LISBON FALLS – Saturday was a crisp, cloudless, splendid October afternoon at Thompson Field, but it looked like a November game thanks to the team that’s bound to host the Western Class C playoffs here by the time the first snowflakes fly.

Lisbon lowered the boom at the line of scrimmage, fed Jay a steady diet of Dan Willis, completely smothered the Tigers’ running game and hammered out a 22-6 win that the Greyhounds’ most loyal fans must have felt like they’ve watched a hundred times before.

Willis carried 33 times for 151 yards and two touchdowns. Ryan Giusto also punched in a 1-yard TD for reigning state champion Lisbon, which won its 16th straight game. Lisbon (7-0) needs to win only one of its final two contests against Old Orchard Beach and Winthrop to secure home field advantage throughout the postseason.

“I’m surprised to hear he carried it that many times,” Lisbon coach Dick Mynahan said of Willis, his 160-pound senior tailback. “We start off the beginning of every year not wanting to give anyone more than eight or nine carries. But we told the kids as we get late in the season toward playoff time that we’ve got to have somebody step up and be able to run it 20 or 25 or even 30 times.”

The extra work didn’t diminish Willis’ defensive contributions at linebacker. He combined with Zach Bubar and Derick Bolton to sack Jay quarterback Isaac LeBlanc four times.

Jay (4-3) averaged less than a yard per carry and mustered only four first downs. Ryan Bourassa’s diving, 5-yard TD grab from LeBlanc with 3:52 remaining denied Lisbon its fifth shutout of the season.

“We got a little bit too relaxed,” said senior two-way lineman Mark Stambach.

Shane Lefebvre led the Tigers’ ground game with only a dozen yards, and Lisbon limited Jay to zero net rushing yards in the second half. Bourassa had five catches for 67 yards, all after intermission.

“We just had no field position at all in the first half, and part of it is what they did defensively,” said Jay coach Mark Bonnevie. “And anytime we got field position, we couldn’t run the ball.”

Stambach stuffed Lefebvre for a safety on the first play of the second quarter to give Lisbon a 9-0 halftime lead.

Nate Blackwell that defensive gem with a 44-yard punt that the Greyhounds smothered inside the 1-yard line.

“That was big,” Bonnevie said, “because it meant we needed two scores at that point.”

Special teams also stirred up Lisbon’s lone first-half touchdown. Giusto’s pressure on Jay punter Lefebvre forced a shank that Willis fielded on the fly and returned to the 19. Willis needed only three carries to find the end zone, sweeping toward the left front pylon for a 12-yard TD with 8:32 remaining in the first quarter.

Lisbon took advantage of a short field for its second score, as well. The Tigers couldn’t escape their own end after Justin Shink’s interception inside the 5, and Joe Stevens returned Lefebvre’s ensuing punt to the 25. Willis logged all but one carry on the five-play march, capping it with a 3-yard surge for a 15-0 lead with 23 seconds left in the third quarter.

Bubar’s diving catch from Stevens on fourth-and-4 from the 13 extended Lisbon’s longest drive of the day, leading to Giusto’s plunge with 5:47 to go.