The Parkview Vikings beat Glendale in 2002 and haven’t won since.

The Falcons (5-3) delivered the Vikings (0-8) a snowman in the loss category and moved easily through their first district game 48-19.

Defense dominated and offense exploded as the door was closed in the first half.

The Falcons used their two biggest weapons that make up the best passing-receiving duo in the Ozarks. Quarterback Kevin Redmon and wide receiver Alex Sanders prove again and again why they lead their individual stat categories.

Redmon leads with 2,036 passing yards this season and 15 touchdown passes. He also rushed for one in the first quarter on a QB sneak.

Sanders leads wide receivers with 983 yards receiving and 11 receiving touchdowns, he also took a kickoff 90 yards to the house against Hillcrest.

“They’re big time players and that’s what we expect out of them,” head coach Gary Hurst said.

The Vikings brought a linebacker blitz on Redmon and instead of scrambling and throwing it away he stayed in the pocket and saw Sanders short to his left.

Before you could say “he could go all the way” he did just that, running 46 yards on a broken play for his second TD of the game.

“That was my favorite play of the game,” Sanders said. He likes the ones where he gets to do most of the work

Joey Mendel, Matt Swan and Caleb “the boldoza” Bolda all rushed for a TD contributing to the seven touchdowns scored in the game.

The defense came up big with a shutout in the first half 41-0.

Parkview ran their offense rarely with wideouts and played both tight ends on the line with more than one runner in the backfield. Draws and counter runs didn’t fool senior linebacker Nick Detelich.

“They were easy to read,” Detelich said.

“The defensive line came out with a good plan.”

The biggest play on the defensive side was unquestionably at the end of the first half when the Vikings were driving to get their first score of the game.

At the one yard line Parkview tried a fake run and dumped off a quick pass that was intercepted by senior linebacker Tanner Thompson about two yards inside the end zone.

One hundred yards later, Thompson qualified for the Beijing Olympics as his did a front flip into the end zone. The team was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct but it was so entertaining no one on the sideline cared.

“It was awesome; I don’t care about a penalty. It was great,” Redmon said.

Sophomore Evan Leake continued to find himself in the right place at the right time and picked off another pass and ran it inside the five yard line to set up a Joey Mendel TD run.

With a massive lead against a struggling team, Hurst decided to play some JV players to get some playing time and experience in the second half.

“It was the smart thing to do,” Redmon said.

“We need to be healthy for next week.”