The A & B Football Report: Players of the Week

Offensive Player of the Week:
Trystan Rosman, QB, Wilbur-Creston HS

In the Wildcats 54-14 win over ACH, Rosman completed 12-of-13 passes for 377 yards and 6 touchdowns.

Rosman had to throw his first pass of the game away, but then completed 12 in a row in only one half of play. His TD passes were from 1, 63, 14, 96, 6 and 54 yards.

Rosman has 27 TD passes on the season with just 4 interceptions.


Defensive Player of the Week
Nate Clark, LB, NW Christian HS

In a 34-33 double-overtime loss, Clark played an outstanding game for the first year from Colbert.

Clark finished with 15 tackles, four sacks, and a fumble recovery.

Clark is one of the defensive leaders on the first year team in the Northwest 2B League.

Special Teams Player of the Week:
Peter Benne, Kicker, Blaine HS

In a pressure situation Friday night at Meridian High School, Benne kicked a 32-yard field goal with 2:08 remaining for what happened to be the winning points as Blaine survived a late Meridian drive to defeat the Trojans 24-21. Benne was also a perfect 3-for-3 in PAT's

Top Performers from Week 7

RUSHING:

Tyler Yarber, Rochester (1A)
270 yards, 34 carries, 4 TD's

Gunnar Brown, Curlew (B-8)
261 yards, 17 carries, 6 TD's

Rama Rudolph, Tri-Cities Prep (B-11)
256 yards, 24 carries, 1 TD

Kevin Knauff, Garfield-Palouse (B-8)
241 yards, 36 carries, 3 TD's

Devin Kelly, Hoquiam (1A)
213 yards, 14 carries, 2 TD's

Travis Mcmillion, Onalaska (B-11)
213 yards, 17 carries, 5 TD's

Keifer Kastl, Onalaska (B-11)
212 yards, 20 carries 2 TD's

PASSING:

Jake Straughan, Colton (B-8)
381 yards, 14-of-18, 4 TD's

Trystan Rosman, Wilbur-Creston (B-8)
377 yards, 12-of-13, 6 TD's

David Olds, Northwest Christian (B-11)
377 yards, 24-of-39, 2 TD's

Ruvim Tyutyunnik, River View (1A)
342 yards, 19-of-25, 6 TD's

Mitch Boesel, Brewster (1A)
329 yards, 13-of-22, 4 TD's

Brandon Van Pelt, Stevenson (1A)
299 yards, 19-of-29, 2 TD's

Cameron Gay, Lakeside (NMF)(1A)
268 yards, 14-of-23, 3 TD's

RECEIVING:

Dalton Patchen, Colton (B-8)
181 yards, 5 receptions, 2 TD's

Cade Smith, Brewster (1A)
167 yards, 8 receptions, 3 TD's

Jeron Konkright, Newport (1A)
156 yards, 6 receptions, 3 TD's

Terran Brown, River View (1A)
149 yards, 9 receptions, 3 TD's

Clay Shelton, Rosalia (B-8)
135 yards, 5 receptions, 2 TD's

Kobie Lewis, White Swan (B-11)
135 yards, 6 receptions, 2 TD's

Colton Van Pelt, Stevenson (1A)
134 yards, 4 receptions, 1 TD

Gus Bonny, La Salle (1A)
132 yards, 7 receptions, 2 TD's

The A & B Football Report Weekly Rankings - Week 7

1A:

1. Zillah (7-0)

2. Cascade Christian (7-0)

3. Woodland (7-0)

4. Freeman (7-0)

5. Mount Baker (7-0)

6. River View (7-0)

7. La Center (7-0)

8. Cashmere (6-1)

9. King's (6-1)

10. Eatonville (6-1)

11. Charles Wright (5-1)

12. Okanogan (6-1)

13. White Salmon (5-2)

14. La Salle (5-2)

15. Connell (5-2)


B-11:

1. Morton - White Pass (7-0)

2. Lind-Ritzville-Sprague (6-0)

3. La Conner (6-1)

4. Raymond (6-1)

5. Waitsburg-Prescott (5-1)

6. Napavine (6-1)

7. White Swan (6-1)

8. Tri-Cities Prep (5-1)

9. North Beach (6-1)

10. Reardan (4-2)

11. Darrington (6-1)

12. Concrete (4-1)

13. Wahkiakum (5-2)

14. Oroville (5-1)

15. Liberty Bell (2-1)

B-8:

1. Neah Bay (6-0)

2. Wilbur-Creston (6-1)

3. Touchet (6-1)

4. Colton (5-2)

5. Liberty Christian (5-1)

6. Lummi (5-2)

7. Cusick (4-2)

8. Rosalia (5-2)

9. Republic (5-2)

10. Sunnyside Christian (5-2)

11. Columbia-Inchelium (5-2)

12. Pateros (4-3)

13. Wishkah Valley (5-2)

14. Selkirk (5-2)

15. Lopez Island (5-1)

The "A & B" Football Report Weekly Rankings:

1A:

1. Zillah (6-0)

2. Cascade Christian (6-0)

3. Woodland (6-0)

4. Freeman (6-0)

5. Mount Baker (6-0)

6. La Center (6-0)

7. River View (6-0)

8. Cashmere (5-1)

9. King's (5-1)

10. Eatonville (5-1)

11. Cedar Park Christian (5-1)

12. Charles Wright (4-1)

13. Okanogan (5-1)

14. Columbia (White Salmon) (4-2)

15. La Salle (4-2)

B-11:

1. Lind-Ritzville-Sprague (5-0)

2. Morton-White Pass (6-0)

3. La Conner (5-1)

4. Raymond (5-1)

5. Waitsburg-Prescott (4-1)

6. Napavine (5-1)

7. Wahkiakum (5-1)

8. Tri-Cities Prep (4-1)

9. North Beach (5-1)

10. White Swan (5-1)

11. Reardan (3-2)

12. Darrington (5-1)

13. Concrete (3-1)

14. Oroville (4-1)

15. Liberty Bell (2-1)

B-8:

1. Neah Bay (5-0)

2. Liberty Christian (5-0)

3. Wilbur-Creston (5-1)

4. Touchet (5-1)

5. Lummi (4-2)

6. Columbia-Inchelium (5-1)

7. Cusick (3-2)

8. Rosalia (4-2)

9. Republic (4-2)

10. Sunnyside Christian (4-2)

11. Lopez Island (5-0)

12. Entiat (4-2)

13. Wishkah Valley (4-2)

14. Selkirk (4-2)

15. Odessa-Harrington (3-3)

Football Makes Us Crazy.......

The author of this article is Daniel J. Flynn. He is also the author of the book “The War on Football: Saving America’s Game. This article is re-printed with permission from Mr. Flynn.

Amazon’s one-time chief financial officer, Joy Covey, who joined the 60 billion company when its annual sales reached 16 million, tragically left us last week. Covey, like 700 other Americans this past year, died in a bicycling accident.

The passing of the former Amazon CFO may have been the only bicycling death you heard about last week. But at least a dozen took place in the United States. Two Massachusetts women who were cycling for charity died in Hampton, N.H., after an oncoming driver veered into their lane of traffic. A hit-and-run driver killed a homeless couple bicycling late at night in Chapel Hill, N.C. An eighth grader in Hopkinton, Mass., and a 25-year old near Grand Junction, Colo., met the same fate while riding on busy roads. Other such fatalities occurred in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Florida and points beyond.

More Americans died from cycling accidents last week than died from football hits during the last three seasons combined. The tragedies led no one to call for a ban on bikes. Everybody seems to comprehend that the positives in health and transportation outweigh the considerable negative of the pedal-powered vehicles. This measured perspective doesn’t extend to our collective view of tackle football, a far less deadly activity that, like biking, provides myriad social and health benefits.

One thousand times more Americans die from swimming than from football hits. Last year, skateboarding collisions killed 15 times as many Americans as football collisions did. About twelve times as many people die annually from crashes on the ski slopes than die from crashes on the gridiron.

If you’re wearing a Riddell or Schutt helmet when you die, the Drudge Report surely will highlight your passing. If you’re not wearing a helmet in a fatal riding or skiing crash, Matt Drudge probably won’t notice. The war on football is as much a clash between perception and reality as anything else.

When journalists do notice serious injuries in sports not named football, calls for abolition do not usually follow. After Michael Ybarra, a Wall Street Journal “extreme sports correspondent,” died from a climbing fall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Yosemite National Park last year, no national debate emerged over the wisdom of mountaineering. The celebrity skiing deaths of Michael Kennedy, Representative Sonny Bono, and actress Natasha Richardson thankfully led to an uptick in helmets on the slopes but not in calls to abandon the sport. Caleb Moore’s death while snowmobiling at the Winter X Games earlier this year hasn’t led to a lawsuit against the event or equipment manufacturers. Football plays by a different set of rules.

If the debate over football were about safety, then the scolds seeking to prohibit the game would table their ambition until after doing away with skiing, skateboarding, cycling, and dozens of other deadlier sports.

Safety works as a false front for what’s really motivating the attacks on America’s game. Rough and muddy football clashes with our increasingly risk-averse, passive-aggressive, unsoiled society.

It doesn’t fit in a world of parentally monitored play dates, Xbox babysitters, and trophies for everyone.

The war on football is a cultural tic calling itself a public-health crusade.

Football competes on a rigged playing field vis-à-vis other sports. Our standards for it, partly because of its popularity, are more stringent than our standards for other sports. If a fatality occurs in cycling, it doesn’t register unless it happened to the Amazon CFO or someone similarly famous. When such an injury claims the life of an anonymous football player, every journalistic outlet runs with the story in part because it plays into the existing storyline.

This creepy exploitation of tragedy reinforces an impression about football that is at variance with the facts. Football is safer than it ever has been—and safer than many uncontroversial pastimes ever will be.

Football makes fans crazy. Its distortion of the senses influences the game’s critics.

Special thanks goes to Cashmere football coach Phil Zukowski for sending me the article….

The A & B Football Report Rankings

The A & B Football Report Rankings:

1A:

1. Zillah (5-0)

2. Cascade Christian (5-0)

3. Woodland (5-0)

4. Freeman (5-0)

5. Mount Baker (4-1)

6. La Center (5-0)

7. River View (5-0)

8. Okanogan (5-0)

9. King's (4-1)

10. Cashmere (4-1)

11. Rochester (4-1)

12. Lakeside (NMF) (4-1)

13. Eatonville (4-1)

14. Cedar Park Christian (4-1)

15. Charles Wright (3-1)

B-11:
1. Lind-Ritzville-Sprague (4-0)

2. Morton-White Pass (5-0)

3. La Conner (4-1)

4. Wahkiakum (5-0)

5. Raymond (4-1)

6. Waitsburg-Prescott 3-1)

7. Napavine (4-1)

8. Colfax (3-1)

9. Tri-Cities Prep (3-1)

10. Reardan (2-2)

11. North Beach (4-1)

12. Liberty Bell (2-0)

13. White Swan (4-1)

14. Darrington (4-1)

15. Concrete (3-1)

B-8:

1. Neah Bay (4-0)

2. Liberty Christian (4-0)

3. Wilbur-Creston (4-1)

4. Touchet (4-1)

5. Lummi (3-2)

6. Colton (4-1)

7. Columbia-Inchelium (4-1)

8. Odessa-Harrington (3-2)

9. Sunnyside Christian (4-1)

10. Cusick (2-2)

11. Pateros (3-2)

12. Selkirk (4-1)

13. Lopez Island (4-0)

14. Wishkah Valley (3-2)

15. ACH (2-3)

**NOTE** King's Way Christian is a 1A school playing an independent B-8 schedule and is not eligible for playoffs. They will not be in the B-8 rankings.