The Bombers did not merely leave town with another win. They took the Demons apart, 41-13, and made their 9-0 start look less like a hot streak than a warning to the rest of the league.

Robert Johnson opened the scoring with a 51-yard field goal, but the Demons briefly made a game of it. Matthew Stine hit Steven Massey for a 34-yard touchdown to put the home side ahead 7-3 early in the second quarter. Burlington answered immediately: Jose Hager found Edward Garrett for an 18-yard score, then Jeffrey McClanahan intercepted Stine and returned it 21 yards to the Demons’ 10. Garrett finished the short drive with a one-yard touchdown run. The Bombers led 17-7, and the Demons managed only a field goal before halftime.

That exchange showed the difference between these teams. The Bombers converted four of four red-zone trips into touchdowns. The Demons had one red-zone visit and no touchdown. Burlington was sharp where points are won; the Demons were left scraping for them.

Johnson’s 45-yard field goal in the third quarter stretched the lead to 20-10. Then Garrett scored again from two yards out early in the fourth, and Hager connected with tight end Robert Lucero for an eight-yard touchdown. Lucero’s score made it 34-10, with his 114 receiving yards leading all Bombers. Garrett delivered the blunt-force work: 86 rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns and a receiving touchdown. Hager threw for 227 yards and two scores.

The defense supplied the exclamation point. Francis Sharma sacked Stine, forced a fumble and returned it 34 yards for a touchdown, pushing the margin to 41-10. Sharma finished with three sacks and a forced fumble; Burlington’s defense totaled five sacks and also got McClanahan’s interception. The Demons added a 53-yard field goal, but that was cleanup, not a comeback.

Burlington held Demons to 49 rushing yards and just 3-of-18 on third down. The Bombers had their own blemish—Hager was intercepted once—but it could not blunt a performance that controlled the scoreboard and kept pressure on Stine. William McClure’s club is now 9-0, 4-0 in its division, and sitting first in the division. The streak is intact. More importantly, the Bombers looked every bit as ruthless as that record says they should.