YARMOUTH — One back scored all five touchdowns.

Another eclipsed 100 yards. Their third wheel got close.

A kid who didn’t start playing football until his junior year intercepted two passes and had the hat trick slip through his fingertips.

If this is what the rest of Class C sees from Yarmouth for the rest of the season, forget dethroning the state champions.

Anders Overhaug rushed for four scores, caught one more from Brady Neujahr and the Clippers coasted to a 34-6 rout of Lisbon in a clash of two of the last three remaining unbeaten teams in the Campbell Conference.

“Lisbon’s always a good team. They’re a good team this year. We just came out with a little more than they did,” said Overhaug, who carried 13 times for 178 yards. “We kind of get lulled from time to time with lesser opponents, I guess, but it’s good to have a test.”

Yarmouth (5-0) made that test look open-book.

Overhaug scored on the first and final plays of the first half.

He raced 61 yards up the middle for Yarmouth’s opening score. Then, after the Clippers stymied a Lisbon drive deep in their own territory, Overhaug’s 6-yard grab from Neujahr capped a 73-yard drive that took only 40 seconds.

“They’re a quick team. They’re a good team. Solid and fast off the ball,” Lisbon coach Dick Mynahan said. “A couple of times they ran around us. There’s nothing you can do. Our speed couldn’t keep up with their speed. Speed‘s important in football, and they have it.”

The touchdown pass made it 27-6 Yarmouth at the half.

Overhaug also rushed for a 1-yard TD in the first quarter, a 10-yard score in the second and found the end zone from 17 yards to punctuate Yarmouth’s initial series in the third.

But that’s not all, to use the late-night television infomercial parlance.

Junior wingback Caleb Uhl slashed for 104 yards on nine carries. Bruising senior fullback Nik Pelletier added 15 punishing carries for 88 yards.

Bart Gallagher intercepted two Ryan Riordan passes in the first half. The Clippers sacked Riordan six times.

Yarmouth has won its last four meetings with Lisbon (4-1), including the 2010 Western Class C championship game.

“This was a very important game for us. Lisbon is a class act and it’s become our rivalry,” Yarmouth coach Jim Hartman said. “Some of this game tonight was learning how to do things getting ready for the future. We’ve got some athletes, and you use ’em.”

Lisbon got on the board early in the second quarter on a 2-yard run by Zack Splude, who started the season at quarterback while Riordan rehabilitated from a broken hand.

Riordan’s 30-yard connection with Quincy Thompson was the key play of the drive. Nathaniel Shields-Auble blocked Splude’s extra point attempt to keep it 14-6 at the time.

The Greyhounds had a chance to get back into the game when it was 21-6. Dalton Dunphy recovered a Neujahr fumble at the Yarmouth 35 with 1:55 left in the half.

But a strip-sack and fumble recovery by Ben Weinrich returned the favor for Yarmouth, which promptly cashed in on its one-minute drill.

Neujahr hit Dennis Erving with a 36-yard strike and Uhl later exploded for 30 on third-and-long to fuel the march.

“That last touchdown we gave up is one maybe we were a little too aggressive on our side of the ball,“ Mynahan said. “Sometimes you give up quick points that way.”

Jordon Torres and Cody Donovan joined Dunphy with fumble recoveries for Lisbon.

koakes@sunjournal.com

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