One by one, the mistakes and bad breaks piled up for Warren Central.

A dropped pass here, a missed tackle there. A blown call and a couple of missed field goals thrown in for good measure. By the time their last, best chance to stay in the game sailed a couple feet wide of the upright, it was clear it wasn’t the Vikings’ night.

And now, perhaps, the rivalry with Vicksburg is no longer their series.

Vicksburg beat Warren Central 22-12 on Friday night for its fourth consecutive victory in a series the Vikings once dominated. Since winning 20 of the first 21 meetings, Warren Central has won only three of the last nine since 2002.

“Obviously you have to say so anytime you win four in a row or five out of six,” WC coach Josh Morgan said when asked if the momentum in the series had swung in Vicksburg’s direction. “The way we focus is as this year’s team. You can’t get too much involved in consecutive years. You’ve got to take it year by year.”

Although Vicksburg did enough to grab victory in the latest installment of the Warren County Super Bowl, Warren Central gave the Gators plenty of room to take it. A series of miscues throughout the game either killed drives or cost the Vikings points:

• Kickers Devon Bell and Will Stegall each missed field goals, and an extra point was also blocked. The last miss, a 35-yarder by Stegall with just over four minutes left, would have cut Vicksburg’s lead to a single touchdown. Instead, it sailed wide right and the Vikings’ comeback hopes were finished.

• Trailing 7-6 midway through the second quarter, WC drove inside the VHS 35. On second-and-9, quarterback Beau Wallace threw a swing pass just off the fingertips of receiver Malcolm Grant. Grant not only appeared to be a step ahead of Wallace, but the official’s whistle also blew to signal an incomplete pass. However, another official called it a fumbled lateral that was recovered by Vicksburg. His call stood and the Gators took possession.

• On the ensuing possession Wallace, playing safety, dropped an easy interception. He had plenty of room to run and blockers all around, and it could have been returned for a score.

Late in the third quarter, it was Grant who dropped a sure touchdown pass. Wallace fired a deep ball over a Vicksburg cornerback, who dove and missed in an effort to tip it away. The pass hit Grant in the hands, but he bobbled it as he turned up field. With no one between him and the goal line, the ball fell out of Grant’s hands, hit off his knee and fell to the turf. A touchdown would have given WC an 18-15 lead.

• Finally, trailing by 10 points in the fourth quarter, the Vikings drove deep inside Gator territory three times. Two possessions ended in interceptions, the other in Stegall’s missed field goal.

“It was all ourselves,” WC fullback Austin Roberts said. “They really didn’t do anything. We just didn’t do what we needed to.”