After having come close a week earlier to winning for the first time this season, Littlefork-Big Falls’ football team remained winless after giving up 50 or more points for the fourth time in five games.

Silver Bay trounced the Vikings, 56-24, on Saturday afternoon at John Thompson Field.

“(The Mariners) were good, we weren’t,” said L-BF head coach Derek Bilben. “That’s plain and simple.”

Of the Vikings’ 208 yards on offense, 193 yards came on the ground. Richie Van Drunen led the team with 109 yards rushing on 19 carries and a touchdown. Mitch Nelson ran for 74 yards on 14 carries and a touchdown.

Silver Bay was able to score multiple touchdowns on L-BF from more than 50 yards away.

After stopping the Vikings to start the game, the Mariners Kyle Blood returned a punt into the end zone with 9:37 left in the first quarter.

Down 8-0, L-BF drove into Mariner territory before a “chop block” penalty contributed to keeping the Vikings out of the end zone as they turned the ball over on downs.

Silver Bay added a touchdown run of 79 yards along the L-BF sideline. The Mariners led 16-0 after the opening quarter.

A 74-yard touchdown pass helped extend the Mariners’ lead to 22-0 with 8:25 left before halftime.

The Vikings finally got on the scoreboard when Jeff Fry recovered a fumbled Silver Bay punt return and ran with the football into the end zone with 5:56 remaining in the second quarter. The two-point conversion run by Nelson cut the deficit to 22-8.

However, Silver Bay scored 15 seconds later after returning the kickoff for the touchdown. A subsequent touchdown pass of 36 yards from Luke Thun to Blood gave the Mariners a 35-8 lead at halftime.

Following the first Silver Bay touchdown in the second half, L-BF scored with 6:04 left in the third quarter when Nelson ran into the end zone from two yards away. John Reller hauled in the two-point conversion pass to cut the deficit to 42-16.

The Mariners added two more touchdowns before Van Drunen ran in L-BF’s final touchdown with 4:09 left to play.

The loss dropped the Vikings’ season record to 0-5 overall. L-BF plays next at 7 p.m. Friday at Cherry.

“If we play the way we did (Saturday), we won’t have another win the rest of the season,” Bilben said.

Cherry also enters Friday’s game 0-5 overall.

Silver Bay 56, L-BF 24

SB 16 19 14 7 — 56

L-BF 0 8 8 8 — 24