Lake Washington JV takes second

The Lake Washington Purple Junior Varsity football team lost its first game of the season during the championship game against Bellevue Blue, 44-22 at Mount Si High School Saturday.

The Purple team, consisting of mainly 12 and 13 year olds, went undefeated in the regular season and won its two playoff games.

The team is coached by Sim Osborne and Drew Wikel and outscored their regular season opponents this year 237 to 28.

Prior to the championship game the team was led by runningback Riley Simonson with 26 touchdowns, and quarterback Zace Lewis, connecting wide receiver Court Osborne for 12 touchdowns. Linebacker Josh Wikel led the defense with an average of 16 tackles a game.