BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Joe Nixon scooped up a fumble and rumbled 98 yards for the go-ahead touchdown as the Freeport High School football team pulled out an 18-14 Campbell Conference victory over Boothbay on Friday.

Down 14-12 at the half, Dan Burke’s hard hit caused the Seahawks (0-1) fumble, with Nixon finding daylight and pulling away for the score.

“It was a big play, and one of eight Boothbay fumbles that we caused,” said Freeport (1-0) coach Rob Grover, whose squad is scheduled to host Sacopee Valley (0- 1) this upcoming Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Pownal Recreational Field.

Freeport jumped on top 6-0 in the second quarter when Burke scored on a 3-yard run. The scoring drive was helped along by a James Purdy pass to Nixon to keep the drive alive. Purdy was 3-of-8 for 41 yards in the air.

Boothbay tied it, but the Falcons reclaimed the lead when quarterback Purdy scored on an 18-yard run for a 12-6 Freeport advantage.

The Seahawks claimed the lead on the final play of the opening half on a short touchdown pass.

Purdy rushed six times for 44 yards to pace Freeport. On defense, Burke had 12 tackles and forced two fumbles, while Darnell Struthers recovered two Boothbay (0-1) miscues and caused one.

CAMDEN HILLS 6

MORSE 39

The host Shipbuilders rushed for over 300 yards in a Pine Tree Conference Class B win on Saturday.

The game was scheduled for Friday, but heavy rain and lightning sent the teams home for 24 hours.

Quarterback Kevin McKellar rushed 11 times for 114 yards and tossed a 63-yard TD pass to D’Vaughn Myers to open the second half. Myers added 100 yards on the ground on 14 carries.

“We settled down and got comfortable after the first half, and once we were there everything was clicking,” said Morse (1-0) coach Jason Darling, whose squad visits Gardiner this upcoming Friday (7 p.m.).

Myers gave Morse a 6-0 lead in the first quarter on a 23- yard run, and McKellar made it a 12-0 game at the half on a 25-yard scamper.

Leading 18-0, Myers added a 16-yard run and McKellar an 18-yard TD burst before James Laser completed the Morse scoring on a 5-yard score.

Camden Hills (0-1) got on the board when Alex Crans broke loose for a 60-yard TD run in the final minute.

LISBON 14

DIRIGO 28

The host Cougars scored 20 fourth-quarter points for a come-from-behind Campbell Conference win on Friday in Dixfield.

Lisbon, 0-1 and scheduled to host 1-0 Maranacook on Saturday at 1:30 p.m., led 14-6 after three quarters. But, Brett Whittemore scored on a 1-yard run, and Heath Hersom ran in the 2-point conversion for a 16-14 Dirigo (1-0) lead with 8:04 left in the contest.

The Greyhounds jumped out to an 8-0 lead when Kyle Sheehan scored on a 6-yard run, followed by a conversion run by Jordan Torres.

Dirigo tied the game on a Spencer Trenoweth (201 yards rushing) 56-yard gallop, but Lisbon went up 14-6 as quarterback Kyle Bourget found a seam and rumbled 35 yards to paydirt.

“A lot of kids carried the ball for us and played a lot of football,” said Lisbon coach Dick Mynahan. “Defensively, I thought we played a good game, with Dirigo getting most of their yardage in the fourth quarter.”

Bourget paced Lisbon with 47 yards rushing and completed 2-of-11 in the air for 47 yards. He was intercepted twice.

Mason Haley and Joe Philbrick had several tackles each for the ’Hounds.