With just less than two minutes left in Friday’s game, the Berwick Bulldogs snapped the ball on fourth down and kicked away their final possession.

It was conclusive proof that the Bulldogs really can punt.

“We do have a punter,” Berwick coach Gary Campbell said.

That would have been hard to tell otherwise, as the dice kept coming up lucky sevens for Berwick during a 42-20 thumping of Tunkhannock.

Call it luck if you will, but Berwick’s ability to convert key fourth downs from anywhere on the field may have been as much of a result of hard work as the 146 yards and three touchdowns Bulldogs junior quarterback A.J. Mihaly put up.

“I’m very aggressive with that,” Campbell said. “I just think, sometimes, teams let down on special teams and we want to be the aggressor. It’s a dumb play (punting), when you think about it. You’ve got to give up the ball, give the ball to the other team, and give them a chance to score.

“Why?”

Good question, if you happen to be a member of the Bulldogs.

Berwick reached into its bag of tricks early, found some success, and kept going for more.

On the game’s first possession of the game, the Bulldogs (2-0) faked a punt as Brandon Welch took a direct snap 7 yards for a first down. Later in the drive, Alec Ladonis bashed his way for 8 yards on another fourth-down play and, eventually, John Jola knifed for a 3-yard touchdown run and a 7-0 Berwick lead.

“Coach is aggressive in his play-calling,” Mihaly said. “We know even if it’s fourth-and-3, fourth-and-4, we have a good chance of keeping it going.”

Hey, if it’s working, why stop?

Early in the fourth quarter, Berwick again rolled the dice on a fourth-and-4 play from its own 35-yard line. Louis Hampton cashed it in with a 10-yard run as the riverboat gambler Campbell hit the jackpot again.

Of course, by that time, the Bulldogs had already built a commanding 42-20 lead.

Mihaly, making only his second varsity start, lobbed a pretty 5-yard touchdown pass to Zach Powell and found Ryan Sitler with a sweet 33-yard strike to the end zone as Berwick took a 21-0 lead late in the opening quarter.

Mihaly also found Cory Davenport streaking down the sideline for a 57-yard touchdown bomb with seven seconds left in the first half.

And when Davenport scooped up a fumble and returned it 29 yards for a touchdown on the ensuing kickoff, the game changed for good, as Berwick took a 42-12 lead as time expired on the second quarter.

“They made those plays,” Tunkhannock coach Frank Berardelli said. “Hats off to them – first of all to call them, second of all to make them.”

Then again, that’s Berwick’s style.

“We’re going to be aggressive,” Campbell said. “From day one, that’s what we want to do. It’ll happen on the 20, it’ll happen on the 50. Sometimes, I’m going to get burned. I’ve got to live with that. But we have to be aggressive.”