Columbia High’s young football team will have one more chance this season to earn a win, when Fort Vancouver comes to White Salmon on Friday in a Trico League game.
Columbia High’s young football team will have one more chance this season to earn a win, when Fort Vancouver comes to White Salmon on Friday in a Trico League game.
King’s Way Christian broke open a close game in the second half and went on to top Columbia High, 32-7, in Trico League football Oct. 7 in White Salmon.
The Knights, who led 6-0 at halftime, capitalized on five Bruin turnovers to improve to 3-2 on the season, 1-1 in Trico League play. Columbia is 0-6 overall, 0-3 in the Trico.
Seton Catholic built an insurmountable first-half lead Friday, en route to a 45-21 Trico League football win over visiting Columbia High.
Columbia High gave up two long passes and an interception return for a touchdown in spotting Elma a 19-0 first-quarter lead, and the margin proved insurmountable during Friday night’s nonleague football game in White Salmon. The Bruins avoided the shutout with a late third quarter score but lost, 41-7, to the visitors.
Columbia High’s young football team made some strides forward Friday, but Goldendale had a few more weapons in its arsenal as reflected by the Timberwolves’ 25-8 win in the Klickitat County Cup.
With just four seniors lost to graduation off of last year’s team, it would be easy to assume this year’s Columbia High School football squad will be all grown up this year.
Seton Catholic swept its three-game series against Columbia High last week. The Bruins lost 12-0 and 17-4 in a home doubleheader on April 26, and they fell, 13-5, on April 29.
The Columbia High Bruins waited patiently through weather postponements on Tuesday and Thursday, and then had to use a few extra innings before winning their first league baseball game last week.
Coach Mike Muehlbauer’s squad got in a single game Friday against Castle Rock, winning a Trico League donnybrook, 15-14. The Bruins (5-5 overall, 1-3 league) and Rockets were supposed to play a doubleheader, but the Gorge snow earlier in the week and then the extra innings on Friday scrubbed that idea.
Playoff-bound Tenino won its fourth football game in a row, 46-8, at Columbia High on Saturday.
The season-ending nonleague game tested the young Columbia team (2-7 overall, 1-3 Trico League), which was able to avoid a shutout with sophomore Wesley White’s fourth-quarter touchdown run. Junior Avery Schalk added the two-point conversion for the Bruins.