Senior Brandon Heggem said it best after tackling Anacortes’s Landon Macy behind his own goal line for a two point safety early in Friday’s home league opener: “We’re the best defense in the league.” It was the first two point score of his career, a feather in any lineman’s helmet to be sure.

Blaine’s varsity football team spent a solid 20 minutes during practice on Tuesday going against short yardage situations, one of their weaknesses in their opening 26-20 loss to the balanced, strong and quick New Westminster Hyacks, a team out of a school more than three times the size of Blaine.