Lakeland High School’s football team kept its playoff hopes alive and well with a 27-6 home win over winless Deep Creek High School on Friday night.

“We executed the game plan well,” Cavaliers coach Bryan Potts said. “Offensively, we were going to come out and try to establish the run.”

That was a mission fully accomplished as senior running back Jordan Stokley had 21 carries for 101 yard and two touchdowns.

Other Cavaliers finding running room included sophomore wide receiver Alajuwun Langston, who had nine carries for 47 yards and a successful two-point conversion run, and senior quarterback Miles Goodman, who had eight rushes for 40 yards and a touchdown.

Langston put Lakeland up early with nine-yard run in the first quarter. Sophomore kicker Adam Worley converted the extra point but was hit and forced to leave the game.

Goodman later added to the Cavs’ lead with a four-yard scoring run that made it 13-0 in the first quarter.

The score remained unchanged until the third quarter when Stokley got his first rushing touchdown, a 27-yarder to make it 19-0.

Later in the quarter, the Hornets took advantage of the absence of Lakeland junior defensive back Williams Barnes, who was out with a collar bone injury suffered last week against Western Branch High School. Deep Creek completed a long pass that set up a two-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Terrence Shambry.

The defensive lapse by the Cavaliers was an anomaly, however.

“I think defensively, we played lights out,” Potts said.

He praised in particular the play of sophomore defensive end Demetrius McKinney.

“He made plays from sideline to sideline,” Potts said. “You’d think he was playing middle linebacker the way he was all over the field.”

Senior defensive back Convon’Tra Revell set up Lakeland’s final touchdown with an interception and an approximately 28-yard return.

Stokley scored on a two-yard run shortly thereafter, and Langston provided the two-point conversion.

Potts was pleased with his team’s discipline as the Cavaliers only committed a minimum of penalties.

Lakeland (3-6) closes out the season next Friday night at Grassfield High School (3-6).