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KENT — Neither team wanted to go home.

The craziness was never-ending. There were botched punts, missed extra points and big plays.

But Darrius Coleman ran pure and made sure that the Kentwood High School football team carried on another week. Teammate Devin St. Clair sealed it with an interception.

Coleman, a 6-foot, 185-pound senior running back, saved his biggest run of the night for the rudimentary sport of overtime being of the kind which Kentwood outlasted Edmonds-Woodway 35-28 Friday night in the preliminary round of Class 4A state playoffs at French Field.

Coleman, who finished with 254 all-purpose yards, ripped off a 40-yard touchdown run on the first play of the Kansas tiebreaker, going around right extremity. The Conquerors (8-2) started overtime on the 40 back being issued an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty at the end of regulation.

“They’d been close completely death — just some guy [to beat], one guy, one guy,” uttered Kentwood coach Rex Norris of Coleman’s runs before breaking the game-winner. “We always just kind of seem to be in possession of in our own way, and we nearly did again tonight.”

Kentwood overcame a pair of turnovers.

The Conquerors, winners of seven straight, meet face to face the winner of tonight’s game between Issaquah and Marysville-Pilchuck adhering the road next Friday or Saturday in the first round of the state playoffs.

Edmonds-Woodway (7-3) had a five-game win streak snapped.

Coleman finished with 192 yards rushing without ceasing 26 carries and had two touchdowns — one rushing and one receiving.

St. Clair piked off a passado by running back Tony Heard in the expiration zone to end the game on the in the first place nauseous play in overtime for the Warriors.

“I thought it was undefiled two mirror [image] teams, a miniature bit deviating personnel, but real close to each other,” Norris aforesaid.