The much hyped match-up of La Porte's Defense against Klein Forest and Senior Texas A&M recruit Quarterback Matt Davis lived up to expectations in a hard hitting battle. Klein Forest pulled out the victory 19-10 avenging last season's loss in La Porte.
In the first quarter the Bulldogs jumped out fast, moving the ball into the Golden Eagles territory. After stalling out Junior Kicker Eric Medina hit a 46 yard field goal to put La Porte up 3-0. Klein Forest would answer as Matt Davis scrambled around like a video game quarterback with the Bulldogs all over him and found a wide open receiver for a 75 yard touchdown on a broken coverage.
In the second quarter La Porte would answer with a great 21 yard run by Sophomore running back Jonathan Lewis moving the Bulldogs inside the ten yard line. Sophomore Hoza Scott would finish off the drive with a 8 yard touchdown run around the left side and put La Porte up 10-6. The defenses battled back and forth until the clock was running down in the half. Klein Forest managed to get deep into La Porte territory on a few scrambles and some penalties with 5 seconds left in the half. Davis dropped back, ran around for a while and threw the ball into the end zone where it bounced off the pads of his receiver and landed in the hands of another Golden Eagle in the back off the end zone. The 10 yard touchdown would take the teams to the locker room with Klein Forest leading 12-10.
The second half was a defensive struggle as neither team could get any offense going at all. La Porte completely shut down the Golden Eagle offense until the 4th quarter. La Porte decided to go with the wishbone offense at the end of the 3rd and start of the 4th and moved the ball down field with great efficiency and purpose. However Klein Forest came up with two big stops on 2nd and 3rd down with La Porte at the Klein Forest 35 yard line. On 4th and short the referees called the Bulldogs for offsides and La Porte decided to punt. Josh Vidales was set for the punt, but the snap skied over him and deep into La Porte territory where Vidales fell on the ball at the La Porte 25. The deflated Bulldogs gave up a quick running touchdown to Davis and Klein Forest went up 19-10 where the score would stay.
The Bulldog defense put up a great performance holding Davis to 3.3 yards per carry and only 38% of his passes were completed. They bottled him up in the backfield all night and had four sacks. Great defensive performance from Corey Lee, Chad Sutherland, Hoza Scott, Cameron Whilley, Aaron Nance-Garrett and Malik Graves to name a few that stood out.
Klein Forest won this game by committing no turnovers and playing stingy defense. The Golden Eagle defense had a big size advantage on the La Porte offense and played a very physical game. There were many big hits from both sides. La Porte's youth on the offensive side of the ball showed with mix ups on hand offs and overall confusion sometimes. The Bulldogs will hit the film room and get the kinks out with two more games to go until district play begins.
This week another long drive to Turner Stadium to play Atascocita.
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