While the weather was perfect the Oracle football was not. Benton Central made sure that the Oracles will go into their final regular season game of the year still searching for their first win. Benton Central dealt Delphi a 50-7 defeat.

The Bison needed less than five minutes to put Delphi on the defensive after going ahead 7-0 on a 20-yard pass play from QB Sam Power to Tanner Hahn. Just over three minutes later the Oracles were down by two touchdowns when Power and Hahn teamed up again, this time for 42 yards. Brad Roth blocked the extra point on the Bison second TD. At the end of one period the Oracles had a mere two yards of offense while the Bison had run up 121.

Power opened the second quarter with another TD pass. This time Chad Burton was on the receiving end of a 22- yard strike. The Oracle offense was forced to punt without recording a first down for the fourth consecutive possession. While the offense was unable to operate, the defense finally stepped up and forced a turnover when Braden Atwood stopped a sure first down with an open field tackle forcing BC into a passing situation on a fourth down attempt. The pass fell incomplete. This play gave the Oracles some momentum. They tallied their first, first down when Justin Salyer ran for 13 yards to move the ball into the Bison end of the field. The rally was short lived though, on fourth and 11 a pass fell incomplete to turn the ball back over to BC.

A high snap on the next Oracle punt attempt was too high for Salyer to handle and it sailed into the end zone. Salyer got to the ball first and wisely kicked it out of the end zone for a safety rather than let the Bison have an easy touchdown. The score stood at 22-0.

After kicking off from the 20 the Oracles were in trouble again when the Bison started a drive from the Oracle 46-yard line. BC's Hahn immediately extended the lead to 29-0 when he ran untouched for 46 yards.

The host Bison were not done yet in the first half. They got the ball at the Oracle 45- yard line with 23 seconds remaining. Two completions later the score was 36-0 at halftime.

In the second half Delphi finally stopped the Bison, forcing a field goal try which was wide right. A run by Derek Bradshaw gave the Oracles their second first down of the game but they could not sustain a drive and punted. BC promptly scored again, this time on two plays. It was 43- 0. BC scored its 50th and final point late in the third quarter.

Karson Bender would score a TD for Delphi midway through the fourth on a 70- yard run down the left sideline to avert the shutout.

The season finale will be at Tipton Friday with a 7:30 p.m. start. The Oracles will host the first round of the sectional on Oct. 25 against the Seeger Patriots