Scores and bonus thoughts from East Bridgewater.

Here are Friday night's scores, and more postponement news:

Mansfield 41, East Bridgewater 17
King Philip 10, Foxboro 7
Dighton-Rehoboth 35, Old Rochester 13
Medway 33, Norton 0
Nauset 18, Seekonk 13

SATURDAY(still on as far as we know)
Tri-County at Holbrook-Avon, 11 a.m.
Somerset at Bishop Feehan, 1 p.m.

SUNDAY
Attleboro at Barnstable, 1 p.m.
Canton at North Attleboro, 1 p.m.

And now, for the bonus thoughts:

** Quick quiz time:

A) East Bridgewater had the ball Friday night for 24:27, and Mansfield 15:33. Who won the game?

B) East Bridgewater had the ball for 13:12 in the first half, and Mansfield just 6:48. Who was leading at halftime?

C) East Bridgewater had the ball for 11:15 in the second half, and Mansfield 8:25. Who dominated the play?

If you answered "East Bridgewater" for all three questions, you would have a score of 33 percent, and that's not a passing grade. That would be the correct answer only to B.

The point? Time of possession isn't always a major factor in a football game. Perhaps there were only two junctures where it meant something in Mansfield's 41-17 victory.

The first time was when the Vikings held the ball for the last six minutes of the first half (including the recovery of an onside kick) and got 10 points out of those two concurrent possessions to take a 17-14 halftime lead. The second was when Mansfield took 4:18 out of the fourth quarter before scoring its last touchdown with 2:54 to go. If East Bridgewater had any chance at all to stem the Hornets' second-half surge, it disappeared during that possession.

** Another great rushing performance by Mansfield's Shawn Doherty, who certainly has to be considered one of the best backs in the Hockomock League, if not THE best.

He had 177 yards on 21 carries, scoring four touchdowns and picking up 118 of Mansfield's 188 second-half yards all by his lonesome. Mansfield coach Mike Redding called Doherty one of the most instinctive backs he's had during his lengthy tenure as the Hornets' coach, and it's easy to see why. He has great balance and sees the holes opening in front of him as well as anyone I've seen in a long while, and he's strong enough to pull himself out of arm tackles.

** There is no quick way to get from our neck of the woods to East Bridgewater. It backs up at Easton Five Corners and at the Route 27 intersection in West Bridgewater, and even again if you don't veer off Route 18 and follow 106 eastbound at the Joppa Market, taking the first left after that turn to get to the high school.

** One thing I noticed is that after crossing the Route 24 bridge in West Bridgewater, the price of regular gasoline drops about 30 cents a gallon. Can someone offer any kind of an explanation for that?

** OK, it wasn't the greatest of nights for football ... but let's remember, this is the last full-schedule weekend of the season before Thanksgiving, and any night game conducted in temperatures above freezing is a bonus. Indeed, I jumped out of my car in the parking lot and forgot to grab a couple of hand-warmers out of the back, but fortunately, I didn't need them. If not for a stiff wind and an occasional drop of rain or two, it almost would have been a balmy night.

Aside from a few really rotten days (that Seekonk at Old Rochester game was about as bad as they come), this hasn't been a bad season at all ... and now we're down to the nitty-gritty. It's been a fun ride.