By ERIC BENEVIDES

Sports writer

PAWTUCKET --- North Kingstown High wasted no time zapping all the drama out of this game.
Three touchdown runs by All-State quarterback Dave D'Errico, parlayed with a pair of costly fumbles by St. Raphael Academy, helped give the Skippers a 27-0 cushion just 59 seconds into the second quarter of Friday night's
Division I game at Pariseau Field and allowed the visitors to bus home with a 33-8 victory.

D'Errico, who scored his first TD on a 57-yard run on just the second playn of the night, finished his wonderful night with 184 yards on the ground on 18 carries. He was the featured attraction in NK's Single-wing attack that
ended up producing a whopping 404 yards on 47 carries and controlling the clock for most of the game.
"They have a very good offense," said SRA coach Mike Sassi, whose defending champs are now 1-2 in league play. "The big thing is we wanted to make them drive the field and earn their points. But they had that long run early, we had our two big mistakes, and you blink and we're down 27-0."
The first big mistake came after D'Errico capped a long 12-play, 88-yard drive with a 10-yard run to make it a 13-0 contest with 3:47 to play in the first quarter. The ensuing kickoff, a pooch kick to the Saints' 35, was fumbled by a SRA player and quickly pounced on by three NK players at the SRA 27.
Three plays later, D'Errico tossed a 32-yard pass to a wide-open Ryan Morris in the middle of the end zone and Zachary Wilmot added the two-point conversion run to make it a 21-0 game with 2:17 still on the clock.
The Saints tried to answer back on their next possession, but they again coughed up the ball on an errant snap at their own 38 that came while they were shifting on the line. On the Skippers' ensuing play, D'Errico broke loose for a 38-yard score (his 11th of the season) to make it a four-possession affair.
"Our mistakes were terrible," said Sassi. "Not handling that kickoff, which we practiced for weeks, snapping the ball while we were shifting -- those two mistakes right there are inexcusable. Instead of 27-8, it should have been a 13-8, 14-8 game at the half."
SRA's eight points came after D'Errico's third score on a two-yard quarterback sneak up the middle up Tyler Malo and a two-point conversion run by Jean-Daniel Roussel. That wrapped up the Saints' longest drive of the night, an 11-play, 53-yarder that took exactly five minutes off the clock and was highlighted by back-to-back 12-yard bootlegs by Malo.
The Saints had another golden opportunity to cut into their deficit in the final minutes of the quarter with a six-play, 50-yard drive that brought the ball to the Skippers' 23, but again, they fumbled the ball back to the Skippers.
The Skippers' defense, which came into the game allowing a division-leading 26.8 points per game, turned in its best showing of the season and limited the Saints to just 135 yards of offense through three quarters of play before scoring their final touchdown on a four-yard run by Robert Walker (10 carries-113 yards) with 9:59 to play in the game.
"For the one score that they had, when we kind of broke down a little bit in the secondary, we kind of shut them down, and we hadn't been able to do that (to anyone) this year," said NK coach Keith Kenyon, whose ballclub is 3-2 in the division. "That's kind of been our Achilles heel -- giving up too many points and too many big plays -- and we really didn't up many tonight."
"We thought we had a good wrinkle on offense, but they wanted it more than us up front," added Sassi. "They beat us up front on both sides of the ball, and when you get beat up front in football, you're going to lose."
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, 33-8
North Kingstown                21        6        0        6        --        33
St. Raphael                 0        8        0        0        --        8
NK -- David D'Errico 57 run (Dereck Harris kick)
NK -- David D'Errico 10 run (kick failed)
NK -- Ryan Morris 32 pass from David D'Errico (Zachary Wilmot run)
NK -- David D'Errico 38 run (kick failed)
SRA -- Tyler Malo 2 run (Jean-Daniel Roussel run)
NK -- Robert Walker 4 run (kick blocked)

                        NK                SRA
First downs                14                9
Rushes-yards                47-405                24-83
Passing                        3-7-0                7-16-1
Sacked-yards                0-0                0-0
Net passing                54                134
Punts-average                1-48.0                4-28.5
Fumbles-lost                2-1                3-3
Penalties-yards                10-65                2-20
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Individual statistics
RUSHING: NK -- David D'Errico 18-184, Robert Walker 10-113, Zachary Wilmot
11-79. SRA -- Jean Daniel-Roussel 11-42, Tyler Malo 5-33, Nael
Pierre-Louis 5-6, Ricardo Pognon 3-2.
PASSING: NK -- David D'Errico 3-6-0-54, Robert Walker 0-1-0-0. SRA --
Tyler Malo 4-12-0-56, Trevor Vasey 3-4-1-78.
RECEIVING: NK -- Ryan Morris 1-32, Robert Walker 1-19, Cody Normand 1-3.
SRA -- Marques Mosby 5-101, Nael Pierre-Louis 1-26, Jean-Daniel Roussel
1-7.