2018 football season cranks up

Colfax High School football practice was scheduled to begin Wednesday with a double session starting at 6:45 a.m. The team will practice until noon with a break between sessions.

First practice with pads will be Saturday morning with a family barbecue to follow in the park, according to a team letter issued by Coach Mike Morgan.

First grid action will be an Aug. 24 jamboree at Ritzville. A mandatory parent meeting for all sports was conducted Monday night.

First football games under the new NE league’s north/south alignment, which means four non-league games have been booked at the start of the season, will be against Wahkiakum at Cathlamat Saturday, Sept. 1, at 1 p.m. Liberty, which is making the same trip, will play Napavine at 10 a.m. in the NE-SW doubleheader.

Colfax will play the first of four NE-South league games Sept. 28 with the LRS Broncos here.

The league was split into two divisions to accommodate Chewelah, which dropped down from the A division to 2B. Colfax will not play Chewelah unless the Cougars turn out to be the foe in a crossover round between the two halves of the NE Nov. 2.