AUGUSTA - Edward Little coach Mike Adams summed up why his team might have fallen under the radar of some high school basketball observers this season, and why they have emerged as a team to no one wants to face.

"We don't have any superstars, but as a team, as a group, these guys are pretty good," Adams said. "It makes us more dangerous."

The Red Eddies looked extremely dangerous in Tuesday night's Eastern Class A semifinal dismantling of sixth-seeded Lawrence at the Augusta Civic Center. Just how dangerous they are will be put to the test Friday night, when they face unbeaten Bangor, a team they lost to twice during the regular season and in the KVAC championship. The Eddies played the Rams to their only single-digit win of the season last month, 56-53.

Ben Hartnett led all scorers with 19 points, but the second-seeded Eddies (16-4) were able to ride a new hot hand in every quarter. Corey Therriault was the best option in the second quarter, scoring eight of his 12 points (to go with 10 rebounds) in that frame. Then Eric Prue tallied all nine of his points in the third quarter before Hartnett took up the slack at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth with 11 more points.

"Every quarter, someone new is stepping up," Hartnett said. "Someone will score 10 in one quarter, then someone else will score 10 in the next quarter. It really helps. It takes a lot of pressure off the older guys, too."

EL got its running game going early by playing it's typical aggressive perimeter defense. The Eddies pressed off a Hartnett 3-pointer that made it 9-2 and got a steal from Kyle Philbrook, who fed Therriault for a layup. After Devon Costigan scored for Lawrence (12-9), Hartnett answered with an old fashioned three-point play, then Mukhtar Sharif nailed a jumper from the top of the key to give EL a commanding 16-4 lead after one.

"When you play a team like that that starts basically five guards and they shoot the ball well, you're in trouble early," Lawrence coach Mike McGee said. "I thought the key to the game was we had 15 turnovers in the first half, 10 in the first quarter. If you turn the ball over against them, you're in big trouble."

The Bulldogs were in bigger trouble because the Eddies were smothering their best post player, 6-foot-6 senior center Wesley Sexton. That forced them to settle from the perimeter, which wasn't working at all for the Bulldogs. They air-balled their first three shots of the second quarter, which allowed EL to build a 25-7 lead on a Therriault 3-pointer with 2:52 left in the half.

"We tried to pound it inside to our big guy and they had two or three guys around him," McGee said.

"We know Sexton's one of their top players and we wanted to make sure that we didn't give him any easy looks," Therriault said. "I tried to get in front of him and our guards did a good job on the help side."

Sexton was held scoreless. Guard Matt Perkins led Lawrence with nine points. The Bulldogs shot 33 percent from the field.

"I know we're not real big, but being an ex-post player myself, I relied on my guards to get me the ball," Adams said. "If we can get good pressure on the perimeter and get our guards up tight on the wings, that makes it harder to get the ball in and gives our post players more time to get over the top to defend their post players."

Prue got his stroke going in the third quarter, scoring nine in a 15-5 EL run to start the second half. His 3-pointer from the right corner made it 42-17 with just under three minutes to go in the third.

Lawrence beat EL in the preseason, and the Eddies' continued to struggle through the first third of the regular season, starting 3-3. Outside of Bangor, they have beaten every team in their way since then, mainly because a different player steps up from one night to the next.

Adams loves the balance, but admits he wouldn't mind if everyone decides to get in on the act at the same time..

"Hopefully one night," he said, "it will all happen at once."

Friday night might be the time.