Coming into this season, St. Aloysius junior DeMichael Harris was a bit of a question mark at running back.

Now, he’s just marking up the school’s record book.

Harris, who played running back for the first time this season, ran for 209 yards and four touchdowns in Friday’s 35-6 rout of Coffeeville in the Class 1A North State championship game to set St. Al’s single-season school records for both rushing yardage and rushing touchdowns.

Harris’ sixth 200-yard game of the season put him at 2,058 yards for the year, 18 more than Mike Ray had in 1978. He also has 24 touchdowns, one better than Stacy Williams totaled in 1995.

Harris broke the yardage record and tied the touchdown record on a 75-yard run in the third quarter that put St. Al ahead 21-6. He set the touchdown record three plays later by punching in a 2-yard run following a recovered pooch kickoff deep in Coffeeville territory.

Harris had a chance to tie the school’s single-game touchdown record of five on the Flashes’ next possession, but didn’t get the ball again after carrying it twice early in the drive. Quarterback Connor Smith wound up scoring on a 1-yard sneak for a 35-6 lead.

Since yardage records were first kept in 1970, Harris is just the fifth Warren County player to surpass the 2,000-yard mark. The last to do it was Warren Central’s Brian Darden, who set the county’s single-season record with 2,238 in 1994.

Harris needs 180 yards in this week’s Class 1A championship game against Cathedral to break Darden’s record.

The county touchdown record is 33, set in 1979 by Warren Central’s Carl Blue.

Griffith’s PAT streak at 75

On the final play of the first half Friday, St. Al kicker Casey Griffith pulled a 21-yard field goal attempt wide left. Maybe the problem was that it counted for three points instead of one.

Griffith went 5-for-5 on extra point attempts Friday — roughly from the same distance as his missed field goal — to run his streak of successful conversions to 75 in a row. He hasn’t missed since his first try of the season was blocked in the opener against Cathedral.

Turnover machine keeps rolling

St. Al’s defense recovered five fumbles and intercepted a pass against Coffeeville, giving them 48 takeaways in 14 games this season. They’ve had at least two in every game.

Drake Dorbeck recovered three of the fumbles, while Josh Price and Casey Landers had one each. DeMichael Harris intercepted a pass. The Flashes also forced two other fumbles that they weren’t able to fall on.

“We were just pursuing to the ball, causing havoc,” Price said.