Coeur d'Alene has gone 4-0 against Sandpoint recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Friday. The Coeur d'Alene Vikings will be staying on the road to face off against the Sandpoint Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty point totals in their previous games.
Coeur d'Alene is headed in fresh off scoring the most points they have all season. They took down Sunnyside 35-18 two weeks ago. Given the Vikings' advantage in MaxPreps' football rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked third in Idaho, while the Grizzlies are ranked 67th in Washington), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Anthony Browning was nothing short of spectacular: he rushed for 68 yards and two touchdowns. Jayson Cady also helped out with an impressive 83 receiving yards.
Meanwhile, Sandpoint was just a hair shy of victory on Friday and fell 49-48 to Pocatello. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (37), the Bulldogs still had to take the loss.
Sandpoint might have lost, but man, Drew Lehman was a machine: he rushed for 72 yards and two touchdowns, and also threw for 144 yards and two touchdowns while completing 81.3% of his passes. Ashlei Hawkins was another key player, rushing for 130 yards and a touchdown while picking up 7.6 yards per carry.
He was just one part of a punishing run game: Sandpoint was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 314 rushing yards. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now rushed for at least 158 rushing yards in five consecutive games.
Coeur d'Alene's victory bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Sandpoint, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-2.
Coeur d'Alene strolled past Sandpoint when the teams last played back in September of 2023 by a score of 19-0. Will Coeur d'Alene repeat their success, or does Sandpoint have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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