Trailing 14-0 early in the second quarter, the Greene County High School football team went on a 61-7 run to finish the game and pick up win number one of the Mitch Moore head coaching era by downing Iowa Falls-Alden 61-21 on Friday night in Iowa Falls. The Rams had nine touchdowns and totaled 600 yards of offense en route to improving to 1-2 in Class 3A District 2 and 1-4 overall. The Cadets fell to 1-5 on the season and 0-3 in the district. The contest took close to three hours to play and was heard on KG98 and www.raccoonvalleyradio.com.

Tijon Rose found Devin Sheridan for passing touchdowns of 33 and 80 yards in the first 12:24 of playing time to stake the Cadets to a double-digit lead in their Homecoming game. The Rams countered with the first of sophomore Colby Kafer’s four rushing touchdowns, this one from 17 yards out to make the score 14-6. The extra point kick was blocked. Greene County scored moments later on a Kafer run of 64 yards and Jordan Patterson connected with Wade Adcock for two conversion points following a low snap to tie the score at 14-14.

IF-A regained the lead at 21-14 when Rose found Luke Rubow on a 54 yard pass play with just under four minutes to play in the half. The Rams tied it again at 21-21 on a Clint Dennhardt to Trey Hinote TD pass of 16 yards and a Leo Marques PAT. The Cadets had a shot at the halftime lead, but a 30 yard field goal attempt was wide left.

Greene County dominated the second half with six touchdowns. Dennhardt scored on a 62 yard run seconds into the third quarter. He followed that up with TD runs of two yards twice, with a Kafer scoring jaunt of 35 yards in between. By the time the third quarter was finished, the Rams had scored 27 points in the frame and led 48-21. Early in the fourth, Kafer added a 49 yard TD run and backup quarterback Brent Riley scored on a run of six yards with 1:30 to play.

Kafer had a career night in just his fifth game as the varsity running back with 285 rushing yards on 19 carries and four TDs. Dennhardt added 89 yards on 10 carries and three touchdowns. In all, the Rams had 420 yards on the ground in 27 attempts. Dennhardt and Riley combined to throw for 180 on 15 of 29 passing with no interceptions. The only turnover for the Rams came very late in the game, while the Greene County defense took the ball away six times from the Cadets. Xavier Hayes had two interceptions with one each for Jake Berns and Lance Hughes. Tyler Miller and Tyler Teeples had fumble recoveries.

Top 10 rated Boone (5-0, 3-0) visits Linduska Field on Friday night for the Rams Homecoming game at 7:30 p.m. The Toreadors will be the Rams third rated opponent in the last four games.