NORTH BERWICK — A season-defining drive led to a season-defining victory for the Bonny Eagle football team.

Colin Moran capped a march that chewed up most of the fourth quarter with a tiebreaking score, and the Scots defeated Noble, 21-14, in a key Class A matchup Friday night.

Bonny Eagle has won four straight. Both teams are now 6-2 with one week remaining in the regular season.

“It’s the offense depending on the defense, defense depending on the offense. Everyone being a team,” said Moran, who ran 34 times for 175 yards. “That’s what it is. That’s what we needed to establish; early in the season, we failed to. These last couple of weeks, we’ve been really focusing on being a team.”

With wins over Portland, South Portland and now Noble, the Scots have gained momentum against a challenging slate.

“We dropped the first one up in Lewiston, I think after that, we kind of flew under the radar,” Bonny Eagle Coach Kevin Cooper said. “We’ve put together a pretty impressive resume, I think.”

Still, a highlight came Friday, as a game that Bonny Eagle led 14-0 was up for grabs going into the final quarter. The Scots took over at their own 28 with 10:46 to play, then proceeded to grind up the Knights with a 13-play drive totaling 6 minutes, 51 seconds. All but one of those plays was a run.

Moran churned out 63 of the yards, finally ending in the end zone on a 2-yard run on fourth-and-goal with 3:55 to go.

“I think our last offensive drive was pretty darn special,” Cooper said. “Colin Moran did the bulk of the work, and our line blocked great, our receivers blocked great because we were running outside a lot and they had to block, too. To be able to have that drive at that time … was pretty nice.”

The Scots still had to stop Noble and star quarterback Jamier Rose, whom Cooper called one of the best players in the state, and the task didn’t get easier once Rose found Kevin Chandler for 8 yards and Taivian Brown for 21 to set up first-and-10 from the Bonny Eagle 25. An incompletion, a false start and a sack by Cole Cyr stalled the Knights, however, and Rose’s final pass was incomplete with 1:13 to play.

It was another big stand from a Bonny Eagle defense that held Rose to 8 yards on eight carries and kept the Knights off the board their final three possessions.

“I think it was shutting off the A and B gap and making them bounce outside, so we could have our safeties and corners make the tackles,” Cyr said. “It was all about our trust in each other. At the start of the game, we (said) we’ve got to trust each other and put forth all the effort we have.”

Bonny Eagle, meanwhile, ran wild, gashing the Knights with outside zone and power runs, with Moran as the centerpiece. On the Scots’ first drive, he got loose for a 47-yard run around the right side for a 7-0 lead with 10:21 to go in the first. Bonny Eagle’s second drive covered 9:57, but ended with a turnover on downs when the Knights stood firm in the red zone.

The Scots found pay dirt on the third drive, as Moran found Ben Augustino for 31 yards, kept it himself for 17, then hit Colby McCormack for 12 yards on fourth-and-11 for a 14-0 lead with 1:14 left in the half.

“I was just following my blocking, man,” Moran said. “My blocks did it all, I’m going to be honest. (And) I don’t tend to go down very easily.”

A 35-yard return by Aidan Keefe on the ensuing kickoff opened the door for Noble, however, and Rose took advantage by rolling out and hitting Chandler for a 25-yard touchdown pass with 17 seconds left. The Knights maintained their rhythm into the second half, with Tommy Gagnon’s 9-yard run capping a 63-yard drive that tied the score with 8:20 to go in the third.

“We made some adjustments at half, came down the field and scored, and I think that was big,” Noble Coach Keenon Blindow said. “It was a battle through the rest of the game. Their last drive, they went down and scored, and we’ve got to be better defensively on that side of the ball. Offensively, we’ve got to be better and capitalize when we’re down here in the red zone.”