North Bend Central came up just short against Louisville at home Friday night, falling 27-26 in overtime to the Lions.
The Tigers spotted Louisville a 13-0 first quarter lead before Austin Endorf tossed a 57-yard TD pass to Peter Emanuel with 6:55 left to go until halftime to make it a 13-6 game.
The Lions scored a back breaker of a touchdown with 49 seconds left until halftime though, and Louisville led 20-6 at halftime.
Endorf hit Ben Rolenc on a 16-yard TD pass late in the third quarter to cut the deficit to 20-14.
Endorf connected with Emanuel again from 32 yards out for his third touchdown pass of the evening, and the game was tied at 20.
The Tigers struck first in overtime Endorf threw his 4th TD pass to James Seymour from 10 yards out. The two-point conversion failed, however.
Louisville answered with a TD an extra point to win the game.
Endorf ended up going 20-41 with 298 yards and 4 touchdowns., breaking the school record for completions in a game, attempts in a game, and tying the record for TD's in a game. Emanuel hauled in 7 passes for 130 yards, and scored twice. Seymour caught 6 balls for 79 yards and the one TD.
Brock Ray finished with 10 tackles while John Emanuel registered 9.
North Bend Central tallied 341 yards of total offense, including 307 through the air.
The defense allowed 392 yards of offense, 225 of them passing.
Head Coach Ryan Stieren says his team simply had a rough start to what was a disappointing loss."We fought back and had plenty of opportunities to win the game but we just didn't make the plays to seal the game. In the early going, we gave a lot of big plays but we were able to adjust and shut them down in the 2nd half. Austin Endorf played a heck of a game at QB, he gave us a chance to win. It's tough to lose a close one like that but we have got to pick ourselves back up and prepare for West Point-Beemer."
I must say I was surprised the Tigers lost. I figured North Bend Central would win by a couple of touchdowns at least.
The Tigers (0-1) travel to West Point-Beemer (1-0) to take on the Cadets Friday night.
The Cadets routed Arlington 39-8 on the road this past Friday night.
West Point-Beemer won last year's game 19-13.
I think North Bend Central simply started off on the wrong foot in the first half of Friday's game.
It took the Tigers a while to get going, and ultimately the slow start proved to be costly.
I look for North Bend Central to start off much stronger this coming Friday night, and perhaps put up the game's first points of the game like the Eagles did to the Cadets last week.
What makes things tough for the Tigers though is the game is in West Point.
North Bend Central is going to have to simply suck things up and come out ready to play Friday night.
I think the Tigers have to show some semblance of a running game to have a chance in this one. North Bend Central has to be physical up front and run the ball, matching the Cadets' physicality.
By all means the Tigers should continue to air the ball out though. Endorf had a great game passing...I just don't know if putting the ball up 41 times a game is a recipe for a win.
I would maybe try and run the ball more and cut the number of passing attempts down, but that's just me.
West Point-Beemer hasn't really been tested through the air yet so we'll see how effective North Bend Central's passing game is.
I think the Tigers would probably like to see Endorf's throwing percentage increase. He was at about 50 percent this past week, but I'm guessing North Bend Central would like to see his percentage at 65 or 70 percent.
Making and not giving up big plays, plus being sound in the kicking game are the keys to a Tiger win, in my opinion.
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