Bishop Guertin defender Andre Steinruck intercepts a pass intended for Dover's Camden Grund during Saturday night's Divison I game played at Hollis Brookline High School. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

HOLLIS – There’s something about a Bishop Guertin-Dover High School football game that simply piles up the points.

Remember, last year the two teams played to a track meet of a Division I first round playoff game, won by the Cards, 56-42. Saturday night was a lot more one sided, however, with Guertin leading 41-21 at the half en route to a 62-21 win at Hollis Brookline High School’s stadium.

“I didn’t think we could survive a track meet again,” Guertin coach Anthony Nalen said, the Cards now hoping for a playoff push at 4-2 in Division I (5-2 overall). “It was wild. I said to them last year, we went up by two touchdowns, then they’d score. We’d do it again, and they’d score. I told them we had to get a score and a stop. We can’t let this keep going like it did last year into a track meet.”

As it was, Guertin amassed 536 total yards, including 300 on the ground. In the second half, Dover managed just 54 yards

“We didn’t quite keep up our end of it,” Dover coach Eric Cumba said. “It’s a credit to them. The way they keep you off balance with the different packages they put together, they’re efficient with it. We weren’t able to get out of our way in some of those situations, ultimately we didn’t make the play we needed to to come off an emotional first drive.”

That was a 37-yard TD pass from starting QB Cooper Gagne to Nathaniel Wood to the left corner of the end zone just 56 seconds into the contest, helping to put Dover up 7-0. But that was the last lead the Green Wave, now 2-4 in Division I (3-4 overall), would have.

Guertin responded with a Nate Bowen 37-yard pass to Alex Dolan, setting up an A.J. Holmes 2-yard TD run with Bowen’s PAT tying the game a minute later. Bowen had an efficient night, 8 of 8 for 236 yards and a touchdown. Holmes rushed for 119 yards and three scores.

Guertin took the lead for good on Holmes’ 11-yard TD run, and a Cole Reeves two-point conversion for a 15-8 advantage. Add a Bowen 31-yard field goal and then Liam Eder-Linnell’s 30-yard interception return for the touchdown and the Cards were in command, 24-7, just 2:30 into the third quarter.

“The biggest backbreaker was the pick six after they went up two scores,” Cumba said.

Holmes added a 10-yard TD run with 4:31 left in the half and BG was up 31-7.

Things then got a little ridiculous. Dover’s Camden Grund returned the ensuing kickoff 73 yards for TD, BG then answers with a Jonah Feliciano 1-yard TD plunge, but back comes the Wave with senior QB Grant Davis coming off the bench and hitting Grund with a 7-yard TD with 18 seconds left in the half to help make it 38-21.

Done? Nope. Guertin, recovering an on-sides kick at midfield, took just three quick plays to set up a Bowen 29-yard field goal as time ran out.

Nalen got his wish in the second half, Bowen hit Ryan Connelly on a 61-yard play on the half’s first play, setting up a Reeves 2-yard run. Add a Julian Goode 2-yard TD, and an 81-yard Bowen-to-Reeves catch-and-run TD and there’s your second half with fourth quarter running time.

“Finally,” Nalen said. “We have not been good in third quarters. So for us to be able to get a third quarter like that is great going into a tough game (next Saturday) vs. Salem.”

It didn’t help Dover’s offensive cause that the Cards had four sacks on the night.

“They executed everything well,” Cumba said. “It was their night, it wasn’t ours.”