East St. Louis showed again Saturday why it’s a next-to-impossible force to stop.

Credit St. Laurence for holding off the inevitable – a running clock – until 6:36 remained in the fourth quarter. That’s when the Flyers, on Ahmad Coleman’s third touchdown of the day, set the 50-7 final score in Saturday’s 6A semifinal game at Kavanagh Stadium.

But make no mistake. Aside from three second-half turnovers and a trio of holding penalties that negated three long touchdown plays, this game was all Flyers.

They enjoyed a 459-99 yardage advantage, ran 50 plays to the Vikings’ 39 and generally showed – in racing to a 10th victory against three losses, all to out-of-state schools – why they’ll be the prohibitive favorite over Fenwick in next Saturday’s Class 6A championship.

“This team’s got a

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