Prep Football: Tigers thump Seahawks
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October 02, 2009 - 10:39 PM
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Mark Malijan

Burlington-Edison’s Mikey Sanchez (right) breaks away from Anacortes’s Jackson Kirkpatrick (center) and Torrey Merritt at Friday’s game at Anacortes.

ANACORTES — Mikey Sanchez fared well at quarterback in place of Dylan Boe for a week for the Burlington-Edison football team, but Friday night in Anacortes the senior showed that tailback is still his best position.

Sanchez ran for four touchdowns, and he and Cody Larson both went over 100 yards for the Tigers in a 45-7 rout of Anacortes.

The win sets up a Battle of the Bridge matchup between 5-0 Mount Vernon (a 56-41 winner over Bellingham) and the 4-1 Tigers, a game the Tigers were careful not to focus on before they had taken care of Anacortes.

“In practice, we were all careful to focus on this game,” Sanchez said. “We’ve got Mount Vernon next week and we want to take it to them. They’ve had some guys talking trash. We’re going to talk with our pads.”

Against the three Bellingham schools in the past three weeks, the Tigers had gotten off to slow starts. That was not an issue against the Seahawks. Burlington-Edison led 14-0 after a quarter, 31-0 at the half and 45-0 after three quarters.

With sophomore Chris Burt handling the quarterback duties in place of Boe, it allowed the Tigers to move Sanchez back to running back and Jacob Schifferl out of the backfield back to his tight end position.

Sanchez scored on runs of 24, 3, 7 and 1, finishing with 101 yards on 11 tries. Larson led the Tigers in rushing with 140 yards on just nine carries, the last of which was a 41-yard cutback touchdown late in the first half that put the game out of reach.

“We wanted to put a quarterback back under center and get back our running game,” Tigers coach Bruce Shearer said.





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He is a good coach and has been coaching at Anacortes for years. The problem is recruiting kids to play football. Times have changed and the best athletes…

Posted October 05, 2009 - 01:50 PM by EAGLE86

Seriously?  Anacortes has a new coach instaling a new system.  They have very little talent.  I don’t know if this guy is a good…

Posted October 05, 2009 - 08:49 AM by JAX44

Wow, no wins for Anacortes… thats sad. As a graduate of AHS its sad to see that the football team struggle to do anything. I think its time to…

Posted October 03, 2009 - 06:46 AM by DocCooper


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