WINTHROP – While most football coaches use a large, laminated sheet full of offensive plays written in small ink for every situation, Livermore Falls coach Brad Bishop needs only an index card.

Just as Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packer teams of the ’60s had just seven running plays and executed them to perfection, the Andies work hard to perfect theirs.

Friday night the Andies were nearly flawless as they ran all over the Winthrop Ramblers in picking up a 34-6 Mountain Valley Conference victory at Maxwell Field.

Senior halfback Mark O’Shea garnered much of the workload, running for 170 yards and a score on 33 carries. In all, the Andies rushed 66 times and racked up 343 yards on the ground.

“You don’t get tired after a win,” said O’Shea, when asked how he felt after his workhorse effort. “The line was opening up everything for us. We have a good group of guys here.”

“We only ran three or four plays all night,” added Bishop, whose team has climbed out of an 0-and-2 hole to the .500 mark after consecutive road wins.

The Andies rolled up 182 yards in the first half along with 15 first downs and 21 points. Their three scoring drives averaged 67 yards and 13 plays of physical football.

“We felt we were making the right calls and were in the right defenses in the first half,” said Winthrop coach Joel Stoneton. “We just weren’t executing.”

Stopping O’Shea and his backfield counterparts wasn’t an easy task for Winthrop (1-3). Mike Nichols and Kyle Stebbins combined for 100 yards while soccer player-turned-quarterback Kevin Gats ran for two touchdowns. Gats also moved the chains three times with runs to the outside when faced with fourth-down situations.

The Andies marched right down the field on their opening drive. A few plays after a Gats keeper on 4th-and-3 from the Winthrop 21 for 18 yards kept the drive going, Gats found Nichols in the right hand corner of the end zone from 7 yards out.

The Andies picked up a fumble by Jake Steele (16 carries for 100 yards) at their own 47 to start their second drive. This time it was O’Shea picking up the key yardage. On 3rd-and-3, he ground out 12 yards off tackle. A few plays later he blasted his way for nine yards to convert another third down.

“We hit him with three or four guys, and he kept dragging us down the field,” said Stoneton.

Gats swept around the right side from 4 yards out to put the Andies up 14-0.

The Ramblers answered with their lone score of the night on the subsequent series. Steele broke over the right side for a 65-yard touchdown.

“We worked against the toss all week,” said Bishop. “We had two guys make a mistake, but he’s a good back.”

Unfortunately for the Ramblers, Steele’s run proved to be their only offensive threat of the night. They finished with just one first down in the second half and three for the game. After the break, they could only muster a paltry 3 yards against the tough Andie defense.

Another Gats’ score, this one a 3-yard run around the right side, gave the Andies a 21-6 halftime edge.

The second half was more of the same as the Livermore Falls’ offense slugged out 11 first downs and kept Winthrop pinned in its own end the entire half.

O’Shea tacked on a 1-yard scoring run late in the game, and Bryan Legere capped the scoring with a 27-yard run with 21 ticks left on the clock.