Kevin Phillips is one big kidder. Either that, or last weekend’s one-hour time change bungled his entire season schedule.

“Is there a football game Friday night?,” chided Phillips, the Centennial Centaurs head coach whose high school senior team has been pumped for a long time –– along with much of the Tri-City prep gridiron community –– for its meeting with long-time cross-town foes, the defending B.C.-champion Terry Fox Ravens.

The Centaurs enter the 7 p.m. B.C. AAA game at Percy Perry Stadium ranked No. 1 in the province, having taken over top billing from the New Westminster Hyacks, who were blitzed 35-20 Saturday by the host Vancouver College Fighting Irish.

The Cents –– 4-0 in Eastern Conference play and 6-1 overall –– had a bye last weekend, while the No. 3 Ravens hardly broke a sweat while stomping Cloverdale’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers 50-0 Friday to move to 3-1 in league action.

Led by the blistering and bashing backfield tandem of Lemar Durant and Nehemie Kankolongo, the Cents hardly need to have their boiling blood stirred anymore for the much-anticipated battle, Phillips figures.

“I don’t think there’s much motivation needed here,” said Phillips, whose squad has lost to the Ravens each of the last three years. “I think this game has been marked on the calendar since last spring.

“We know Terry Fox is good at what they do and they’ve done it for a long time. That won’t change. We’re more concerned about what we do and how we execute.”

Against Tweedsmuir, Fox pounded in six rushing touchdowns, including two each by Jacob Patko (27 and five yards) and Jared Soll (38 and one). Other ground majors came via Keiko King (12) and Cole Green (16).

Ian Matthews chugged 44 yards on an interception return for another Ravens’ score.

END ZONE: The Ravens junior team was slammed 42-0 last Thursday by Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights to drop to 1-3 in league play. The Ravens have already qualified for playoffs, however, and were set to face the 0-4 Pinetree Timberwolves yesterday. Centennial, which tripped Abbotsford’s W.J. Mouat Hawks 19-8, and STM are knotted for top spot in the Eastern Conference, both with 4-0 marks. “We were not physically over-matched [against STM],” insisted Fox head coach Colin Cameron. “We did some positive things. We are just very susceptible to get burned by the big play.”