A few hours before an upset victory, two high school seniors on Bridgewater-Raynham's football team pulled off an ingenious rescue of a cat stuck in a drainage pipe. See the video below.

BRIDGEWATER – Fresh off one of the biggest wins in Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High history, football coach Dan Buron called his team together before Tuesday’s practice to make an announcement.

“I don’t know if you know it or not, but we have two heroes among us — this is serious stuff,” a grinning Buron said, ignoring the snickers of the varsity football squad before turning to seniors George Lampros and Max Sergio. “You guys are the MVPs — the most valuable people.”

The two Trojans playing thankless positions — Lampros kicks while Sergio lines up at offensive guard — weren’t getting game balls for their contributions to Friday’s win over the state’s top-ranked Xaverian Brothers High. Instead, the Bridgewater residents were in the spotlight for saving a cat’s life.

Around 3 p.m. on Friday, Sergio, 17, pulled his car up to his Bridgewater home on Cross Street with Lampros, 18, riding shotgun.

“We opened the door to my car and we heard a screech,” said Sergio. “We heard the noise and said, ‘Let’s go find out what that was.’”

The desperate shriek belonged to a cat stuck in a sewer drainage pipe near Sergio’s home. When the pair leaned over the pipe, the white cat was hanging over water by its fingertips, Lampros said.

After calling 911, the football players said they waited a few minutes before realizing the cat didn’t have much strength left.

So they ran to Sergio’s garage, tied a rope around a five-gallon bucket and pried open the drain cover with a crowbar. With the help of a man who was re-paving the Sergio home’s driveway, Lampros and Sergio dropped the bucket about six feet down and gently coaxed the cat into the bucket with a shovel.

Then, with Sergio leaning over to be the eyes of the operation, Lampros slowly lifted the bucket — full of water and one agitated cat — to safety.

Bridgewater Fire Chief Tom Levy, who showed up at practice to thank Lampros and Sergio for their quick-thinking, said most kids would have walked away from it without a second thought.

But the students said they never considered not doing something.

“Even if we couldn’t get it out, we knew we needed to try,” said Lampros, who posted a video of the save on Twitter. “After we did it, we were just happy we got there on time.”

The cat-saving duo wasn’t sure how it ended up down there or if it was someone’s pet. Of course, the cat didn’t stick around to answer any questions — it bolted into the woods the moment it was on street level.

A couple hours later, Lampros and Sergio were celebrating another kind of victory with a 22-21 thriller over Xaverian. In recapping the life-saving maneuver before kickoff, Sergio joked that they were just happy the cat wasn’t black: “I guess it was good luck.”

Just saved a cats life nbd...pic.twitter.com/CwIuOMVWF5

— lil wolf, rd, ghunit (@GeorgeLampros75)September 16, 2016