HOLLY POND — Big brother is still the best in the Fairview-Holly Pond rivalry.

And like the nine previous meetings, it wasn’t even close.

Logan Brooks and Ragan Ashley combined for 443 rushing yards and seven touchdowns, and the Class 5A Aggies extended their series streak to double digits with a 62-25 road drubbing of the 3A Broncos on Friday night.

The 62 points was the program’s most since laying the same amount on DAR in 2011. Though lofty, it wasn’t exactly a surprising total to senior offensive lineman Tyler Pendergrass.

“I kind of figured we would,” he said. “We prepared pretty good for it. We went into the whole season coming into this one waiting for it.”

Brooks staked the Purple and Gold to a 21-0 lead with three touchdowns in the first 13 minutes. He finished with five and 264 yards on 24 carries, calling it a night after a 75-yard dash to the end zone with three minutes to go in the third quarter.

The senior’s other scores covered 8, 15, 15 and 19 yards.

“My line was great,” Brooks said. “We got a push up front and there were just holes everywhere. I just busted through ’em.”

Ashley said farewell to Fairview football in grand fashion as well, taking off for all but two of his 179 rushing yards in the first half. He ended the evening with a pair of touchdowns on the ground — including an 86-yarder immediately following a Holly Pond score in the second quarter — and one through the air to Sambo Woods.

Woods was responsible for six of Ashley’s nine completions and 83 of his 102 passing yards. He also had a lengthy punt return to set up the Aggies’ second touchdown. 

“We challenged our guys to this week to focus on what we do,” Fairview coach George Redding said. “We were not interested in riding the rollercoaster. In a football game, there’s tons of highs and lows, but it’s whoever can execute on a consistent basis is usually going to hopefully find a way to win, and that was our goal.”

In all, the Aggies rolled up 638 yards. A whopping 536 came via a rushing attack that had no problems hitting lanes left open by starting linemen Jared Bachelor, Andrew Morris, Pendergrass, Hayden Richards and Brett Garner. Redding said Jackson McGukin also factored in heavily to a limited, yet obviously effective, rotation up front.

“We don’t have but about 11 linemen total right now,” the coach said. “We’re so thin up there, and those guys have had to get in the trenches all year and just kind of grind things out. I’m so proud of how much they’ve improved through the year.

“Those guys, they got challenged this week because we felt like Holly Pond was going to try to stack the box and put a lot of guys in there. They did, and our guys still were able to open up some holes for ’em.”

Not bad for a unit that felt slighted entering the contest. After reading the assertion by a Holly Pond player that “if our defense can stop their passing, I think we’ll be fine,” Brooks and Co. set out to prove the Purple and Gold’s run game deserved more respect.

Mission accomplished.

“The crap that Holly Pond was talking, we decided to put it back in their face,” Brooks said. “This was a great ending. I’m glad that we were able to come out with the win.”

Dante Dumas added a late rushing touchdown for Fairview, and Jaxxon Swann was good on eight of his nine extra-point attempts.

Brooks and Jose Medina had a sack apiece for an Aggie defense that held Holly Pond’s generally potent offense to just 11 yards in the opening 15 minutes of the second half before back-to-back scoring drives by the Broncos.

The home team’s first and last TDs were on 70- and 4-yard passes from Michael Lambert to Dylan Morton. Caleb Jones had Holly Pond’s other scores on a pair of 1-yard runs.

Lambert was 12-of-29 passing for 255 yards. Morton had five catches for 122 yards, and Matt Cahoon and Kyler Chaney each had three for 82 and 52 yards, respectively.

Jones had 77 rushing yards for the Broncos, who were otherwise 12 yards in the red. Trey Hill had a number of tough returns.

Holly Pond wrapped up the regular season 6-4 heading into a first-round playoff date at top-ranked Piedmont.

Fairview, meanwhile, is done for the fall, finishing 5-5 for the second straight campaign. The Aggies would’ve definitely preferred to play an 11th game, but they’ll settle for ending the year with a long-awaited contest at home and yet another convincing victory over their county rivals.

“We didn’t have the season we all hoped for, but we finished it out,” Pendergrass said. “I think everybody’s going to be happy with how we finished.”