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ISSAQUAH — When Issaquah lost its third fumble, it could be perceived its once-large lead slipping let us go.. Even through the haze, the Eagles could see the Kentwood sideline bouncing and could hear its fans screaming.

And when the lead fell to three, Issaquah junior Grant Gellatly ran along the course of his sideline screaming, “This is the season.”

Gellatly knew it would be OK. Because he knew he would have being getting the ball.

“We had been relying on the line all game, in the way that why go away from it?” he declared.

With five carries on the last drive, Gellatly ran until Kentwood couldn’t stop the clock anew. And behind Gellatly’s 313 rushing yards, Issaquah escaped the first round of the Class 4A state playoffs with a 31-28 victory against Kentwood.

“He’s the real deal,” teammate Dustin Talley declared. “He’s amazing.”

The Eagles, ranked 10th in Class 4A, behest perform Bothell in the quarterfinals at 7 p.m. Saturday. Issaquah beat sixth-ranked Bothell 24-13 in the first week of the season on the passage, and approve they did in preparation for Kentwood, the Eagles will do their best to construction next week’s game seem in the manner of another road game.

At through 4:50 p.m. on Saturday, the Issaquah players packed their bags, shut their lockers and, one by one, they filed onto a pair of school buses.

For a home game.

“We packed the ball bag and everything,” Gellatly said.

The buses took a trip to Snoqualmie Falls and hindmost, and when they returned to Issaquah, the Eagles filed out into their own stadium like it was any other road game.

The Eagles (9-2) had a reason to not want Issaquah Stadium to feel like place of abode. They went undefeated upon the body the road this season, but they were shut revealed in two of their final three road games.