In particular, the C-NS defeat hurt because, instead of a top Section III playoff seed, the Northstars find itself locked into the same half of the bracket as Liverpool, the two lined up to meet in the semifinals if both win their respective first-round games next weekend.

Having won three games in a row, C-NS now went after a Proctor team that, like Liverpool, was 6-0 going into the week and holding the no. 17 state ranking. But it only took one play from scrimmage for the Raiders to take charge.

J.J. Razmovski dropped the first snap he took from scrimmage, and Proctor's Isiah Czarnecki recovered at the Northstars' 29-yard line. With a short field, the Raiders drove to the one, where Taesean Cooper scored.

Even more damaging was Mike Washington's fumble that thwarted a C-NS drive inside the Proctor 15 later in the first quarter, and the Northstars fumbled again inside Raiders territory in the second period.

Ultimately, all of those giveaways helped Proctor pull away. On fourth-and-goal at the Northstars' 10 early in the second quarter, quarterback Brandon Peterson rolled out and threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Saleh Eltayeb, and the Raiders added the two-point conversion.

Off of the third C-NS turnover, the Raiders drove to the Northstars' eight, and Peterson scrambled to the end zone just 1.8 seconds before halftime, and it was now 20-0.

Any dreams of a Northstars comeback got dashed in the third quarter. Proctor took the kickoff and went 72 yards in 11 plays, all runs, as Cooper, who finished with 131 yards, did much of the work, including the final yards for a TD.

Twice more, C-NS fumbled, with one of those turnovers leading to Proctor's final points when Peterson scored on a one-yard sneak.