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ATTLEBORO - No, the Attleboro High School football team did not run up the score on the Red Raiders of Barnstable High School during the Old Colony League game Friday at Tozier-Cassidy Field.

It was the Bombardiers who ran the ball so exceptionally well that they totaled over 400 yards on the ground, totaled over 500 yards of offense and rambled past the Red Raiders 55-28.

In snapping a two-game losing skid, the Bombardiers not only put up points in every quarter, but scored on five of their six offensive series during the first half (in taking a 34-14 lead) and scored on their first three series of the second half.

Can Barnstable spell "defense?"

Matty Campbell rushed for 169 yards and three touchdowns, Ryan Araujo bolted for 137 yards and scored three touchdowns and Brendan Dozier added another 94 yards of turf and a touchdown - it all added up to victory No. 8 of the season for Attleboro. "We still have a lot of work to do defensively," surmised AHS coach Kevin Deschenes, whose Bombardiers surrendered 16 pass completions and 257 aerial yards to Barnstable freshman quarterback Doug Crook, who scored three of the Red Raider touchdowns on runs. "We have to be able to work against the spread (offense), which we're going to see on Thanksgiving Day (against North Attleboro at Tozier-Cassidy Field).

Attleboro scored on drives of 54, 53, 70, 77 and 63 yards during the first half. And yet, the Bombardiers had to overcome an early 7-6 deficit when Barnstable's Isaiah Voegeli returned a kickoff 63 yards to the AHS 17 to set up the first of Crook's three touchdowns.

The Bombardiers muscled their way downfield to take a 14-7 advantage at the end of the quarter, Campbell scoring from four yards out with three seconds left on the clock. A 15-yard run by Araujo to the Barnstable 33 and an 11-yard run by Barry on the very next play set up the score.

Barnstable's Anthony Cugini lined up for a 22-yard field goal, which might have given the Red Raiders a 10-6 lead. Instead he belted a line drive of a kick off his own offensive line, the ball bouncing way back to near midfield where Dozier pounced on it at the AHS 47.

The Bombardiers needed only two plays to take the lead, Araujo making a nifty cutback to his left and romping through the Barnstable secondary for a 47-yard, six-point excursion.

"Our guards (Lucas Parker, Justin Whitmarsh) were able to get outside," said Deschenes of the escorts for the Bombardier runners. "We were able to hit the perimeter and that softened up the middle."

And in that mix, AHS center Jesse Lee was instrumental in Dozier picking up all of his yards over the interior of the field.

No sooner had Barnstable tied the score at 14-all on Crook's second touchdown - completing a 68-yard, nine-play drive - than Attleboro regained the lead on a 45-yard run by Campbell. That was yet another brief Bombardier series, Campbell running for 13 yards on first down and Dozier carrying for 12 yards (to the Barnstable 45) on the very next play.

Three plays into Attleboro's next series, the Bombardiers were again in the end zone, scoring their second touchdown in the second quarter - a 51-yard pass over the middle from Barry to Araujo; one play after Dozier had raced 24 yards out to midfield.

Then with just over two minutes left on the clock until intermission, the Bombardiers marched again into the Barnstable end zone, Barry scoring from a yard out with 19 seconds left. In that eight-play drive, Campbell strolled 24 yards to the Red Raider 39 on first down, then 14 yards on the very next play. And to put an exclamation mark on a tremendously productive and successful first half, senior captain and linebacker Phil Elias plucked off a Crook pass at the Red Raider 48 with single digits left on the clock.

The output of offense continued at the outset of the second half too with Campbell making a spectacular over the shoulder grab of a Barry pass, good for 30 yards to the Barnstable six-yard line to set up his own third touchdown run.

Then Araujo ran over not one, but two, would-be Barnstable tacklers within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage two plays into the Bombardiers' very next series, a 54-yard romp.