Undoubtedly, there's a way to beat the Oaks Christian School football team.

Letting the Lions play on just half a field clearly isn't it.

Taking advantage of the field position created when visiting Nordhoff rolled the dice on every fourth-down play, the Lions rolled to a 62-8 victory Friday night, a bizarre end to a perfect regular season.

After its first possession, when it went 80 yards to score in just two plays, Oaks Christian (10-0, 5-0 Tri-Valley League) spent the rest of the night starting in Nordhoff territory as the Rangers turned the ball over on downs. And so they had scoring drives of 34, 23, 23, 26 and 18 yards, as well as two interception-return scores.

"I've never seen anything like that," said Oaks Christian coach Bill Redell, "and I've done this for a long time. I've never seen anything like that."

Nordhoff (5-5, ) ended the night 3 of 11 on fourth-down conversion attempts, with two of the conversions by penalty. Unsuccessful attempts included a pair of fourth-and-18 plays, a fourth-and-16 and a fourth-and-13.

Nordhoff coach Tony Henney said disdaining the punt was part of the pregame plan.

"We said we would punt in the normal flow of the game," said Henney, "and when they hit the big one right off the bat off us, the kids said, ‘Hey, we said we weren't going to punt,' and we said all right.

"You know, they're going to score anyway, and it's more embarrassing to have an 80-yard touchdown run on you than a 15- or 20-yard. So that was our theory going into it.

"We'll probably do it again next year."

The big one Henney referred to was a 71-yard touchdown pass from Nick Montana to Brian Owusu on the second play from scrimmage.

"It's always nice," Montana said of the quick strike.

Montana, playing only the first half, finished 9 of 23 for 205 yards, and also had a 5-yard touchdown pass to Chris Coyle as part of a 28-point first quarter.

Most of the rest of the damage was done by running back Jordan Morrison. Starting in place of the injured Malcolm Jones, Morrison had 11 carries for 95 yards, with touchdowns of 5, 13, 26, and 6 yards. Defensively, Owusu (42 yards) and Zac Stout (38 yards) chipped in with interception-return scores.

Nordhoff, which came in averaging 22 passes per game, threw 34 in the first half alone. Quarterback Drew Rodriguez finished 15 of 45 for 138 yards with four interceptions. Nordhoff's lone score came on a fourth-quarter run by Parker Johnsen.

Oaks Christian finished with 339 yards — a fairly low total for a 62-point night — while Nordhoff, which ran 77 plays to Oaks Christian's 48, finished with 151 yards.