Bulldogs can't stop Louie-McGee, T-Wolves
COEUR d’ALENE — The Sandpoint Bulldogs had a difficult time containing the speedy, shifty Jerry Louie-McGee of Lake City — but then, they haven’t been alone in that attempt the past couple of seasons.
Louie-McGee caught two touchdown passes and ran for two more — some of the scores of the highlight-reel variety — as the Timberwolves defeated Sandpoint 54-25 in nonleague play Friday night.
“It was a two-score game a lot of the game. I think the game was closer than the final outcome,” Sandpoint coach Satini Puailoa said. “But they’ve got a couple of special guys (Louie-McGee and running back Connor Newby), and it’s hard to simulate that. He (Louie-McGee) has done that to a lot of people. We had him boxed in a couple of times, and he just takes off. It’s good when you’ve got those guys.”
Louie-McGee caught four passes for 147 yards, including touchdown grabs of 50 and 78 yards for Lake City (5-1). He rushed seven times for 134 yards, including TD runs of 47 and 58 yards.
Sandpoint (3-3) hung close early. But in a key sequence early in the second quarter, the Bulldogs had a 42-yard touchdown run by Tyler Harris, that would have closed Lake City’s lead to 20-16, called back by a holding penalty. On the next play, backup quarterback Davan Norris was intercepted by Sam Slusser. Lake City tacked on a touchdown late in the half for a 26-10 halftime lead, and led by at least two scores the rest of the way.
“But I thought our kids competed,” Puailoa said. “We’ll learn from this. We had some guys, I think, made some bad reads, but part of that’s Lake City. We stopped them a lot of times, and we moved the ball a lot of times. We just were inconsistent. But when you’re playing good people, and you don’t execute at a high level, it gets magnified.”
Sandpoint opens 4A Inland Empire League play next week at Lakeland.
Sandpoint 7 3 0 15 —25
Lake City 20 6 7 21 — 54
LC — Colin Hunter 50 pass from Michael Goggin (Casey Bourque kick), 10:54
Spt — Wyatt McCormick 14 pass from Nate Loutzenhiser (Mike Plaster kick), 6:35
LC — Jerry Louie-McGee 50 pass from Goggin (pass failed), 6:07
LC — Louie-McGee 78 pass from Goggin (Bourque kick), 3:52
Spt — FG Plaster 22, 11:56
LC — Connor Newby 18 run (pass failed), 1:48
LC — Louie-McGee 47 run (Bourque kick), 4:30
Spt — Kyle Perry 6 run (Plaster kick), 10:39
LC — Louie-McGee 58 run (Bourque kick), 10:09
Spt — Perry 33 pass from Loutzenhiser (Perry run), 5:33
LC — Newby 37 run (Bourque kick), 5:16
LC — Hunter 8 run (Bourque kick), :5.1
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING — Spt, Roop 7-7, Perry 19-84, Loutzenhiser 7-37, Harris 3-13, Norris 4-2, Presser 3-20, M. Timothy 1-(minus 4), Evans 1-15.
PASSING — Spt, Loutzenhiser 12-18-2-164, Norris 1-3-1-4.
RECEIVING — Spt, Perry 5-71, M. Timothy 3-48, Cox 1-14, J. Timothy 2-24, Harris 1-(minus 1), Roop 1-12.