PORT NECHES — If that has to be the original Indian Stadium’s final football game ever, Port Neches-Groves certainly made it a grand finale Friday night.

Clicking offensively and defensively, the Indians blanked Galena Park, 33-0, and convincingly claimed its 4A Division 1 bidistrict championship before 8,000 fans on a night of many special memories for Indians faithful everywhere.

With a new field turf, grandstands and $9 million in stadium renovations expected to begin this winter, PN-G probably played its last game ever on its original yard and the Indians departed it by trampling their playoff opponents with a dominant second half.

PN-G (8-3) advanced into next weekend’s 4A Division 1 regional action against Rosenberg Lamar Consolidated (9-2), a 39-14 bidistrict winner over Dickinson on Friday night.

Indians chief Matt Burnett and Mustangs coach Lydell Wilson are scheduled to meet in Baytown this morning. Burnett indicated that the second-round matchup tentatively was arranged for next Saturday night in Baytown’s Stallworth Stadium at 6 p.m. Those plans will be finalized this morning.

Tickets will be sold Monday and Tuesday only at the PNGISD administration offices from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All seats were expected to be sold as general admission tickets. Further ticket information will be made available later this weekend.

To hear Burnett’s take on this opening-round playoff performance, his Indians definitely derived some positive after-effects from the 40-7 spanking at Dayton last week. Thirty-three seniors returned to The Reservation with a purpose.

“I think Dayton woke this whole place up,” Burnett said. “It was great for us to play this well on a historical night like this. I’m so happy for the seniors. They’ve worked through every problem all year that’s been in their way. Tonight they played with a sense of urgency. They sharpened up. They were crisp.”

With defensive coordinator Carl Broussard devising an ideal plan to corral Yellow Jackets’ quarterback Gahn McGaffie, Galena Park (7-3) stayed within range for a half, trailing only 7-0. Then the Indians owned the final two quarters, producing arguably their season’s finest half of football to date.

Galena Park managed no points, eight first downs, and 153 total yards. Subtract McGaffie’s 83 rushing and 56 passing yards, and the remainder of the visitors’ output totaled only 14 yards. Meanwhile, the grass arrived in large quantities on PN-G’s stat chart. Jake Hemmings answered the ball with authority, rushing 19 times for 116 yards and one touchdown. Hemmings was superb. Josh Wright was too, contributing 14 carries for 110 yards and a touchdown.

Harrison Tatum was too, completing eight of 14 passes for 99 yards and two touchdowns.

This amounted to a special occasion and big-hearted senior corner Jacob Broussard summed it up eloquently.

“We’ve been thinking about this since we started playing together in the seventh grade,” Broussard said. “We knew if we played our game, we could win.”

Broussard devised such an outstanding plan that Galena Park’s offense finally dented the Indians’ 20-yard line for the very first time on the game’s final play. His boss, Burnett — a defensive mastermind in his own right — lavished praise on his coordinator for preparing the team so effectively.

“I thought Carl did the best job I’ve seen since he’s been here of preparing our kids,” the PN-G head coach said. “They were so intuned to what Galena Park was fixing to do. They fired all their bullets, most of them in the first half.”