Discipline key to Bears-Mavs battle?

Linebacker Jesse "Captain Caveman" Cardenas has the Mavericks playing under control.

If results in one key area in wins by Kitsap County and Yakima on Saturday are an indication of which team has an edge in this weekend's Pacific Football League battle for playoff momentum, then the visiting Mavericks could be looked on as the favorite.
The key area is penalties, and the Mavericks dominated that in their 42-32 win at Grays Harbor by having just one at a meaningless moment.
Kitsap County, meanwhile, got involved in what the published account of the game might be referred to as the "Antietam" of penalties during its 40-13 win over Clark County. The first half, according to the report, included 30 penalties, which caused the half to last two hours.
Grays Harbor actually had just a handful of penalties called by an officiating crew that just got cleared to move up to small college games, but those penalties came at key times. The first caused the Mavs to shun a punt on fourth-and-6, in favor of a run on fourth-and-1 on a drive that ended with a touchdown on play No. 13. Another penalty wiped out a recovered onsides kick. The Mavs rerturned the ensuing kickoff 70 yards for a score.