SAEGERTOWN — In the game of football, it’s not often that a group of linemen steal the show. It’s a rather unglamorous part of the game. They grunt and push over a few inches of turf and if they do their job right all the action and everybody’s attention has already relocated down the field.

However, following Saegertown’s 42-7 trouncing of Eisenhower on Friday, the thing that everybody was talking about were the Panthers’ blockers.

“The game was won up front,” Saegertown coach Ken Achenbach said. “Our offensive and defensive lines controlled the line of scrimmage.”

Jim Penley, Eisenhower’s head coach, was forced to agree. ”Their front line beat our front line off the ball. That is the whole story of the game.”

Yet if there was any group involved in last night’s action that had even more reason to hype the front line, it was Saegertown’s running backs; all three of whom had 100-yard games.

“We definitely give all the credit to the linemen.” said wingback Ian Price, who had 125 yards and three touchdowns on 24 carries. He scored twice on carries of 3 yards in the second half, and once on an 11-yard run in the second quarter.

“Our line has been blocking for us since day one. That’s why we’ve been having these good games,” said fellow wingback Keenan Ellison, who carried the ball eight times for 153 yards and one touchdown — a wild 78-yarder in the first quarter.

“Every play they came off the ball hard. It seemed like every time I got the ball there was a huge hole.” That was — last but not-at-all least — fullback James Chest. He led the team with 32 carries for 173 yards and one score. His 9-yard scoring run in the first quarter got Saegertown on the board.

“All three of them,” asked Achenbach when he heard the news that all of his starting backs had over 100 yards. “My goodness. Anytime that happens, obviously the line has done an awesome job.”

Oh, and back-up rusher Joe Waddell had one rush for two yards. That also scored a touchdown, capping the score at 42-7 in the fourth quarter.

And that was all of Saegertown’s offense. The Panthers ran the ball 68 times. Each one of their 450 yards was charted on the ground.

Saegertown quarterback Aaron Stirling dropped back for one pass in the first half. He was blitzed. The Panthers didn’t try another pass the rest of the night.

“(Eisenhower) blitzed,” Achenbach said. “They bring a lot of heat off the corner. And we were moving the ball so effectively on the ground ... I don’t know ... we never really thought much about (passing).”

Flipping over to defense, Saegertown’s defensive line — and it’s linebackers — made sure that Eisenhower wasn’t going to run the ball last night.

The Knights ran the ball just 17 times for a total of 26 yards.