The La Porte Bulldogs traveled to face the Deer Park Deer last Friday in the annual rivalry game between the two teams. It was not a pretty contest and took an overtime period to complete with the Deer coming out on top 14-7. This game was a struggle all night.
The first quarter featured lots of defense. Deer Park's first drive of the game would end around midfield where La Porte Senior Linebacker Hoza Scott stripped the quarterback and recovered. La Porte would quickly move inside the Deer 20 yard line, but the drive would stall there and the field goal would not be successful. The quarter would finish in a 0-0 deadlock.
The second quarter Deer Park began to move the ball. The Deer marched 56 yards on 14 plays, 12 of them runs with Deer Running Back Trey Farmer finishing it off on 3rd down and a three yard touchdown run. Farmer was largely held in check on the night with 20 carries for 70 yards (3.5 per carry).
After the kickoff La Porte would come out slinging. Senior Quarterback Jordan Jackson found Junior Wide Receiver David Terrebonne down the seam for a 28 yard gain. After three straight runs La Porte faced 4th and 2 from the Deer Park 25 yard line. Hoza Scott would make his presence felt on offense as he would sprint to the right passed the first down and keep going all the way to the end zone with a few jukes and good blocks down field. La Porte tied the game 7-7 going into halftime.
The second half saw no scoring and both defenses coming up with key stops. The Bulldogs seemed to move the ball better in the half, but could not capitalize on their chances.
La Porte Senior Victor Holmes came up big on the first play of the 4th quarter blocking a Deer Park field goal attempt. It would begin a quarter of La Porte missed chances. Bulldog Senior Running Back Johnathan Lewis would get a couple nice gains inside the Deer 30 yard line. The drive would stall and the Bulldogs turned it over on downs. The next La Porte drive would end in a interception. All the while the La Porte defense held tough.
La Porte had one more chance in regulation. Junior Running Back Britt Grant ran the ball 30 yards on the first play of the drive. Jackson would find Grant once again on a 24 yard catch and run out of the backfield down to the Deer Park 16 yard line where Jackson would spike it to kill the clock. With 12 seconds left La Porte would line up for a 32 yard field goal in which Deer Park would use a timeout just before the snap. The next attempt would be blocked by the charging Deer players and Terrebonne would have to come up with a game saving tackle via facemask. On to overtime we went with the teams tied 7-7.
La Porte won the coin toss and elected to play defense first. Deer Park Senior Quarterback Connor Means would waste little time on a zone read play powering his way into the end zone from 25 yards out. Deer Park lead 14-7, but La Porte would have one more chance.
After being stuffed on a first down run, Jackson dropped back on 2nd and 10 and found Senior Wide Receiver Taejon Wearen over the middle who made a stretched out finger tip catch for a Bulldog first down. A false start would back the Bulldogs up five yards, followed by a screen pass from Jackson to Grant for four yards. On second down La Porte would nearly get intercepted, but lived to fight on. A third down pass fell incomplete. On fourth down Jackson dropped back and threw a fade to the back of the end zone intended for Scott which fell incomplete with some heavy contact on the play. However that was the ball game and Deer Park won the annual contest 14-7.
Deer Park (3-4-1) came to play in a must win game to save their playoff hopes for now. La Porte (4-3) must win against Channelview this week to keep the playoffs within sight and the Bulldogs will be back at home at 7pm Friday night.
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