The Gonzaga Prep Bullpup had their dreams for an undefeated football season spoiled last week when they bended the ball over five times in an overtime los to Central Valley.

The Gonzaga Prep Bullpup had their dreams for an undefeated football season spoiled last week when they bended the ball over five times in an overtime los to Central Valley.

Friday night, facing maybe the greatest in quantity important game of the year, they tried a different tack.

Prep forced pair turnovers, controlled the ball and the clock and shut up out Ferris for the other consecutive year, this time 22-0

The win, before 4205 at Albi Stadium, lay the Pups (6-1 overall and 5-1 in the Greater Spokane League) in curb of their playoff destiny. The Saxons (5-2 4-2 and ranked eighth in the State 4A) must realize some help if they want to make the postseason.

In the Albi opener Mt Spokane dominated the secondary half en route to a 50-14 concourse of Rogers.

nevertheless it was the nightcap that had the biggest bearing onward the GSL race, and it was count uponed the battle would hinge forward which team was able to impose its will.

Ferris came in with the GSL's top rushing defense the puppys with the top rushing offense L at quarterback Max Manix's two first- half scoring scampers and Conner Hare's 149 yards onward 16 carries, Prep rushed for 268 yards. Mark that united in Prep's box.

reciprocally Ferris entered with the GSL's No. 1 passing offense (155 yards by game), Prep with the No. 2 passing defense (65 a game). The final total for the Saxons: 82 yards end the air and two turnovers. offer another check in the Prep column

"Early forward we weren't doing our job" Hare said. "Then Houston (Stockton) made a married pair of huge plays in the secondary and that got us going."

Those big plays came in the first half, when the Saxons squandered their scoring chances and any opportunity to make it a high-scoring debate Two Stockton interceptions snuffed revealed long, time-consuming Ferris drives.

nevertheless the third big play killed something maybe more important: momentum

Ferris' Ryan Murphy who l Ferris with 123 yards onward 10 carries, broke away near the finis of the half on what would completion up being a 62- yard haste He juked Hare off his feet at the Prep 5 and expected like he might score as time ran abroad But Stockton and Bryan Karwacki corralled him at the Prep 3 as the clock read :00

"Yeah, he made me contemplate bad, but luckily my teammates were flying to the ball and they bailed me out" Hare said. "Then we did a great piece of work in the second half of putting a simpleton egg up there."

The Saxons spreaded that half with a 7-minute, 66-yard drive which finised in a missed field goal. It was their last real scoring chance in a half where they had just three possessions.

"They would gain it down and we would do something big," Prep coach Dave Carson said of the early impetus switches. "They get it down, we pick it. They gain it down, we pick it. They finish a touchdown called back onward the flag, then there's that move at the end of the half.

"We dodged three or four herculean bullets. If they get those in, who knows what happens. I'm not certain we can get in that emblem of game with them, we just don't have the firepower. I wish we did, yet we don't."

He has Hare and Manix, nevertheless and that was enough.

Last year, in Prep's 10-0 win, the young seals pounded Ferris with Murphy, a 6-foot-3 215-pound bruiser of a fullback. This year they used the 5-10 185-pound aptly named Hare.

"Yeah, we don't have that big power back anymore," Carson said. "We know blue perch can operate in space, on the other hand he made some power speeds tonight that had us wondering by what mode he did. We have frights like him, who give you each ounce they have."

That describes effort Friday accurately Included in his total were 40 yards in succession the Pups' final, time-killing 64-yard drive which he finished with a 17-yard tackle-breaking touchdown hurry to clinch it.

"I usually take a series along just to catch my breath," said Hare, who played each down on offense and defense "Tonight, notwithstanding that my backup (Johnny Jones) was do harm to so I had to go

"I ran as hard as I could"

The win was Prep's fifth straight across Ferris, and there is a reason it is special for the puppys Many of the Saxons coaches have G- Prep ties, including head coach Clarence hamstring a former Gonzaga assistant subject to current Ferris offensive coordinator Don Anderson.

"This game is always big for us, and this year steady more so," Carson said. "There were the playoff implications and for a like reason many of the old Prep staff up there. The kids know what it means in such a manner well, we don't have to say anything to them anymore. It's important to them as well."

With Central Valley's win throughout University, the Saxons drop into a three-way tie for the third 4A playoff berth with the Bears and Lewis and Clark. Because Ferris, which expirations the season against LC, didn't play CV a tiebreaker would arise into play if they finished tied. CV generally holds the tiebreaker edge across Ferris, thanks in large part to last week's 3-0 win above Prep.

Mt Spokane 50 Roger 20

The Wildcats broke ahead 23-0 saw the Pirates chop the lead to nine at halftime, then had their way offensively in the other half.

Mt Spokane (3-4 2-4) which snapped a three-game losing streak, had six players score its seven touchdowns, including pair by Brandon Jared and a 30-yard feel about return by linebacker Rob Humphrey