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Back to School for Sammamish

Students across the pla-teau went back to school last week, with both districts, and most private schools starting up. The first day at Creekside Elementary featured the con-trolled chaos of young chil-dren trying to find teachers, calsrooms and friends.

From left, Creekside students Levi Chisholm, Will Schneider, Kyle Kropp, Jeffrey Duan, Henry Grillo and Sal Wheeler reconnect prior to starting their first day in Kathleen Blanding’s second-grade classroom.

Volunteers Kelly Callison, left, and Lynne De La Cruz greet bus riders in the morning and write numbers on students’ hands to remind them which bus to ride in the afternoon.

Creekside teacher Emily Bradford lines up her first-grade stu-dents in preparation for entering the school on Sept. 4.

Second-grade teacher Janee Smith helps student Emanuel Luca find a spot for his backpack.

Robin Earl, principal at Creekside Elementary, talks on her walkie-talkie while greeting a couple students getting off their bus.

Second-grade teacher Cherie Dodd and student Alivia Merritt work on a first-day assignment.

Photos by Neil Pierson

By Neil Pierson

Eastlake High’s three offen-sive stars shone brightly, and the result was a convincing victory in Don Bartel’s head-coaching debut at the school.

Brothers Drew and Troy Lewis combined for 238 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns, and quarterback Blue Thomas threw for 198 yards and two scores as the Wolves whipped the visiting Lakes Lancers 41-7 in a season-opening, non-league football game on Sept. 6.

Bartel hadn’t beaten Lakes in four previous meetings while coaching at Enumclaw, but that monkey was taken off his back. Eastlake scored 27 points in the second period for a 34-0 halftime lead, leaving the second half as a learning tool for its younger play-ers.

“All we wanted to do was

come out and be efficient,” Bartel said. “We didn’t know how it was going to go, but we knew (Lakes) were going to be fast and physi-cal, so that was good for us.”

Eastlake’s first offensive series ended quickly, but its next pos-session wound up in the end zone as Troy Lewis plunged through the line from two yards

out.Defensive

lineman Carson Iraola recov-ered a Lakes fumble – the first of three turnovers from the Lancers – early in the second period. That set up a 10-play, 83-march

that Troy Lewis capped with an 18-yard TD run.

An interception from line-backer Lucas Henkel gave the Wolves good field position again. Eastlake used some trickery to gain 47 yards as Thomas threw a lateral to Mitchell Augenstein, who hit Jeffrey Feinglas deep down the sideline. That set up

Troy Lewis’ third score on a 5-yard run.

Eastlake was far from finished. Facing a third-and-13 situation,

Thomas found a wide-open Drew Lewis out of the backfield, and he sprinted 65 yards to the end zone for a 27-0 lead.

Following a poor punt, the Wolves needed only 13 seconds

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Photo by Dave SheffelsEastlake defenders swarm Lakes running back Pete Bostic, causing a first-quarter fumble. Eastlake forced three turnovers in its 41-7 victory on Sept. 6.

Lewis brothers lead Wolves’ rout of Lancers

By Neil Pierson

In a battle of high-school football programs with 18 state championships between them, it was the Bellevue Wolverines who looked much more comfortable in a big-game environment.

Bellevue, winners of the last five Class 3A titles, forced three turnovers and ran up 418 yards of offense, leading to a 45-7 vic-tory over two-time defending 4A champion Skyline on Sept. 7 at Husky Stadium in Seattle.

The Wolverines took control early on both sides of the ball, using their size and speed to overwhelm the Spartans at the line of scrimmage. At halftime, Bellevue led 35-0 and had three scoring plays of 40 yards or more.

Skyline head coach Mat Taylor indicated the lopsided loss was demoralizing, especially for a program that saw a 20-game win-ning streak come to a crashing halt. The Spartans hadn’t lost since Oct. 21, 2011, a 28-21 defeat to Eastlake.

“We got (outplayed) in every facet of the game,” Taylor said. “There were a lot of wide eyes out there. Basically, I can’t look at one spot where they didn’t just totally out-physical us, out-

compete us, and we’ve got some things to get figured out.”

Bellevue’s explosiveness was on display from the opening kick-off. Of the Wolverines’ five scor-

ing drives in the first half, none lasted longer than five plays.

“They’re young, we’re young in some ways, and I just think our big plays were the differ-

ence,” Bellevue head coach Butch Goncharoff said.

On Skyline’s second pos-session, quarterback Kilton Anderson fumbled, and

Bellevue’s star player, Budda Baker, pounced on the ball at the Spartans’ 21-yard line.

Moments later, Baker dashed around the left side on fourth-and-1 for a 12-yard score that put the Wolverines ahead for good.

Skyline managed only one first down on its next series, and after a punt, Bellevue was back in the end zone two plays later as Sam Richmond scampered 65 yards up the gut.

The Wolverines needed just one play to score on their next possession. Quarterback Timmy Haehl threw a short screen pass to Marek Spooner-Leduff, who eluded several tacklers on his way to a 66-yard scoring play.

Baker’s 47-yard touchdown run put the Wolverines up 28-0. He finished with 69 yards on seven carries, helping Bellevue rush for 324 yards as a team.

“I’ve had some great ones. He’s in the conversation as the best I’ve had,” Goncharoff said of Baker.

The Wolverines grew their lead to 45-0 early in the fourth period thanks to Cody Gibson’s 29-yard field goal and Christoph Hirota’s 15-yard TD run.

Bellevue hammers Skyline in Husky Stadium showdown

See EASTLAKE, Page 11

Photo by Greg FarrarKilton Anderson, Skyline High School senior quarterback, scores on his 45-yard run in the fourth quarter, putting the Spartans on the board in a 45-7 loss against Bellevue at the Emerald City Kickoff Classic at Husky Stadium.

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I don’t want to sound cocky, but we’ve worked

so hard, and this is where it pays off, right

here.”– Drew Lewis,

Eastlake football –