Coon Rapids has been scoring lots of points recently, but really hit the jackpot this past Tuesday night in the first round of Section 7AAAAA play against St. Francis.

A mere 62 points, with 55 scored during the first half of play.

Coon Rapids came into the Tuesday night game this past week on a points roll having outscored its opponents over a four-week period 191 to 42. It’s the first time in the program’s history that 42 or more points have been accrued in five consecutive games with 62 a suspected new high-water mark.

It was a track meet of sorts from the start. Just 89 seconds into the game, quarterback Blair Townsend scored from 16 for touchdown No. 1. Before the first quarter was complete, he hit Evan Lowe with a short pass and with two broken tackles turned that play into a 57-yard touchdown jaunt, then hit his favorite receiver Jerrad Zimmel over the top of the St. Francis defenders for what turned into a 42-yard touchdown play.

The 20 first-quarter points were trumped by a 35-point second quarter, which included a couple of spectacular touchdown runs by Joe Novak, who showed his speed on a sweep 25 yards around the right side to the end zone, and by Carter Adams, who scored on a 33-yard counter dash to the left.

Jeremy Oakley also scored on the ground during the second quarter — from 12 yards — and Jerry Norris took in a pair of Townsend passes for touchdowns to complete the first-half onslaught. One such pass Townsend-to-Norris play covered 34 yards and the other 14 yards.

Coon Rapids’ final touchdown was scored in the third quarter by Antonio Ford from 40 yards.

Townsend, who came into the game with 22 touchdown passes, now has a season total of 26. In addition to big numbers, Zimmel extended his touchdown pass-catching streak to seven games. He now has 10 touchdown receptions in nine games this season.

The lone bright spot for St. Francis was the spectacular running by sophomore return specialist Dontay Mathews. His 88-yard first-quarter blast up the left side line pulled St. Francis to within a point, 7-6 (after an extra point was missed), then his reverse-of-field, run left, come-back-right return during the second quarter covered 95 yards.

Mathews, who had plenty of other return chances in this game because of Coon Rapids’ prolific scoring, nearly broke two other runs, too. Mathews was tripped up just inside midfield in the first quarter on his second return and had another second-quarter return on which he brought the ball back beyond midfield...