SPOKANE VALLEY — Coeur d’Alene has developed a pretty versatile running back.

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The Vikings’ three-headed running back — better known as senior Brennan Crawford, junior Trent Elstad and sophomore Gunner Giulio — all chipped in as Coeur d’Alene stopped turning the ball over long enough to get rolling offensively in the second half in a 35-13 nonleague victory over the previously unbeaten Central Valley Bears on Friday night at CV.

Crawford ran for 70 yards on eight carries for Coeur d’Alene (4-2). And when he wasn’t in the backfield, he moved to slot receiver and caught 7 passes for 155 yards.

“It’s awesome,” Crawford said, “because I can go play receiver, which I love, and then they can step up — Trent busts one, Gunner busts one, I bust a couple ones. We’ve got a pretty good core back there, which allows me to be versatile.”

Giulio caught a pair of short touchdown passes from Jack Prka on swing passes in the second half, helping the Vikings open up a game they led just 7-6 over the Bears (4-1) at halftime.

And Elstad burst up the gut for a 44-yard touchdown run which hiked Coeur d’Alene’s lead to 28-6 with 7:18 remaining.

“The nice thing is, we have three running backs, and they can all do the job,” Coeur d’Alene coach Shawn Amos said. “Brennan Crawford had a great game. It’s nice to have that luxury that you feel a lot of confidence in.”

Colbey Nosworthy started the scoring for Coeur d’Alene with a 16-yard catch and run for a touchdown from Jack Prka. Then, with Central Valley down 28-13 and threatening late, he picked off a Matt Gabbert pass and sped 78 yards for the clinching touchdown with 1:45 remaining.

But in between, the Vikings lost three fumbles in the first half, two in Central Valley territory, one on the Coeur d’Alene 2 which led to the Bears’ lone TD of the first half.

Coeur d’Alene turned the ball over via interception on its first drive of the second half, but then scored on three consecutive drives to break the game open.

For the game, Coeur d’Alene outgained Central Valley 489-232. Prka was 32 of 41 for 354 yards and three touchdowns. Nosworthy caught eight passes for 102 yards.

“CV’s obviously a good football team,” Amos said. “We’re lucky to leave some points off the board that we should have had. But overall, that’s a really good team effort by our guys, to beat a team like that at their place.”

Meanwhile, on defense, Coeur d’Alene went back to fundaments after getting gouged on the ground the last two weeks.

“In practice we focused on hitting the hole hard,” said Crawford, who also plays linebacker on defense. “The last two games, teams have put up over 300 rushing yards against us. (Tonight) we were hitting the holes hard, wrapping up the legs ... just rallying to the ball.”

Central Valley ran for 137 yards, including 114 by 5-foot-7 Chad Carlson on 20 carries. But CV quarterback Matt Gabbert was held to 10 of 31 passing for 93 yards, thanks to a combination of pressure and coverage by the Vikings, and drops by his receiver. He had just 13 yards passing before a fourth-quarter drive where he completed four passes for 50 yards, including an 8-yarder to pull the Bears within 28-13 with 4:34 left.

“Our defense played great,” Amos said. “They did a great job against a good offense. They have a lot of weapons, so you have to play assignment football. There was no grand scheme; it was just playing good football ... tackling. Against Highland we didn’t tackle real well, and I thought our guys tackled really well today.”

Coeur d’Alene opens 5A Inland Empire League play next Friday at home vs. Lewiston.

Coeur d’Alene 0 7 7 21 — 35

Central Valley 0 6 0 7 — 13

Second quarter

Cd’A — Colbey Nosworthy 16 pass from Jack Prka (Eli Jolly kick), 11:53

CV — Chad Carlson 2 run (PAT failed), 7:40

Third quarter

Cd’A — Gunner Giulio 3 pass from Prka (Jolly kick), 1:11

Fourth quarter

Cd’A — Giulio 4 pass from Prka (Jolly kick), 9:44

Cd’A — Trent Elstad 44 run (Jolly kick), 7:18

CV — Cameron Sheley 8 pass from Gabbert (Landon Rehkow kick), 4:34

Cd’A — Nosworthy 78 interception return (Jolly kick), 1:45

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — Cd’A, Crawford 8-70, Prka 11-(minus 20), Elstad 7-72, Giulio 1-13. CV, Carlson 20-114, Parkman 1-9, Kelley 2-14.

PASSING — Cd’A, Prka 32-41-1-354. CV, Gabbert 10-31-1-93, Abshire 1-4-0-2.

RECEIVING — Cd’A, Nosworthy 8-102, Brown 5-20, Elstad 3-14, Crawford 7-155, Brett 3-35, Cummings 1-(minus 1), Giulio 4-24, Johnson 1-5. Sheley 5-38, Raab 1-9, Carlson 1-(minus 1), Vinson 2-19, Childress 2-28.