There wasn't more than just a pinch of grace; the ingredients didn't call for much beauty.

Instead, the well-constructed formula was heavily tinged with power.

The kind of power that leaves you limping, leaves you battered, leaves purple marks all over your body and makes you want to sleep in as long as possible Saturday morning.

And it was that sort of power that Keystone Oaks (8-0, 8-0) brought last night on both sides of the ball, as the Golden Eagles roared to a 45-27 victory at Sto-Rox (7-1, 7-1) in the WPIAL Class AA Century Conference.

Keystone Oaks' authority on the ground easily can be extracted from this: Running back Dion Wiegand rushed for 210 yards on 36 carries and two touchdowns, while fellow running back Jordan Maddox added 96 yards and four touchdowns.

With the victory, Keystone Oaks earned at least a share of the Century Conference title. The Golden Eagles last won a conference crown in 1983, when they split with Steel Valley.

At halftime last night, Keystone Oaks had the look of a team that just might not head home with at least a share of that conference crown, as Sto-Rox standout junior quarterback Paul Jones willed his team to a 21-17 lead.

"We challenged our kids at halftime," Keystone Oaks coach Nick Kamberis said. "We told them, 'There are 24 minutes to a championship.' They pulled together right there and kept on driving."

And it was easily discernible who drove Keystone Oaks to the victory -- it was those big bodies up front on offense, linemen Evan Schindler, James Zeiler, Caleb Stoliker, Alex Demczak and Brandon Stevens.

"Our offensive linemen were coming off the ball and killing their defense on just about every play," said Wiegand, who went over 1,000 yards for the season. "When you have holes like that, it isn't hard. When me or Jordan [Maddox] get the ball, and the hole is that big, those linemen are the guys who should get the credit."

In fairness, some credit should head in the direction of Keystone Oaks' defense -- which allowed Jones to complete 8 for 11 passes for 175 yards and two touchdowns, but kept him out of his comfort level, forcing him to scramble time and again and sacking him eight times.

Inexplicably, though, Sto-Rox seemed to go away from its signature pass-happy attack early on, abandoning it for running plays out of four-wide sets.

"Definitely, no question we thought they would throw it more," Kamberis said.

Sto-Rox coach Jason Ruscitto offered, "We ran the ball, that is part of our offense, too. They did a nice job tonight, but, offensively, we fell short."

A key stretch early in the second half propelled Keystone Oaks to the win -- and a pivotal date next week with neighbor Seton-LaSalle, which is standing in the way of the Golden Eagles' unbeaten season. Keystone Oaks scored three third-quarter rushing touchdowns -- two by Maddox, one by Wiegand -- the second of which came after a Jones fumble early in the third.

"We made them make a mistake and we capitalized," Wiegand said.

From there, with Keystone Oaks holding a 38-21 lead, the teams traded late touchdowns. In the first half, though, it looked like it would be anything but an 18-point game.

After the Vikings advanced to a 7-0 lead on Brandon Austin's 81-yard reverse on the game's fifth play, Keystone Oaks' offensive line took command, leading the offense on drives that ended in a 32-yard Travis Mitro field goal, a 4-yard Wiegand touchdown run and a Maddox 32-yard scoring scamper to build a 17-7 lead.

That is when Jones tossed the Vikings on his back. He led Sto-Rox on two scoring drives into the half; one culminating when he ran in from 15 yards, another when he found Andrew Carswell on a in-route from 15 yards.

Out of halftime, though, it was a different story -- it was all Keystone Oaks. And, it was simple. It was all power.