SELINSGROVE -- Ryan Keiser says he is "pretty good" at field hockey.

After Friday night, Southern Columbia fans probably wish Keiser would have played the sport coached by his mother, Selinsgrove field hockey coach Cathy Keiser, rather than the sport he loves.

In fact, Tiger fans might have wanted Keiser to walked away from football early in Selinsgrove's shocking 47-7 victory over Southern Columbia at Harold L. Bolig Memorial Field.

On Selinsgrove's first two offensive plays, quarterback Cory Briggs, staked to a 7-0 lead after Kyle Reinard returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown, hit back-to-back completions to Keiser, the second a 36-yard TD.

On the Tigers' next possession, Keiser picked off a Jeremy Campbell pass which he returned 75 yards for a touchdown, although the TD was nullified by a penalty for an illegal block.

"I was pretty tired after that one," said Keiser, who didn't know that a penalty had been called until after he reached the end zone. "I was like Oh, man.' I was pretty upset."

That was a mere speed bump for the 6-foot-2, 185-pound junior. Although he played less than three quarters, the wide receiver-safety caught six passes for 188 yards and three TDs and had three interceptions for 74 yards and a TD.

"When I was a little kid, I dreamed about this all the time. The players were my heroes, and now I guess I'm in the same role," Keiser said.

Selinsgrove coach Dave Hess tried to recall a better single-game performance by a Seals' player. "I don't know if I can ever remember a performance like that. He just played out of his socks tonight. We knew coming in that he had some real skills and we know he is capable of being a big-play guy. But he strung a bunch together tonight, didn't he? He played his tail off."

Keiser's second receiving TD came on a post pattern that covered 28 yards and put the Seals up 20-0. Just 36 seconds later, he made a shoetop interception at the Tigers' 31-yard line.

The next time Southern got the ball, Keiser picked off a pass at midfield, cut across the field and followed his blockers for a 49-yard TD return to make it 27-0 with 37 seconds left in the half.

"We had great blocking on that. I was just trying to read the blocks, trying to get into the end zone, just trying to finish the play."

Before the contest turned into a jayvee game, Keiser scored again. He caught a pass in front of a Tigers' defender, then put a move on him that left the defensive back pounding the ground in disgust as Keiser went 76 yards for a TD to make it 42-7 with 5:44 left.

"We had to believe we were going to win. We had to think that or it wasn't going to happen," he said. "They are a good team, they don't ever give up, so we just kept pounding it at them."Well, sort of.

The pounding came at the expense of the poor defensive backs who were left trying to cover Keiser while their other eight teammates were committed to stopping the run.