Feel the heat, foes! Here comes "The Green."

Evergreen stormed through another opponent on the Highline Memorial Field turf Friday, this time thrashing Tyee, 56-14. Evergreen is one of the state's highest scoring 3A teams this season, besides Kennedy -- which beat The Green after having trailed the Wolverines, 27-7, at one point in that game. Now The Green goes into its first round state playoff at Camas Saturday.

The Wolverines finish the Seamount league at 7-1, and 8-1 overall, and were ranked No. 9, in the state in the Seattle Times 3A poll for half the season, until the loss to the Lancers.

"We are a close knit group, we have a lot of respect for each other and we are looking forward to the challenge of the playoffs," said second-year Wolverines coach Shaun Tarantola. "It's a long bus ride to Camas, but we feel we are ready for it."

The Wolverines played feisty and ferocious against the Totems, scoring two touchdowns in the first five minutes. An opening 60-yard drive ending with 6-2 savvy quarterback Luther Leonard hitting Kirt Terry-Springs in the end zone 16 yards away. That was followed by a fumble recovery at the 20 of the Totems. Then Leonard did it again, hitting another receiver, Randal Henderson, for 20 yards of scoring action to make it 14-0.

"We felt like, if we played well, we could come out strong and we executed really strong," said Tarantola.

Execution was off for the first two-point conversion attempt, failing, but the Wolverines came right back with another try right after that, signaling this team falls and gives meaning to that phrase, 'It's not how far you fall, it's how high you bounce."

So, that's how it started in the beginning and the wrath of God must have been on the Totems because even after they finally did score, following two more touchdowns -- a 34-yard run by Tobias Togi for one TD and a 1-yard score by him, too -- the Totems score of Kasper Meyers from five yards away was answered by a Wolverines score a scant 1:50, three-play, 71-yard drive right after that. The clocked showed 4:26 to play still in the second quarter.

The Wolverines led then by about the same score as they did against Kennedy, probably about the same point in the game, too. But the Wolverines learned that a lead is not safe if you make mistakes after that.

"Against Kennedy in the first half we played very well," said Tarantola. "We made mistakes in the third quarter, but we feel we got better because of them and learned from them."

The Wolverines made no fumbles or had no interceptions the rest of the game against the Totems. In fact, Leonard's numbers were 9-for-14 throwing, 174 yards, and three TD throws. Peter Santie also made 6-for-6 point-after attempts.

For that touchdown answer to the Totems, it was Leonard who threw a bomb just over the Totems defensive back into the diving, outstretched arms of Vicente Cordova. And Cordova also made a 39-yard grab of a Leonard long throw that led to Togi's 1-yard TD run mentioned earlier. Togi tacked on another score to his fine totals to make it 42-6 going into halftime. He scampered in from the three-yard line on a drive that took five plays, covering 52 yards in 1:11. Togi scored the next touchdown, too, for the Wolverines, a six-play, 69 yard drive that took 2:40 off the game clock. Togi had 45 of those 69 yards on that score and he accumulated 11 carries for 114 yards for the game.

He remembered The Green'sonly loss of the season, too. When asked about it but he talked about other things first that signified adversity.

"We have really come together as a team, been a lot of adversity," said Togi, a senior captain on the team. "The death of a teammate (Michael Moore). We've been through a lot in the summer, worked out all summer together. We worked on that foundation we are trying to build."

The Wolverines were 3-7 last year overall. That right there signals that the foundation has been cemented with good wood on the sides of Tarantola and the rest of the coaching staff that includes Eddie Antuna, Lelo Teo, Andy Arenas as the main three with others like Don Stultz and Skip Lee helping develop the freshmen team which is integral to any team trying to build a foundation.

The Wolverines scored after the Totems scored on a Caleb Tuani bootleg from seven yards away that made it 49-14.

Again, like a relentless little furry animal that won't take no for an answer or be scored on last -- a.k.a. a Wolverine - The Green answered right after that with a score by Nuve Kongaika with 6:35 to go, a 25-yard run.

Others doing things were Henderson, three catches for 43 yards and Cordova two catches for 82 yards and a TD. Terry Springs had two catches for 40 yards and a TD.