Non-league football: Emerald Ridge 42, Heritage 8

This non-league matchup of South Puget Sound League’s Emerald Ridge Jaguars (5-2) and Heritage Timberwolves (2-5) was a challenging match-up on the Heritage schedule.

The first half was dominated by the Jaguars’ passing game as quarterback Tyler Martin went 9 for 10 and had two passing touchdowns.

Heritage’s offense was not able to string together many first downs, and their struggles were compounded by missteps from their special teams.

Three consecutive drives were started inside their own 10-yard line — two due to muffed kickoff returns. Their special teams did have a couple of highlights — a fake punt for a first down pass from Jacob Zepeda to Jared Padley and late in the game a precision punt by Jacob Zepeda that pinned Emerald Ridge on its own 1-yard line.

The running game for the Timberwolves was lead by Andre Cowley in the first half and then Nolan Ross in the second half.

EMERALD RIDGE 42, HERITAGE 8

Emerald Ridge 14 21 7 0–42

Heritage 0 6 2 0– 8

First quarter

ER — Kaden Martin 4 run (Nate Tvedt kick)

ER — Justin Stransky 13 pass from Tyler Martin (Tvedt kick)

Second quarter

H — Nickelson Datel 32 run (kick blocked)

ER — Preston Landeis 63 run (Tvedt kick)

ER –Conner McMullen 18 run (Tvedt kick)

ER — Denzel Boston 2 pass from Martin (Tvedt kick)

Third quarter

ER -Denzel Boston 47 pass from Martin (Tvedt kick)

H –Safety.

Individual statistics

RUSHING — Emerald Ridge: Nate Tvedt 8-72, Preston Landeis 1-63, Conner McMullen 5-56, Kaden Martin 4-24, Blake Ansteth 2-3, Nathan Lothrop 1-2, Tyler Martin 4-0, Joe Castro 1-(minus 1), Evan Holcomb 4-(minus 3), Bosley-Jackson 1-(minus 3); Heritage: Isaac Roa 8-51, Andre Cowley 10-45, Nolan Ross 9-41, Nickelson Datel 2-37, Anthony Kee 4-36, Bodee Parker 1-20, Wyatt Scott 1-11, Nikki Scott 5-(minus 14).

PASSING — Emerald Ridge: Tyler Martin 10-11-0-149; Heritage: Nikki Scott 5-14-0-27, Jacob Zepeda 1-1-0-7.

RECEIVING — Emerald Ridge: Justin Stransky 5-86, Denzel Boston 3-49, Kaden Martin 2-14; Heritage: Andre Cowley 2-22, Jared Padley 1-7, Isaac Roa 2-6, Anthony Kee 1-(minus 1).