FRYEBURG – No Matt Laubauskas, no problem for Mountain Valley.

The versatile talents of Justin Staires, John Gorham and Cam Kaubris more than made up for the absence of the bruising senior fullback and linebacker Saturday as the Falcons rolled to yet another blowout win, 58-6 over Fryeburg Academy.

Staires rushed for 190 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries, caught another touchdown and even kicked an extra point. Gorham rushed for 122 yards and two touchdowns on seven rushes. Kaubris threw for 60 yards and two touchdowns and caught two passes for 41 yards. The trio accounted for 434 of the Falcons’ 575 yards of total offense in less than three full quarters of play.

“Monday and Tuesday, we had bad practices. We were just all lazy,” Staires said. “Then Wednesday, we took a big hit when Matt went down (with an injured shoulder) and after that, we came back Thursday and Friday and practiced so hard.”

“We’d like to think that we’re not a two-pony show,” Mountain Valley coach Jim Aylward said. “People think that we have Matt Laubauskas and Justin Staires and a bunch of kids around them. We have some very talented kids. Is Matt easily replaced? No. But that’s the nature of the game. You keep playing the game. I have a lot of confidence in our kids who are subs.”

Both teams subs were in when Fryeburg (1-4) denied the Falcons their second shutout of the season with three seconds remaining on a one-yard dive into the end zone by Jake Lettiere.

“Tommy Puiia came out and played a good fullback,” said Staires, who lined up at fullback for a couple of plays himself. “Nick Taylor came on the other side and took his place and played a good middle backer. We just came out hard. Everyone just stepped it up.”

When they’re not getting big plays in the open field from Staires, the Falcons (5-0) like to grind out drives with Laubauskas running between the tackles. They proved quickly Saturday that they could still chew up real estate and spit out first downs with Staires and Gorham doing most of the heavy lifting, assisted occasionally by Puiia and Josh Allen.

Mountain Valley opened the game with a six-play, 80-yard drive, highlighted by a 37-yard run by Staires and capped by a five-yard scoring run by Gorham.

Fryeburg had some success in the first half exploiting the void Laubaskas left on the defensive side, running up the middle for good yardage. Quarterback Preston Jones had a 57-yard run on the Raiders’ opening drive to get them down to the MV-12. They got as far as the 5 before deciding to settle for a 22-yard field goal attempt on 4th-and-3. The snap skipped on the ground and kicker Raymond Gushee-Frost had to fall on it at the 17.

The Falcons took over from there and drove 83 yards on 12 plays, all but one of them on the ground. Staires scored from five yards out and the rout was on.

Fryeburg penetrated into Mountain Valley territory again on its next possession, only to be stopped when Taylor sacked Jones on third-and-13 from the 39. Taylor and Christian Durland were two of the Falcons’ defensive standouts.

“We had some opportunities, but it was the same thing on offense and defense, we didn’t finish a drive or finish a play,” Fryeburg coach Dave Turner said. “I felt we just watched them play offense and defense today. We didn’t play at the same level we’ve been playing the last three or four weeks.”

The Raiders backed the Falcons up to their own 17 with a punt, but Mountain Valley, aligned in the double-wing, ran a counter with Staires handing to Gorham, who raced down the left sideline for an 83 yard touchdown to make it 23-0 16 seconds into the second quarter.

Fryeburg’s defense kept Mountain Valley out of the end zone just once all day, when Gorham took a crunching hit and fumbled at the Raider 10. Gorham had to leave the game and did not re-enter.

The Falcons kept pouring it on, though, through the air. Kaubris and Staires hooked up on a nine-yard TD pass, then Kaubris connected with Taylor Bradley on a 33-yard score.

“We wanted to come down here and run a lot of shotgun this week, but with the wind the way it was and we didn’t have good field position, I was pleased that we could run basic stuff and churn off first down after first down,” Aylward said. “We can do other things. We can throw the ball. We aren’t one-dimensional, and I think we showed that in the second quarter.”

In the second half, Staires added a 15-yard touchdown run, Bradley a one-yard TD plunge and Tyler Mason a 54-yard scoring jaunt to end the Falcon deluge.