One home game for a local team as high-school football season began Friday night:

(WSB photos by Patrick Sand)

At Southwest Athletic Complex, Chief Sealth International High School hosted Washington HS (Pierce County), which went home with the win, 60-20. The Seahawks were being shut out 35-0 until the last four minutes of the first half, when suddenly #2, senior Chase McNelly, caught fire.

“They got the touchdown fever,” announcer Eddie Snead (a Sealth history teacher) proclaimed admiringly after McNelly’s two TDs sent the Seahawks into halftime down 44-13. They have a new, yet not-so-new head coach this year:

As announced in April, Luther Carr III is back. He has a very young team, just a handful of seniors to work with.

But there’s time.

Besides supporting the team, spectators tonight were supporting Denny-Sealth Performing Arts via fundraising concessions:

Next Friday night (September 9th), Sealth is on the road vs. Nathan Hale.