Brian Adamowsky

Even as he was about to take over as the starting quarterback for the Lake Stevens High School football team heading into the 2025 season, Blake Moser still considered himself a baseball player.

Henry Gabalis vividly remembers walking off the field at Terry Ennis Stadium after the final football game of his freshman season, a 42-7 loss to Burlington-Edison on Oct. 28, 2022, that cemented Archbishop Murphy’s arrival at rock bottom. It was the final humiliation of an 0-8 winless season in which this erstwhile powerhouse — Murphy had cranked out college prospects like an athletic assembly line — was beaten by an average of 29.25 points per defeat.

While the earliest origins of India Pale Ale (IPA) date back to the late 19th century, it was in the late 20th century that pioneers like California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing and Portland’s now-defunct BridgePort Brewing put the West Coast on the map when it comes to this ubiquitous beer style.