Upper Lake still looking for first points of the season
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SAN FRANCISCO >> Keeping the game close until the very end, the Upper Lake Cougars are still searching for that elusive first score of the season after falling 26-0 to the Stuart Hall Knights on Friday night at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco.
“We moved the ball decently well, a lot better than in our first game (a 40-0 loss to Los Molinos),” Upper Lake head coach Derek Milhaupt said. “We got into the red zone (inside the Stuart Hall 20-yard line) a couple of times. We had a bad snap one time, a missed block the other; sloppy play.”
Stuart Hall (2-0) led 6-0 after one quarter and 12-0 at halftime.
“They were big, physical and well coached,” Milhaupt said of the Knights. “They run a similar offense to what we run, but crisper and cleaner.”
Upper Lake suited up 19 players, calling up two junior varsity players because there was no JV game Friday.
Game statistics were not available.
Upper Lake’s JVs weren’t scheduled to play this week, but the Cougars ended up playing at Cloverdale Saturday morning in a non-league game.
“Cloverdale contacted us Thursday and wanted a game,” Milhaupt said.
Both Upper Lake teams open their North Central League I schedule next Friday in Willits. JV action kicks off at 5 p.m.
