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CONTACT THE ENTERPRISE David Pan, Sports editor entsports@heraldnet.com Tony Dondero, Asst. Sports editor entsports@heraldnet.com

Shorecrest upsets Meadowdale behind fine defensive effort

Scots hold Mavs to 51 yards rushing

By Tony Dondero
Enterprise reporter

EDMONDS

Shorecrest solved Naji Moore-Taylor and made big offensive plays when needed, on its way to an upset win over Meadowdale in its Wesco 3A league opener.

Nick Terrel kicked two field goals in the fourth quarter, a 32-yarder to give Shorecrest the lead and a 22-yarder with 2:56 to play, as the Scots beat ninth-ranked Meadowdale 16-12, Oct. 10 at Edmonds Stadium.

Shorecrest’s defense, behind its front four led by senior David Munro, almost shut down Moore-Taylor.

“They did a great job,” Shorecrest coach Mike Wollan said. “They tracked things down from the back side. We took the trap out of their playbook real early with a big tackle by David Munro. They did their job and it made easier for the guys behind them to come up and make tackles.”

Moore-Taylor rushed for five touchdowns and 236 yards in a win over Glacier Peak the week before but the Scots held him to 37 yards rushing on 14 carries and a touchdown

“We knew what this game meant and we had to go out there and take care of business,” Munro, a senior defensive tackle and lineman, said.

Shorecrest held the Mavericks to 161 yards of total offense, 51 rushing and 110 passing while the Scots racked up more than twice as many yards, 326. The Scots made 15 first downs to the Mavs 8.

Moore-Taylor fumbled twice in the second half. He lost the ball before reaching the end zone in the fourth quarter and Shorecrest’s Kofi Asiedu recovered.

The Scots proceeded to march down after the touchback to the Meadowdale 15 and Terrel kicked the go-ahead field goal. A key fourth-and-10 pass from Sam Heck to Jordan Brown gave the Scots a first down and put them in field goal range.

Shorecrest’s Michael Harris pooch kicked the ensuing kickoff and Brown recovered on the Meadowdale 30. The Scots ate up nearly four minutes of clock and Terrel converted his third of four field goal attempts.

“You give a well-coached team too many opportunities and they’ll take advantage of them,” Meadowdale coach Mark Stewart said. The Mavericks struggled on special teams at times, missing two extra points as well. “We didn’t make plays when we needed to. We kind of lost our composure at the end of the second half.”

Meadowdale (1-1 league, 3-2 overall) still has three league games left, including Everett, one of the top contenders in the league. The top two teams in the five-team league qualify for the postseason while the third-place team plays in play-in game.

“Everything’s still in front of us,” Stewart said.

Shorecrest’s Michael Harris rushed 23 times for 115 yards including a 45-yard run down the right sideline on a fake punt in the third quarter that set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Jordan Brown. That score cut the lead to 12-10 with Terrel’s extra point.

The Scots finished with 229 rushing yards and Heck completed 5-of-11 passes for 97 yards.

Meadowdale scored the game’s first touchdown early in the second quarter on a 3-yard run by Moore-Taylor. A 29-yard pass play from Matt McDonagh to wide receiver Cameron Bayer set up the score.

Despite trailing 12-3 at the half, Shorecrest generated 141 total yards to Meadowdale’s 87 in the first 24 minutes.

Terrel kicked a 24-yard field goal with 2:37 left in the half after an 11-play drive in which the Scots moved the ball from their own 34 to the Meadowdale 6-yard line.

Harris circled under and caught a 33-yard pass from Heck at the Meadowdale 22 for a 33-yard gain, the longest of the drive.

But on the ensuing kickoff Bayer danced through the coverage, breaking a tackle at midfield to put Meadowdale up nine, after Jourdain Henao’s second missed extra point.

Bayer also caught six passes for 100 yards for Meadowdale, but Shorecrest’s Steven Shomaker stepped in front of him and broke up a pass on fourth down on Meadowdale’s final drive.

The Scots, who lost 43-14 to Sedro-Woolley last week, improved to 1-0 in the league and 3-3 overall.