1A Prep Football: Kalama can't overcome slow start at King's

Jimmy-Rigged — Brown's return not enough for Chinooks in playoff crossover

Kalama’s Benji Brightbill runs the football during a 46-20 loss at King’s during a crossover football playoff, Saturday, Nov. 9, in Shoreline. — Candy Durgeloh / Durgeloh Photography

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SHORELINE — The Kalama Chinooks received good news coming into their Week 10 playoff game.

For the first time in four weeks, the ‘Nooks would have both of their top-two quarterbacks, Aiden Brown and Henry Sigfridson, healthy. However, Brown was still not 100% recovered from a leg injury and it showed. With their starting signal caller limited to the pocket the Chinooks struggled to move the ball down the field in the first half.

When they started to move the ball downfield they made some poor decisions that ended in momentum killing turnovers, and the ‘Nooks wound up falling 46-20 to King’s.

“Everything went wrong,” Kalama coach Mike Phelps stated. “They moved the ball at will and we couldn’t drive the ball in the first half.”