MADISONVILLE — Lightning kept the Cherokees out of the Sequoyah end zone for nearly a full day last year. This edition of the Cherokees wasted no time Friday night providing their own electricity taking a 57-14 road victory. The teams went scoreless in one quarter last year before the weather forced a postponement to Saturday, where the Cherokees slugged to a 12-3 win. This year the state’s No. 3 ranked 1A school surged quickly, with two first quarter touchdown runs by Kayne Roberts (9 carries, 91 yards, three TDs), and withstood the deeper Sequoyah squad for the victory. “There was lots of trash-talking last year, but we told ourselves before the game, ‘we’re not going to run our mouths, we’re just going to play our game,’” Josh Silvey told The Daily Times. “Tonight, we just showed them what Greenback football was all about.” After recording the first of seven sacks on the game’s opening play, Greenback (4-0) scored in just four plays. Building a 14-0 lead on its next possession with a seven-play, 81 yard drive, the ’Kees allowed a brief Sequoyah uprising but countered the first Chief score with a 76-yard TD return by Josh Edwards on the ensuing kick-off. From that point until the mercy rule was invoked midway through the third period, Greenback had scored twice on special teams, once on a fumble recovery, and even converted a botched extra-point kick attempt into an extra point when holder Bryce Hanley rolled out and tossed the two-pointer to Mason Sliger. “I think tonight we were clicking on all cylinders,” Hunter Willis said. Both Willis and Chief quarterback John-Douglas Wiggins suffered interceptions, but Willis finished an efficient 8-of-12 for 121 yards. Wiggins was 9-of-20 while needing to elude a fierce Greenback pass rush led by Silvey, who recorded one full and two half-sacks.Backup Troy Martin added one attempt for the Chiefs, which was intercepted by Blake Morton, and allowed Greenback to run out the final minutes. Sequoyah (1-3) trailed 35-14 at half, with both scores coming off strong running by Josh Stakeley, who totalled 111 yards on 14 carries. After his 10-yard run had put the Chiefs on the scoreboard and Greenback had replied twice, the sophomore had a highlight-reel scamper for the final Chief points, spinning out of one tackle, hitting a dead stop and juking backwards to clear space from other would-be tacklers, then outraced the field 69 yards to briefly bring life to the home fans. That one play accounted for over half of Sequoyah’s 133 net rushing yards. Timmy Roberts recorded a quick defensive score on Sequoyah’s first possession of the second half, racing 12 yards to begin the final Cherokee party. “I saw (Silvey and Roberts) grab hold of the guy and the ball fell, and I was right there to pick it up and go in,” Roberts said. “We had a bad point there early when they scored on us, but after that the defense got back to where it needs to be.” After a Chief three-and-out, Tylor Jones returned a punt 49 yards for another score, and after another fumble, the ‘Kees second unit overcame two holding penalties to move 27 yards and put up the final points on a 2-yard Hanley keeper after the back-up quarterback had scooted 15 yards to convert a fourth-and-one. “I thought we played well on offense, defense and special teams,” co-head coach Brent Kilpatrick said. “We had to make a couple of adjustments on defense, but after we did the defense played pretty well.” Greenback hosts Jellico (3-0) in a return to Region 2-1A action next week. Sequoyah hosts Cumberland County (0-3) in Region 3-4A action.