Colfax faces big Eagle team after Reardan win

Lakeside’s Eagles, a team which last visited Colfax four years ago, will return Friday for a non-league collision against a high flying Bulldog grid team. Colfax will host the big Eagle team after moving their record to 4-0 with a big league win last Friday at Reardan.

“Liberty will be the best team we have faced yet this year,” Coach Mike Morgan predicted. The Eagles now play in the NE-A division.

Morgan said he has booked Lakeside for a two-year run to fill one of the bye weeks Colfax faced in its 2B league schedule.

The NE-A league has a bye date moving through its schedule, and Lakeside’s league bye date matched the Colfax league bye date so Morgan and Lakeside Coach Brian Dunn worked out the two-year booking.

After sustaining a 21-41 loss to undefeated Colville, the NE league leaders, Lakeside will arrive here Friday with a 2-3 record on the season.

“They are exactly what we need right now, a tough non-league test,” Morgan noted.

The Eagles have a big front line and run out of the I-back formation.

Morgan said the scout tapes show Lakeside as more-or-less a straight ahead team.

“They like to come right at you, again and again,” he pointed out.

Friday at Reardan, the Bulldogs booked another first-quarter explosion for 28 points to send what had been billed as a decisive matchup of undefeated teams in to a crunch mode.

Coach Morgan said he learned late last week the Reardan roster had sustained a loss of five or six players because of a discipline suspension. The Indians started with their number-three quarterback and three other starters missing.

Colfax actually rolled up a 35-0 lead early in the second quarter and began to call out the subs to change the mode of the game.

The Bulldogs totaled 480 yards against the chiefs. Quarterback Alex Teade hit five of six passes for 87 yards. Two of those shots when to Kellen Morgan for TDs in the first quarter outburst. Morgan, who had his best game yet, took the first pass 25 yards for a score.

Tyler McNannay scored next on a TD run, and Morgan came back with another five-yard TD off another Teade pass.

Morgan capped the quarter by picking up a fumble and rolling 25 yards into the end zone. The turnover started when McNannay jolted the Reardan runner to knock the ball lose. Morgan gathered it up and followed a key block from Tuffy Hickman for the fourth Colfax TD in the first quarter.

Reardan came back with a drive which moved all the way down the field at the top of the second quarter. Colfax stopped the Chiefs three times just short of the goal line. Reardan went to a pass on the fourth attempt, and Justin Berarducci put a perfect read on the pass. He snagged it at the one yard line and went 99 yards in the opposite direction for the fifth Colfax TD of the night.

That ended the first half 35-0.

In the sub out mode, Reardan actually won the second half with their two TDs in the quarter. Charlie Eldred scored both TDs.

Colfax added three points in the fourth quarter when McNannay was called out for a kick attempt. He was credited with a 42 yard field goal.

Final TD of the Colfax win was off a 67-yard pass play from reserve QB Brady Ellis to Sam Thompson.

BI COUNTY STANDINGS

Colfax 3-0 4-0 201 67

Lind/Ritz/Sprag 2-0 3-1 109 35

Reardan 1-1 3-1 108 71

Kettle Falls 1-1 1-4 63 124

Liberty 1-2 2-2 87 113

Springdale 1-2 1-4 66 162

Davenport 0-3 1-3 63 135