Despite both being from Wareham, Joe Fisher and Kyle Johnson hadn’t met before they both enrolled at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School.

Four years later, you could say they know each other pretty well.

Both co-captains for a Ram squad that just missed the playoffs after a tough 7-6 loss to Carver, the duo helped lead Upper Cape to a 6-4 record with one game left on Thanksgiving against Cape Cod Regional Technical High School.

Johnson, who’s been the starting running back on the team for the past two years, has run for 14 touchdowns this season, with Fisher blocking for his fellow townsman at tight end and excelling on the defensive side of the field as a defensive end.

Upper Cape head coach and athletic director Michael Hernon said that the two have been team leaders throughout the season and beyond.

“They’re just two guys that you’d want representing your program, from the way they handle themselves both on the field and in the classroom,” Hernon said. “They both have a positive influence on the younger kids. They show up, play through some setbacks here and there, and always put their best foot forward for the betterment of the team. They’re two high character individuals who do things the right way.”

Highlights this year for Johnson include a five-touchdown performance in a win over South Shore in which he scored all of his team’s 32 points and four-score game in a win over Bourne in the school’s first ever game against the Canalmen in the program’s five-year existence.

“He’s a workhorse,” Fisher said of Johnson. “You see the film on his, he’s got three guys and he’s dragging them. They can’t get him down.”

And Johnson knows he couldn’t have been as successful without the help of his offensive line and tight ends, which include Fisher, who got high accolades from his coach for his blocking abilities.

“He brings a physicality on both sides of the ball,” Hernon said of Fisher, who credits his brother Andrew, a team captain on the 2012 Division 5 Super Bowl Championship team, with getting him into the game. “He’s one of, if not the best blocking tight end we’ve had in the program. He’s just a model of consistency on both side of the ball.”

Both players said they want to continue on to play college football, and though neither are sure where, both have interest in attending the nearby Massachusetts Maritime Academy, with Fisher also entertaining the idea of attending UMass Amherst.

Despite falling just shy of winning the Mayflower Conference and not clinching a playoff spot, both student-athletes consider the season to have been a success, and are looking for a win in what will be their last game in blue and white.

“It still hasn’t set in yet,” said Johnson of the end of his high school career. “It goes by so quick.”

“It feels like coming out here freshman year was yesterday,” added Fisher.

There coach knows the two are far from freshman, though.

“For them, the type of kids they are, whatever path they choose, they’re going to be successful at it,” said Hernon. “You can tell that the way they do things here are going to carry over. I hope they’ll be able to look back on playing football at this school as a positive one, and take those things with them. And hopefully come back and continue to be part of the program.”

If they end up just up the road in Buzzards Bay, that might not be too difficult.