Yakima Herald

Viks score two TDs in final minutes to upend Prosser ||

SELAH, Wash. — Trent Douglass had nowhere to go but up at halftime, but little did the Selah quarterback know just how high he and his teammates would be at night’s end.

Stunned and stuck in the mud while Prosser raced out to a 19-0 lead at the break, Douglass was 0-for-9 passing and Selah mustered only one first down on its home turf at Karl Graf Field.

“It was a simple speech at halftime,” said Selah coach Jeff Jamieson. “Guys, we’ve got no magic here for you. It’s completely up to you. How much do you want this?”

Despite its horrid start, Selah found a spark of magic in the windy night air and Douglass found his game, throwing three touchdown passes and rallying the Vikings to a 28-27 victory in one of the most remarkable comebacks the CWAC has ever seen.

Douglass had two scoring strikes in the final 3:15, including a 12-yard corner fade to Quincy Davis with 11 seconds left to tie it. Daniel Hernandez’s fourth conversion kick of the second half was the difference.

“I was so frustrated at the half. My mechanics were off, my footwork was bad and I wasn’t making any throws,” Douglass lamented. “I just tried to wipe that out of my mind and fix it.”

Fix it the junior did, completing 17 of 24 passes in the second half for 199 yards and three touchdowns — two to senior Skyler Trissel.

“I was getting incredible blocking from the line and I just felt better in there,” he said. “The guys kept their confidence in me and I didn’t want to let them down. That’s how we did it, we never gave up.”

The Mustangs and their battering-ram running back Isaac Anderson, who carried the ball 36 times for 169 yards and two scores, still were in control late in the third quarter with a 27-7 lead.

But Selah’s revved-up offense scored on three of its final four possessions, and the Vikings’ defense got a huge stop when holding Prosser on downs 30 yards from its own end zone.

On the following possession, Selah zipped 70 yards on six plays, 67 of that coming in the air, to cut the margin to 27-21 with 3:15 remaining.

The Vikings got the ball back with 1:28 left but faced long odds with no timeouts and 71 yards to go. But Douglass hooked up with Tyler Weedin three times over the middle for a first down on Prosser’s 12, setting up the Douglass-Davis game winner in the left corner against double coverage.

“Quincy’s fast and tall and he jumps really well,” Douglass noted. “He’s our playmaker.”

With the program’s first win over Prosser in 19 years, Selah (6-1) is sitting in third place a game behind Ellensburg (7-0) and Othello (7-0) with the Huskies coming to Selah next week. Prosser (4-3) is eliminated from playoff contention.

“Considering what was at stake and how the kids came back, I’d say it’s the biggest win I’ve had here,” said Jamieson, in his 10th season at Selah. “We didn’t score last week (in a 19-0 loss at Ellensburg) and we didn’t score here in the first half. But once we punched one in, the kids loosened up and played with their hearts.

“Look at them,” he said as parents and fans poured onto the field to celebrate, “they deserve this.”