By KEVIN RYDER
Special to the Times

CRANSTON – For fans of the North Kingstown football team, it probably looked like déjà vu. Cranston West controlled the ball in the first quarter, using over eight minutes to score its first touchdown of the game and the Falcons never looked back, posting a dominating 33-6 victory over the Skippers at Cranston Stadium.
A week earlier on their home turf, the Skippers (0-4 Division I, 0-5 overall) saw Rogers use its pounding running game to control the ball for most of the game. This time, it was the Falcons, who ran the ball on 14 of the 15 plays on that opening drive to go 55 yards for what proved to be the game-winning touchdown.
“For me, I am an offensive lineman,” said Cranston West head coach Steve Stoehr, who played the position in his playing days. “Eight minutes and a touchdown to end it? That’s how the game should be played.”
“We knew what they were going to do; they run a similar offense as we do,” said North Kingstown head coach John Horsman. “We knew we were going to get a boatload of ‘belly.’ I told the kids all week to not get off the bus if you can’t stop ‘belly.’ We tried to switch some things up defensively to get into the ‘belly’ hole, but we just couldn’t stop it.”

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