High School Football: Mark Morris keeps playoff hopes alive with upset at Woodland
South Cowlitz Stunner – Oldemar's late field goal sends Monarchs to 10-7 victory over Beavers
By Drew Lawson for Blast Zone Media / blastzonenews@gmail.com
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WOODLAND— A freshman found a senior to set the tone, then another freshman hit the go-ahead field goal, just before another senior put the game on ice with a five-yard rush on fourth-and-two.
It takes contributions from all ages and assorted skillsets to win a football game in the 2A GSHL, especially when you’re traveling to Dike Access Road in South Cowlitz County. And that’s exactly what Mark Morris got in a 10-7 victory, Friday, that kept the Monarchs’ hopes of stealing one of the league’s four postseason berths alive.
“We’ve won three of our last four. The hard part is our schedule was really tough to start the year,” said Mark Morris head coach Mike Peck, who was back on the Monarch sidelines for the first time since the 12th inning of Game 5 of the ALDS (remember that?).
“Even our non-league schedule and the start of league play,” Peck continued. “We played some really good teams and we were in a lot of those games, we just had to figure out a way to play 48 minutes, and that’s the piece that’s been missing. We’ve been getting closer and closer and closer, and we played 48 minutes of football tonight, and we were able to come away with a victory against a really good football team.”
Indeed, the upstart Monarchs knocked off Hockinson under interim head coach Larry Peck last week, and they dispatched of Hudson’s Bay two weeks prior, with an odd loss to Ridgefield that ended with Mike Peck’s (appealed) ejection sandwiched between.
— The Mark Morris Monarchs celebrate after the final horn in a 10-7 win at Woodland, Friday, Oct. 24. The victory left a path the the playoffs open for the Monarchs. / Video by Drew Lawson for Blast Zone Media —
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