DANVERS – Sometimes you win ? and sometimes you lose. And sometimes on the same day, even.Swampscott football coach Steve Dembowski would understand that. Dembowski did yeoman work in putting together – and presenting – the revised high school football postseason proposal that got approved Friday. Then, he watched his team get clobbered by Danvers, 35-7, Friday night at Dr. Deering Stadium.This game had so many subplots. For starters, it was a tale of two Alexes – Valles and Grant – both of whom ran the ball for more than 100 yards for Danvers. Valles ran for 147 yards on 15 carries; and Grant had 113 on 14 totes. In addition, they both scored two touchdowns.Also, the quarterbacks (sophomore Nick Andreas of Danvers and senior captain Brian Santry of Swampscott) are cousins. In addition, it was Danvers’ first game at Dr. Deering since Week 2, and the Falcons celebrated senior night.But more than anything, the Falcons were able to even their record both overall (4-4) and in the Northeastern Conference/Cape Ann League Tier 2 (1-1) because they played ferocious football.”We challenged our kids to reach back and play physical,” Danvers coach Sean Rogers said. “And we challenged both our lines, offensive and defensive, and they came through. The kids hit hard all night long.”Not surprisingly, Dembowski had the opposite reaction about his team.”We didn’t do anything,” he said. “We didn’t block, we didn’t tackle ? we thought we could win the game on every play on defense. We didn’t do any of the things we need to do to win. It was a real beating, and we got exactly what we deserved.”Danvers set the tone early, driving deep into Swampscott territory on its first drive before stalling ? then holding the Blue to a three-and-out. On their next possession, the Falcons struck first, on a nine-yard run by Grant.From there, the hits just kept on coming – for Danvers. Swampscott looked to be driving for the equalizer when Santry was picked off by Jake Kobierski at midfield. The teams traded two more possessions before Danvers launched a long drive that culminated in Grant’s second score of the night, a 24-yard rush.Swampscott couldn’t get anything going, with the Danvers defense wrapping up Santry and whoever else was carrying the ball en masse.”You can’t bring him (Santry) down alone,” said Rogers. “We had to get after him. They’re such athletes over there.”Before the half ended, Valles went in from the five, and it was 21-0 (Anthony Garron was 5-for-5 on PATs) with 11 seconds to go in the second quarter.It was more of the same in the third quarter, as Danvers controlled the ball (the Falcons had a huge advantage in plays run and time of possession). Andreas hit Jake Cawlina with an 11-yard scoring pass with 3:45 to go in the third quarter to make it 28-0.The Blue, thanks to a couple of personal foul penalties on Danvers, scored on a Santry-to-Josh Rothwell pass from 14 yards out to make it 28-7, but Valles ripped off a 60-yard run to close out the scoring.Steve Krause can be reached at [email protected].