MILFORD – Seldom does a football game turn around as quickly – and decisively ­- as Friday night’s Hollis Brookline’s visit to Milford High School.

After stopping Milford’s first scoring opportunity on downs, the Cavaliers took over on their own 4-yard line. Two plays later – an incomplete pass and a lost fumble – the Spartans set up on the HB 2 and Trice Cote took it in from there.

It was the first of six Milford scores in a 42-7 victory. With the lead 35-0 at the half, the second half was played in running time. The 3-3 Spartans head into next week’s game with unbeaten Pelham with a bit of wind at their backs.

“The execution was good, they did what we coached them during the week,” Milford interim coach Rick Urda said. “It’s very satisfying. I think the kids are pretty satisfied with their efforts.”

Their efforts paid off big in the first half as the Spartans methodically put the game out of reach.

On their second possession, which opened at the HB 42, Cade Cloutier’s 15-yard run and Chris Costifas’ 15-yard burst set up Cote for a 12-yard TD carry, with Cloutier knocking through his second of five PATs.

Quarterback Charles Urda connected with Cloutier for a 13-yard gain, then scooped up a bad snap and took off down the right sideline for a 42-yard score.

Cote’s 6-yard run with 10:17 left in the half, and another long scoring run by Urda, this one from midfield, rolled it up to 35-0 at the half.

While Spartans head coach Keith Jones was at the game, having just been released from a 10-day hospital stay but still recuperating from an illness, he left Friday night’s work to Urda. And Jones must have been happy with what he saw.

Milford kept Hollis Brookline off the board until late in the third quarter. Runs of 15 and 4 yards by Elliot Troddyn, Keira Swart’s PAT, made it 35-7 with 5:20 left in the third.

“Defensively we did a super job tonight, putting them behind the sticks, forcing them into predictable downs,” Rick Urda said.

Freshman Liam Zahn closed the scoring with a 4-yard TD run, with Brode Howard tacking on the PAT.

It doesn’t get any easier for HB coach Chris Lones and his 1-5 team as they have to face explosive unbeaten Souhegan next Friday. He knew last night would be tough as well.

“They’re about what we expected,” Lones said of the Spartans. “They’ve always been a good team, always been competitive and always been well coached.”