Let me take you back a few decades… The year was 1993. It was an interesting season for Whatcom County high school football. Lynden Christian and Sehome had dominant teams that allowed them to each go undefeated in the regular season. Meridian and Ferndale combined for zero wins and 18 losses! Mount Baker was on it’s fifth head coach in five years, and Nooksack Valley’s T.J. Ackerman was so dominant that he was named the League’s Offensive Player of the Year as a right tackle! Also, the Lynden Lions were playing their first season with the “big boys” in the Northwest League, and something else happened that season that hasn’t happened ever since…. Bellingham beat Lynden.
I’m not saying that it’s going to happen this Friday night at Civic Field, but the Red Raiders have some explosive players, and you just never know what’s going to happen.
After a few rough seasons, the 1993 Red Raiders had a lot to prove.
“We had a great senior class,” former Bellingham running back/linebacker Travis Edwards remembered. “We just had a lot more confidence that year. It was a really good game against Lynden. I think most of my yards came in the second half, I know I did break one long one, and I got caught from behind.”
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Edwards finished the game with 179 yards rushing and a touchdown, with fellow senior Dave Clark finishing with 70 yards on the ground and a touchdown.
“I remember thinking ‘this is the first year for these guys in the 2A’s, we’re gonna whoop ’em’!”, Clark said on a phone interview. “And then I remembered they had Ben Wall! He was in a lot better shape than us, I can tell you that!”
Clark’s touchdown in the third quarter ended up being the decisive score.
“I don’t remember scoring the touchdown,” said Clark. “I just remember being exhausted.”
Since then, the Lions have won 20 straight games over the Red Raiders.
| YEAR | RESULT |
| 1994 | Lynden 23, Bellingham 21 |
| 1995 | Lynden 48, Bellingham 21 |
| 1996 | Lynden 41, Bellingham 3 |
| 1997 | Lynden 28, Bellingham 7 |
| 2000 | Lynden 55, Bellingham 0 |
| 2001 | Lynden 39, Bellingham 0 |
| 2002 | Lynden 43, Bellingham 3 |
| 2003 | Lynden 28, Bellingham 7 |
| 2004 | Lynden 35, Bellingham 3 |
| 2005 | Lynden 21, Bellingham 7 |
| 2006 | Lynden 38, Bellingham 0 |
| 2007 | Lynden 7, Bellingham 0 |
| 2008 | Lynden 35, Bellingham 14 |
| 2009 | Lynden 41, Bellingham 6 |
| 2010 | Lynden 41, Bellingham 13 |
| 2010 (2) | Lynden 48, Bellingham 0 |
| 2011 | Lynden 45, Bellingham 7 |
| 2012 | Lynden 43, Bellingham 13 |
| 2013 | Lynden 48, Bellingham 6 |
| 2016 | Lynden 34, Bellingham 14 |