SPOKANE — At times — in its third game — Coeur d’Alene’s football team looked the part of the second-ranked 5A team in this week’s state prep media football poll.

Other times, the Vikings showed there’s a lot of work to be done between now and the start of 5A Inland Empire League play.

On Thursday night, the good definitely outweighed the bad as junior quarterback Colson Yankoff accounted for 552 total yards (403 passing and 149 rushing) in the Vikings’ 57-31 win against the Mead Panthers of the Greater Spokane League at Joe Albi Stadium.

The game was the Vikings second on artificial turf in the last 13 days. Coeur d’Alene also opened the season on a turf field at Folsom, Calif., on Aug. 26. Coeur d’Alene beat Central Valley in its home opener 48-11 last Friday.

“I enjoy playing on the turf,” Yankoff said. “It makes me feel fast.”

Yankoff scored on a 1-yard run to open the scoring, then threw for a 29-yard touchdown to Joey Naccarato to give the Vikings a 15-0 lead after the first quarter. Yankoff used his legs again, taking a quarterback keeper 93 yards for a touchdown to give Coeur d’Alene a 21-0 lead with 7:58 remaining in the half. Yankoff added another 1-yard score just before the half as the Vikings built a 30-14 halftime lead.

Coeur d’Alene had a pair of potential scoring drives stopped on turnovers, one coming on the 5-yard line and a fumble in its own territory that set up a Mead score.

“There was some good and bad in this game for sure,” Yankoff said. “But you can always take some good and bad from each game. I’m a routine guy, but we can play through anything.”

Coeur d’Alene (2-1) travels to Moses Lake next Friday. The Vikings beat the Chiefs 17-14 at Viking Stadium in 2015.

“The biggest thing is we won the game,” Coeur d’Alene coach Shawn Amos said. “But we’ve got a lot to work on. We cannot turn the ball over that many times and be successful. We’ve got to do a better job with ball security. Mead’s a good football team and they were flying around and caused some of those turnovers.”

Coeur d’Alene finished the game with five turnovers.

“We’re very explosive, but we’ve got to do a better job on each drive,” Amos said. “We’ve going to start playing some better teams that when you turn the ball over six times, you’re going to lose the football game. We can’t rely on the big play all the time; we need to be crisp and successful on each drive.”

Trailing 44-31, Mead intercepted a Yankoff pass as Vinny Saldana stepped in front of a pass intended for Naccarato and returned it to the 41-yard line, only to have the Vikings recover a fumble on the next play. Gavin Anderson stepped in front of a Payton Loucks pass for an interception to seal the win for Coeur d’Alene with 9:04 remaining.

“I think getting the win is nice,” Amos said. “I think having the game film where we can look at it and see we’ve got work to do is good. And we’ve got a lot of work to go still.”

Coeur d’Alene had 688 yards of total offense, and finished with 26 first downs.

“The pace they run at is really impressive,” Mead coach Benji Sonnichsen said. “And we knew that they are really, really good. There’s a reason why they’re the top team in the state. We wanted to play a great team that was at the top of the state and it prepares us, and hopefully it prepares them a little better. We had a hard time slowing them down. We did some good things, but we’ve got to get better and need to find a way to get better.”

Coeur d’Alene capped the scoring on a pair of Yankoff touchdown passes, one coming on a 21-yard pass to Naccarato and the other on a 6-yard TD to Derek Gove.

“He’s special,” Sonnichsen said of Yankoff. “And only being a junior, he’s got the presense of a senior. And his athletic ability separates him from everyone else.”

Mead (1-1), picked to finish third in the 4A GSL, defeated Post Falls 41-3 last week.

Coeur d’Alene 15 15 14 13 — 57

Mead 0 14 14 3 — 31

First quarter

Cd’A — Colson Yankoff 1 run (Seth Harrison kick), 7:02

Cd’A — Joey Naccarato 29 pass from Yankoff (Cole Ramseyer pass from Yankoff), :27

Second quarter

Cd’A — Yankoff 93 run (Harrison kick), 7:58

Mead — EJ Bade 67 run (Conaire Shaffer kick), 7:41

Mead — Joseph Heitman 24 pass from Payton Loucks (Shaffer kick), 5:44

Cd’A — Yankoff 1 run (Ramseyer pass from Caleb Beggerly), :39

Third quarter

Cd’A — Beggerly 11 pass from Yankoff (Harrison kick), 10:09

Mead — Thomas Dammarell 30 pass from Loucks (Shaffer kick), 8:19

Cd’A — Yankoff 1 run (Harrison kick), 5:41

Mead — Cody Connall 6 pass from Loucks (Shaffer kick), 3:23

Fourth quarter

Mead — FG, Shaffer, 32, 10:01

Cd’A — Naccarato 21 pass from Yankoff (run failed), 7:48

Cd’A — Derek Gove 6 pass from Yankoff (Harrison kick), 2:11

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — Cd’A, Yankoff 12-149, Anderson 10-51, Beggerly 16-85. Mead, Bade 17-150, Loucks 3-12, Correll 3-15, Vose 4-16.

PASSING — Cd’A, Yankoff, 38-49-3-403. Mead, Loucks, 26-45-1-295.

RECEIVING — Cd’A, Anderson 1-5, Sumner 6-82, Beggerly 2-25, Prendergast 6-105, Naccarato 9-114, Dawson 2-20, Ramseyer 6-40, Gove 6-30. Mead, Bacon 5-51, Dammarell 7-88, Saldana 5-101, Bade 3-13, Heitman 3-38, Connall 3-15.