CHELSEA – In its Thanksgiving Day showdown with Chelsea, Saugus stuck to its bread-and-butter offense, as coach Mike Broderick called it, running the triple-option offense like it has all season long and keeping the ball firmly on the ground.Click here to see a photo gallery of Thursday’s Saugus-Chelsea game.The plan worked to near-perfection. Overall, Saugus racked up 444 yards on the ground on 37 carries, averaging 12 yards per rush for a game that ended in a 35-6 Sachem victory at Chelsea High School.Shamir Guillaume led the Sachems with nine carries for 192 yards and two scores, including an 87-yard scamper on the final play before halftime that gave Saugus a 21-0 lead and all the momentum at the break. Mike Dean contributed 123 yards on 10 carries and scored a touchdown.Saugus finished its season 7-3, while Chelsea ended at 4-7.”It was a great day for us,” Broderick said. “Shamir had great production, and Dean and (Brett) Reid have led us all year offensively.”It was the second straight Thanksgiving Day victory for Saugus over Chelsea following last season’s 49-14 win in Saugus.Meanwhile, the Saugus defense stopped the Red Devils cold inside the red zone three separate times in the first half, and one other time inside the Saugus 30-yard line.After the Guillaume touchdown, the Sachems held all the momentum coming out of the locker room. On just the second play from scrimmage, Guillaume broke free again, scampering 57 yards to his second score of the day and a 28-0 Saugus lead.The Saugus defense grew stronger in the latter frame, too. The Sachems did not allow a first down to Chelsea in the second half until there were less than 30 seconds remaining in the contest.After a Chelsea three-and-out, Saugus embarked on one final, backbreaking drive. Pinned at its own one-yard line following a 64-yard punt by Chelsea’s Daniel Martinez, the Saugus ground game went to work.The Sachems moved downfield in 15 plays, taking almost nine minutes off the game clock. They secured the victory on the first play of the final quarter with a seven-yard run to pay dirt.With the reserve players for both teams coming on late, Chelsea’s Anthony Morales threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Sabahudin Omeragic on the game’s final play to avert the shutout.In the first half, it looked as though the teams would play to a tight finish. Chelsea moved the ball downfield on all of its drives, reaching the red zone on three of its four possessions.Unfortunately for the Red Devils, their offense stalled on each occasion. Quarterback Nelson Molina was stopped cold trying to run for first downs on the first two Chelsea drives, while the other two ended in failed pass attempts.”We had opportunities, we just couldn’t capitalize on them,” Chelsea coach Mike Stellato said. “You can’t do that against a good team like Saugus.”Saugus, meanwhile, wasted little time offensively. The first Sachem drive lasted only three plays before Dean broke for a 64-yard score and a 7-0 lead.Early in the second, Saugus went 83 yards in six plays, capped by a 37-yard rushing score by Brett Reid. Overall, Chelsea was out-gaining Saugus, 182-161, until Guillaume’s touchdown on the last play of the first half.Stellato said he was proud of his team’s effort despite a tough end to the season. Chelsea lost six of its final seven games after starting the year 3-1.”This group of kids worked very hard, came to practice every day-that’s so important,” he said. “Being part of the lives of these young kids-it’s not only football. There’s more than football in life.” Meanwhile, Broderick said his group of 19 seniors, who endured some difficult finishes as freshmen and sophomores, had made big strides in their years with the program.”Some of these guys have been here since freshman year, when they were 1-10,” Broderick said. “To finish back-to-back 7-3 seasons, this is big for them.”