The Swampscott football team was on the edge of disaster last Saturday, trailing Winthrop 19-7 at halftime.The Big Blue’s hopes for a second straight Northeastern Conference South Division title and playoff berth were set to take a big hit courtesy of Chris Beranger and company. Fortunately for Swampscott, football games are four quarters long, not two.Quarterback Chris Cameron and the Swampscott (6-1, 2-0 NEC South) offense rescued the Big Blue with 27 second-half points, stealing away a 34-32 win on Cameron’s fourth touchdown run of the game with a little under two minutes remaining.Fresh off a third great escape of this season, the Big Blue’s job doesn’t get any easier on Saturday (2:30) at Blocksidge Field when it hosts Saugus.The Sachems will try to play the role of spoiler as they try to rebound from back-to-back losses after starting the season 4-0. Saugus’ title hopes were effectively dashed last Saturday in a 35-13 loss at home against Beverly.”It was just one of those weird games,” Saugus coach Mike Broderick said. “We were a little bit hurt, a little bit run-down and a little bit sick. But give Beverly all the credit in the world. You just have to chalk it up to a learning experience for these guys.”With that being said, Swampscott coach Steve Dembowski knows that his team can’t keep living dangerously (the Big Blue’s only loss came on a last-second touchdown by Winchester with 17 seconds left in the season opener).”We’re 17 seconds from being undefeated,” Dembowski said. “But we’ve got to do a better job defensively to get off the field on third down. We’ve struggled with that all year, and that has hurt us. And against Saugus, if you don’t stop their offense, you’re in for a long day.”Long days have been a common theme for Swampscott’s opponents, thanks to the Big Blue’s high-flying spread offense.Swampscott has scored at least 28 points in all seven of its tilts, averaging an astounding 34.6 points per game.”They are very explosive on offense,” Broderick said. “We have to make sure that we work on our pass coverage and don’t blow assignments.”Nowhere was that more evident than last week, when Swampscott scored almost every time it had the ball in the second half against the Vikings.”Winthrop was a good passing team, and they made great third- and fourth-down plays,” Dembowski said. “But in the second half, we did a great job of adjusting and getting going.”But Dembowski knows there’s also room for improvement as his defense made big plays down the stretch against Winthrop, but will have to be on its game against the Sachems’ option attack.”I don’t think that we’ve played our best game yet,” Dembowski said. “The Fenwick game was the closest we’ve come. But we have to come to play on Saturday, because if we slip up here, there really is no cushion for error down the stretch.”The Sachems (4-2, 0-2), meanwhile, were bitten heavily by missed opportunities and a flu bug that did a number on many of Broderick’s players last Saturday. But Saugus is still a team that has plenty of weapons to go up against the Big Blue’s attack.”They have a couple of backs (Mike Dean, Shamir Guillaume) that are tough to stop and (quarterback) Bret Reid is a threat to go the distance every time he has the ball,” Dembowski said.Dean and Guillaume found the sledding tough against Beverly. Guillaume rushed for a touchdown in the second quarter, but the two were held to a combined 90 yards on the ground in the game. Reid also was held in check by the Panthers, gaining just 13 yards on 10 carries with a touchdown.Even with that, Dembowski knows that the Sachems cam score in bunches.”They have a good option attack and we’ve been working hard all week on it,” Dembowski said.Broderick also realizes that he needs his offense to return back to the form of Saugus’ first five games.”We’ve been all right offensively all year,” Broderick said. “Last week, we were a little bit sluggish. We have to get back to what we’ve done all year – have long drives, t