WesternWA notebook: Neah Bay an extreme road warrior in 1B football playoffs
Red Devils about to take second three-day, 900-mile road trip to play No. 1 seed DeSales in the state quarterfinals in Walla Walla
Neah Bay football coach T.J. Greene knows the isolated town on the Makah Reservation in Clallam County in which his players live essentially is a stone’s throw from the Canadian border.
He understands a WIAA road-playoff game anywhere would be a haul.
But a 457-mile road trip last week to Colfax High School to defeat Garfield-Palouse in a Class 1B first-round game, followed by this week’s 459-mile bus ride to Walla Walla High School to take on DeSales in the state quarterfinals?
That is a bit extreme, Greene said.
“We are going from traveling to the Idaho border last week,” Greene said, “to the Oregon border this week.”
Needless to say, the No. 9 seed Red Devils’ playoff trek is unlike anybody’s in recent memory.