The touchdowns kept coming -- a combined 12 of them, in fact -- and the scoreboard kept lighting up as big play after big play was made. Soon enough, the proverbial analogy of referring to last night's WPIAL Class AA quarterfinal game between Beaver and Jeannette as a "track meet" became en vogue.

And that was the last thing the Bobcats wanted.

"We don't have many batons in our bag," Beaver coach Jeff Beltz quipped.

Jordan Hall scored three touchdowns, Moziah Harris scored twice and Cameron Baradziej threw two touchdown passes and ran for another as Jeannette sprinted past Beaver, 57-28, at Fox Chapel's James M. Burk Stadium.

"We did not want any game to turn into a track meet," Beltz said. "We thought we game planned well and we thought we came out of the gate well, but after that, if the sprint would have stopped at the 15-yard line, we would have maybe stood a chance."

But this race didn't stop there. It kept going until the No. 4 seed Jayhawks (10-1) whizzed into the semifinals, where they will play top-seeded Beaver Falls (11-0) Friday at a site to be determined.

That game will be a rematch of last season's WPIAL championship game at Heinz Field, won by Jeannette, 61-12.

"We both want to get to Heinz Field. They're standing in our way, and we're standing in theirs," Jayhawks coach Ray Reitz said. "Word is that they want to play us, and now they have us. ... They've been talking about playing us all year, from what I understand."

Beaver scored the first touchdown last night, but Jeannette went on to post 43 of the next 50 points scored. The Jayhawks scored four touchdowns via the ground (two 2-yard runs by Hall, a 1-yard sneak by Baradziej and a 29-yard rush by Dane Vaughan), two through the air (Baradziej passes of 97 yards to Harris and 29 yards to Vaughn) and two on 49-yard returns while on defense (Harris on an interception and Hall on a fumble).

"We do have some athletes," Reitz said. "They make us look good as coaches. It's always nice to have speed, and we've got speed.

"The kids did a nice job. They hung in there, played four quarters.

I'm very proud of them."

This season's Jeannette team isn't as strong as last season's, and that's understandable. After all, not many -- if any -- teams in WPIAL history could match the one that scored 860 points in 16 unbeaten games en route to the PIAA championship.

But even after all-everything quarterback Terrelle Pryor graduated and took his game to Ohio State, the still-very-talented team that remained has scored 42.3 points per game while allowing only 9.6.

"This proves a lot because everyone kept saying we were all about Terrelle last year," said Baradziej, who has had the unenviable task of replacing Pryor at quarterback. "But this team had [a lot of] starters back on both sides of the ball together, and we're just showing everyone that we can do it."

Jeannette used its bevy of playmakers, including Hall (who had 93 yards rushing) and Vaughn as its primary rushers and Harris as its big-play receiver.

He had Jeannette's prettiest offensive touchdown. Just before halftime, Beaver pinned the Jayhawks back at their own 1 with a perfect punt and was using its timeouts in an effort to get the ball back. But after two unsuccessful runs, Baradziej hit a streaking wide-open Harris down the left sideline.

"It's nice because defenses can't focus on one guy," Baradziej said.