PROVIDENCE — La Salle started the night with some successful trickery , but in the end it was the steady and proven running of Gus DelFarno and Kendall Perry that spelled the difference as the Rams maintained their status as the only undefeated Division I team with a 27-13 victory over Barrington last night at Lou Cimini. Field.

DelFarno set up a pair of second-half touchdowns with his powerful running, and Perry broke a 13-13 halftime tie with two TD runs as the Rams improved their Division I record to 6-0 with two league games remaining.

The victory kept the Rams a game ahead of Portsmouth in the loss column. Portsmouth improved its record to 6-1 with a 27-20 comeback victory over North Kingstown last night. Portsmouth’s only loss was to La Salle, in the second week of the season.

It was DelFarno and Perry along with a La Salle defense that stopped Barrington’s star running back, Mike Read, in the second half. Read had rushed for 165 yards in the first half, including two long touchdown runs.

La Salle pulled out its bag of tricks right away as the Rams booted an onside kick on the opening kickoff and recovered the ball on the Barrington 48.

Only three plays and 65 seconds later, the Rams had a 6-0 lead as quarterback Joe Charest scored on a two-yard run.

It was only fitting that Charest collected the six points because he had set up the tally with a pair of 20-yard-plus passes to Luke Francis immediately after the Rams recovered the onside kick.

Within five minutes, however, Read deadlocked the game when he broke loose on an 84-yard touchdown run.

Brandon Lewis’ conversion point gave Barrington a 7-6 lead, but it took La Salle only three minutes to regain the lead. The Rams marched 51 yards in seven plays on the ensuing series for their second touchdown with Charest’s 25-yard pass to Damon DiVozzi, accounting for the second points. Colin Sullivan added the conversion.

Read came right back again, however. On only the second play of the ensuing series, the Eagles senior speedster broke loose on a 51-yard touchdown run, sending the game into intermission deadlocked at 13-13.

La Salle didn’t waste any time taking advantage in the second half. The Rams marched 60 yards for a touchdown on the opening series of the half. Perry scored the touchdown on a five-yard run, but it was a 30-yard run by DelFarno that brought the ball down to the Eagles’ 15.

After the La Salle defense limited Barrington to only one first down on the ensuing series, the Rams regained possession and immediately began a 46-yard march to another touchdown.

This time Perry scored on a 14-yard run, and DelFarno kept the drive alive with a couple of big third-down runs.

“Those are our guys. We want to ride those guys,” La Salle coach Geoff Marcone said about DelFarno and Perry. “We wear people down with those guys, and they’re both team guys. They don’t care who carries the ball as long as we get the yards.”

Barrington

13  0  0  0 — 13

La Salle

13  0  7  7 — 27

Barrington scoring: Read 2 (84 yds, 50 yds); conversion — Brandon Lewis (kick.)

La Salle scoring: Joe Charest (2 run),: Damon DiVozzi (25 pass from Charest), Kendall Perry 2 (5 run, 14 run); conversions — Sullivan (3 kicks).

jgillool@projo.com