DIXFIELD — Taking inventory of Dirigo High School’s defensive weapons is a daunting task if you’re writing the opposition’s scouting report.

There’s Alex Miele, whose interception Saturday moved him within one of the school record that now-assistant coach Dana Whittemore locked away in mothballs a long time ago.

“And I did that on a 1-7 team,” Whittemore said.

OK, back to the present. How about defensive ends Kyle Hutchinson and Tyler Chiasson? Western Class C championship game victim Yarmouth learned like everyone else that they’re almost impossible to stop without using a fistful of blue jersey.

Nic Crutchfield, though hobbled, normally plays a hybrid of linebacker and safety that blends with his quarterbacking talent to make him a Campbell Conference player of the year candidate. Mason Cote and Jake Dowland, as a linebacking tandem, are good as it gets in the league.

Easy to understand how David Guildford got lost in the whirlwind. Until Saturday, anyway.

Guildford had himself a nifty career in the space of two hours — four quarterback sacks, a tackle for a safety, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery — to provide multiple exclamation points in a 41-7 rout.

“Our linebackers were doing a great job sending me in the right direction,” Guildford said. “Dowland was showing me where to go, and our ends were getting all kinds of pressure in their backfield.”

Tied with Miele for the team lead in total tackles with nine, the 6-foot-1, 209-pound Guildford was a central figure in slowing down a Yarmouth offense that scored no fewer than 34 points in any segment of its eight-game winning streak.

And after the Clippers sailed to a touchdown on their opening series, it was Guildford who consistently relegated them to the minus category thereafter.

Yarmouth converted three third downs and a fourth down in rolling up 75 yards on that initial march. Dirigo allowed only 74 yards the rest of the afternoon.

“They didn’t do anything we hadn’t seen before,” Dirigo coach Doug Gilbert said. “We just needed to regroup and settle down. There was a lot of excitement, a little bit like the Livermore Falls game earlier in the year.”

One of 13 Dirigo seniors, Guildford teamed with Cote and Chiasson on back-to-back tackles for loss to end the first quarter and christen the second. That led to a short punt and set up Dirigo’s go-ahead touchdown.

When a lost fumble denied Dirigo anothed TD less than a yard from the goal line, Guildford didn’t allow his teammates any time for frustration or doubt to sink in. He wrapped up David Dietz for a safety on the next play.

“Our line was unbelievable today, on both sides,” Crutchfield said. “They were getting into the backfield before (Yarmouth) could even get set up.”

Guildford was equally adept as a pass rusher, dropping Yarmouth QBs Eric Estabrook and Nate Pingitore to the ground two times each.

Estabrook saw only occasional duty after he was injured on a kick return in the first quarter.

“Once he went out and they knew we couldn’t pass, it was lights out,” said Yarmouth coach Jim Hartman.

Guildford denied that Dirigo drew any extra motivation from hearing about Yarmouth’s string of victories and prolific offensive statistics, numbers the Cougars have matched from start to finish this year against rugged competition.

“We don’t want to win to satisfy anyone else. We want to win for our brothers,” Guildford said. “Most of us have played football together nine or 10 years. We really are a family.”

One with no shortage of siblings fit to make headlines.

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