AUBURN — After scoring his fifth touchdown of the first half against Edward Little, Skowhegan senior running back Adam Dusty jogged to the sideline, doubled over and spilled his guts on the Walton Field dirt.

Imagine how Edward Little must have felt.

Dusty rushed for 277 yards and a career-high five touchdowns on 24 carries as Skowhegan scored 34 unanswered points in the first half then waited for the clock to run out in a 34-22 victory Saturday.

Running out of the power-I and the Indians’ vaunted double wing, Dusty scored on runs of 47, 70, six, 30 and 17 yards before the clock had passed the 20-minute mark in the first half.

A couple of those runs, the 47-yarder and the 30-yarder, occurred when EL appeared to have him trapped inside for a short gain or a loss, only to have Dusty bounce it outside and down the sideline to paydirt.

“The blocking scheme was to seal off the outside and if it wasn’t open on the inside, bounce it to the outside, and the blocks were there,” Dusty said.

Dusty found an opening to his left on the game’s opening possession and sprinted down the sideline for his first touchdown. Ethan Johnson’s pass to Jacob Weese made it 8-0.

EL (2-5) appeared to answer on its first possession when Luke Farrago caught a 24-yard touchdown pass from Josh Delong, but the play was nullified by an illegal man downfield penalty.

Delong’s next pass fell incomplete, turning the ball over on down to Skowhegan (4-3). Lined up in the power-I on third down, Dusty took a handoff up the middle, broke a tackle at his own 40 and raced to the end zone for a 14-0 lead.

“The kids played hard. We want to get better every week and keep improving,” said Skowhegan coach Mike Marston, whose team could make the playoffs if it wins out against Mt. Ararat and Bangor.

A 41-yard run by Dusty set up his third score, a six-yarder that made it 20-0. An Edward Little fumble gave the Indians the ball right back at EL’s 31 and they gave the ball to Dusty on three straight carries.

On the third, the Eddies appeared to have him hemmed in after a three-yard gain up the middle, but Dusty stepped back, broke to the outside to his right and outran the defense down the sideline for a 30-yard TD and a 26-0 lead.

“The blocking did exactly what it was supposed to do,” Dusty said. “The line was the best it’s been all season.”

“We lost him in a pile. One guy would have ahold of him and lost him,” EL coach Dave Sterling said. “It’s a tough offense to try to scout your defense up  for during the week and try to get a ‘look’ team that can actually run it right. It’s something that you really have to work at to get your guys to understand how to play it the right way.”

Dusty’s fifth touchdown, a 17-yarder, preceded his stomach issues, but it was EL fans who were feeling ill after another promising drive behind the running of Darnnell Hairston (22 carries, 107 yards) and Delong (10 carries, 60 yards TD) went for naught when Hairston was stripped of the football at the Skowhegan 6 with 1:05 left in the first half.

EL did a better job containing Dusty in the third quarter then made things look respectable with three touchdowns in the final seven minutes of the game. Delong scored on a four-yard run, then the Eddies recovered their onside kick to set up a one-yard touchdown run by David Sterling. A 49-yard touchdown pass from Sean Ford to Alphonso Belnavis finished the scoring with 2:05 left, but the Eddies failed to execute the ensuing onside kick to make things more interesting.