ARLINGTON – Swampscott quarterback Chris Cameron threw an interception on the Big Blue’s very first play from scrimmage, and to say it was an unfavorable portent of things to come is putting it mildly.Arlington Catholic parlayed that pick into six points, and the defense stifled the powerful Big Blue offense all night at Pierce Field Tuesday, earning the Cougars the right to play Norton in the Division 3 Super Bowl Saturday in Foxborough with a 22-9 victory.Click here to see a photo gallery from last night’s football action.”I didn’t recognize my team tonight,” Swampscott coach Steve Dembowski said. “And that’s too bad to have to say that in a game like this. We just didn’t play well, and we didn’t coach well, either.”Swampscott was not only hamstrung by a very stingy AC defense (all nine points were off special teams), but the Big Blue lost Cameron, their Northeastern Conference South MVP quarterback, late in the third quarter with what Dembowski called a hip pointer.”That was a tough blow for us, not to have him, but that’s not why we lost,” Dembowski said.Fresh off receiving the opening kick, Cameron reared back and tried to hit Steve Moran about 20 yards downfield. Instead, the ball sailed, and AC’s Travis Stanley picked it off and ran it back to the Swampscott 21.”That was huge,” said AC coach Serge Clivio. “We were able to get those turnovers right in the beginning, and that really helped us out.”Three plays later, Cougar quarterback Corey Spencer ran it in from the four-yard line, and it was 6-0. AC lined up for the extra point, but Swampscott blocked it, and Jon Poth ran it all the way back for two points, making the score an incredibly baseball-esque 6-2 (which is actually where it stayed for the next 18:10).”I’m amazed we were only down by two points at the half,” Dembowski said. “This was by far our worst game of the year.”There were seven changes of possession in the first quarter alone, as neither team could mount much of an attack. The Cougars picked off another Cameron offering in the quarter, but couldn’t do anything with it, and Swampscott recovered an AC fumble but stalled as well.Things got a little rough toward the end of the first half, when Swampscott felt that the Cougars should have been called for a late hit on a tackle out of bounds on Cameron, and Dembowski acknowledges that the coaching staff got a little hot.”We may have overreacted,” he said, “and I think at that point, we lost our composure.”Still, it was only 6-2 at the half, and the Big Blue had to be pleased that despite being as shaky as they were, they were only down by four.”Then,” said Dembowski, “we let them go 70 yards downfield on the opening drive and score.”After mounting zero offense in the first half, AC came out running. Starting on his 31, AC’s Charlie Bates (16 carries, 79 yards) bolted for 19 yards, and Jibreel Henderson and Spencer combined for 20 more. A few more long gainers, and it was third-and-goal from the one-yard line, and Spencer drove it in for the score, with Bates converting, and it was 14-2.Before anyone could get too settled, Moran took the kickoff from the 17-yard line, made a quick cut to the far sideline, and rumbled all the way to the end zone. Matt Barbuzzi’s kick made it 14-9 and “I thought, for a second, we may have gained some momentum,” Dembowski said.But it was not to be. AC resorted to some trickery on its final scoring drive when, from the Big Blue 40, Spencer handed off to Ricky Douglas, who lofted a pass that the 6-4 Joe Wesoloski managed to haul in just beyond the far pylon, and it was 22-9.From there, each team got touchdowns called back because of penalties. And while Barbuzzi, who played for the injured Cameron, was effective in moving the ball, Swampscott’s drives all stalled.