ALLEGHENY TWP, Westmoreland County — Blink and you’ve already missed him.

Visiting Kiski Area, Mars’ Evan Wright accounted for three one-play scoring drives Friday night, disappearing into a mass to suddenly come back into view and effortlessly pull away from defenders.

Including those scores, the Planets (5-2, 3-0) propelled themselves into the end zone in three plays or fewer on five occasions in a 56-14 gridiron win.

Wright raced for a 59-yard touchdown on the first snap of Mars’ second possession, then — after the Cavaliers’ second of three straight three-and-outs — he hit pay dirt from two yards away. That drive took just three plays and preceded a Kiski Area (2-5, 1-3) fumble on the kickoff. Planets quarterback Luke Goodworth took advantage, finding Wright for an 11-yard aerial score right after.

“Every single run play was wide-open,” Wright said, lauding his offensive line. “Even on the long touchdown, I didn’t get touched by anybody. They were second-level blockers. It was incredible.”

“They have athletes all over the field, and they put them in position,” Cavaliers coach Sam Albert said of Mars. “We fire our outside linebacker; our defensive end knows he has running back out. He said, ‘I was there.’ I said, ‘Well, you didn’t get him.’

“We were there, but we were just a step behind.”

The flurry — which saw Mars pin up 21 points in under three minutes — gave the Planets a comfortable cushion that wasn’t challenged. Eric Kasperowicz added to the advantage with a six-yard quarterback draw with 5:55 to go in the first half.

“They run a very high risk, high reward defense,” Mars coach Eric Kasperowicz said of Kiski Area. “They play a lot of man-to-man, and there’s a lot times where they’ll tackle us for negative plays or losses. Then, there’s times where if they’re not fitting it up perfectly, then it’s going to hit.”

The Cavaliers got the game underway by eating nearly eight minutes off the clock with a 79-yard march that was punctuated by Carson Heinle’s two-yard touchdown pass to Brennan Moore. It took 14 plays, but to Coach Kasperowicz it felt like more.

“Probably 18 plays,” he said. “Coach Albert, they had a great first drive, a great plan. They converted four third downs and a fourth down. Even on the touchdown, we had a perfect call. We had a guy in position and he just missed a tackle. … It was good. It was a wake-up call for us.”

Kiski Area’s only other score came on a 34-yard pass from Heinle to Terry Martin with about a minute to go before halftime.

Each of Mars’ four second-half possessions yielded points. Gabe Hein capped an eight-play march by grabbing an eight-yard pass three minutes into the third, then the hosts stalled at midfield and turned it over on downs. Three plays later, Wright broke loose for a 44-yard score.

A three-and-out followed, and Wright ran a pass from Goodworth 49 yards for his fifth score of the night.

“He’s got a different body,” Coach Kasperowicz said. “He’s short, but he’s so explosive. He can cut on a dime. … He fits perfect in the type of offense we run — spread, kind of no-huddle. He’s a great zone runner, so that’s kind of what we live and die on. But, it was great to get him involved in the passing game.

“It gives the defense one more thing to kind of plan for.”

Ayden Yocum added another for good measure on a nine-yard surge with 6:43 to play. That drive began on a fumbled snap recovered by Xander Painley.

“We had an eight-yard punt, we had fumbles,” Albert said. “You can’t do that against quality football teams.”

Mars 6 22 21 7 — 56

Kiski Area 7 7 0 0 — 14

First Quarter

KA — Brennan Moore 2 pass from Carson Heinle (Andrew Finney kick), 4:07

M — Evan Wright 59 run (kick missed),: 40

Second Quarter

M — Wright 2 run (Gabe Hein pass from Luke Goodworth), 10:19

M — Wright 11 pass from Goodworth (Mason Childress kick), 10:05

M — Eric Kasperowicz 6 run (Childress kick), 5:55

KA — Terry Martin 34 pass from Heinle (Finney kick), 1:02

Third Quarter

M — Hein 6 pass from Goodworth (Childress kick), 9:12

M — Wright 44 run (Childress kick), 4:50

M — Wright 49 pass from Goodworth (Childress kick), 2:18

Fourth Quarter

M — Ayden Yocum 9 run (Childress kick), 6:43

Individual Statistics

Rushing: Mars, Evan Wright 7-131, Ayden Yocum 5-14, Eric Kasperowicz 2-11, Luke Goodworth 1-(-8). Kiski Area, Landon Kucic 15-76, Brennan Moore 5-25, Carson Heinle 8-15.

Passing: Mars, Luke Goodworth 14-21-170-0. Kiski Area, Carson Heinle 13-20-117-0.

Receiving: Mars, Gabe Hein, 5-64, Evan Wright 3-27, Aidan Alessio 1-24, Tyan Tsai 1-9, Ethan Kresinski 1-2, Cole Yoshioka 2-(-5). Kiski Area, Isaiah Gonzalez 5-61, Terry Martin 2-39, Teegan Shirley 1-9, Landon Kucic 1-5, Brennan Moore 3-3.