CUMBERLAND – Greely unveiled a new scoreboard before its Homecoming Saturday evening. Mountain Valley spent the next 48 minutes breaking it in.

Justin Staires and Matt Laubauskas each ran for three touchdowns in the first half and the defense stymied a short-handed Greely squad as the Falcons rolled to a 62-0 victory.

Staires totaled 101 yards on 11 carries in one half of football, scoring from the 1 after the Falcons recovered their opening kickoff, then adding TD runs of 30 and 20 yards. The junior tailback/running back has found the end zone 19 times this season. Laubauskas (seven carries, 73 yards) lowered his shoulder on TD runs of nine, two and nine yards. John Gorham added 91 rushing yards on nine handoffs and found the end zone from 11 yards out.

The Falcons at first confused and intimidated the Rangers – Greely took a time out before its first play from scrimmage – then merely toyed with them while registering five straight three-and-outs to start the game. Greely, playing without injured junior QB Nate Martin, gained 81 total yards and three first downs.

Mountain Valley emphasized getting off to a fast start this week after falling behind to Fryeburg last week, 14-7, before running away, 35-14. With the help of two fumbled kickoffs, the Falcons (6-0) led 28-0 after the first quarter.

“We knew we had something to prove. We haven’t played a good first half of football for a while now,” Laubauskas said.

“A couple of games against some of the more quality opponents, we just didn’t play well in the first quarter,” Mountain Valley coach Jim Aylward said. “We played well early against Fryeburg then kind of bombed quite a section of the first half. We thought it was important to come out and play well early.”

With Martin out of the lineup, the defense shifted its attention to senior running back Matt Harris, who managed just 20 yards on 10 carries.

“Harris was their big kid, so we definitely wanted to keep an eye on him the whole time,” said junior linebacker Travis Ruff. “We haven’t played a good full game the whole time and we knew they had some pretty good athletes on the team, so we were hoping just to play them tough and keep them contained.”

Greely (4-2) never got past midfield in the first half, while Mountain Valley scored on five of its first six possessions and took a 42-0 cushion into halftime. Josh Allen added two touchdowns in the second half.

“We tried to make sure the playoff picture didn’t get really confusing tonight,” Aylward said. “We felt if we could get a win down here, we could make it less confusing as to who the top three or four will be.”