WALES — Nobody’s perfect, but the football season Dalton Therrien has put together at quarterback for Oak Hill is startlingly close to that standard.

Therrien has completed 60 percent of his passes for 17 touchdowns against no interceptions. He is the Raiders’ leading rusher with 737 yards and 11 TDs.

Nine opponents have succeeded in sacking the senior only twice, and Therrien has beaten them all. No. 1 Oak Hill (9-0) hosts No. 3 Lisbon (7-2) for the Class D South championship at 12:30 p.m.

“The game plan has changed a little bit,” Therrien said. “The team has adapted very well. Whatever we’ve had to do, we’ve done it.”

Therrien started at wide receiver and cornerback for Oak Hill’s 2013 state championship team as a sophomore. He took over from Parker Asselin at quarterback and led the Raiders’ successful title defense.

That was a team indisputably led by running backs Kyle Flaherty and Alex Mace, who took their talents to Bates and Husson, respectively, leaving behind close to 7,000 career all-purpose yards between them.

Nobody needed to ceremonially hand the keys to Therrien. He has been a spotlight dancer ever since emerging as a three-sport varsity athlete.

“He’s a cool cat. He’s a very unselfish player, but he’s a very confident player. His leadership qualities are probably second to none. He’s been through it all,” Oak Hill coach Stacen Doucette. “He competes at the most pressure position in all sports: Shortstop, point guard, QB. What we say is ‘you have to dare to fail,’ and he’s willing to dare.”

After being allowed to focus on his signal-calling duties for a season-and-half, Therrien returned to the defensive starting lineup in October.

It was a coach’s decision that probably spelled the difference between winning and losing in a 13-10 semifinal verdict against Winthrop/Monmouth this past Saturday. Therrien ran down Bennett Brooks inside the 5-yard line after a 51-yard catch and run to set up a goal-line stand in the third quarter.

“He’s probably played more defense than most of the kids, because as a sophomore he started on defense all year,” Doucette said. “That play had nothing to do with speed, strength or skill. It had everything to do with hustle and desire. He made it happen.”

Later, Therrien knocked down two passes inside the Oak Hill 20 in the final minute to preserve the victory.

“I’m a little bit sorer on Sunday morning, but it’s all worth it when we’ve got the ‘W’ and we know we’ve got one more week of football left,” Therrien said.

Therrien has a knack for finding the open man and sharing the wealth for an Oak Hill offense that unveils new looks from week to week and even series to series.

His touchdown passes have gone to four different receivers — Jonah Martin and Connor Nilsson with six apiece, Colby Spencer with three and Darryn Bailey two. All four of those targets, plus Steven Gilbert, have at least eight receptions, topped by Martin’s 22.

“Last year if you focused on Alex, we’d run Kyle, and vice-versa. This year you focus on one guy, I’m going to throw to the other five or hand the ball off to the other six. We’ve got a very solid, well-rounded team,” Therrien said. “We keep poking until we find what’s working. If we have to throw, we’ll throw, and if we have to run, we’ll run. Our line adjusts very well. They do a great job.”

Martin, Nilsson, Spencer, running back/linebacker Levi Buteau and linemen Brendon Tervo, Garrett Gile, Austin Goucher and Connor Elwell join Therrien as senior starters pushing for a third consecutive state title.

No Class C or D program has achieved that triple since Orono won the Gold Ball in 1979, 1980 and 1981.

“Senior year, a bunch of buddies I’ve been playing with since fourth grade, it hits home a little more this year,” Therrien said. “There is definitely a lot more put on you. You don’t have the guy to look to anymore. The seniors are the people everybody’s looking to. It feels like a little more pressure, but I think the guys are handling it very well.”

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