Bellevue’s landmark football game against Euless-Trinity (Texas) to open the 2012 season was billed as a showdown between “Thunder & Lightening” and it was the Wolverines that struck last, beating the three-time 5A state champs from the Lone Star State 31-24 in overtime on a Nathan DeRider interception near the sideline.

Junior running back Budda Baker put his team in front to open the extra frame with one of a handful of breakaway runs on the night after Bellevue held the Trojans out of field goal range on the final drive of regulation.

Myles Jack had a big night for Bellevue as well, coming up with a key sack on the final drive before time expired in the fourth quarter and scoring on a long dash up the middle earlier in the night. John Nguyen and Max Richmond also put scores on the board for coach Butch Goncharoff’s squad, which picked up yet another win that will resonate not only around Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest, but the national landscape of prep football.

Many around the Bellevue program said this game approached the level of the win over De La Salle in 2004 that broke the California power’s streak of 151 consecutive wins, a national prep football record that still stands.

The four-time defending 3A state champions from Bellevue will be back at it next Friday at Pop Keeney Stadium to face Bothell.