Burley turned on the lights for the first time at its new stadium this week. Jerome paid a visit Friday night to make sure all the lights on the new scoreboard are in working order, as well.

Jerome's high-powered offense racked up 459 total yards as the Tigers earned their first Great Basin Conference West win of the season, 42-7.

Playing in its homecoming, Burley put up a fight. While the final outcome was never really in question, the Bobcats made strides in frustrating the Tigers' game plan for most of the night.

"Burley's kids played hard, and we couldn't keep the ball very long on offense," said Jerome coach Gary Krumm. "Burley did a nice job of slowing things down. We're used to running 40 plays a half, and we didn't do that tonight. We might have panicked a little bit because we're used to scoring more points. We had to battle."

Jerome quarterback Jake Lammers completed 22 of 30 passes for 302 yards and four touchdowns. He added 36 yards rushing on seven carries.

But the stat of the night came from the officials, who threw more flags around than the Burley color guard did during the halftime performance:more than 40 yellow flags thrown. Jerome and Burley each had more yards in penalties than they had rushing. Jerome had 12 penalties for 130 yards and Burley had 14 penalties for 137 yards. In the first quarter alone, 12 penalties were called.

"There were a lot of mistakes that were made and the referees were on top of it," said Burley coach Eugene Kramer. "I wasn't happy about all the late hits. That should never be in a football game. You should play clean, good football and walk off with some respect and I don't know if that happened tonight on both sides."

Said Krumm: "We had a lot of adversity in the penalty area - I've never seen that many penalties in a football game. But we need to get better. If we're going to beat Minico and go where we want to go, we've got to get a lot better than that."

Jerome (4-1 overall, 1-0 GBW) got two touchdowns from Zach Ingraham in the first quarter. Lammers threw TD passes to Nolan McDonald and Gus Callen in the second quarter to give Jerome a 28-0 halftime lead.

"We were sloppy all game," said Ingraham. "We were overconfident and thought we'd come in here and whoop them without showing up. Blocking, defensive schemes - everything was sloppy. We weren't doing what we're supposed to do."

Burley (0-5, 0-2) rushed for more yards (93) than Jerome (88), but it was Lammers' near-perfect passing that did in the Bobcats. Burley's aggressive pass rush was countered beautifully by Jerome's effective screen passes.

The Bobcats had a solid third quarter as their toss sweep was most effective as Burley kept the ball out of Lammers' hands by moving the ball. Burley picked up 15 first downs in the game to Jerome's 20.

"We moved the ball, but we hit that 30 yard line sometimes and it's like a freeze zone," Kramer said. "But we are getting better and we'll get over it. I'm proud of the kids right now."

Burley was able to get into the end zone and avoid a shutout when A.J. Hunter found Jared Judd for a 31-yard touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Hunter finished 9 for 20 passing for 173 yards.

Jerome has a bye next week before hosting Twin Falls in a nonconference rivalry on Oct. 10.

Burley will get its last chance at a conference victory as it hosts Wood River next week for the Bobcats' final home game of the season.

Jerome 42, Burley 71

Burley 0 0 0 7 ��" 7

Jerome 14 14 0 14 ��" 42

First quarter

Jerome ��" Zach Ingraham 18 run (Sergio Mendoza kick) 7:07

J ��" Ingraham 42 pass from Jake Lammers (Mendoza kick) 0:36

Second quarter

J ��" Nolan McDonald 17 pass from Lammers (Mendoza kick) 4:34

J ��" Gus Callen 8 pass from Lammers (Mendoza kick) 1:40

Fourth quarter

J ��" Logan Parker 40 pass from Lammers (Mendoza kick) 10:07

J ��" Ross Hillier 2 run (Mendoza kick) 3:18

Burley ��" Jared Judd 31 pass from A.J. Hunter (Nestor Carmona kick) 1:08