Northern Guilford’s senior star, a 5-foot-11, 185-pound speedster who has committed to North Carolina, rushed for 242 yards and four touchdowns to lead the top-ranked and two-time defending state champion Nighthawks to a 43-0 victory over Chapel Hill on Friday night in the second round of the Class 3AA state playoffs.

“He can make some plays and he ran good and hard,” Northern Guilford coach Johnny Roscoe said of Logan. “He was just doing his regular stuff."

And that was pretty special.

Logan bolted for an 88-yard touchdown on his second carry of the game and had 240 yards and three of his touchdowns in the first half as the Nighthawks built a 36-0 halftime lead. Logan carried the ball only once in the second half – scoring from 2 yards out in the third quarter for Northern’s final TD.

“A couple of big plays early on hurt us,” said Chapel Hill coach Issac Marsh, whose team finished 9-4. “The first two scores, I thought, that took the wind out of us. If we could have settled down and gotten into a rhythm, we could have been a little more competitive."

Northern Guilford (12-0) ended the regular-season season ranked No. 1 in the state by the Associated Press and won its 28th straight game Friday.

The Nighthawks turned over the ball on their first possession, when quarterback Austin Coltrane fumbled a snap in the shotgun. But the Tigers had to punt, and Logan broke the long run on a second-and-14 play from Northern’s 12 yard line.

On the Nighthawks’ next possession, Coltrane hit Cameron Harris on a 17-yard fade route to the left corner of the end zone for a touchdown.

The Tigers were in a 14-0 hole. And Northern Guilford’s defense never let them climb out.

Chapel Hill was limited to 64 yards of total offense, with running back Darius Allen finishing with minus-2 yards rushing after totaling more than 1,500 yards on the ground this season.

For Marsh, red-eyed after an emotional post-game talk with his team, it was about more than the score on the scoreboard.

“The tears are never because of what’s on the scoreboard,” he said. “The tears come from watching a group of young men develop into men. And that is what the class of 2013 became over their four years of playing in the program.

“I hate to see them go."