Rolling, and rolling, and rolling. That's all Tamaqua has been doing through the first four weeks of the high school football season.

Tamaqua had far too much firepower for Panther Valley, who couldn't put the skids to the suddenly dangerous Blue Raiders on Friday in a non-conference rivalry game, 48-14.Tamaqua's offense was cruising, while the defense cold-cocked the Panthers most of the evening yielding all of 10 yards rushing on 29 attempts and 101 yards passing."They are so fundamentally sound, so physical and very well coached," said Panther Valley first-year mentor Scott Price. "Tamaqua is good, they do every fundamental aspect; they are technically sound; they're like technicians, with blocking stepping and that's a tribute to the way coach Sam Bonner and his staff coach."The Raiders weren't getting it done early, mainly because the Panthers were getting backside pressure on the counter-trey play Tamaqua kept trying to run. But Tamaqua switched from Plan A to B, and quickly took the attack up inside the guards and the tackles. That started to spring sophomore running back Nate Boyle to churn out 44 yards and his touchdown run that pushed his team in front 21-0 with 4:52 to play in the opening half."We knew coming over that it was going to be a tough game," said Bonner. "Panther Valley has feisty kids, and this is a great place to play a game. They took away a lot in a run game, fortunately we have two good quarterbacks."Oh yes, indeed.Zuber got the first call, Knoblauch the second, and both are a two-headed monster that teams are going to have a tough time defending. They combined for 9-of-12 passing, and 216 yards. Knoblauch was perfect in three attempts launching two touchdown passes and accounting for 83 of the yards. Zuber was 6-for-9 for 133 yards and a touchdown.Tamaqua scored on its second possession, running three plays, the last was a 40-yard strike from Knoblauch to Nick Breiner. "I came out of a wheel route, they linebacker bit on the tight end and that allowed me to get free," said Breiner.An eight-play drive added up to another score for the Raiders, this time Zuber flipped a 42-yarder to Knoblauch, before Boyle cashed in on a 25-yard run culminating another eight play drive. And with 25 seconds to play in the half, Rother finished off a 29-yard touchdown pass from Zuber just getting in to the end zone on the front pylon.Panther Valley had an answer to open the second half, recovering a fumble, then turned to quarterback Tanner Kennedy, who punched in a score from eight yards. "The talent is there, we just aren't executing," said Price. "These kids need to believe they can get it going."The Raiders extended the lead when Knoblauch hit Matt Kistler from 38 yards out for a 35-6 lead. On the next Tamaqua possession, Breiner scampered 24 yards with a key block from Jared Reed, which capped a seven-play, 56-yard drive."I just wanted to make my block perfect," said Reed. "The play was there and once (Breiner) got into the open field I knew he was going to score. It's a great win; we'll enjoy it and get ready for next week's game (at Blue Mountain)."As for Barron's 55-yard scoring run; it was daylight up the middle."Our offensive line did a great job on that play. All I had to do was not get caught," said Barron with a laugh.CRACKING THE ICE … Panther Valley's promising underclassman quarterback Ethan Reis tallied his team's other touchdown on a 4-yard run. He led the Panthers on a 7-play, 67-yard march to paydirt.THE RECORDS … While Tamaqua heads into Week 5 at 4-0, Panther Valley falls to 2-2 after starting the season 2-0.STARLETS … The trench warfare is where games are won and lost got a big lift on the Tamaqua side not only from Reed, but standout tackle Matt Amodea, John Burns, Sean Lavine and Bronson Strouse.