Norwich 28, Windsor 0
NORWICH – For the third straight season, the Norwich-Windsor matchup ended in a shutout, and this time it was the young men clad in purple and white that did the skunking in Friday’s senior recognition game.
It was the second consecutive shutout for Norwich, who had back-to-back shutouts to start the 2005 season, the latter one in that case was also Windsor.
Norwich senior running back Chris Mattingly had a career-high 194 yards rushing and two touchdowns. Needing 49 yards to reach the 2,000-yard mark for his career, Mattingly had those yards and then some before the first quarter was over.
Appropriately, Mattingly accomplished his milestone mark when it counted most for Norwich. On Norwich’s second offensive drive of the game, Jesse Prosser had a 17-yard run and Mike Moon converted a fourth-down run near midfield to exchange the drive. Two plays after Moon’s run, Mattingly put his team on the board surging past 2,000 yards for his career on a 28-yard jaunt.
Norwich moved the ball almost at will throughout the first half and the game rushing for a season-high 386 yards.
The ball-control offense kept Windsor’s potent passing attack at bay, and even when the Black Knights were on the field, they were stymied by good defense or their own miscues.
Bad snaps out of the passing formation led to two big losses and another resulted in a fumble recovery in the third quarter by Norwich’s Jake Fazio. Moon made Windsor pay for that first third quarter turnover on a three-yard scoring plunge just 1 1/2 minutes into the half.
After a Paddy Law interception two minutes later – Law’s third pickoff in two weeks – Prosser scored from 57 yards on the next play from scrimmage upping the lead to 20-0. It was Prosser’s first rushing TD since week one against Johnson City, and he finished with a season-best 111 yards on just five carries.
On the first play of the fourth quarter, Mattingly ended his day on an 18-yard scoring run. Moon’s two-point conversion run – his second of the game – ended Norwich’s scoring.
Windsor finished with 99 yards passing, 72 yards below its season average per game, and the 123 yards allowed by Norwich was its fewest surrendered this season.
Score by quarters
Wind. 0 0 0 0–0
NHS 6 0 14 8–28
Scoring Summary
N: Chris Mattingly 28 run (run failed).
N: Mike Moon 3 run (run failed).
N: Jesse Prosser 57 run (Moon run).
N: Mattingly 10 run (Moon run).
Team summary
W N
First downs 10 17
Rushes-yds 28-24 57-386
Passing yds 99 0
Comp-att-int 12-26-2 0-2-0
Punts-avg 3-38 0-0
Fumbles-lost 3-2 3-1
Penalties-yds 4-40 3-20
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (W) Dylan Kay, 8-52, Backo, 2-6, Williams, 1-3, Markoff, 2-2, Spalik, 1-(-1), Goetz, 4- (-16), Murray, 6-(-22). (N) C. Mattingly, 22-194, J. Prosser, 5-111, M. Moon, 14-74, P. Law, 3-11, E. Owen, 2-2, Bazarnik, 2-4, Clark, 4-0, Foote, 5-0.
Passing: (W) Murray, 4-8-1, 26 yds, Goetz, 8-16-1, 73 yds, Costello, 0-2-0, 0 yds; (N) Foote, 0-2-0, 0 yds
Receiving: (W) Doolitte, 4-32, Gnall, 3-28, Martino, 3-22, Murray, 2-17.
Bainbridge-Guilford 27, Delhi 8
DELHI – Out of the postseason mix despite their best season in several years, the Bobcats didn’t look like a club finishing out its schedule posting an impressive win at Delhi Saturday.
The win was the fourth straight for B-G (6-2), who secured third place in Section IV’s Class D, Division VII with the victory. “To go over and win at Delhi, that is a real feather in our caps,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly. “This is really good for our program. We won five games last year, and this year we’ve taken another step forward. After we lost games to Deposit and Walton, these kids could have tanked it, but they’ve stuck with it.”
Junior Dustin Ross had 136 yards rushing and scoring runs of 31 and four yards. He moved over 1,000 for the season, the first B-G back to surpass that mark since John Stevens did it in 2000 as a runner on B-G/Afton. “Dustin is a pretty special kid, and we haven’t had a back here who makes as many kids miss as he does,” Mattingly said. “He reads his blocks well and for his size, he’s a physical kid who isn’t afraid to lower his head and get that extra yard or two.”
Senior quarterback Chris McGinnis had the other two scores for B-G, both on one-yard plunges.
Defensively, Delhi was held to 171 yards of total offense and committed three turnovers.
Score by quarters
B-G 14 0 6 7–27
Del. 0 8 0 0–8
Scoring Summary
B-G: Dustin Ross 31 run (Dustin Rutz kick)
B-G: Chris McGinnis 1 run (Rutz kick)
D: Luke Burns 9 pass from Trent Kathmann (Devon Bedient run)
B-G: McGinnis 1 run (kick failed)
