The La Salle-Peru football team, led by a huge night by senior quarterback Sean Whitfield, came out and dominated from the opening drive in a 49-7 rout of Woodstock North in a Kishwaukee River/Interstate Eight White Division game Friday at Howard Fellows Stadium.

Whitfield ran for touchdowns of 46, 25 and 6 yards on his way to 158 yards on the ground.

For good measure, Whitfield connected on a pair of touchdown passes and a total of 65 more yards through the air, as the Cavs improved to 4-2.

“Our goal was to dominate up front on both sides of the ball,” L-P coach Jose Medina said. “That’s where it starts and tonight we were able to do that. We were hoping for a shutout, but give those guys on the other side credit. They never gave up and played hard all night and made a nice play at the end to score.”

The Cavaliers jumped out to an early 7-0 lead when the first of Whitfield’s touchdown passes went for 35 yards to Osvaldo Hernandez.

Then the L-P front line of Warren Mrowicki, Nicholas Belski, Aiden Van Duzer, Raymond Miller, Creed McCormick and Josue Busto took over and blew open holes for Whitfield and Matt Carrico (40 yards, TD) to rack up yardage and allow the offense to work.

After L-P built a 21-0 lead at the end of one quarter, the Cavs added two more scores – one on a Whitfield run and the other a 15-yard pass to Tre’von Hunter to build a 35-0 halftime lead.

The second half saw L-P’s defense continue its dominance with Thomas Zebron, Luke Mertes, Carter Walters and Joey Shepard all making standout plays.

The defense struck early in the second half with a score of its own when Mason Lynch stepped in front of a Woodstock North pass and turned it into a 65-yard pick six to put L-P ahead, 42-0.

Matt Carrico punched the ball in from a yard away to make the tally 49-0 with 11:20 left.

The Thunder broke up the shutout on a 28-yard pass from Jay Zinnen to Justin Van Acker.

“One thing about this program is there is no quit and we play hard,” Thunder coach Jeff Schroeder said. “That is the best defense we have seen all year and we were able to move the ball. They are also a big team, and we are short on numbers. So I was proud of the effort we put out tonight and all year.”