It was a much cooler night for football last Friday as the La Porte Bulldogs took down the Baytown Lee Ganders 43-16. La Porte's offense came out firing on all cylinders with an impressive 30 points and over 300 yards of offense in the first half. The offensive line really came out with something to prove this week and controlled the Gander defense. The line was lead by Juniors Tony Briones, Maurice Morris and Justin King.
Junior running back Keith Whitely started the game off with some nice runs and capped off a long drive with an eight yard touchdown. Whitely ran hard all night and ended up with 108 yards on 14 carries with two touchdowns. Baytown Lee responded on the ensuing kickoff with a 100 yard kickoff return touchdown for Gander Senior Wide receiver and Texas A&M committment Jaevon Richardson. From there it was all La Porte with Senior Quarterback Josh Vidales running for a 56 yard touchdown and hooking up with Senior WR Aaron Nance-Garrett for a 39 yard score through the air. On the night Vidales completed 8 of 11 passes for 129 yards and a TD and ran for 59 yards and a TD. Garrett had a breakout game with 5 catches, 92 yards and 1 TD.
The Bulldogs defense shut down the spread attack from Baytown Lee with strong run defense and creating 4 turnovers. Whitely, Nance-Garrett and Junior cornerback Malik Graves recorded the interceptions for La Porte. Sophomore outside linebacker Hoza Scott was in Lee Quarterback Josh Zellars face all night.
In the second half La Porte Sophomore running back Jonathan Lewis took over on the ground and rushed for 111 yards on 11 carries with one touchdown including a dazzling 42 yard run to get the bulldogs to the 3 yard line in the 4th quarter. Sophomore running back Taejon Wearen picked up where he left off last week and ran for 83 yards on 7 carries with some impressive elusiveness around the corner on the jet sweep. Overall a great effort for the offense with 400 yards rushing and 530 yards of total offense.
La Porte's Defense gave up their first touchdown in the 4th quarter after the game was already decided. Strong play from the usual suspects Seniors Chad Sutherland, Cameron Whilley and Chris Hickey at linebacker as well as Juniors Corey Lee and Alex Jones on the defensive line
The real test will come with Klein Forest this Friday in Klein.
Really glad to see this back up! What do you think of our chances so far? Dave Campbell's has us finishing 3rd and the Chronicle 4th, but they usually underestimate Bulldog fight
ReplyDeleteIt's really a matter of what the offense can do. The defense will be strong, but the offense will need to put in more performances like Lee to hang with North Shore and Port Arthur Memorial.
ReplyDeleteKlein Forest has a big, physical defense and will be the first real test.