Bangor (5-0) cruised to victory despite losing starting tailback and defensive end Josiah Hartley to a possible head injury midway through the second quarter.
But coach Mark Hackett’s club controlled the game with its defense, with three of the five turnovers leading to touchdown drives of 32, 7 and 7 yards.
Bangor defensive end John Kelley had two interceptions on Mt. Blue quarterback Jordan Whitney’s first two passes of the game, and Zeb Tuell added another interception that led to a fourth-quarter touchdown.
The Rams also had two fumble recoveries, one by Tyler Shanklin and the other on special teams by Ian Roberts.
Bangor’s offense, meanwhile, managed 303 total yards on the windy day. Hartley rushed for 89 yards on 17 carries before leaving the contest, while Cody Chapman added 68 yards on three fourth-quarter tries — the final carry a 59-yard touchdown run with 20.1 seconds remaining.
Wyatt Frost replaced Hartley in the lineup and added 43 yards and two rushing touchdowns, while quarterback Joe Seccareccia passed for 69 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 29 yards and another score.
Mt. Blue, playing without injured starting tailback Izaiha Tracy, had its only bright spot early in the second quarter when Cam Sennick raced 74 yards for his team’s only touchdown.
Frost returned the game’s opening kickoff 68 yards to set up Bangor’s first score, a 15-yard pass to Hartley in the left flat on a fourth-and-9 play with 9:11 left in the first quarter.
On the second play after the kickoff, Kelley stepped in front of a Whitney pass in the right flat and made the interception to give Bangor the ball at the Mt. Blue 32.
Hartley rushed for 7 yards on the next play, the scored by going off left tackle the final 25 yards to the end zone to make it 13-0 with 7:41 left in the opening period.
Kelley intercepted a Whitney pass again along the sideline and returned it to the Mt. Blue 7 two possessions later, leading to a 1-yard sneak by Seccareccia to extend Bangor’s lead to 19-0 with 1:50 left in the quarter.
Sennick’s long run — which accounted for more than one-third of Mt. Blue’s 204 total yards — closed the gap to 19-7 with 9:41 left in the first half, but Bangor answered with a 12-play, 67-yard march to push its lead back to 25-7 on a 3-yard run by Frost with 4:24 left in the second quarter. Seccareccia kept the drive alive with two third-down pass completions to Kelly, one for 17 yards and the second for a 21-yard gain to the Mt. Blue 7.
Bangor added two fourth-quarter touchdowns, the first after Tuell intercepted a pass at the Bangor 38 and returned it 55 yards to the Mt. Blue 7. Frost then scored from the 1 on a fourth-and-goal play.
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