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Head east young men, and don’t stop until you reach faraway Reed Point, just this side of Chicago, uh, maybe we mean Billings.

Fresh off an easy 64-7 season-opening win over the visiting Heart Butte Warriors last Friday, coach Bart Haflich and his enterprising Noxon Red Devil football team will now travel some 400 miles one way to go and play the Reed Point-Rapelje Renegades in Reed Point this Friday.

At least the Devils do not have to go the extra 30 miles or so they would have been required to travel had the game been in Rapelje (pronounced Rapel-J).

“It’s 423 miles from Noxon to Reed Point, and the game is at 6 p.m.,” Haflich said. “It’s going to be a long weekend on the road for us.”

The upstart Devils made the Heart Butte Warriors’ long bus ride back to their home stomping grounds a bit more miserable by shellacking their northern Montana visitors from the get-go last Friday on Jenny Lampshire Memorial Field.

“We had a good ground attack against Heart Butte which kind of set the tone in the game,” Haflich said. “Brody (Hill) did a real good job at quarterback and on defense. He had two interceptions, including a pick-six, and defended four or five other passes too.”

Running back Josh Baldwin, who wound up scoring four touchdowns, got the Devils on the scoreboard first with a 35 yard touchdown run.

After that it was steady march of Red Devils into the end zone. Baldwin scored again on a 19-yard gallop and Hill hit paydirt on a 15-yard run to send the game into the second quarter with Noxon leading 21-0.

In the second quarter, Baldwin scored again on a 16-yard dash, Cade VanVleet got into the end zone from 15 yards out and Rylan Weltz caught a 20-yard scoring strike from Hill to send the teams into the locker room with the Devils ahead 39-0.

Baldwin added a 24-yard touchdown run, Nathan Cano ran three yards for another TD, Gage Hendrick scored on a 33-yard run and finally, Hill completed scoring for the home team by grabbing his pick-six interception and returning it 25 yards for another touchdown.

Heart Butte got on the scoreboard in the fourth quarter with a one-yard touchdown run by Clifton Bullshoe.

Haflich said Jared Webley, Michael Antonich and Weltz were three of the biggest reasons the Devils were so successful against the Warriors. “Those three pretty much controlled the line of scrimmage,” he said. “They set the table for what a lot of the other kids did with their blocking, and put up a pretty stout defensive front too.”

Haflich was pleased with his entire team’s opening-night effort. “I was happy with how our defense played,” he said, “and I thought we blocked and tackled well for being the first game of the season.”

Reed Point-Rapelje is 1-1 on the season, losing to Valley Christian 48-24 back on Aug. 31 before coming back to dump Broadview-Lavina 46-6 last week. Noxon had a bye the first week and is now 1-0.for the season.