KENDALLVILLE — The Class 4A No. 3 East Noble High School football team stayed perfect on the 2025 season Friday night, dominating Huntington North 39-0 to open Northeast 8 Conference play on a winning note.

The Knights are now 3-0, 1-0 in the NE8. The Vikings dropped to 0-3, 0-1.

The Knights dominated this one literally from the coin toss. The Knights elected to defer, shut down the Vikings on their opening series, and struck for the first score of the night on the ensuing possession,

It was freshman running back Austin Phillips finding the end zone from 52 yards out to ignite a long night of scoring. With 8:41 left in the first quarter, East Noble led 7-0.

The Knights struck again with 3:01 left in the first. Rylee Biddle and Alex Phillips connected on a 7-yard touchdown pass and a 14-0 East Noble lead.

Austin Phillips had 10 carries for 175 yards and the aforementioned TD. He had a 70-yard run that set up a TD. Lucas Niman ran the rock 10 times for 62 yards.

Meanwhile, the Knight defense was throttling the Viking offense. East Noble gave up just 114 yards in total offense and intercepted Huntington North quarterbacks three times.

Biddle completed 19-of-32 passes for 243 yards with three touchdowns and — most importantly — no interceptions.

The Knights did not surrender the football at all against the Vikings.

East Noble led 27-0 at intermission. The Knights got two more Biddle TD tosses in the second quarter: A 22-yarder to Alex Scott and a 2-yarder to Alex Phillips.

East Noble head coach Alex Stewart liked the dominant all-around effort, but said his team still has some minor things to clean up.

“Our defense played well tonight,” Stewart said. “Offensively, we did a lot of good things … We would have liked to capitalize on a few more red zone trips. But overall, we played well.”

The Knight defense has given up just seven points in the first three games.

Biddle added a 6-yard TD scamper in the third quarter and Evan Sells kicked field goals from 19 and 36 yards.

The Knights travel to DeKalb Friday night. New Barons coach Ryan Robertson was a longtime East Noble assistant and now has a few other ex-Knight coaches on his staff at DeKalb.

The Barons are 2-1 (1-0 NE8) after doubling up New Haven, 40-20 Friday night on the road.