Neither coach had even seen anything like it.
"It was like having your hands on the wheel of a car with no brakes," Golden Valley coach Jake Messina said.
"It was the weirdest first half or really second quarter I can remember," Buhach Colony coach Kevin Swartwood said. "We would score on two plays and then (Golden Valley) would score on two plays. The scores came as quick as I've ever seen."
At the end of the night the scoreboard read: Buhach Colony 90, Golden Valley 48.
The game was a statistician's dream.
The two teams combined for 1,402 yards.
The 138 points scored rank third all-time in state history by two teams combined in one game.
Obviously, there were all kinds of school records set.
• Buhach Colony rushed for 680 yards and racked up 831 yards of offense.
• Golden Valley quarterback Ridge Bertuccio completed 37 of 66 passes for 568 yards and seven touchdowns. All of which are GV records.
• The Cougars' Andre Bodiker caught 12 passes for 263 yards and four touchdowns. Bryant Brown added 10 catches for 197 yards and three more touchdowns.
Maybe the strangest play of the game was when Buhach's Tyson Coffey scored on special teams.
With Golden Valley lining up for a long field goal, Coffey rushed around the right end and scooped up the ball off the kicker's tee before the Cougars had a chance to attempt the kick. Coffey raced 70 yards for a touchdown.
"I was confused on the play that night," Swartwood said. "I had to watch the play on film three or four times before I finally got what happened."
Bertuccio completed 14 of 29 passes for 298 yards and five touchdowns in the second quarter alone.
The Thunder finally put the game away when they outscored GV 35-8 in the third quarter.
"I've never seen 90 points before, and I didn't have a great feeling seeing it," Swartwood said. "We would have taken our foot off the gas a lot earlier, but we didn't feel we could until the fourth quarter."
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