Frontier's Austyn Kephart (20) carries the ball during Friday's game against Beallsville in New Matamoras. (Photo by Mike Morrison)

NEW MATAMORAS — Visiting Beallsville didn’t appear to be any challenge at all Friday evening for the Frontier Cougars in their home opener at Cougar Field but unfortunately for the Cougars Mother Nature did.

With the Cougars leading 27-0 with eight minutes to play in the third quarter, lightning in the area delayed the contest and eventually forced a postponement with the game scheduled to resume Saturday afternoon.

Frontier opened the scoring in the first quarter on its second possession of the game and it was junior running back Caleb Kirkpatrick who did all the damage.

After Beallsville turned the ball over on downs to Frontier at their own 42-yard line, Kirkpatrick got five consecutive carries with the final one being a 13-yard touchdown run to give the Cougars the early lead with 3:20 to play in the first quarter.

The extra point attempt was wide left leaving the Cougars with a 6-0 lead.

Frontier players run onto the field prior to Friday's game against Beallsville. (Photo by Mike Morrison)

The Frontier defense forced the Blue Devils into a three-and-out on their next possession and the Cougars went right back to work on offense.

Cougar senior quarterback True King connected with receiver Avery Powell on a short pass in the flat and the Cougar junior showed his speed by escaping several would-be Devil tacklers and then out-racing everyone into the end zone for a 60-yard touchdown on the second play of the second quarter.

King made up for the missed PAT attempt by running the ball into the end zone for the two-point conversion to give the Cougars a 14-0 lead.

Later in the first half King scored from a yard out after sophomore Austyn Kephart broke loose on a 70-yard scamper.

Beallsville came into the game scoreless through its first eight quarters of the new season and the Cougar defense only added to their misery by limiting the Blue Devils to just 17 total yards through the first 28 minutes of the contest.

The Cougars added a fourth score before the inclement weather set in when King found Powell yet again, this time on a 24-yard third quarter connection that saw Powell sprint from one side of the field to the other and into the end zone to push the score to 27-0.

UPDATE: The game resumed Saturday afternoon, with Frontier going on to win by a score of 39-0.

Davyn Ferrell ran for a pair of touchdowns in the second half to add to the Cougars’ point total. Frontier (1-2) will play host to Shadyside next week.