MOOSEHEART, August 28 -- Certainly Mooseheart's football team made some mistakes on Friday night. That's the nature of season-opening games.

But the Ramblers minimized those miscues and put together an overall solid effort in a 21-0 victory over North Shore Country Day.

"I really have nothing to complain about," Mooseheart coach Gary Urwiler said. "We did a nice job tonight. We played hard and we responded and we executed. It was a well-rounded job by everybody."

While nothing has been decided as to the eventual outcome of this year's football season, the feeling as the team left the field was certainly positive.

"It's a great feeling," Mooseheart senior Damion Moore said. "It's my senior year and it's great to get the first one. The next one's coming up, and we'll take them step by step and we'll see how we do in the next games."

In recent years, Mooseheart's football team has built a very solid foundation with its running game.

And certainly Friday's 21-0 season-opening victory over North Shore Country Day was predicated on the Red Ramblers solid ground attack.

Yet there was no denying that one of the key plays of the contest was Mooseheart's second touchdown, a 20-yard TD connection between quarterback Isaiah Brigman and Damion Moore. The play, which came midway through the third quarter, put the Ramblers ahead 14-0, a gap that was never seriously threatened.

"We've been practicing that little screen pass for a little bit," Urwiler said. "The good thing is that (Brigman) didn't feel the backside pressure. The timing worked and it was very successful. It was set up very nicely."

That drive was set up when Shawn McReynolds intercepted a pass and gave the Ramblers possession at their own 35. Not only did that interception halt a promising North Shore Country Day drive, it kick-started not only Mooseheart's offense but its defense as well.

"That was a real game-breaker for us," Moore said. "That boosted the intensity for us. We boosted it to another level."

Mooseheart's ground game was certainly dominating. Moore gained 74 yards on 15 carries while Martin Gutierrez added 64 yards on 15 carries.

"We've been working really hard on timing," Moore said. "We've been hitting the (blocking) sled a lot. The linemen, I just can't thank them enough. I don't know what to say. It was the linemen tonight."

Gutierrez got the Ramblers off to a strong start when he capped his team's opening drive by going in from the 2-yard line.

"The first drive, we took it down there and scored," Moore said. "We kept up the intensity from start to finish and we did what we had to do."

Moore's touchdown gave the Ramblers a key two-score lead. Brigman scored on a 39-yard run in the fourth quarter to complete the scoring.

North Shore Country Day 0 0 0 0 - 0
Mooseheart 6 0 8 7 - 21

Scoring plays
M -- Gutierrez 2 run (kick failed)
M -- Moore 20 pass from Brigman (Moore run) M -- Brigman 39 run (Cheneyon kick)