These Seahawks wore a different shade of green, but their performance was reminiscent of the world champions from Seattle.

Peninsula High School but together an impressive effort in a 42-14 win over the Oak Harbor football team in the first round of the state playoffs Friday, Nov. 14, at Roy Anderson Field in Gig Harbor.

The Seahawks hog-tied the potent Wildcat rushing attack, limiting Oak Harbor to 183 yards, nearly 200 yards below its average.

Oak Harbor backs Princeton Lollar and Dejon Devroe each average more than 100 yards per game, but against the stout Peninsula defense, Lollar ran for 68 yards on 18 carries and Devroe 59 on seven.

The Wildcats entered the game averaging more than eight yards per carry; half of its 42 runs against Peninsula resulted in two or less yards.

The Seahawk offense had little trouble, out-gaining Oak Harbor 433-306.

The tone for this one was set early.  The Seahawks returned the opening kickoff 40 yards then scored five plays later. Major Ali ran in from the 3 for his first of three touchdowns.

Oak Harbor punted its first two possessions and Peninsula after its second.

On the Seahawks’ third possession, they gambled and ran a fake punt from their own 23 yard line, and Kyle Olson-Urbon raced by the ‘Cats for a 77-yard TD.

The trickery didn’t catch Oak Harbor off guard, coach Jay Turner said. The Wildcats were in a “safe defense,” but Olson-Urbon just out-ran the Wildcats.

On the first play of the second quarter, Oak Harbor faced a fourth and a half yard at its own 39. The rush was stuffed, and the Seahawks took advantage of the short field and scored moments later to make it 21-0.

Later Oak Harbor earned its own fourth-down stop and drove to the Seahawk 5 before stalling out.

The Wildcats started the second half with three first downs before failing again on a fourth-down try at midfield.

Peninsula overcame a third-and-20 with a 30-yard pass and eventually scored to make it 28-0.

The Wildcats finally reached the end zone when Lollar rammed in from the 1 with 16 seconds left in the third quarter.

What little momentum Oak Harbor picked up was squashed two plays later when Seahawk quarterback Robert Kvinsland hit Matt Shirley for a 76-yard TD on the fourth quarter’s first play.

Peninsula scored its final points with 2:53 left in the game.

Oak Harbor then went 70 yards in eight plays to finish the scoring. Clay Doughty connected with Dyllan Harris for a 13-yard touchdown toss with 17 seconds remaining. Mark Johnston kicked his second PAT.

With the Oak Harbor rushing attack stymied by the Seahawks, the Wildcats turned to Doughty to revive the offense.

The Wildcats are a run-first team and Doughty averaged only 10 passes a game. When he did throw, he was effective, hitting 70 percent of his passes for 10 touchdowns and no interceptions.

Against Peninsula he threw 24 times, completing 12 for 123 yards and one score; he also suffered his first pick.

Harris caught seven of the passes for 67 yards.

Ali led the Seahawk runners with 138 yards (112 in the first half) on 17 carries; he did not play in the fourth quarter. Running mate Jared Boerner had 59 yards on seven rushes.

Kvinsland was 9-for-18 for168 yards. Shirley caught four passes for 128 yards.

Peninsula won the battle up front.

“We controlled the line of scrimmage all year,” Turner said. “Tonight, they did.”

The loss was a rough way to go out for the Oak Harbor seniors.

“We will really miss those kids; they will be tough to replace,” Turner said.

Overall, it was a good year with “a great group of kids,” he added. “It was a heck of a lot of fun; I never dreaded going to practice.”

“What I told them,” Turner said, “is that every team that made the playoffs will end the season with a loss except the state champion.”

The loss broke Oak Harbor’s win streak at seven; the Wildcats dropped the season opener then recovered to qualify for the state playoffs for the first time since 2007.

Peninsula (10-1) will advance to meet Bellevue in the state quarterfinals.