Remove some expensive errors and Lewiston Bengals may have left their worker with a victory.
Instead, a multitude of reversals deeply in the red zone put the Bengals up to three touched at halftime before minimizing their mistakes and bringing almost into the game.
It turned out to be too little, too late when Lewiston abandoned his home opener 37-27 for Post Falls Friday at the P1FCU sports complex.
The match marked the first Bengal opening match in school history in his new field in Lewiston High School and was the first home game of Lewiston’s coach at the helm.
“Quite simply not pulling us in the foot from the start,” said Hobart about what Bengals have done in the section. “Even in the first half, we did what we are supposed to. We had shots and opportunities to move the ball. Really at a game, a pâté of houses, a read to succeed in first half. In the second period, we just cleaned this and did a few points.”
Problem with turnover
The Bengals (0-2) turned the ball four times and each time, the Trojan horses found the goal area.
Lewiston’s senior corner half, Gage Steiner, experienced the swing of emotions that football provides when he made an out-of-competition diversion of a post-face pass, then stifled a return of clearance with the next game so that the Trojan horses to find, steal possession and gain good possession on the ground.
The quarter of Post Falls, Jace Ostlund, overturned the ball of 6 yards to the wide Connor Carver receiver to give the Trojans an advance of 7-0 off the field.
Steiner did not let this moment confuse for a long time, however, with several other pass ruptures which were almost interceptions.
The 5 -foot 9 inch DB finished second in the state last season with six choices.
“These kinds of things will happen. These are uncontrollable situations,” said Hobart. “So he just kept his chin and continued to play hard, made large pass ruptures in the second half and just did a great job on a very large physical receiver all night.”
The two turnover of the following Lewiston came on tested transfers, one of the falls of which recovered and marked and the other which set up the post Falls offensive inside the 20 yards line.
The fourth turnover came on an interception of Hepburn fire, one of its rare launching errors of the night.
Hobart said that he had challenged his team at halftime to present greater concentration and more mental tenacity.
“They did a good job to get out of the excited half and accepted this challenge to clean some of these things,” said Hobart. “When we do things that we are supposed to, and we clean these things, we are going to be a good football team. We just have to get to this point where it is coherent.”
Near the return of Bengals
Need a spark, Lewiston found it on a 7 -yer’s gaming upholstery from the Austin Topp ball carrier. After taking the ground from his QB, Topp broadcast it to a large, large junior receiver Michael Earl to put Bengals on the 1 yards line.
Hepburn ran for Tourchown to reduce the advance of Trojans to 20-6 with 6:32 to do in the second quarter.
With the departure of QB Mason Way Out for several weeks with an injury, Hepburn played the majority of the match and impressed, finishing 8 passes out of 10 for 136 yards and three affected.
“I thought you had seen a ton of growth in match 1 from start to finish, a ton of growth from him in the quarter,” said Hobart about Hepburn. “So he’s going to get better. We will continue to get better.”
Dallas Richardson, the Junior University Starter last week which was a great success against Columbia, also managed several series.
With the Bengals followed by four affected in the third quarter, Hepburn composed a score.
Lewiston chose to do so in fourth and 5 years of the 10 -meter line of Trojans, and that was not satisfied with a first try.
Hepburn found Earl on an inclination for a pass of 10 yards. Both connected again on a gaming pass of 7 yards to make a 10 -point match in the fourth quarter.
“Mike is the type of guy who always considers himself open, so we like to throw the ball into him, that’s for sure,” said Hobart. “He had a good night. Launched superb routes and has done great things. ”
The Bengals came with another exchange game – although a little late – when Jeffrey Yoder storm the field and jumped on a loose kick -off that Post Falls failed to manage.
With a short field, Hepburn connected to the tight winger Junior Cal Robbins, the son of the Baseball coach of the Lewis-Clark State College Jeremiah Robbins, for a touch to make a 10-point match.
What Lewiston can learn
