Warriors end long drought, beat NHS 24-14
NORWICH – It’s been 10 years since Chenango Valley has had a winning season, and much, much longer since the Warriors beat Norwich.
“They haven’t been all of my years,” joked CV third-year head coach Jay Hope.
Hope’s Chenango Valley squad, loaded with depth and blessed with talented skill position players, defeated Norwich Friday night, 24-14. The loss for Norwich (3-3) was its second in division play, while CV (5-1) holds out hope for a Class B playoff position, and needs a win over Windsor to do it.
“It was a typical, physical Class B football game in Section IV,” said Norwich coach John Pluta. “They were a little tougher than us. Not a lot tougher, but tougher.”
CV tested the Norwich defense with several drives into the red zone area. It had one TD in the first quarter, then two more drives inside the NHS 10 in which it came up with just a Nick Dadamio field goal.
To start the fourth quarter, junior quarterback Matt Mullins, contained all game long, flipped a short shovel pass to Trevor Cola. Cola, another junior back, weaved his way through the Purple defense and raced down the sideline covering 41 yards before he was knocked out of bounds. Cola then scored his second TD of the day upping the lead to 17-6.
Norwich scored on its first possession of the game marching 81 yards to lead early. After that, the host club did not record a first down in the second quarter. A brief excursion in the third quarter covered 43 yards, but Robert Martin’s fourth-down pass was knocked down. That set the stage for CV’s second TD, and NHS’ subsequent emergence from offensive hibernation.
Martin, on a quarterback keeper, shrugged off a shirt tackle, and picked up huge blocks downfield from Keegan Edwards and Tyler Slater to score from 58 yards out to draw Norwich closer. Shane Thompson scooted in untouched on the conversion, and Norwich was back in business with just a three-point deficit.
To its credit, Chenango Valley showed why it was not like the teams of old that were on the down side of a .500 record nine straight years. Justin Iams returned the ensuing kickoff 41 yards to the Norwich 38, Cola took a sweep 27 yards for a first down, and Mullins connected with Corey Micha on a nine-yard TD pass.
“Norwich did a good job hanging in there, and with the aggressive style of defense they play, we had to be patient,” Hope said. “In the fourth quarter, we scored, they answered, and then we answered again. I think that last touchdown was the final nail in the coffin.”
Cola rushed for 163 yards on the day, the second straight week a visiting back eclipsed 150 yards on the Purple Tornado’s home turf. Norwich finished with 194 yards rushing, but two big runs from Martin and Thompson accounted for 105 of those yards. “Chenango Valley is a great football team, and we knew that coming in,” Pluta said. “I thought we battled hard, and the last couple of weeks, our kids have come of age.”
Thompson kick-started Norwich’s opening drive running 47 yards for a first down. Chris Mattingly’s fourth-down run for a first down set up Martin’s eight-yard scoring pass to Tyler Slater.
CV scored just four plays later. Iams rushed 30 yards for one first down, and Cola’s 34-yard jaunt preceded a two-yard score. Nick Dadamio’s extra point had the Warriors in front the rest of the way.
Norwich completes a three-week homestead this Friday when it entertains five-time defending Section IV champion Chenango Forks.
JV notes: After Wade Burke’s 20-yard field goal put Norwich up 10-8 in the fourth, the Warriors scored on a hook-and-ladder passing play with 1:06 remaining to prevail over the Tornado junior varsity, 16-10. Burke added a TD run and booted the extra point for all of Norwich’s points.
Summary
N CV
First Downs 8 11
Rushes-yds 45-194 34-210
Passing yds 22 66
Comp-att-int 2-10-3 6-13-0
Punts-avg 4-28.5 5-33.8
Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-0
Penalties-yds 2-10 0-0
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (N) R. Martin, 7-60, S. Thompson, 3-49; C. Mattingly, 17-41; J. Prosser, 13-26; N. Foote, 5-18. (CV) Trevor Cola, 22-163; J. Iams, 8-54; Brian Stinson, 1-(-3); B. Eggleston, 3-(-4).
Passing: (N) Martin, 2-10-3, 22 yds, TD; (CV) Matt Mullins, 6-13-0, 66 yds TD.
Receiving: (N) Slater, 1-8, Edwards, 1-14. (CV) Cola 2-57, C. Corey Micha, 2-12, J. Iams, 2-(-3).
Score by quarters
CVall. 7 0 3 14–24
Norw. 6 0 0 8–14
Scoring Summary
First quarter
N: Martin 8 pass to Slater (run failed)
CV: Cola 2 run (Dadamio kick)
Third Quarter
CV: Dadamio 27 field goal
Fourth quarter
CV: Cola 1 run (Dadamio kick)
N: Martin 58 run (Thompson run)
CV: Mullins 9 pass to Micha (Dadamio kick)
“They haven’t been all of my years,” joked CV third-year head coach Jay Hope.
Hope’s Chenango Valley squad, loaded with depth and blessed with talented skill position players, defeated Norwich Friday night, 24-14. The loss for Norwich (3-3) was its second in division play, while CV (5-1) holds out hope for a Class B playoff position, and needs a win over Windsor to do it.
“It was a typical, physical Class B football game in Section IV,” said Norwich coach John Pluta. “They were a little tougher than us. Not a lot tougher, but tougher.”
CV tested the Norwich defense with several drives into the red zone area. It had one TD in the first quarter, then two more drives inside the NHS 10 in which it came up with just a Nick Dadamio field goal.
To start the fourth quarter, junior quarterback Matt Mullins, contained all game long, flipped a short shovel pass to Trevor Cola. Cola, another junior back, weaved his way through the Purple defense and raced down the sideline covering 41 yards before he was knocked out of bounds. Cola then scored his second TD of the day upping the lead to 17-6.
Norwich scored on its first possession of the game marching 81 yards to lead early. After that, the host club did not record a first down in the second quarter. A brief excursion in the third quarter covered 43 yards, but Robert Martin’s fourth-down pass was knocked down. That set the stage for CV’s second TD, and NHS’ subsequent emergence from offensive hibernation.
Martin, on a quarterback keeper, shrugged off a shirt tackle, and picked up huge blocks downfield from Keegan Edwards and Tyler Slater to score from 58 yards out to draw Norwich closer. Shane Thompson scooted in untouched on the conversion, and Norwich was back in business with just a three-point deficit.
To its credit, Chenango Valley showed why it was not like the teams of old that were on the down side of a .500 record nine straight years. Justin Iams returned the ensuing kickoff 41 yards to the Norwich 38, Cola took a sweep 27 yards for a first down, and Mullins connected with Corey Micha on a nine-yard TD pass.
“Norwich did a good job hanging in there, and with the aggressive style of defense they play, we had to be patient,” Hope said. “In the fourth quarter, we scored, they answered, and then we answered again. I think that last touchdown was the final nail in the coffin.”
Cola rushed for 163 yards on the day, the second straight week a visiting back eclipsed 150 yards on the Purple Tornado’s home turf. Norwich finished with 194 yards rushing, but two big runs from Martin and Thompson accounted for 105 of those yards. “Chenango Valley is a great football team, and we knew that coming in,” Pluta said. “I thought we battled hard, and the last couple of weeks, our kids have come of age.”
Thompson kick-started Norwich’s opening drive running 47 yards for a first down. Chris Mattingly’s fourth-down run for a first down set up Martin’s eight-yard scoring pass to Tyler Slater.
CV scored just four plays later. Iams rushed 30 yards for one first down, and Cola’s 34-yard jaunt preceded a two-yard score. Nick Dadamio’s extra point had the Warriors in front the rest of the way.
Norwich completes a three-week homestead this Friday when it entertains five-time defending Section IV champion Chenango Forks.
JV notes: After Wade Burke’s 20-yard field goal put Norwich up 10-8 in the fourth, the Warriors scored on a hook-and-ladder passing play with 1:06 remaining to prevail over the Tornado junior varsity, 16-10. Burke added a TD run and booted the extra point for all of Norwich’s points.
Summary
N CV
First Downs 8 11
Rushes-yds 45-194 34-210
Passing yds 22 66
Comp-att-int 2-10-3 6-13-0
Punts-avg 4-28.5 5-33.8
Fumbles-lost 0-0 1-0
Penalties-yds 2-10 0-0
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (N) R. Martin, 7-60, S. Thompson, 3-49; C. Mattingly, 17-41; J. Prosser, 13-26; N. Foote, 5-18. (CV) Trevor Cola, 22-163; J. Iams, 8-54; Brian Stinson, 1-(-3); B. Eggleston, 3-(-4).
Passing: (N) Martin, 2-10-3, 22 yds, TD; (CV) Matt Mullins, 6-13-0, 66 yds TD.
Receiving: (N) Slater, 1-8, Edwards, 1-14. (CV) Cola 2-57, C. Corey Micha, 2-12, J. Iams, 2-(-3).
Score by quarters
CVall. 7 0 3 14–24
Norw. 6 0 0 8–14
Scoring Summary
First quarter
N: Martin 8 pass to Slater (run failed)
CV: Cola 2 run (Dadamio kick)
Third Quarter
CV: Dadamio 27 field goal
Fourth quarter
CV: Cola 1 run (Dadamio kick)
N: Martin 58 run (Thompson run)
CV: Mullins 9 pass to Micha (Dadamio kick)
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