BLOOMINGTON — Bloomington football defeated visiting Arroyo Valley 16-14 on Friday. And if the late Bloomington coach Don Markham watched the Skyline League opener from above, he must have smiled.

Both teams ran double-wing offenses – Markham’s old attack – and only six passes were thrown by both teams combined, with three of them intercepted. It felt like 1994, back when Markham’s Bloomington team set a then-national scoring record of 880 points in 14 games.

Points were harder to come by, and Bloomington won in overtime by stopping Arroyo Valley’s two-point conversion.

The Bruins took a 16-8 lead in OT when Dominic Puentes scored on Bloomington’s first snap. Bloomington’s Dylan Fraembs added a two-point conversion.

“They trapped him and nobody was there,” Puentes said. “It was a direc

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