St. Aloysius looked more than ready for its season opener.

Porters Chapel Academy … still needs some work.

Quarterback Brandon Teller accounted for six touchdowns — two rushing, two passing and two receiving — and 270 yards as St. Al blasted Porters Chapel 43-0 in a two-quarter preseason jamboree on Friday night.

St. Al scored touchdowns on six of its seven offensive possessions. The only one it didn’t score on ended with a fumble at the goal line, and was salvaged by a safety on the next play.

“I liked the intensity and excitement. I think everybody played real hard. Just the stuff that’s hard to get out of them when it’s 110 degrees in practice,” St. Al coach BJ Smithhart said.

Teller spent his first three seasons piling up receiving yards. He only needs 27 to become St. Al’s all-time leader. He’s moved to quarterback for his senior season, however, and his first on-field performance offered a glimpse of what might be a multi-faceted offensive dynamo.

Teller ran for a 21-yard touchdown on the Flashes’ first possession and added a 48-yarder on a read option play in the second quarter. He threw two touchdown passes to Tyler Lewis and completed all three of his pass attempts for 68 yards.

Finally, Teller went back to his roots and caught two passes that both went for long touchdowns. The first was a 46-yarder in the second quarter, and the second was a slant that he turned into a 65-yard TD late the game.

Teller carried the ball five times for 91 yards and added 111 receiving yards.

“It’s cool to be able to have that option,” Teller said of his versatility. “Then you can just do whatever. That’s just a huge threat to be able to switch around like that.”

St. Al showcased a lot more weapons that just Teller. Backup quarterback Antonio Thompson was 3-of-4 passing for 122 yards and two touchdowns. Running back Jamar Williams had three carries for 54 yards, and as a team the Flashes rushed for 217 yards.

Defensively, they forced the safety and recovered an early fumble. A potential pick-six interception was dropped.

“It’s awesome. I’m hoping we can carry that over to next week, because we really need that win,” Teller said. “Everybody’s doing their jobs. The linemen are blocking perfectly. Everything is just working out. The other quarterback is throwing the ball good. We’re all doing good.”

On the other side of the field, Porters Chapel struggled to find its footing and it had nothing to do with the muddy turf at Balzli Field.

Its first play of the game was a fumbled handoff inside its own 20 that St. Al recovered and turned into a touchdown on the next play. The Eagles had 39 yards of total offense and only crossed midfield once.

PCA has lost five starters to injury in the past three weeks, but coach Blake Purvis said a lot of Friday’s struggles stemmed from a lack of game film and planning. The Eagles, like most teams, have focused more on next week’s season opener instead of the jamboree that doesn’t count in the standings.

“I’m not making any excuses. We got dominated a little bit up front on defense. They were running a scheme that our guys hadn’t seen. We hadn’t coached it up and were trying to make adjustments on the fly,” Purvis said. “Coverages, our guys were in positions to make plays in the defensive backfield, but we jumped some routes and didn’t recover to make a tackle.”

Purvis pivoted, though, and said he did see some good in the bad. He felt like his defenders did a good job of making open field tackles to keep some big plays from turning into touchdowns.

“All in all, our defensive backfield stepped up and made tackles in the open field when runners broke free,” he said. “And they were in a position to make a play on the ball on pass plays, and we’d just jump a route or something and give up a big play.”

PCA’s big challenge now is shaking off a bad performance in time to give a better one when it matters next week. It will host St. Andrew’s, an MHSAA Class 3A school, next Friday.

“I think, if anything, it’s going to make them hungrier,” Purvis said. “They’re going to understand now the work that they have to do, furthermore than just us telling them. They’ve seen it firsthand. They’ve seen it on film. This group has always responded well, so I don’t have any doubts they’ll come back Monday ready to work and respond, and we’ll get after it and get a game plan for St. Andrew’s.”