AUBURN – When Edward Little running back Chris LeClair darted into the end zone to give the Red Eddies a commanding 19-7 lead early in Friday night’s game, the fans at Walton Field had good reason to celebrate.

It was LeClair’s third touchdown of the night, and the Red Eddies appeared to be in control of the Dragons. But that was right about the time Brunswick fullback Phillip Warren decided it was time to set things right.

Warren ran for 289 yards on 16 carries, including a 99-yard run, to spark the Dragons to a 46-25 come-from-behind win.

“We knew they would come out fired up,” Brunswick coach Dick Leavitt said of the Red Eddies. “If they went to 1-3, their playoff chances would slip considerably. We knew they would play like caged rats. We told our team that we had to take that punch in the mouth. Keep our composure. Execute. Stay physical. Play with enthusiasm. And I think we did that pretty good.”

Edward Little (1-3) started the night on a high note as LeClair took the opening kickoff 87 yards for a touchdown.

Warren knotted the game with a 60-yard run, but Edward Little jumped back ahead on LeClair’s first rushing touchdown of the game, a 1-yard plunge after he ripped off a 47-yard scamper during the drive.

LeClair (71 yards rushing) picked off a pass by Brunswick quarterback Ralph Mims to set up his second rushing score of the game,a 27-yard run that gave Edward Little a 19-7 lead with 6:30 left in the opening stanza.

But Warren and the rest of his teammates are not the Dragons of old, a team that was a perennial doormat of the Pine Tree Conference. Warren’s 47-yard touchdown run pulled Brunswick (3-1) to within 19-13 with 1:19 left in the first and the Dragons could smell the win.

“We’re for real this year,” Warren said. “We have pride. We were down and I told my team, ‘Team, let’s get together and play like we know we can play.'”

Mims scored midway through the second quarter from 7 yards out after an Edward Little fumble to put the Dragons on top for good at 20-19 after the extra point.

But the Dragons weren’t finished. After another fumble by the Red Eddies late in the second quarter, the Dragons used a little trickery to go into halftime on a high.

Mims moved from quarterback out to wide receiver with the Dragons taking over at the Red Eddies with 34-yard line with 14 seconds left. Back-up quarterback Justin Clark hit Mims for a 26-yard gain. Clark spiked the ball to stop the clock with 4 seconds left and then hit Mims in the end zone as time expired to give Brunswick a 26-19 lead at halftime.

“We’ve been working on that,” Leavitt said of the pass to Mims in the end zone. “The kid’s 6-foot-4. I’ve seen him win a lot of jump balls like that.”

Devin Shepard (89 yards on 17 carries) got into the act with a 50-yard run on the Dragons’ first possession of the second half to put Brunswick up 33-19 early in the fourth quarter.

Mims used his legs to score his second touchdown of the game on a 1-yard plunge and then it was “Warren Time”.

After the Dragons used a goal line stand to stymie the Red Eddies, Warren took the handoff, broke a tackle and then sprinted down the left sideline for a 99-yard touchdown run.

As a team, Brunswick put up 501 total yards, 440 coming on the ground. The Red Eddies were limited to 212 total yards by the Dragons’ physical defense.

“The difference in the game was their fullback,” Edward Little coach Jim Hersom said. “Next week’s going to be a tough game against Gardiner. But we’ll be ready.”