DIVISION III STATE FINAL Watterson thumps Benedictine, 28-7

Benedictine had beaten Watterson during the regular season.
MASSILLON (AP) -- Danny DeLucia threw for 105 yards and two touchdowns as Columbus Watterson beat Cleveland Benedictine 28-7 to win the Division III state championship Saturday.
The game was a rematch of week five of the regular season, when Benedictine beat Watterson 23-17. In that game, Benedictine's Raymond Williams rushed for 262 yards and two touchdowns.
This time, Williams had 108 yards, but the Eagles (11-4) kept him contained.
Williams, who was Division III offensive player of the year and runner-up to Kenton's Benny Mauk as Mr. Football, had rushed for 3,149 yards and 39 touchdowns coming in.
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Working through a snow squall that covered the field in the first half, DeLucia picked the Bengals (12-3) apart, repeatedly completing swing passes to his running backs on third down and hitting a couple of big passes downfield.
The biggest came early in the third quarter. On third down from the Benedictine 40, DeLucia avoided a heavy pass rush and threw over the middle to Andrew Murray, who broke one tackle and cruised into the end zone to make it 21-7.
The Bengals then moved down the field methodically with their running game, but Jonathan McCurdy intercepted Benedictine's first pass of the drive inside the 10-yard line.
After a short punt, Benedictine drove down to the four-yard line. On fourth and two, Williams took a pitch to the right, tried to get outside and was stopped cold.
After a Watterson punt, Shaun Swearingen intercepted a pass by Joe Laffey and returned it 42 yards to make it 28-7.
Struck on first drive
The Eagles struck on the first drive of the game, with DeLucia's 20-yard pass to Swearingen down the sideline moving his team into Bengals territory. DeLucia ended the drive with a 7-yard scoring pass to Swearingen.
The Bengals fired right back. On 3rd and 15 from his own 40, Laffey threw a perfect pass over the middle, hitting Maurice White in stride. White outran a defender to tie it at 7.