A-D-M High School football Coach Mike Whisner knew his team needed to start fast against a fired up Dallas Center-Grimes team in the season opener in front of a standing room only crowd. He got more than he could have ever asked for.

Junior Tate Jensen took the opening kickoff 90 yards untouched for a touchdown and the Tigers never trailed in a 38-20 win against the rival Mustangs. Senior Jordan Grove returning from a serious knee injury suffered in last years season ending loss took it from there. Grove scored five touchdowns, four on the ground and one through the air while rushing for 230 yards to pace A-D-M.

“Tate’s TD really got us going,” said Coach Whisner, “It silenced their crowd right away and we just fed off of it.” The Tigers built a 25-7 at the half before DC-G mounted thier most serious threat midway through the third quarter. Junior Quarterback Andrew Kramer connected with Senior Jake Lewis for a 72 yard pitch & catch with 4:48 left in the third to cut the lead to 25-13, but the Mustang’s could get no closer as Grove put the game away.

After an interception by Tiger Senior defensive back Blake Heimann on DC-G’s next possession, Grove scored on a 10 yard scamper on the 1st play of the 4th quarter & put the game away with a 3 yard touchdown run with 6:40 left.

Senior Quarterback Kyle Herrick, making his 1st Varsity start, threw a 20 yard TD pass to Grove on fourth & 10 at the Mustang 20 midway though the 2nd quarter and calmly led his offense to their 1st win of the 2012 campaign.

“We made a few mistakes, three turnovers,” said Caoch Whisner, “And had too many penalties, but anytime you can go on the road and beat a rival on their turf, it’s a great game to build upon.”

A-D-M opens their home schedule next Friday night against the Winterset Huskies, kickoff is set for 7:30 and it’s Senior night.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes:

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>