BOOTHBAY HARBOR – They’d already gambled once and succeeded.

So when the Boothbay football team faced a second crucial fourth-down conversion in the second half Friday night, the Seahawks crossed their fingers again.

Though the first fourth-down gamble paid off, converting a fourth-and-two from their own 24, the second one didn’t. A fourth-down-and-six pass play was intercepted by Karlton Jones early in the fourth quarter. Livermore Falls then marched downfield to score for a 14-0 lead that held up in a 14-8 victory.

“This is huge,” said Brad Bryant, who scored both touchdowns and rushed for 160 yards on 31 carries. “We haven’t beaten Boothbay in like eight years, and them losing back-to-back home games, I don’t think that’s happened for a long time.”

The Andies (4-0) beat Boothbay (2-2) with its own game Friday. Livermore Falls used its running game to control the play and used its defense to frustrate the Seahawks. The Andies finished with 243 total yards, all on the ground.

“That’s exactly what we planned all week,” said Bryant. “We just pounded the rock right back at them. We felt we had the tempo of the game, and we just controlled the ball.”

As frustrated as Livermore Falls had the Boothbay defense, the Andies had the Seahawks even more exasperated on the other side of the ball. Boothbay managed just 133 total yards, 60 of those yards came on a lengthy drive that produced the Seahawks only score of the game with 1:31 left.

“We were frustrated,” said Boothbay coach Tim Rice, whose team total just 81 yards on the ground. “This game’s about momentum. It’s about whose physical, and it’s about execution. At some points we did and some points we didn’t.”

Despite struggling to move the ball and stopping the Andies run game, Boothbay managed to stay within 6-0 for much of the game. Bryant scored on a 3-yard run with 6:29 left in the first half for the lead.

The Seahawks had mustered only 52 total yards in the first half and tried to shake things up offensively.

“They had to throw,” said Livermore Falls coach Brad Bishop. “They’re like us. We don’t want to throw either, but when you have to, you have to.”

Boothbay went so far as going for the fourth-and-two from its own 32 on its first series of the second half. That drive stalled at the 18, thanks to a penalty and incomplete pass. On Boothbay’s second possession of the third quarter, a 14-yard pass play had the Seahawks moving. After an incompletion and two running plays that produced four yards total, the Seahawks faced fourth-and-six from the 46. Boothbay quarterback Roy Arsenault overthrew his reciever and was picked off by Jones, setting the Andies up at the 46.

“We didn’t execute,” said Rice. “We made some mental mistake and didn’t get it done.”

The Andies used 10 plays to increase its lead. Bryant finished off the drive with a six-yard scamper with 7:15 left.

Boothbay’s offense followed with its most productive drive of the game and scored on a D.J. Holcomb plunge from the 1 with 1:31 left. The Seahawks tried an onside kick, but Mike Nichols secured possession for the Andies.

“That was a pretty good football game,” said Bishop. “It was hard hitting. That’s the way it should be played. Nothing fancy.”