COLFAX —In a wild, back-and-forth offensive battle with a total of 15 touchdowns, the Neah Bay football team hung on fr dear life in the fourth quarter to outlast Garfield-Palouse 60-54 in the opening round of the State 1B playoffs.

The Red Devils (8-2) will move on to the state quarterfinals to play No. 1 seed DeSales (9-0) next weekend. That game will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in Walla Walla.

Perhaps the long, 400-mile, 8½ hour road trip to Colfax had the Red Devils sluggish early as Neah Bay actually got behind early as the Red Devils didn’t have any answers in the first quarter for the Vikings’ offense. Garfield-Palouse scored the first times it held the ball.

Garfield-Palouse scored quickly on a 45-yard pass play on its opening drive, but Neah Bay responded with a 70-yard kickoff

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