When the final score of your football game is comparable to basketball, it’s fair to say any concept of defense has been thrown out the window.

The South Kitsap Wolves found themselves entangled in such a high-flying, truly bananas offensive shootout Oct. 25 against the Rogers Rams, and while the one-two punch of seniors running back Brycen Clay and quarterback Franklin Fox had the Wolves going full steam ahead in what was likely their final realistic chance of winning a South Puget Sound League game this year, the equally desperate Rams evidently wanted it more.

At the end of a game featuring 12 combined first-half trips to the endzone, just two punts all game and 127 total points on a cold and rainy Senior Night in Port Orchard, it was Rogers who took advantage of SK mistakes and missed opportunities to win 76-51, leaving the Wolves winless in the SPSL 4A North this year.

It’s the most points scored between two teams in a SK football game since 2016, when the Wolves lost 77-60 at home to Puyallup.

The two teams quickly exchanged trips to the endzone on their first drives, Rogers drawing first blood before Clay scored his first of four rushing touchdowns. Rogers then came up with a 15-yard passing score.

The Wolves’ second drive would leave them chasing after the Rams the rest of the way after Clay fumbled the football back to Rogers. In the blink of an eye, SK was facing a 21-6 deficit at the end of the first quarter.

SK would surge back with two touchdown runs by Clay and 56- and 63-yard scoring strikes from Fox to senior wideout Boden Harvey. But Rogers scored TDs in all six of its drives and added a kickoff return for good measure to lead 49-33 at intermission.

The score slowed in the third, SK taking advantage of a short field after a failed onside kick to get Clay in range for a 14-yard TD. A fourth-down stop of the Rams gave SK another short field but an 8-yard loss on first and goal ended the momentum and led to a turnover on downs. The Rams immediately drove the field to add their eighth TD.

SK would kick the first of its two punts early in the fourth to pin the Rams at their own 7-yard line, but as they had done all night, they remained unstoppable on their way to another score to make it 63-39.

The teams would exchange four total touchdowns in the game’s final 7:41, and a kickoff return in the final minute might have been one broken tackle shy of Rogers reaching an unprecedented 83 points on the night.

Fox finished with four touchdowns through the air, including a fourth-quarter 75-yard connection to junior Tommy Frei and a 23-yard score by Dyvonte Sellers, his second TD reception of the game.

SK senior Brycen Clay is stopped just short of the goal line in the first quarter of a 76-51 loss to Rogers.

SK senior Brycen Clay outruns the tacklers for his first of four rushing touchdowns.

Dyvonte Sellers of SK is wrapped up by a Rogers player.