Now it’s turned into a one-week season for the Jordan-Elbridge football team.

Thanks to the Eagles’ 29-6 victory over Port Byron/Union Springs Friday night, the Eagles moved to 5-1 on the season and 3-1 in the Class C West division, tied for second place with Canastota.

And next Friday night, J-E hosts the Raiders, with the winner guaranteed to earn a Section III Class C playoff berth and the loser waiting to see if it can snare one of the two wild-card bids.

A week earlier, on Oct. 3, J-E had manhandled Tully 52-14, getting two touchdowns apiece from Justin Quinn and Kyle Humberstone, plus scoring runs from Austin Barrigar and Ryan Matousek.

Overall, Matousek burned the Black Knights for 114 yards on 15 carries. Defensively, Dylan Dunham led the Eagles with nine tackles, while Zack Conners and Brian Rowley each got six tackles.

Against Port Byron/Union Springs, it didn’t prove as one-sided, but J-E’s defense did a superb job, not allowing a single point. The Panthers’ lone score came on Austin Parker’s 79-yard kick return late in the second quarter.

By then, J-E already enjoyed a healthy lead. Less than five minutes into the first quarter, the Eagles went up 6-0 on Barrigar’s nine-yard scoring pass to Zach Pangaro. That margin doubled when Barrigar broke loose and sprinted 27 yards to the end zone early in the second period.

The Eagles didn’t stop there, extending the lead to 20-0 by moving to the PB/US 20 in the middle of the second quarter and seeing Barrigar find Dunham in the end zone, and do so again for two points.

Even Parker’s kick return didn’t rattle J-E, who drove down the field in the waning stages of the half and used Pangaro’s 30-yard field goal to extend the lead to 23-6 at the break.

All through the second half, the Eagles constantly stuffed the Panthers, preventing any thoughts of a comeback. Meanwhile, it worked on field position until a drive that bridged the third and fourth quarters saw Pangaro find the end zone from four yards out with 11:04 left, sealing it.

While J-E inched closer to the sectional playoffs, Bishop Ludden, following up its first win of the season at Port Byron/Union Springs on Oct. 3, ran right into Syracuse’s Institute of Technology Central last Thursday night and took a 44-9 defeat to the Eagles.

Wasting little time, ITC, whose lead in C West resulted from hard-fought road wins over J-E and Canastota, grabbed a 13-0 lead by the end of the first quarter. And other than a field goal, the Gaelic Knights could not get on the board in the second quarter, either, seeing the Eagles spread its advantage to 32-3.

Big plays ruined Ludden’s evening. Lootie Allen led ITC by running for 228 yards, including a 26-yard TD scamper, while teammates Keenan Scott and Josh Holmes both found the end zone on long runs – Scott from 70 yards, Holmes from 58 yards.

Solvay also was looking for back-to-back wins, only to fall at home to Cortland 23-8 and see its record dip to 1-5 in time for this Friday’s regular-season finale at Chittenango.

Nick Perry’s two-yard scoring run in the first quarter, plus a two-point conversion, helped Solvay to an 8-3 lead, but it didn’t find the end zone again. A stingy Cortland defense took care of that, and the rest belonged to Purple Tigers running back Anthony Ricotelli.

Three different times – once in each of the second, third and fourth quarters – Ricotelli took handoffs deep in his own end, found blocks and took off, his TD runs of 52, 63 and 41 yards, in that order, gave Cortland a lead it would not relinquish.