Big plays pushed the Cougars (5-1) past the Mustangs (0-6) in Thorndike.

Mount View scored first to take an 8-0 lead, but then Dirigo reeled off five straight TDs.

After Leo Spaulding scored on a 2-yard run for the Mustangs, Dirigo’s Owen Smith returned the ensuing kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown. Later in the first quarter, quarterback Hudson Lufkin tossed an 81-yard touchdown pass to Trevor Crosby, giving the Cougars a 14-8 advantage.

In the second quarter, Lufkin and Brady Philbrick hooked up for a 60-yard touchdown pass, and Smith scored on a 60-yard run. Dirigo’s lead was up to 28-8 at halftime.

Nathaniel Wainwright ran in a score from 51 yards out to make it 36-8 in the third quarter.

Mount View ended the five-touchdown onslaught with a 70-yard kickoff return touchdown by Wyatt Everson. As he did following the Mustangs’ first score, Smith returned the ensuing kickoff 75 yards for a touchdown.

Smith’s three touchdowns all came of plays of 60 yards or more. All of the Cougars’ scoring plays went for at least 51 yards, that last a 75-yard run by Tanner Bradeen for the lone points of the fourth quarter. Bradeen then ran in the 2-point conversion to finish the scoring.

Lufkin ran in two 2-point conversions, and Wainwright one for Dirigo. Everson scored 2-point conversions after both of Mount View’s scores.