E-W Wins Wesco 4A South With 42-21 Win Over Kamiak

After the Edmonds-Woodway Warriors football team opened the season with three loses, it looked like it would be a long season. One to forget.

Instead, the Warriors have bounced back with three straight wins, including a 42-21 victory over Kamiak Friday at Edmonds Stadium.

The Warriors' three losses, to Monroe, Marysville-Pilchuck and Meadowdale, may have hurt team morale under coach John Gradwohl. But they did nothing to hurt the team's playoff chances since they were all nonleague games.

With the victory Friday, in fact, the Warriors have clinched their division and are Wesco 4A South champs. The team plays one more conference game, next week at Cascade, then ends the regular season with a noncoference game against Redmond.

So even if E-W loses against Cascade and Wesco 4A Jackson, which also won Friday, wins next week as well, both would finish at 3-1 in league, and E-W has already beaten Jackson this season.

Senior Mark Coutee led the Warriors with 155 yards on 10 carries, scoring on touchdown runs of 67 yards and 2 yards. Desmond Young gained 138 yards on 23 carries, scoring on runs of 5 and 4 yards.

E-W also scored on David Hanson's 85-yard inteception return and a 1-yard run by quarterback Davis Giles.