an opponent with a physical line.

“When you’re not a physical team and you play a physical team, they’re going to run over you,” Leonard said. “That’s exactly what happened. … I was worried coming into it that they’d out-physical us with a pretty good sized line. That’s exactly what happened.”

Leonard and his coaching staff have a week to shore up the line. Meadowdale, the Wesco’s No. 4 will face the South Puget Sound League’s No. 2 seed on the road next week.

— By David Pan

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