You never know how a team is going to react after suffering a blowout loss.

Twice this season, Palmerton's football team has been in that situation. And both times it bounced back.The Blue Bombers celebrated "Senior Night" with a 38-28 win over Salisbury for its sixth win in nine games this season.And a 31-point first half gave them a big enough cushion, even though they let up a bit in the second half."That was the game plan, to get up early," said Palmerton head coach Chris Walkowiak. "To try and come out and score right away and the kids executed and got up by 14."Big plays hurt us. Salisbury is a fighting team, a scrappy team. Our defense did well for us at times forcing turnovers. We got the two interceptions (Dominic Shivone and Tre Nelson) for touchdowns that helped a lot."We've still got a lot to fix and clean up heading into a rival game at Northern Lehigh next week."The Bombers took the opening kickoff an 8-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Garrett Perschy slicing through the Salisbury defense for a 26-yard touchdown. Rich Roselli booted his first of five PAT's and the Bombers had a 7-0 lead.On the Falcons third play following the Bomber score, Nelson stepped in front of a Tevon Weber throw, picked it off and raced 50 yards into the end zone. With less than four minutes off the clock, Roselli's boot made it 14-0.Salisbury shook off the cobwebs, however, as Weber found Mason Donaldson open for completions of 12 and 41 yards down to the Bomber 2. Devin Irwin ran it in from there and Donaldson's PAT cut the Palmerton lead to 14-7.Right near the end of the first quarter, Nick Sander picked off a Weber pass and gave the Bombers good field position on the Salisbury 20. The Falcons' defense stiffened, but Roselli booted a 21-yard field goal to make it 17-7.With 8:28 left in the half, it was Shivone's turn to pick off a Weber pass and he took it 80 yards for a score lifting the Bomber lead to 24-7.Three minutes later, three straight carries by Palmerton's Jerry Pereira took the ball down to the Salisbury 13. Rae Washington took it in from there to make it 31-7.One of the big plays Walkowiak referred to happened on the ensuing kickoff when Shane Wittman ran the kickoff back 80 yards for a TD, setting the halftime score at 31-14.The Falcons pulled within 10 points with over seven minutes left in the third quarter when Weber hooked up wit Donaldson for a 21-yard score.A drive by the Bombers on their next possession ended with Perschy scoring his second TD of the night, this one from the nine, and Roselli's kick made it 38-14 and a big enough cushionSalisbury's last score came on another big play where Irwin broke loose and raced 89 yards into the end zone.Jericho Burger, Calvin Koch and Nelson recovered fumbles for the Bombers to keep the Falcons at bay.With the post-season knocking on the Palmerton door, it's the "Battle of the Blue Mountain" in Slatington next Friday.Stay tuned.