The Soldotna Stars continued their mastery of Alaska football Saturday by whipping Service 72-29.
Soldotna scored on its first nine possessions to extend its state-record gridiron winning streak to 32 games.
The Stars are 3-0 this season, with all of their wins coming against large-school opponents. South and Colony became victims of the streak before the Cougars took a tumble on their own turf.
Soldotna, which plays in the medium-school Northern Lights Conference, has outscored opponents 138-66 this season.
Saturday's game was particularly lopsided. The Stars led 66-29 at the end of the third quarter, invoking the mercy rule -- a running clock in the fourth quarter.
In other local Saturday action in Anchorage, Ketchikan spoiled Eagle River's homecoming 33-14 with a fourth-quarter outburst.
Eagle River led 14-13 after three quarters, but Ketchikan reeled off three touchdowns in the final 12 minutes to keep the Wolves winless in three games.
Elsewhere, Lathrop beat Wasilla 28-14, Eielson won its 12th straight game by blanking Valdez 64-0, and Barrow got its first win by handing Houston its first loss, 22-0.
Soldotna runs an offensive system that is so dominating and so efficient that when star running back Drew Gibbs was lost for the season with a knee injury in the season-opening game, the Stars barely missed a beat.
The new star running back is Kristian Palaniuk, who rushed for four touchdowns against the Cougars, and caught a touchdown pass.
The nonconference game started encouragingly enough for Service (1-2 overall).
Sixteen seconds into the game, on their first play from scrimmage, the Cougars grabbed a 7-0 lead on Mark Hogan's 69-yard touchdown pass to Nathan Fromm. That pair teamed up four times for touchdowns, to no avail.
Soldotna answered quickly with Palaniuk's first TD, a 41-yard run that was part of a fast-paced, high-scoring first quarter. The teams combined for 32 points that quarter, which ended with Soldotna ahead 17-15.
Blake Jones booted a 27-yard field goal to give Soldotna a 10-7 lead, Service came back with another Hogan-to-Fromm touchdown -- this one for 26 yards -- and Soldotna's Keola Finau scored the first of his two touchdowns with a 20-yard run with 10 seconds left in the quarter.
After that, it was nearly all Soldotna.
The Stars forced and recovered a fumble early in the second quarter to set up a 20-yard scoring run by Palaniuk.
After Service turned the ball over on downs, Finau found the end zone again on a 12-yard run, upping Soldonta's lead to 31-15.
But that wasn't enough for the Stars, who followed the touchdown with an onside kick. They recovered the ball, and 12 seconds after the Finau touchdown, Dylan Simon connected with Trevor Walden for a touchdown pass and a 38-15 lead.
Service's loss came despite Hogan's 295 passing yards. He completed 17 of 30 passes and threw four touchdowns, but he also threw three interceptions.
Fromm caught 11 passes for 243 yards.