SOUTH PORTLAND — Jaelen Jackson passed for two touchdowns and ran for another Friday night at Martin Field as South Portland opened the Class B South football season with an eye-opening 35-26 victory against Marshwood, the four-time defending state champion.

Jackson ran 6 yards for the only score of the first quarter, then stunned the Hawks with a 37-yard pass to Nolan Hobbs with 3 seconds left in the second to make it 14-0 at halftime.

Marshwood scored 20 points in the third quarter but never caught up. The Riots had two touchdowns of their own, on Johnny Poole runs of 17 and 2 yards.

The Riots put it away on Jackson’s 19-yard pass to Maccoy Murphy with 9:39 remaining.