PREP FOOTBALL: Lake City takes lead early, but falls in inaugural game at Lewiston's field
LEWISTON — Senior Avrey Cherry scored on a 16-yard touchdown run to cap a 13-play opening drive to give visiting Lake City the lead with 5:01 remaining in the first quarter, but the host Lewiston Bengals scored 38 straight points to capture the 38-21 nonleague win in the inaugural game at the P1FCU Sports Complex on Friday.
“We didn’t have a good first half at all,” Lake City coach Byron Hout said. “The second half was better for us. Their quarterback is a very good player, and they have a lot of good receivers. They had an awesome environment.”
Lake City junior Jacob Hill caught a 31-yard touchdown pass from Cherry with 5:59 remaining to make it 38-14.
Lake City (4-4) hosts Post Falls next Friday.
Jeremy Yoder threw for two first half touchdowns for Lewiston (5-3), which hosts Lakeland next Friday in a matchup of 5A IEL unbeatens.
Lake City 7 0 0 14 — 21
Lewiston 7 28 3 0 — 38
First quarter
LC — Avrey Cherry 16 run (kick good), 5:01
Lew — Cole Arlint 4 pass from Jeremy Yoder (kick good), :55
Second quarter
Lew — King 49 pass from Topp (kick good), 8:18
Lew — Noah Carpenter 35 pass from Yoder (kick good), 5:55
Lew — Carpenter 27 run (kick good), 5:26
Lew — Austin Topp 12 run (kick good), :43
Third quarter
Lew — FG Arlint, 29, 4:08
Fourth quarter
LC — Jacob Hill 31 pass from Tyson Ruggiero (kick good), 5:59
LC — Kyle Johnson pass from Ruggiero (kick good), 1:23
Moscow 32
Timberlake 0
SPIRIT LAKE — The Tigers limited the Bears to 126 yards passing, but it was the visiting team’s ground game that was the difference in the Intermountain League matchup at Van Tuinstra Memorial Stadium.
Moscow outgained Timberlake 229-106 on the ground, clinching the three-team IML title after dropping down a classification in football-only this fall.
“We just had a hard time stopping the run,” said Timberlake assistant coach Brian Kluss. “We were trying to stop them with five guys in the first half and went to six and they just ran all over us in the second half. We struggled stopping the run for sure.”
Timberlake (2-6, 0-1 IML, ranked 13th in this week’s MaxPreps.com rankings, travels to Bonners Ferry next Friday. The top 12 teams in 4A advance to the state playoffs starting in two weeks.
Moscow, which beat Bonners Ferry 28-14 last week, is idle next Friday.
“We just had a hard time in the field position game tonight,” Kluss said. “Moscow played really well and we didn’t have our best night for sure. That’s the best I’ve seen them play. They played really well at the right time.”
Moscow 7 7 12 6 — 32
Timberlake 0 0 0 0 — 0
First quarter
Mos — unknown 1 run (Butch Kiblen kick)
Second quarter
Mos — unknown 33 run (Kiblen kick)
Third quarter
Mos — Kiblen 22 pass from Noah Velasco (kick failed)
Mos — unknown 76 run (conversion failed)
Fourth quarter
Mos — unknown 28 pass from Velasco (kick failed)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Mos, Izzo 7-145, Frei 6-62, Stott 3-3, Velasco 1-(-9). TL, Hansen 16-78, Knight 9-22, Herbert 4-6, Hendren 1-3, Shively 3-0, Brennan 2-(-3).
PASSING — Mos, Velasco, 9-18-0-126. TL, Vallieres, 5-13-1-2, Brennan, 1-2-0-12.
RECEIVING — Mos, Kiblen 1-22, Tiegs 1-9, Izzo 1-4. TL, Simmons 2-14, Knight 1-12, Brennan 2-7, Herbert 1-4.
Priest River 24
St. Maries 8
ST. MARIES — Hayden Defoort scored on a 16-yard touchdown pass to give the Lumberjacks an 8-0 lead at halftime, but the Spartans — keyed by three touchdowns from running back Nate Fegert — scored 24 unanswered points in an Central Idaho League win at St. Maries High.
Fegert scored on runs of 35-, 89- and 3-yards in the second half for Priest River (5-2, 2-1 CIL), which hosts Kellogg next Friday.
St. Maries (0-7, 0-3) hosts Orofino next Friday.
Priest River 0 0 12 12 — 24
St. Maries 0 8 0 0 — 8
Second quarter
SM — Hayden Defoort 16 pass from Jack Barta (Julien Ceja-Grimaldo run)
Third quarter
PR — Nate Fegert 35 run (conversion failed)
PR — Sawyer Staudt 48 run (conversion failed)
Fourth quarter
PR — Fegert 89 run (conversion failed)
PR — Fegert 3 run (conversion failed)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — PR, Fegert 9-185, Staudt 8-63, Mathews 4-(-6). SM, Ceja-Grimaldo 14-84, Dittman 12-69, Morris 5-24, Defoort 4-6, J. Barta 4-1, Wise 1-(-11).
PASSING — PR, Mathews, 2-5-0-32. SM, J. Barta, 11-28-0-153.
RECEIVING — PR, Simcox 1-26. SM, Gustaffe 4-68, Defoort 3-51, Sloper 1-14, Ceja-Grimaldo 1-12, B. Barta 1-7.
Grangeville 50
Kellogg 22
KELLOGG — The visiting Bulldogs build a 30-8 halftime lead, beating the Wildcats to clinch the Central Idaho League title at Teeters Field.
Kellogg (3-5, 2-1 CIL) travels to Priest River next Friday.
Grangeville (6-2, 4-0) is idle next week.
Wallace 50
Coeur du Christ 36
SILVERTON — Freshman quarterback Cooper Miller ran for 250 yards and five touchdowns for the Miners in a North Star League win over the Saints at Sather Field.
Miller also threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Gus Scott for Wallace (7-1, 4-1 NSL), which hosts Lakeside next Friday at Sather Field.
Greg Hayes threw a touchdown pass to Ben Connelly in the first quarter for Coeur du Christ. Hayes also recovered a fumble in the fourth quarter.
Freshman quarterback Grant Clemens threw for five touchdowns for Coeur du Christ (2-5, 2-3), which is scheduled to host Clark Fork next Friday at the Marimn Health Coeur Center in Worley.
Hayes and Jon Denke each caught two TD passes for the Saints, and Eli Zember caught one.