Evening Sun Report

Football

Greene 61, Unadilla Valley-Edmeston 0

NORWICH – Greene’s own field turf home surface will not be ready until midseason, so it borrowed Norwich’s for a night, and came away a blowout winner Saturday night against UV-Edmeston.

The Trojans (1-0, 2-0) won their division opener scoring on offense, defense, and special teams in building a 35-0 halftime lead. Greene added four more scores in the third quarter, and the game was halted with 10:47 remaining in the fourth after another UV-E injury left it with scarcely enough players to finish the contest.

“Defensively, we came off the ball and played tough,” said Greene coach Tim Paske. “We worked hard on the fundamentals in practice this week, and we executed.”

Greene ran just two offensive plays in the second quarter, but there were no worries. Brendan Kinne returned two punts for touchdowns to added a three-TD lead.

Quarterback Scott Gorton had TD passes to Kevin Gilroy and Nick Wilcox, and James Church recovered a UV-E fumble in the endzone leaving the count at 35-0 after two quarters.

UV-E had a botched punt snap and two lost fumbles that all led to scores in the third quarter. “I told the guys we want to play four quarters no matter who we’re playing, and that’s what we’re doing,” Paske said after his team’s second straight shutout. “There are always things you want to work on. We put the ball on the ground a little bit, and we didn’t rush for too much in the first half. The people we’re playing in our division, we’ll need to be able to run the ball.”

Score by quarters

UV-E 0 0 0 0–0

Gre. 21 14 26 0–61

Scoring Summary

G: Kevin Gilroy 19 pass from Scott Gorton (Nic Puglisi kick)

G: Nick Wilcox 27 pass from Gorton (Puglisi kick)

G: James Church fumble recovery in endzone (Puglisi kick)

G: Brendan Kinne 60 punt return (Puglisi kick)

G: Kinne 66 punt return (Puglisi kick)

G: Kinne 47 pass from Gorton (Puglisi kick)

G: Dan Jenks 4 run (kick failed)

G: Kurt Shear 8 run (kick failed)

G: Kevin Beers 1 run (Puglisi kick)

Team Summary

UVE G

First downs 4 10

Rushes-yds 21-(-37) 15-140

Passing yds 31 100

Comp-att-int 3-8-3 4-7-0

Punts-avg 5-36.5 1-35

Fumbles-lost 4-3 2-1

Penalties-yds 4-40 4-40

Individual Statistics

Rushing: (UVE) Eli Conklin, 2-16; Ian Daivs, 5-8; Dan Schwab, 3-6; John Lopez, 5- (-13); Brett Gage, 3-(-38), Austin Glidden, 3-(-16); (G) Dan Jenks, 3-58; Tyler Beckwith, 3-8; Kevin Beers, 3-17; Brian Day, 1-6; Bryan Gascon, 1-5; Scott Gorton, 1-(-1); Kurt Shear, 1-8; Jack Thibodeau, 1-29; Nick Wilcox, 1-10.

Passing: (UVE) Glidden, 3-8-3, 31 yds; (G) Gorton, 4-7-0, 100 yds, 3 TDs.

Receiving: (UVE) Travis Clark, 2-28; Derek Rollins, 1-3. (G) Kinne, 1-47; Wilcox, 1-27; Gilroy, 1-9; Jenks, 1-7.

Ithaca 16, Norwich 7

ITHACA – Ithaca showed it is not the same team that Norwich has dominated in the infrequent meetings over the past two decades.

The Little Red made up a first-quarter deficit holding Norwich scoreless the final three periods, and they improved to 2-0, the first time the program has started with back-to-back wins in 15 years.

Phillip Anderson rushed for 123 yards and one touchdown to lead Ithaca, who easily won the total yardage battle. On the defensive side, Ithaca limited Norwich to just 115 total yards – all of those on the ground.

“We have run the ball well early on in both of our games, but we haven’t been able to sustain it,” said Norwich coach John Martinson. “We’ve been inconsistent, and that can happen with a young offensive line.”

Ithaca, down 7-6 at halftime, took the lead in the third when a Norwich punt snap sailed over the punter’s head and into the endzone for a safety. “From that point on, anything that could go wrong, did go wrong,” Martinson said. “We had penalties, too many men on the field, not enough men on the field…we made so many foolish mistakes.”

Marcus Moss hauled in a 16-yard scoring pass late in the third quarter from quarterback Scott Boettger putting Ithaca up by seven points. Another safety, this time after Norwich quarterback Casey Edwards was sacked, capped the scoring in the fourth quarter.

Norwich capitalized on an Ithaca mistake in the first quarter. After an NHS punt, Ithaca fumbled the punt return allowing Tornado junior Nate Wilbur to recover the ball at the 21. Nine plays later, Christian Hotaling barreled in from two yards out.

Anderson capped a nine-play Ithaca drive in the second quarter scoring on a six-yard TD jaunt.

Norwich had one more sustained drive in the game reaching Ithaca’s eight-yard line in the second quarter. On a fourth-and-one, the Purple fumbled the snap – their only fumble of the game – to lose the ball on downs.

Mackay Hotaling led the Norwich attack with 77 yards on the ground, most of those coming on a 47-yard run in the second quarter.

Norwich plays Johnson City on Friday.

Score by quarters

NHS 7 0 0 0–7

Itha. 0 6 8 2–16