Lc Rooters Take Pride In First Win
More than just the football players celebrated Lake City High School’s first-ever win last week.
Following the Timberwolves’ 15-6 victory Friday over Lakeland, about 25 football and volleyball players commemorated the triumph by camping out on the LC football field.
And on Monday, coach Van Troxel was greeted with a standing ovation when he attended the school’s booster club luncheon.
“It’s great to see all the parents and all the football players in the program excited about the win,” Troxel said. “But it’s even better to see all of the programs at the school excited about it. We’re in this together. We’re building programs together.”
Bengals are ablazin’
Sandpoint coach Satini Puailoa did get a glimpse at the license plate of the truck that pancaked his team last Friday.
It had Nez Perce County plates.
“They’re on fire right now,” Puailoa said of Lewiston, which silenced the Bulldogs 63-33. “Their speed caught us flatfooted. We weren’t surprised by anything they did.
“They just executed very well and we didn’t. It’s not a true indication of us, but it’s an indication of their capability.”
In one spree, Lewiston ran seven plays and scored five touchdowns.
Impressive statistics
Lewiston quarterbacks Jim Frei and Brad Rice have completed 82 of 136 passes for nearly 1,500 yards and 20 touchdowns.
Bengals receiver Jim Farris has hauled in 52 of those passes for 1,008 yards, an average of 19.4 yards per reception.
Hail the Spartans
Priest River went deep in the closing seconds of a 14-6 win over Intermountain League rival Bonners Ferry last Friday.
Spartans coach Norm Stark went to his players during a timeout with 24 seconds on the clock. The score was 6-6 and Priest River was 80 yards away from the Badgers’ end zone facing a fourth-and-4 situation.
“I asked them if they wanted to go for it, and they said, ‘yes,’ ” Stark explained.
And quarterback Jeff Greismer and receiver Larry Johnson connected for an 80-yard TD.
“Unbelievable,” Stark said.
The victory gave Priest River, 5-4, its first winning season since 1988.
Eight is enough
An injury-filled season has caused plenty of bewilderment for Kootenai’s eight-man coach Scott Shafer.
With his ranks already thin, Shafer lost a couple more players recently to a another rite of fall - hunting.
Earlier in the week, Shafer was down to 10 players, sweating Wednesday’s eligibility report and wondering if he would be able to field a team for today’s season-ending North Star League game with Falls Christian.
The report card was favorable; the game will be played.
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