SPOKANE — One team looked like it had a game under its belt.

But it wasn’t the Post Falls Trojans.

One week after rolling up 49 points in their season opener, the Trojans sputtered on offense, and gave up 550 yards in a 42-21 loss to the Mead Panthers in nonleague high school football Friday night at Whitworth College’s Pine Bowl.

“Shoot, we didn’t really look like we played a game last week,” Post Falls coach Blaine Bennett said. “We played a little cleaner last week than this week, and sometimes that’s your opponent; you’ve got to give Mead a lot of credit. But I don’t think we executed in all three phases as well as we’re capable of. We had some breakdowns offensively, we had some breakdowns in special teams, and we had some breakdowns defensively in the back end; that always shows up.”

Post Falls (1-1) punted on its first three possessions, and Mead (1-0) scored two of the first three times it had the ball for a 14-0 lead, and kept the Trojans at arms length the rest of the way.

Derek Pearse passed for 269 yards and three touchdowns for Post Falls. Eli Gondo rushed for 101 yards on 23 carries.

“We just didn’t operate at a high level offensively,” Bennett said. “We missed some throws. They had a good defensive front, so we had to move some things around a little bit. We just didn’t execute quite like we’re capable of.”

Mead quarterback Ryan Blair passed for 393 yards and four touchdowns. He completed his first 11 passes and at halftime was 14 of 17 for 244 yards and two scores.

“When we went to football camp, he was a little greedy, looking for touchdowns all the time,” fifth-year Mead coach Benji Sonnichsen said. “‘Buddy, let the game come to you. Get your eyes right, trust your reads, and I guarantee you’ll be like 22 for 25 at halftime.’”

Mead had 337 yards in the first half.

All four of Blair’s TD tosses came on deep balls, two of them to Evan Wiersma from 46 and 45 yards out.

“We’ve got a couple young kids in the secondary,” Bennett said. “We’re trying to do a couple different coverages back there. I think their quarterback had a lot of time to throw, and just took advantage.”

A leaping one-handed catch by Mead’s Kaven Abghari at the Post Falls 4 set up the game’s first score, a 1-yard run by Caleb Shawen.

After the Trojans’ third straight punt, Mead marched 90 yards in 11 plays, Nick Terrill scooting the final 4 yards.

Post Falls got on the board when Pearse hit a wide-open James Lee on a 27-yard pass play early in the second quarter.

The Trojans pulled within 21-14 when Tommy Hauser caught a quick pass to the right, made the cornerback miss and sprinted 80 yards for a touchdown. Hauser finished with seven receptions for 134 yards.

But Mead answered with Blair’s 49-yard bomb to Kolby Blackler down the left sideline for a 28-14 halftime lead.

“When you play a team like them, you’re up 14, but you don’t feel like it because they can score so fast,” Sonnichsen said.

Post Falls forced a Mead punt on the first possession of the second half. The Trojans drove to the Panthers’ 31, converting a pair of fourth downs along the way, before turning the ball over on downs.

Mead responded with Wiersma’s second TD catch of the game, where he caught the ball near the goal line despite good coverage and tumbled in.

Pearse connected with Jake Burton on a 5-yard TD pass with 9:39 remaining, pulling Post Falls within 35-21. But Blair answered by hitting a wide-open Kaden Gardner down the middle on a 43-yard scoring play.

“We wanted to come at ’em (defensively),” Sonnichsen said of Post Falls. “They’ve got a great little passing attack with (Pearse) and (Hauser), and we didn’t want to just sit back and take that.”

Post Falls plays at University (0-1) next Friday. The Titans lost to visiting Sandpoint 34-11 on Friday night.

Post Falls 0 14 0 7 — 21

Mead 14 14 7 7 — 42

First quarter

Mead — Caleb Shawen 1 run (Eli Eldridge kick), 4:48

Mead — Nick Terrill 4 run (Eldridge kick), :20

Second quarter

PF — James Lee 27 pass from Derek Pearse (kick failed), 9:36

Mead — Evan Wiersma 46 pass from Ryan Blair (Eldridge kick), 4:17

PF — Tommy Hauser 80 pass from Pearse (Hauser pass from Pearse), 3:58

Mead — Kolby Blackler 49 pass from Blair (Eldridge kick), 1:43

Third quarter

Mead — Wiersma 45 pass from Blair (Eldridge kick), 1:30

Fourth quarter

PF — Jake Burton 5 pass from Pearse (Josiah Shields kick), 9:39

Mead — Kade Gardner 43 pass from Blair (Eldridge kick), 6:43

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING — PF, Gondo 23-101, Pearse 6-35, McLeod 3-14. Mead, Shawen 15-69, Blair 6-42, Terrill 8-35, Marler 4-2, Word 2-9.

PASSING — PF, Pearse 26-39-0-269. Mead, Blair 23-31-0-393.

RECEIVING — PF, Hauser 7-134, Curlee 2-15, Sessions 2-12, Gondo 6-24, Lee 1-27, Rodriguez 4-12, Shields 1-6, Burton 3-41. Mead, Blackler 6-132, Abghari 3-34, Wiersma 4-112, Zalopany 2-13, Helms 6-56, Dyck 1-5, Gardner 1-13.