CUMMING — Only two weeks into the season, and North Forsyth is already in reruns.

For the second week in a row, the Raiders used an unstoppable ground attack to eat the clock and snack on an opposing defense, pounding their way to a 28-0 win over Johnson.

North (2-0) ran the ball on all but six offensive plays, chewing up 378 yards of turf on the ground and completely owning the line of scrimmage.

Coach Jared Zito was happy with the performances of backs Joey Vicary (218 total yards), Steven Hester (109) and Tyler Slaton (78), but made it clear that it all starts up front.

"The backs get a lot of credit, but really the offensive line did a good job tonight, and then certainly it doesn’t hurt to have Joey and Steven and Tyler behind you, and that’s just our formula," Zito said. "Don’t turn the ball over, play ground attack football, play swarming, bend-but-don’t-break defense."

For the second week in a row, quarterback Vicary put the Raiders on top the instant they touched the ball, running left on the team’s first play from scrimmage and cruising 84 yards untouched for a score around the 9-minute mark of the first quarter.

On the first play of the second quarter, the lead doubled, with Vicary hitting Nick Saponara on a 37-yard touchdown pass. It was Vicary’s only completion of the night, and it gave the home team a 14-0 advantage.

The best opportunity for Johnson (0-2) came on the next series, as the Knights started in Raider territory after a Tre Dudley kick return down to the 46. Johnson would penetrate all the way to North’s 5-yard line, but incomplete passes on third and fourth down gave the ball back to North.

Johnson coach Paul Friel said that sequence was a blow to his team’s spirit.

"You feel like ‘all right, we’re down a couple touchdowns, we score here, we’re OK. We’re going to have a shot at this thing if we can adjust and keep them from scoring,’" he said. "And once we couldn’t punch it in, you start thinking ‘Oh boy, what are we going to do?’"

For Zito, getting that stand out of the defense was a big relief, considering that Johnson gave his team all they could handle in a tight game last season.

"Certainly, if they score right there, it may be very similar to last year where it’s a dog fight. ... Great turning point for us defensively making a stand," Zito said.

North’s next possession was likely the backbreaker. The Raiders ate up nearly seven minutes on 11 plays, ending the drive with a 27-yard scoring run from Hester at the 2:42 mark of the first half.

The Raiders tied on seven more in the third quarter, with Slaton wrapping up a 72-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run with 7:29 left in the frame.

"We didn’t play our best. We have four guys out, but we had good guys replacing them. We just couldn’t get caught up to what they were doing," Friel said.

"They were running exactly what we knew they were going to run. We thought we had the right game plan for it, the right adjustments, and then they came off a little harder than we were used to seeing in practice, and we didn’t handle it very well."

For North, the result marked the team’s second straight shutout, something the team’s seniors had set as a goal this season.

"All I can say is they have belief that they can (get shutouts) now and that kind of grows and becomes its own little monster, and certainly it doesn’t hurt that offensively, whether we score or don’t score, we take six or seven minutes at a time and it’s just part of the whole plan, so it all has to fit together," Zito said.