MARBLEHEAD – Cinderella is alive and very well and she called Piper Field home on Thursday morning.Click here for a photo gallery of this game.Led by 150 yards and two touchdowns on the ground by Will Quigley and a swarming defense that held Swampscott to 208 total yards, Marblehead stunned the Big Blue, 21-7, to claim the NEC/CAL Tier 2 crown and a playoff date with Wakefield on Tuesday.Unlike the game two years ago on the same field when the Magicians had to hold off a last second pass in the endzone, this game was one dominated by the Marblehead defense.”We thought we could win a 21-20 type of game like that,” Magicians coach Jim Rudloff said. “And that’s kind of what we planned for all week. But we played great on defense and holding them to seven points is phenomenal.”The Big Blue (9-2, 4-1) were out of sorts all day long and never could get into a rhythm offensively. That lack of continuity eventually showed on defense, where the Magicians rushed for 206 yards on the day.”We played poorly,” Swampscott coach Steve Dembowski said. “We didn’t make plays we should have. Marblehead is a great team and they made the plays we didn’t.”The Magicians (8-2, 5-0) got the ball to begin the game and went on a lengthy drive that took over six minutes off the first quarter clock but ended in a punt. Swampscott promptly turned the ball right back over when Aidan Lang was stripped after a 20-yard completion from Mike Walsh.Marblehead failed to pay off the turnover, but its defense held Swampscott on the next series and the Magicians went back to work on offense.Quigley and Ian Maag did the bulk of the work on a 9-play drive that covered only 32 yards but took nearly five minutes off the clock. A 15-yard fourth down completion to Phil Coughlin kept the march going and Maag made it 6-0 on the next play with a three-yard keeper.”The best defense against Mike Walsh is to keep him off the field,” Rudloff said. “I never felt like either team had momentum but the way our defense was playing, I knew we had a chance all day long.”Swampscott reached the Magician 43 late in the half, but Walsh saw a fourth down throw fall incomplete and Marblehead carried its lead into the half.”We had a couple of dropped balls and fumbles that hurt us,” Dembowski said.The Big Blue opened the second half by rolling the dice and calling for a fake punt that went for a 19-yard gain from Aidan Lang to Aaron Cronin. Three plays later, a pass interference penalty on Marblehead kept the march going.Walsh then gained 12 yards to the Magician 12 and a penalty moved the ball to the six as it looked like Swampscott was ready to take the lead.But the Magician defense would have none of that. Three plays gained two yards before Quigley flew in like a bullet and stopped Richard Sullivan for a 5-yard loss on fourth and goal.”That really was the biggest play of the game,” Rudloff said. “It looks like they’re going in there to get the lead and we came up with a big stand.”The defensive stalemate continued until the final play of the third quarter when Quigley took a handoff and raced 66 yards down the right sideline for a touchdown and a 14-0 lead after a 2-point pass to John Perry.Swampscott put together its longest drive on the day on the ensuing possession as Walsh was 4-of-6 passing and rushed for 31 yards and a touchdown with 4:56 left that closed the gap to 14-7 despite being knocked out for a play along the way.”Mike is a warrior,” Dembowski said. “He had a 101 temperature on Monday and was out there giving it everything he had.”The Big Blue would get the ball back with 3:14 left and a chance to tie but Marblehead forced a turnover on downs and then turned out the lights with a 39-yard clinching touchdown by Quigley.”The thing that’s so amazing about this bunch of kids is they never stop believing in themselves,” Rudloff said. “Its an incredible group.”