OVIEDO — The difference between St. Stephen's Episcopal and Santa Fe Catholic on offense was obvious. St. Stephen's relies heavily on sophomore quarterback Fred Billy. Shut him down, and you shut down the Falcons.

Santa Fe relies on its version of the Fab Five: quarterback Walker Richards, running back Damario Vanover and receivers Henry Perry, Tyree Rodman and Kenard King. As the Crimson Hawks' opponents found out the hard way in 2015, it's impossible to stop all of them — slow them, perhaps, for awhile, but only for awhile.

It was Richards and Perry who couldn't be stopped in the Crimson Hawks' 33-0 victory over St. Stephen's on Saturday night in the Sunshine State Athletic Conference championship game at Master's Academy's Pennington Field.

Richards completed 8 of 14 passes for 174 yards and three touchdowns with one interception and also made a leaping interception in the first half. Perry was the big target, catching four passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns and also had a game-changing 75-yard interception return for a touchdown to end the first half.

“Usually, he doesn't draw a lot of attention because Kenard draws a lot of attention and so does Tyree,” Dickerson said. “I think people are starting to figure out what a weapon he is, and tonight it just worked out. With these three guys, it's not our intention to target one guy. It's just finding what's open.”

And with a defense that held St. Stephen's to just 62 yards of total offense and forced five turnovers, Santa Fe (11-0) capped its 2015 season as undefeated SSAC state champions.

“We were working hard, and the coaches talked about what we had,” Richards said. “We knew we had a long road and we just took it one game at a time. Our goal was to be 1-0 every week.”

In last week's victory over Berean Christian, Vanover rushed for more than 200 yards and the Crimson Hawks finished with more than 300 yards on the ground. Santa Fe coach Billy Dickerson said he expected the Crimson Hawks to be able to run against the Falcons but managed just 128 yards on 34 carries. Vanover ran 16 times for just 59 yards but did have a 9-yard touchdown run.

“I anticipated that we would be able to run the ball, and they did an outstanding job with run defense,” Santa Fe coach Billy Dickerson said. “They really, really shut us down. We kind of had to reverse the plan and throw a little bit to open up the run.”

Whatever, the Crimson Hawks had to do, they were ready.

“We watched a lot of film and we knew they overloaded a lot, and when we went into trips, they would leave a lot of isolation,” Richards said. “So on a lot of the plays, I just kind of got out of the pocket and took what they gave me. My coaches told me to play smart and hold on to the ball.”

With the exception a first-half interception, he did just that.

Still, the Crimson Hawks couldn't muster much offense in the first half after its first drive when they went 80 yards on eight plays. Richards' 32-yard pass to Tyree Rodman on third-and-13 jump-started the drive and four plays later, he hooked up with Perry for a 36-yard touchdown pass.

With the offense sputtering after that drive, it was Santa Fe's unsung defense that kept St. Stephen's at bay. The Crimson Hawks allowed just 8 yards of total offense in the first half and came up big with a goal-line stand.

Following Richards' interception that gave the Falcons first-and-goal at the 10, Santa Fe hung tough, stopping them on the 3 when Billy's fourth-down pass fell incomplete.

The game changed at the end of the first half. Trying to strike at the end of the half, Billy threw deep from the Santa Fe 48, but Perry intercepted the pass and returned it 43 yards for a touchdown as time expired to put Santa Fe up 12-0.

“That made a big difference,” Dickerson said. “That was a big momentum changer. We didn't feel like we could get anything going on offense and as has been the case all year, one of the Fab Five bailed us out, either on defense or special teams, and in this case it was defense.”

Still, St. Stephen's felt it was still anyone's game.

“The interception at the end of the half was tough, but still, being down 12-0 at halftime, we can score 12 points in no time,” St. Stephen's coach Todd Creneti said. “The goal-line stand was disappointing. We felt like we had some things, but listen, we had some things going our way, we had some guys open, we just couldn't convert. Not being able to get into a rhythm, really makes it hard to do some of those things.”

Santa Fe carried the momentum into the second half by scoring on its first possession of the second half, going 83 yards on 14 plays, capping the drive on a 31 touchdown pass from Richards to King with 4:59 to play in the third quarter.

And the rout was on. Richards and Perry hooked up one more time on a 47-yard touchdown pass, and Vanover capped the scoring with a 9-yard run in the fourth quarter.

“For most of us, this is our last game, so we wanted to fight as a team and get it done as a team,” Perry said. “That's what we did tonight.”