Complete Box Score and Play by Play
It was just two years ago when the Grain Valley football team joined the Suburban Conference, partly thanks to its rapidly growing population.
Before that, Grain Valley spent prior years in the Missouri River Valley Conference West.
Their first two years were in the smallest division of the Suburban Conference, and this year the Eagles moved up to the Suburban White. That meant that the program is getting to face new opponents after playing schools mostly smaller schools.
Friday was one of those first-time matchups against Truman, and Grain Valley proved it could hang with bigger teams. Behind 253 total yards and four touchdowns – two passing and two running – from quarterback Cole Keller, the Eagles dominated the shorthanded Patriots 38-0.
“It motivates us,” Keller said of playing large schools after the Eagles improved to 4-0 overall and 1-0 in the new conference. “We’re seen as this small town. They say, ‘It’s a hick town. It’s a small town. They don’t deserve to be playing with us.’
“We know we are a historically smaller school coming up and we want to let them know that we are here and we want to play, too.”
Added Eagles offensive/defensive lineman Donovan McBride: “We proved we can hang with the best of them.”
Playing in a tough MRVC West in previous years helped prepare Grain Valley to play teams in the Suburban Conference.
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