EVERETT – It began with an impressive offensive spark.

Stan Langlow made sure it ended with a punishing defensive boom.

Langlow, from Curtis High School, delivered the most punishing blow of Saturday’s 4A/3A East-West All-Star football to keep the West from a first down on its final possession as the East survived for a 13-12 victory at Memorial Stadium.

Moments earlier, Central Valley quarterback Blake Bledsoe had found a crease in the West defense and scampered 13 yards for the go-ahead touchdown with 1 minute, 40 seconds to play.

After a short kickoff, the West began its final effort at its 48-yard line with 1:34 remaining. Seconds later, after a timeout, West quarterback Jacob Allie of Lindbergh dropped to pass on third-and-10.

Ferndale receiver Spencer Hannah broke open across the middle, 15 yards downfield. Allie delivered the ball perfectly, and Hannah appeared certain to make a catch for a West first down.

Langlow changed that.

One of several players from Western Washington competing for the East, Langlow arrived from his safety position just as the ball got there. He hammered Hannah, taking him off his feet and putting him on his back on the turf. The ball bounced away incomplete.

“I was just keeping my head on a swivel,” Langlow said. “I looked left, looked right, then looked back left, and there he was. That put the icing on the cake right there.”

The West went for it on fourth down, but Allie was sacked for a 5-yard loss.

One play before Langlow’s hit, Mount Tahoma’s Ronald Baines nearly intercepted an Allie pass in the flat that could easily have gone for a clinching touchdown. As it was, Baines knocked the ball away to force a third-and-long play.

“I just wanted to make big plays,” said Baines, who had changed the field-position battle earlier in the fourth quarter with a pretty interception over his shoulder. “We were in a Cover 3, and two guys were coming my way. I saw the one in the flat. I tried to pick it but just knocked it down.”

Two possessions earlier, with the West pinned deep in its own territory, Baines had intercepted an Allie pass at the West 31. But the West defense rose to the occasion.

On fourth-and-4 from the 25, Federal Way linebacker Andru Pulu leveled Olympia’s Dylan Parsons at the 23 to end the East’s second possession of the second half deep in West territory.

But the West again couldn’t move it. And when Allie got off only a 5-yard punt with 3:37 to play, the East finally capitalized for the winning score.

The West started impressively enough. After forcing an East punt on the game’s first possession, the West took its initial drive 60 yards for a touchdown.

Working primarily on the ground, the West executed a 14-play drive, with West Seattle’s T.J. Lee capping the effort with a 4-yard sweep for the touchdown. The extra-point kick by Auburn’s Jeff Gouveia was blocked, leaving the score 6-0.

Parsons, the Oregon State-bound running back, got the East going with 6:20 to go in the second quarter. His 21-yard run started a drive that ended with Bledsoe lofting a 13-yard scoring pass to Southridge’s Clayton Homme.

Homme, at 6-foot-6, lept over 5-10 Marion Bactol from Eastside Catholic to make the catch. Langlow kicked the extra point to give the East a 7-6 lead.