Even with a short week of work, and every reason to let down, relax a bit or just savor what has been accomplished so far, the Baldwinsville football team refused to go down that path of contentment. Instead, the Bees were all too glad to get the hard work done early in Thursday night’s trip to Central Square, leading from start to finish in a 47-14 win over the Red Hawks. With the win, the Bees, now no. 7 in the state Class AA rankings, improved to 6-0 and, more importantly, officially clinched the top spot in the Class AA-1 division with one regular-season game remaining this Friday at Rome Free Academy. A series of Homecoming-related activities at Central Square caused the game to be moved up, thus giving the 0-5 Red Hawks to take the field just five days removed from a 21-0 loss to Liverpool at the Carrier Dome. Meanwhile, B’ville was basking from the cumulative glow of its league wins over CBA, Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse. Compared to those big occasions, the trip to Central Square was a smaller affair and, as such, had a risk of being taken too lightly. Those concerns were quickly extinguished, though, starting with Parker Kiff breaking loose for a 30-yard touchdown run early in the first quarter. Then Malik Burks took over. Working from his own 20 on the Bees’ next possession, Burks broke loose, going 80 yards for the TD, accounting for nearly half his eventual total of 176 yards. A nine-yard TD run by Burks followed late in the period, quickly making it 21-0. Central Square made a brief resurgence, scoring twice to cut the margin to 21-14 as Tyler Meyers ran 43 yards for one TD and Josh Vredenburg caught a nine-yard scoring pass from Mike Joyce. B’ville’s passing game provided a quick response, though, as just before halftime, quarterback Niko Manning went deep and connected with Jed Clouston on a 62-yard scoring pass, one of the longest of Manning’s varsity career. Leading 27-14 at the break, the Bees sealed matters with a defense that, as it did in all its previous games, played better once it got scored on. Central Square never got on the board again. Burks would add a third and fourth touchdown on runs of 40 and seven yards, respectively, while Manning and Clouston found each other again, this time going 53 yards for the TD late in the third quarter. This leads B’ville to RFA Stadium next Friday, the last hurdle before the start of the Class AA playoffs on the weekend of Oct. 23-24, with one more home game at Pelcher-Arcaro