POST FALLS — Normally a perimeter-running team, the Post Falls Trojans pulled an inside job on the Wenatchee Panthers on Friday night.

With his linemen opening up big holes up the middle, Braden Vaughan rushed for 211 yards and four touchdowns on 29 carries — and kicked two field goals and a pair of PATs to boot — as Post Falls whipped Wenatchee 36-7 on homecoming at Trojan Stadium.

“Our O-line was blocking great, and we just put in a new play, and it just kept opening up wide every time,” said Vaughan, who ran for 192 yards on 23 carries and scored all four TDs in the first half. “I just kept hitting it as hard as I could, trying to make a guy miss and get as many yards as I could. It was kinda like a downhill-running, inside play, and it just kept opening up, so we kept running it over and over, and it kept working for me.”

Riley Eddy, Micaiah Burt, Nickolas Borek, Cody Cantrell and Bryce Arrieta paved the way up front as Post Falls (5-1) totaled 387 yards on the ground. Trojan quarterback Nate Buer ran for 82 yards on eight carries, and fullback Quin Bennett added 50 yards on seven carries.

Post Falls interim coach Blaine Bennett said the Trojans put in “a little bit of a wrinkle” against a Wenatchee defense poised to stop the Trojans’ perimeter runs. “It was just an old-school ‘iso’ play that we blocked a little bit different, and you’ve got to give the running backs a lot of credit for running hard between the tackles. We’re kind of a perimeter team, so to have those guys run between the tackles as well as they did, I was pleased with their performance. We were just trying to get everybody blocked; they had a lot of guys at the line of scrimmage.”

Post Falls scored on four straight possessions in the first half and led 30-0 at halftime. The Trojans outgained the Panthers 272-74 in the first half, and 403-225 for the game.

Vaughan, a junior, scored on three short TD runs, as well as a 46-yarder where he bounced off a hit just past the line of scrimmage, then raced to the end zone.

In the second half, he kicked field goals of 26 and 27 yards.

Post Falls’ defense, led by pressure from Nate DeGraw and Bradley Noesen, had a shutout going until the final minute of the game.

The Trojans forced turnovers on four straight Wenatchee possessions in the second half, including interceptions from Isiah Gosney, Cameron McKeown and Junior Williams.

“The defense — my goodness,” Bennett said. “Not only did we create turnovers, but we put a lot of pressure on their quarterback ... we’ve got to clean up some of the penalties (12, for 125 yards), but overall effort and attention detail was very good this entire week.”

Wenatchee (1-4) tried an onside kick to start the game, but the ball traveled 1 yard less than the required 10.

Post Falls opens up 5A Inland Empire League play next Friday at Lake City.

Wenatchee 0 0 0 7 — 7

Post Falls 7 23 3 3 — 36

First quarter

PF — Braden Vaughan 2 run (Vaughan kick), 6:22

Second quarter

PF — Vaughan 1 run (Vaughan kick), 10;14

PF — Vaughan 46 run (Nate Buer run), 8:58

PF — Vaughan 2 run (Matthew Mills pass from Buer), 2:20

Third quarter

PF — FG Vaughan 26, 4:02

Fourth quarter

PF — FG Vaughan 27, 9:59

Wen — Otoniel Esquivel 10 pass from Rowan Parmenter (Esquivel kick), :32.4

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — Wen, Parmenter 12-29, Esquivel 8-69, McCarthy 3-3. PF, Vaughan 29-211, Buer 8-82, Bennett 7-50, Haines 1-5, Ma. Mills 1-10, Weeks 12-30, Benton 1-(minus 1).

PASSING — Wen, Parmenter 14-33-2-143, Esquivel 0-1-1-0, Kelley 1-1-0-(minus 9). PF, Buer 2-10-0-16.

RECEIVING — Wen, Carlson 7-75, Esquivel 3-3, Haugan 1-(minus 2), Snyder 2-14, Rickel 2-44. PF, Ma. Mills 1-6, Haines 1-10.