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For
the third straight year the Kodiak High School Bears football team made it to
the state small schools championship game. But unfortunately, so did the
Soldotna High School Stars, one of the most dominant football teams in Alaska
history. With SoHi's 28-to-6 victory over Kodiak Saturday, the Stars tied the
all-time consecutive win record at 29 in a row.
Given
Soldotna's dominance, and their regular season 48-to-nothing blanking of the
Bears here at home, nobody gave Kodiak much of a chance in the championship
game. But the Bears held SoHi to a season-low 244 yards rushing, and only a
touchdown per quarter, which is more of an accomplishment than it might seem at
first.
KVOK announcers Charlie Madsen and Doug Letch made that point in their
post game wrap up:
-- (Bears 1 49 sec "The team we lost
to is ... but she still got to the dance.")
Kodiak
had three scoring chances inside the Red Zone, but failed to convert on any of
them. Early in the second on fourth-and-one, Kodiak had the ball on SoHi's
10-yard line, but a pitch-out was stopped at the line. Then on second down in
the third, a Zach Baylor pass was intercepted on the one-yard line. And early
in the final quarter, Kodiak was fourth and goal on the two, but the pass was
tipped away. The Bears' only score came with less than three minutes in the
game on a 57-yard pass play from Baylor to Nick VanMeter.
In
the post-game wrap, Letch looked forward to Kodiak's prospects for next year:
-- (Bears 2 23 sec "We'll see how
things ... those kids on the field.")
Kodiak's
Gary Anthony was named Northern Light's Conference defensive player of the
year. Conner Rogan was named to both first team offence and defense, as center
and interior lineman. Alex Woodell (w'dell) also made first team defense, at
defensive back.
Kodiak
finishes the season with an over all record of 6-wins, 4-losses.
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