Written by CORBY A. YARBROUGH Gannett Tennessee

LA VERGNE — Riverdale wasted little time building a comfortable lead and proceeded to roll over District 7-AAA foe La Vergne 42-14 Friday night at Freedom Field to remain undefeated.

The No. 2 Warriors (7-0, 3-0) scored on their first five drives and added an 40-yard interception return for a score to take a commanding 42-7 halftime lead over the Wolverines (2-5, 0-3).

"Every day in practice we go hard and we keep the intensity in practice, and it leads to the field on Friday night," senior running back Adam Davenport said. "We just went out and executed."

It took just three plays for Riverdale to get on the board as Davenport carried for 12, Dillon Woodruff for 19 and Marcelous Odom scored on a 29-yard run around the right side.

After stopping a drive at its own 39 and then partially blocking the La Vergne punt, Riverdale marched 66 yards in nine plays for its second score — a 5-yard run from Davenport.

Another partial punt block at the La Vergne 24 gave the Warriors a short field, and they needed just five plays to make up the difference. The third different Warrior scored when Mariko Odom ran in from the 3.

Riverdale halted a fourth-and-1 attempt at the Wolverine 41 on the next series, and then chewed up the 41 yards in seven plays as Davenport capped the drive with a 1-yard plunge into the end zone.

La Vergne didn't get to fourth down on its next series as Riverdale's Peyton Phillips pressured Dustin Bills to throw an errant pass, which Marcelous Odom picked off at the Wolverine 40. Odom zig-zagged his way into the end zone for the score.

"We had a little chip on our shoulder," Phillips said of a Riverdale team that had allowed 806 yards the last two games and surrendered 238 on Friday. "And we wanted to prove our defense is what we thought it was."

La Vergne finally found a spark with four minutes remaining in the half as Jalen Taylor returned the kickoff following Odom's interception 99 yards down the middle of the field to break up the shutout.

But Ricardo Terry had the Warriors right back on the positive side of the field after his 36-yard kickoff return to the La Vergne 49. Five plays later, Woodruff found Andrew Dale wide open for a 37-yard TD pass and the 42-7 halftime lead.

"They put us on our heels (on the first drive)," Wolverine linebacker Marquez Bailey said. "We wanted to try and stop the run, but that (first drive) hurt us bad, that hurt us real bad. We couldn't come back from it and then it was just over and over."

La Vergne's Willie Cowan scored on an 89-yard run in the final two minutes of the game, bouncing it to the right side and he had nothing but open field from the 25 on.