Madison defeats Greene, 28-0

Madison County’s Mountaineers stormed past Greene County’s William Monroe in Sept. 5 football action, shutting out the Dragons 28-0.
Driving rain dampened much of the second half of the match-up at Martin Mooney Field in Stanardsville as the initial outer bands of the remnants of Tropical Storm Hanna blew into the area.

The soggy win wasn’t a district one for Madison, but was still important as the Madison-Greene “border war” rivalry is always big. It marked the third straight year Madison has won the annual match-up and is especially significant because Madison is a much smaller school than William Monroe — it has about 200 fewer students.

“For the community in Madison and the community in Greene, it’s a game that people talk about for 364 days,” Madison Coach Stuart Dean said.

For the next 364 days the Madison community can talk about Logan Terrell and Devon Boone, who accounted for three of the four Mountaineer touchdowns. Madison’s running game improved even more since its first game this season — an impressive win over Nelson County — with both of the starting backs gaining more than 100 yards in the game.

“We’re the dynamic duo,” Terrell said. “That’s how it is, we’re a team and we work together.”

The Mountaineers used Terrell on the interior rushing and used Boone’s speed rushing him the on the edges.

“We can do big things with this team,” Boone said. “If we keep getting better we could go far.”

On the ground, Boone led all players with 129 yards on 22 rushes. Terrell also did well in the power role as he hit 111 yards on 16 rushes.

Boone had two big TD runs in to open and close the scoring in the first and fourth quarters. Terrell also had a big run in the third quarter for an 11-yard touchdown.

Madison outplayed Greene 299-92 yards with the Dragons gaining a total of 20 yards on the run. Madison’s rushing yards totaled 299.

The passing game was disturbed early in the first quarter when starting quarterback Will Taylor was hit and removed from the game. Quarterback Dustin Kirby settled in to the role. Kirby hit two big passes, including one for a 33-yard touchdown to Antonio Childress in the second quarter.

Defensively, Madison performed well in the shutout as well, allowing less than 100 yards of total offense and completely shutting down the run in the game.
“Our defense did an outstanding job,” Dean said immediately after the game. “On offense we just pounded and pounded the ball. The line did a good job tonight.”

The William Monroe offense put its defense in a tight spot early in the game by giving Madison fantastic field possession for its first three
possessions.

“I thought our defense held up pretty well early in the game,” said Greene Coach Tom Hoffman. “We just had a lot of trouble getting things going on offense.”

Hoffman hopes his team can rebound against the new Culpeper County high school — Eastern View — next week. .

“We’ve got some pretty resilient kids,” Hoffman said. “Hopefully they’ll be able to shake this off and bounce back.”

Monroe receiver Terrance Johnson was the one bright spot for Monroe. The senior pulled down five catches for 61 yards.

Madison’s victory pushed the record of Coach Stuart Dean’s squad to 2-0, 0-0 and dropped Coach Tom Hoffman’s to 0-2, 0-0.

Madison will now get a week to sit back and relax as the Mountaineers are idle coming up. Their next game will be Sept. 19 at Eddie Dean Field when Luray’s Bulldogs come growling into town. Kick-off is set for 7:30 p.m.

See next week’s Eagle for a preview story on the Madison-Luray game.

If you can’t see the game in person, you can get the score an hour or so after the game on The Eagle’s Web site at http://www.madison-new.com. (The score from the Madison-Monroe game was posted at 11:20 p.m. the night of the game.) Then on Saturday, return to The Eagle’s Web site for a quick-read summary of the game.

See The Sept. 25 edition of The Eagle for a detailed Madison-Luray game story and accompanying multi-photo package.

(Media General News Service reporter Ryan Yemen contributed to this story.)