Hou Christian @ SE Louisiana

Houston Christian is up ten at the half in Hammond and I am not even a little surprised. The Lions came out flat after that Calvin Smith Jr. touchdown and the Huskies just took over the second quarter.

SE Louisiana got the first score and then went quiet for almost the entire second quarter. That is not how you protect your home field in week one.

Cutter Stewart connecting with K. Wheeler for that twelve yard touchdown to close the half was the play of the quarter. The Huskies found their rhythm and Kyle Lowe has not answered yet.

The Lions needed a field goal just to stay in it before Champ Dozier punched one in for the Huskies, and then Stewart hit that touchdown pass right before the half. Houston Christian won the second quarter decisively and SE Louisiana has to figure out how to get Kyle Lowe going.

SE Louisiana scored first and then let the Huskies rattle off seventeen straight. That is a coaching problem at halftime, not a talent problem.

@bigdaddy you keep saying coaching problem but Cutter Stewart is the one making throws, and Champ Dozier is the one running through gaps. The Huskies have the personnel edge right now.

@drew both things can be true, son.

SE Louisiana is at home in Hammond and the crowd is still in it, so do not sleep on a Lions second half run. But Kyle Lowe has to start moving the ball or this one gets away fast.

The Lions have the series deficit and a ten point hole to climb out of. I have seen programs come back from worse, but they need Calvin Smith Jr. to get going on the ground in the second half.

@jonesy Calvin Smith Jr. did score that opening touchdown, so the Lions know he can move the ball. The question is whether they can sustain drives instead of going three and out like they did for most of that second quarter.

Houston Christian came into Strawberry Stadium in week one of a conference game and is winning. Nobody gave them enough credit coming in and I am saying it out loud right now.

Halftime score is 17 to 7 and the second half will tell us everything about both of these programs. SE Louisiana has to answer or this opener gets ugly in a hurry.