If you ask coaches, there’s no such thing as a perfect performance for a football team. There’s always something that can be improved upon.

On Friday night at the Oil Field, though, Oil City came about as close as you can to a flawless effort, moving the ball at will on offense and barely allowed Fairview to breath on defense en route to a 56-0 non-region victory over the Tigers.

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