Friday Harbor feasts on Braves miscues for win

After serving up a steady diet of triumphs, the La Conner High football team finally tasted defeat with a tough NW2B loss at Friday Harbor last weekend.

Still, the 39-21 road defeat wasn’t an entirely bitter pill for Braves head coach Johnny Lee to swallow.

“Overall,” he said afterward, “I thought our effort was outstanding. But we kind of wore down in the second half and had some costly third down mistakes that made the difference.”

Lee and his staff knew their club was in for a hard trial against a physical, battle-tested Friday Harbor team.

It didn’t help that the Braves were minus key offe...