COEUR d’ALENE — If one part of the Coeur d’Alene High football team’s attack isn’t clicking, no worries.

The Vikings have plenty of other ways to beat you down.

Coeur d’Alene struggled in the passing game early, but ran for 327 yards and received a stout defensive effort in throttling the Central Valley Bears 48-11 in a nonleague game Friday night at Viking Field.

“We started like it was OUR first game — not the other way around,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Shawn Amos, whose team looked sharp — at least on offense — in last week’s season-opening 55-36 loss at Folsom (Calif.). “We were pretty sloppy in the beginning, and their defense is tough; we had a hard time handling those guys, especially their inside guys were a handful. We quit killing ourselves, and made it a lot easier. Our defense kept us in the game early on, so we could recover.”

It was indeed the opener for Central Valley, which took the opening kickoff and drove to a 37-yard field goal by BYU commit Ryan Rehkow, brother of Idaho punter-kicker Austin Rehkow.

Coeur d’Alene took a 6-3 lead when Colson Yankoff faked right and threw left on the bubble screen to Kyler Prendergast, who took it in from 17 yards out on fourth and 8.

CV came back with an 83-yard drive, capped by Braedon Orrino’s 4-yard run for a 9-6 lead late in the first quarter.

But the rest of the game was controlled by Coeur d’Alene, which pretty much stuffed the run. And, after the early going, Central Valley wasn’t much more effective through the air, with linebacker Ross Chadderdon leading the way defensively for the Vikings.

Yankoff rushed for 128 yards and three touchdowns on 18 carries, including a 79-yard dash late in the first half where he broke one tackle, bounced off another tackler and sprinted down the middle of the field for a 29-9 halftime lead. Joe Vang added 77 rushing yards and two scores on nine carries, and Caleb Beggerly ran for 60 yards on 14 carries.

“We have a stable of running backs, which is nice,” Amos said. “And up front, we’re kind of unheralded, but it’s a tough group.”

Coeur d’Alene turned all four of Central Valley’s turnovers into touchdowns.

Ethan Lillis’ fumble recovery led to Yankoff’s 4-yard run early in the second quarter, Kallen Langley’s interception set up Vang’s 2-yard run to make it 22-9, and Yankoff’s final TD, a 1-yard run late in the third quarter, followed an interception by Derek Gove.

Coeur d’Alene’s final touchdown, a 53-yard scamper by sophomore quarterback Kale Edwards, was set up by Cameron Luckey’s interception of CV backup quarterback Matt Gabbert, a freshman and cousin of San Francisco 49ers QB Blaine Gabbert.

“What we like about this group of kids is (defensively), they don’t get fazed by adversity,” Amos said. “They stay positive, they keep playing. In situations where some kids might panic, they don’t panic. You have a chance to be pretty good if you keep doing that.”

Coeur d’Alene outgained CV 465-260, but was penalized 12 times for 132 yards — 102 of those yards coming in the first half.

“That was terrible,” Amos said. “And we had almost none in California. Undisciplined. And these guys know each other a little bit more from (Border League) camp, so there’s a little more interaction, we’ll say, on both sides. We’ve got to not take part in that.”

Coeur d’Alene plays Mead (1-0) on Thursday night at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane.

Central Valley 9 0 0 2 — 11

Coeur d’Alene 6 23 13 6 — 48

First quarter

CV — FG Ryan Rehkow 37, 9:37

Cd’A — Kyler Prendergast 17 pass from Colson Yankoff (kick blocked), 2:45

CV — Braedon Orrino 4 run (pass failed), :54

Second quarter

Cd’A — Yankoff 4 run (Joe Vang pass from Yankoff), 10:10

Cd’A — Vang 2 run (Yankoff run), 3:32

Cd’A — Yankoff 79 run (Seth Harrison kick), 2:04

Third quarter

Cd’A — Yankoff 1 run (kick failed), 4:53

Cd’A — Vang 2 run (Harrison kick), 1:31

Fourth quarter

CV — Safety Kale Edwards takes knee in end zone, 2:58

Cd’A — Edwards 53 run (kick failed), :18

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — CV, Orrino 18-61, DeGeest 6-(minus 17), Gabbert 3-(minus 6). Cd’A, Yankoff 18-128, Vang 9-77, Beggerly 14-60, Throm 3-4, Anderson 5-14, Edwards 5-44.

PASSING — CV, DeGeest 20-38-2-170, Gabbert 2-7-1-52. Cd’A, Yankoff 11-25-1-138, Edwards 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING — Mason 3-13, Foley 7-70, Orrino 5-27, Harrison 1-12, Ames 3-54, Bannon 2-32, Tomlinson 1-14. Cd’A, Vang 1-5, Ramseyer 2-29, Prendergast 4-26, Sumner 1-2, Gove 1-11, Naccarato 1-19, Beggerly 1-46.