VIDALIA — The sights and sounds of a youth league football game are about as predictable as the actual play on the field.

Tuesday evening, at Dee Faircloth Viking Stadium in Vidalia, 8-and-under football players wrestled on the sidelines, talked about which teams they would like to play for and pinched one another to test their tolerance for pain.

Meanwhile, on the field, E.J. Hutchins of the Alfa Insurance Rebels broke loose on a long touchdown run to give his team a 6-0 lead. Alfa Insurance entered the matchup with a 3-1 record, but the opposing Vidalia Wash-N-Go Vikings were undefeated. The Vikings showed why by scoring 38 unanswered points.

Shawn Kerry Cothern scored first for the Rebels on a long running play before Layne King converted the two-point conversion. Cothern scored the next touchdown with a long run up the middle before a safety and a Caden Trahern touchdown gave the team a 24-6 advantage in the first half.

Vikings coach Chris Cothern said he tried to devise misdirection to confuse the Rebel defense, but was still surprised by how many explosive running plays his team reeled off in the 38-12 win.

“(Alfa Insurance) has a good front,” Cothern said. “They have good size, so I was surprised it happened that quickly.”

In the second 20-minute half, Rebel players on the sidelines tried to fire each other up.

“Stop playing around and get serious,” one Rebel said.

“Next time, I’m going to go right through the middle and hit that guy,” another Rebel answered.

While King and Cothern added scores in the second half, Rebel running back Colton Rabb made two players miss on the sidelines while barely hanging onto the football, pressing it against his back shoulder pad as he ran into the end zone.

After the win, Cothern’s team improved to 5-0, but better than that, he and his Miss-Lou Youth Football team had fun in a friendly exhibition.

“I love it,” Cothern said. “I’ve been doing this since my son was 3, and there’s nothing compared to it.”