AUBURN — Upon learning he’d cracked the 200-yard mark rushing, Edward Little senior running back Teven Colon laughed.

“Again?” he asked, the smile on his face getting even wider.

Fair question. And yes, again.

Colon ran for 210 yards on 26 carries and touched the end zone twice to lead the Red Eddies to a dominating 27-0 homecoming win over Mt. Ararat in the biting breeze at Walton Field on Saturday.

“The line did a great job opening up the holes for me,” Colon said. “I was able to find the holes they gave me, and turn thing up the field on the outside.”

Colon’s performance pushed his season total to 965 yards on 112 carries and 10 touchdowns, cementing his spot among the PTC’s top three with one week to play. But Saturday was special. Saturday was the Edward Little seniors’ last home game.

“We wanted to make sure our memories here were good ones,” Colon said.

Things began slowly for the Eddies, though. Three plays after receiving the opening kickoff, EL lost a fumble. A blocked punt gave the home team the ball back in good position, but the Eddies again coughed up the ball, this time just two plays into the drive.

“A little bit of the cold, a little bit of a wet field and a little bit of anxiety,” EL coach Dave Sterling said. “They wanted to do a lot today, and you saw some kids slip and fall trying to make cuts instead of staying vertical. But overall, I thought we played well.”

Despite the turnover trouble early, the Eddies’ defense bailed the team out. Mt. Ararat had the ball three times in the first quarter, and each possession resulted in a punt (blocked or otherwise).

In the second quarter, Edward Little found its scoring touch. After the Eddies’ defense forced a fumble and put the offense on the Mt. Ararat 25, Colon took two plays to make it into the end zone. Luke Farrago’s kick put the home team up, 7-0.

“We got everyone together in the second, we got fired up,” Colon said. “The seniors especially, we knew what we had to do.”

“We knew what their game plan was, basically, we knew how they wanted to run the ball, and we couldn’t stop them,” Mt. Ararat coach Mark LaFountain said.

Given another short field on an interception, the EL offense went back to work later in the quarter. Colon punctuated that drive with a 1-yard TD run after runs of 30 and nine yards on the previous plays.

Farrago added a touchdown of his own with 2:15 to play in the third quarter, and Darnnell Hairston tacked on the final score late in the fourth.

At 4-3, Edward Little is almost assuredly in the playoffs in Eastern Class A. Now, the focus turns to the Eddies’ long-standing rivalry game with Lewiston.

“The only strategy we have going into that one is, ‘Win,'” Sterling said. “We want to win that game.”

“We have some surprises for them,” Colon said. “You’ll have to wait ’till next week to see them, though.”

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