UV-Edmeston 47, Livingston Manor-Roscoe 8

NEW BERLIN – Unadilla Valley-Edmeston came out of its season-long offensive funk in a big way winning its second game of the season Friday night against Section IX’s Livingston Manor-Roscoe.

Following a scoreless first quarter in which the visiting team drove for an initial score, the Storm put up nearly as many points in one stanza as it had in the first four games.

Mason Wyman scored on two short TD runs, threw an 18-yard TD pass to Jay Lloyd, and Tom Giordano rushed for the first of his three scores turning the contest 180 degrees. The 28 second-quarter points were just one point short of the 29 scored in four games while compiling a 1-3 mark.

“When they scored on the opening kickoff, that sent us a wake-up call,” said UV-Edmeston coach Jack Loeffler. “That first drive was pretty much all the offense they had, and they didn’t cross midfield in the second half.”

Giordano added scoring runs of 18, and two yards in the second half on his way to a season-high 95 yards rushing. Matt Harrington galloped 44 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter, his first career varsity touchdown. The Storm finished with 308 yards of offense, far and away their most complete offensive performance. “They had some small kids and young kids up front, so we thought we could attack up the middle with our running game,” Loeffler said. “Our defense has been doing the job the last few games, and the message to the offense this week was that they needed to get the ball into the endzone. We haven’t been doing that until this game.”

The Storm host Southern Springs Saturday afternoon.

Score by quarters

LMR 8 0 0 0–8

UV-E 0 28 6 13–47

Scoring Summary

LMR: Mike Hendrickson 32 pass to Davis (Hendrickson run)

UVE: Mason Wyman 1 run (Jordan Williams kick)

UVE: Tom Giordano 4 run (Jordan Williams kick)

UVE: Wyman 18 pass to Jay Lloyd. (Jordan Williams kick)

UVE: Wyman 2 run (Jordan Williams kick)

UVE: Giordano 18 run (kick failed)

UVE: Giordano 2 run (Jordan Williams kick)

UVE: Matt Harrington 44 run (kick failed)

Football Summary

L M

First downs 4 10

Rushes-yds 20-25 46-290

Passing yds 65 18

Comp-att-int 2-11-0 1-3-0

Fumbles-lost 2-2 3-2

Penalties-yds 2-15 5-40

Individual statistics

Rushing: (L) Mike Hendrickson, 8-31, Josh Garr, 4-1, Troy Edwards, 5- (-18), # 46, 3-1. (U) Tom Giordano, 20-95, Jay Lloyd, 9-57, Matt Harrington, 3-55, Jordan Williams, 4-43, Eric Bennett, 7-36, Mason Wyman, 3-4.

Passing: (L) Hendrickson, 2-6-0, 65 yds, TD; Edwards, 0-5-0, 0 yds. (U) Wyman, 1-1-0, 18 yds, TD; Williams, 0-2-0.

Receiving: (L) Davis, 2-65, (U) J. Lloyd, 1-18, TD.

Bainbridge-Guilford 28, Harpursville 16

BAINBRIDGE – Licking its wounds from back-to-back lopsided losses, the Bobcats found the right salve Friday night in a home victory over Harpursville.

Chris McGinnis threw three TDs and ran for a fourth score as the Bobcats slowed the high-powered Harpursville offense and limited the Hornets’ big plays. “We worked all week on defense about taking care of the outside game because their kids are so quick,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly. “Defensively, we bend a little, but we didn’t break. Our kids came up with some huge defensive plays tonight.”

Twice the Bobcats stopped Harpursville’s fourth-and-short opportunities, and each time it led to a B-G score. The first was a 33-yard TD pass from McGinnis to Dylan Whittaker, and the second – in the third quarter – ended in McGinnis’ two-yard keeper to complete a sustained drive.

McGinnis was efficient in the passing game throwing for a career-high 206 yards on just 5-of-6 attempts. He added a 48-yard TD toss to Travis Dickey late in the first half that put his club up for good, and a 59-yarder to Whittaker in the third that was tipped off a Harpursville player before finding Whittaker’s hands.

Dustin Ross led the B-G running game finishing with 94 yards. “It was a good victory and we needed this in the worst way,” Mattingly said. “Our pass protection was good when we needed to get the long ball off, and we thought we could throw the ball deep from scouting Harpursville. We thought we had an advantage with the size of our receivers.”

B-G (1-2, 3-2) is at Hancock Friday

Score by quarters

Harp. 0 8 0 8–16

B-G 6 8 14 0–28

Scoring Summary

B-G: McGinnis 33 pass to Whittaker (kick failed)

H: Joe Nieto 47 run (Coronado run)

B-G: McGinnis 48 pass to T. Dickey (McGinnis pass to dickey

BG McGinnis 2 run (pass failed)

B-G: McGinnis 59 pass to Dylan Whittaker (Dustin Rutz run)

H: Safety (punter tackled in endzone)

H: Todd Terpstra 18 run ( run failed)

H BG

First downs 7 9

Rushes-yds 42-196 37-157

Passing yds 3 206

Comp-att-int 1-4-1 5-6-0

Punts-avg 5-33 1-32

Fumble-lost 1-0 3-1

Penalties 5-25 8-40

Individual statistics

Rushing: (H) V. Coronado, 6-7, C. Snow, 14-54, J. Nieto, 17-104, T. Terpstra, 5-31. (BG) Dustin Ross, 16-94, B. hurlburt, 11-29, McGinnis, 8-30, D. Rutz, 2-4.

Passing: (H) Coronado, 1-3-1, 3 yds; Nieto, 0-1-0; (BG) McGinnis, 5-6-0, 206 yds, 3 TDs.

Receiving: (H) Jeff Austin, 1-3, (BG) Whittaker, 2-92, Rutz, 2-66, Dickey, 1-48.