ALAMO -- After watching Coleville, Calif., score on its first nine possessions Saturday, Pahranagat Valley Alamo football coach Ken Higbee decided his team's only chance to win was to keep the ball away from the Wolves.

The strategy worked, as the Panthers recovered five of six onside kicks in the third quarter on the way to a 128-74 home win in the Nevada Class A Eight-Man Football playoff semifinals.

Alamo, 11-0, will play Tonopah, 8-3, at noon Saturday at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas for the state eight-man football championship. In 2006, Alamo defeated Tonopah 56-14 for the championship and in 2007, the Muckers overpowered Carlin 54-20 for the title.

Tonopah advanced this year with a 71-30 conquest of Carlin.

The 128 points broke a national scoring record for eight-man football. Pahranagat Valley also set a national eight-man record with 17 touchdowns.

"The only way we could stop them is if they didn't have the football," Higbee said. "And unfortunately for them, they couldn't stop us."

Brady Whipple and Taylor Poulsen carried the load for the Panthers, who outscored Coleville 44-8 in the third quarter to take a 106-60 lead.

Whipple rushed for 133 yards and a touchdown and caught six passes for 241 yards and five scores. He also returned two kickoffs for touchdowns.

Poulsen rushed for 175 yards and five TDs and completed 11 of 17 passes for 317 yards and five scores.

"It was running the football with Brady Whipple and throwing the football to Brady Whipple," Higbee said. "We threw and ran whenever we wanted to on them."

Pahranagat Valley scored 62 first-half points but couldn't stop Coleville's passing game.

Quarterback Jason Peters threw eight first-half touchdown passes, six of them to sophomore receiver Emmi Sandoval.

"It was pretty amazing to see the score," Higbee said. "To score that many points, that was the furthest from our minds. The thing we wanted to do was keep the football out of (Peters') hands and continue to score points. When he got his hands on the football, Coleville scored."

Higbee said his team continued to onside kick in the third quarter to try to hang onto the lead.

"In eight-man football it's different than 11-man," Higbee said. "A 32-point lead is gone in a heartbeat."

Higbee credited kicker Jason Choi for giving the team a good shot at recovering the onside kicks.

Peters completed 32 of 47 passes for 490 yards and 10 touchdowns. Sandoval caught 13 passes for 208 yards and eight TDs.