Berkley Edwards ripped off big run after big run Friday night, but nobody on the Chelsea High School sideline felt comfortable until the Bulldogs’ junior running back scored his fifth and final touchdown.

Edwards finished with 292 yards and five scores on 35 carries, trumping Skyline’s deep-strike offense in a wild 47-32 win at Jerry Niehaus Field.

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The Eagles’ quarterback Andrew Copp and wideout Jordan Woods connected on touchdown passes of 62 and 67 yards late in the third quarter to cut the Chelsea lead to 34-32.

And that performance was simply a continuation of the first half, when Copp hit Woods for a 35-yard score before finding Theron Wilson for 58- and 48-yard touchdown strikes.

“I think (Skyline) has as good a group of receivers as you’re going to see and I think (Copp) is a great player,” Chelsea coach Brad Bush said.

“We were obviously disappointed. It’s not like we didn’t work all week on the deep ball, because that’s what they’re all about. … But a lot of that is them. I mean, they’re good.”

Bush said his defense went from playing as well as it can last week -- when it limited a good East Lansing team to six three-and-outs in 10 possessions -- to “not very good.”

But the Bulldogs did come up with two big defensive stops that turned the game in their favor.

On Skyline’s first play of the second quarter, Chelsea’s Max Giller made a diving interception -- his first of two -- in the end zone to stop the Eagles’ streak of scoring on three straight possessions.

Woods had just returned a punt 28 yards to the Chelsea 26-yard-line and the Eagles were going for the jugular and a 25-14 lead.

For the rest of the half, Chelsea harassed Copp in the backfield and Skyline didn’t pick up another first down until midway through the third quarter.

Edwards scored two of his touchdowns in the meantime to put Chelsea up 27-19 at halftime.

“It’s just the ebb and flow of any game. Any good coach is going to adjust, so they adjust and we had to try something else and it didn’t work for us,” Skyline coach Rod Jones said. “So we adjust back and hit a couple more. That’s how the game is. That’s why we love it.”

Chelsea answered Woods’ two long touchdown receptions in the third quarter with a quick drive of its own. A 42-yard run by Colton Platt set up an 8-yard touchdown run by Cody Ellyson that put the Bulldogs back up 40-32.

Wilson returned the ensuing kickoff 90 yards to the Chelsea 5-yard-line, where the Bulldogs’ defense would make its second big stop of the night.

After stopping Copp on a pair of run attempts, Chelsea’s Tyler Geiger recovered a fumble on 3rd-and-goal from the 3.

Chelsea marched 97 yards back down the field -- with Platt busting another long run, this one 46 yards -- to take a commanding lead on Edwards’ final 39-yard score.

“You have to man up. It’s hard to throw the ball in short yardage, so at those points you have to toughen up and run it in there,” Jones said of Chelsea’s late goal-line stand. “I think my young man (Torrey Juide) kind of punched it in there, trying to give a little extra effort, the ball is wet and he drops it. It happens. We’ll learn from this and get better.”

Edwards, Platt (3-90) and Andy Nelson (11-68) helped the Bulldogs gain nearly 500 yards on the ground. Ellyson scored Chelsea’s first touchdown on an 18-yard pass from Jarred Scheese (6 of 9 passing, 77 yards).

Copp finished 12 of 21 for 374 yards and five touchdowns, with Woods catching four passes for 198 yards and three scores.

Rich Rezler is a sports producer for AnnArbor.com. Contact him at richrezler@annarbor.com or 734-623-2553.