Greene’s preparation pays off against Windsor
Greene 36, Windsor 28
GREENE – Greene was prepared for moments like Friday night. Sixty-three yards, just over three minutes left, and one timeout remaining to score the go-ahead points against a talented opponent.
No problem.
Junior quarterback Scott Gorton tossed a perfectly thrown fade pass to Brendan Kinne in the back right of the end zone with six seconds left to give the Trojans a thrilling non-league win over the Black Knights.
“We’ve beaten Sidney the last two years and Norwich last year. This win has to rank right up there,” said hoarse-voiced Greene head coach Tim Paske.
Every day the Trojans work on the two-minute drill in practice, and it paid off big time. Nate Whittaker, who shared QB duties with Gorton during the game, had a first-down run and a first-down catch, Garrett Hickey picked up a 13-yard run, and Dan Carlin caught a first-down pass at the Windsor two setting up the winning scoring toss to Kinne. It certainly wasn’t the first – or last time – those two will connect on scoring tosses. Last year that pitch-and-catch duo made hay on the junior varsity level. “That pass route (to Kinne) is one we practice a lot, and we have guys who can go up and get it,” Paske said.
While Greene found a nice mix of rushing a passing in the game finishing with 194 yards on the ground and 99 yards passing, Windsor moved the pigskin almost exclusively through the air – to the tune of 277 yards. That was a result of a stingy run defense that surrendered just 24 rushing yards to the Black Knights.
Forgoing the run, Windsor quarterback Matt Murray threw three TD passes, and his last, a seven-yarder to Mike Williams, knotted the game with 3:04 left. Josh Clink batted down the all-important two-point scoring pass to hold the score in check.
“We knew coming in that Windsor would try to be multi-dimensional, but we shut down the run, and really gave up only one real big pass play,” Paske said. “Our goal was to keep everything underneath and come up and make tackles.”
The gang-tackling approach from defenders Hickey, Nick Wilcox, Tyler Beckwith, Luke Messier, Tyler Kehl, and Grey Fahrenz among others rocked Windsor’s receivers and backs, and even knocked out one of their receivers after a big stick.
Matching touchdowns with Windsor in the first half, Hickey’s second scoring run from one yard out pulled the Trojans to within 14-12. A safety at the end of the half tied the game.
Murray fumbled the snap exchange and was tackled in the end zone.
Kinne put Greene in front for the first time scoring on a quick-hitting 23-yard TD strike from Gorton. Following Windsor’s 64-yard TD pass from Murray to Tim Costello, Whittaker dove in from the one-yard line putting the Trojans up 26-20.
“Windsor is a strong team and we knew it would be a dog fight for four quarters,” Paske said. “Our kids hung tough and were able to handle adversity.
Hickey led with 88 yards on the ground and Gorton finished 8-for-10 for 78 yards and two touchdown passes.
Score by quarters
Windsor 6 8 8 6–28
Greene 6 8 8 14–36
Scoring summary
First quarter
G: Garrett Hickey 13 run (pass failed)
W: Mike Gnall 12 pass from Matt Murray (kick failed)
Second quarter
W: Noah Sibley 1 run (Mark Murray pass from Matt Murray)
G: Hickey 1 run (run failed)
G: Safety (Windsor quarter tackled in end zone)
Third quarter
G: Brendan Kinne 23 pass from Scott Gorton (Nate Whittaker run)
W: Tim Costello 64 pass from Matt Murray (Gnall pass from Matt Murray)
Fourth quarter
G: Whittaker 1 run (run failed)
W: Mike Williams 7 pass from Matt Murray (pass failed)
G: Kinne 3 pass from Gorton (Dan Carlin run).
Football Summary
W G
First downs 15 17
Total net yards 301 293
Rushes-yards 23-24 44-194
Passing yards 277 99
Comp-Att-Int 19-39-1 11-17-2
Punts-avg. 4-29.3 3-32
Fumbles-lost 4-1 4-1
Penalties-yards 6-55 5-35
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (W) Dylan Kay 11-18; Williams 3-5; Sibley 1-1 TD; Matt Murray 8-0. (G) Hickey 19-88 2TD; Whittaker 13-71 TD; Carlin 9-44; Tyler Beckwith 1-3; Brian Day 1-(-3); Gorton 1-(-9).
Passing: (W) Matt Murray 19-39-1 277 yds 3TDs, I (G): Gorton 8-10-0 78 yds. 2 TDs, INT; Whittaker 3-7-1 21 yds.
Receiving: (W) Costello 5-119 TD; Gnall 7-87 TD; Mark Murray 2-33; Josh Quinn 2-32; Williams 2-8 TD; Kay 1-(-2). (G) Whittaker 2-35; Day 1-10; Carlin 5-23; Kinne 3-31 2 TDs.
Sidney 32, B-G 26
SIDNEY – On the verge of getting knocked out, Sidney made one big defensive stand, and then executed a furious second-half rally to defeat the Bobcats in a nail-biting non-league matchup Friday night.
Sophomore quarterback Dylan Umbra’s 14-yard TD run with under 20 seconds to play completed an 18-point comeback for the Warriors.
Prior to Sidney’s salvo, B-G was moving for its fifth score of the game to build on a 26-8 lead. Situated at Sidney’s 10 on third-and-one, the Warriors’ defense stuffed B-G on successive run plays to stop the momentum. “That was the turning point – a game changer,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly of the failed red zone effort. “If we score there, I think we would have put the game away. The momentum swung, and they marched down and scored.”
Umbra threw for 71 yards, but did most of his damage on run plays up the middle. With B-G’s starting nose guard Ethan Mazzeralla out of the lineup due to injury, Sidney exploited his absence. Umbra had a 30-yard TD run to cut the score to 28-16, and Jon Mercurio’s three-yard TD jaunt closed the game to four.
B-G established its big lead utilizing the big play. J.J. Banta took a short pass 72 yards for six points in the first quarter. Dustin Ross added an explosive 87-yard TD run to go with a nine-yard run, and fullback Brad Hurlburt upped the lead to 18 points on a 12-yard run.
“They just wore us down in the second half,” Mattingly said. “Give Sidney credit. They made plays that they had to make, and they converted some big third-down plays.”
Ross rushed for 155 yards to lead B-G, his fourth straight 100-yard game. Quarterback Justin Pepper three for 144 yards, all on completions to Banta.
Score by quarters
Sid. 8 0 8 16–32
B-G 6 14 6 0–26
Scoring Summary
First quarter
B-G: Justin Pepper 72 pass to James Banta (kick) failed)
S: Mike Guerriere 13 run (Umbra run)
Second quarter
B-G: Dustin Ross 9 run (Pepper pass to Banta)
B-G: Ross 87 run (kick failed)
Third quarter
B-G: Brad Hurlburt 12 run (kick failed)
S: Dylan Umbra 30 run (Jon Mercurio run)
Fourth quarter
S: Mercurio 3 run (Mercurio run)
S: Umbra 14 run (Umbra run)
Team Summary
Sid. B-G
First downs 21 9
Rushes-yards 50-274 27-241
Passing yards 71 144
Comp-Att-Int 7-16-0 3-11-0
Punts-avg. 3-41 5-33
Fumbles-lost 5-3 3-0
Penalties-yards 4-30 4-16
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (S) Mike Guerriere 14-70; Dylan Umbra 18-101; Aaron Wood 11-65; Jon Mercurio 7-38. (BG) Dustin Ross 12-155 2TD; Brad Hurlburt 6-50; Justin Pepper 8-29; Shane Cornish 1-7.
Passing: (S) Dylan Umbra 7-16 71. (BG): Justin Pepper 3-11 144 TD.
Receiving: (S) Aaron Wood 3-46; Mike Guerriere 3-21; Alex Heil 1-4. (BG): James Banta 3-144.
GREENE – Greene was prepared for moments like Friday night. Sixty-three yards, just over three minutes left, and one timeout remaining to score the go-ahead points against a talented opponent.
No problem.
Junior quarterback Scott Gorton tossed a perfectly thrown fade pass to Brendan Kinne in the back right of the end zone with six seconds left to give the Trojans a thrilling non-league win over the Black Knights.
“We’ve beaten Sidney the last two years and Norwich last year. This win has to rank right up there,” said hoarse-voiced Greene head coach Tim Paske.
Every day the Trojans work on the two-minute drill in practice, and it paid off big time. Nate Whittaker, who shared QB duties with Gorton during the game, had a first-down run and a first-down catch, Garrett Hickey picked up a 13-yard run, and Dan Carlin caught a first-down pass at the Windsor two setting up the winning scoring toss to Kinne. It certainly wasn’t the first – or last time – those two will connect on scoring tosses. Last year that pitch-and-catch duo made hay on the junior varsity level. “That pass route (to Kinne) is one we practice a lot, and we have guys who can go up and get it,” Paske said.
While Greene found a nice mix of rushing a passing in the game finishing with 194 yards on the ground and 99 yards passing, Windsor moved the pigskin almost exclusively through the air – to the tune of 277 yards. That was a result of a stingy run defense that surrendered just 24 rushing yards to the Black Knights.
Forgoing the run, Windsor quarterback Matt Murray threw three TD passes, and his last, a seven-yarder to Mike Williams, knotted the game with 3:04 left. Josh Clink batted down the all-important two-point scoring pass to hold the score in check.
“We knew coming in that Windsor would try to be multi-dimensional, but we shut down the run, and really gave up only one real big pass play,” Paske said. “Our goal was to keep everything underneath and come up and make tackles.”
The gang-tackling approach from defenders Hickey, Nick Wilcox, Tyler Beckwith, Luke Messier, Tyler Kehl, and Grey Fahrenz among others rocked Windsor’s receivers and backs, and even knocked out one of their receivers after a big stick.
Matching touchdowns with Windsor in the first half, Hickey’s second scoring run from one yard out pulled the Trojans to within 14-12. A safety at the end of the half tied the game.
Murray fumbled the snap exchange and was tackled in the end zone.
Kinne put Greene in front for the first time scoring on a quick-hitting 23-yard TD strike from Gorton. Following Windsor’s 64-yard TD pass from Murray to Tim Costello, Whittaker dove in from the one-yard line putting the Trojans up 26-20.
“Windsor is a strong team and we knew it would be a dog fight for four quarters,” Paske said. “Our kids hung tough and were able to handle adversity.
Hickey led with 88 yards on the ground and Gorton finished 8-for-10 for 78 yards and two touchdown passes.
Score by quarters
Windsor 6 8 8 6–28
Greene 6 8 8 14–36
Scoring summary
First quarter
G: Garrett Hickey 13 run (pass failed)
W: Mike Gnall 12 pass from Matt Murray (kick failed)
Second quarter
W: Noah Sibley 1 run (Mark Murray pass from Matt Murray)
G: Hickey 1 run (run failed)
G: Safety (Windsor quarter tackled in end zone)
Third quarter
G: Brendan Kinne 23 pass from Scott Gorton (Nate Whittaker run)
W: Tim Costello 64 pass from Matt Murray (Gnall pass from Matt Murray)
Fourth quarter
G: Whittaker 1 run (run failed)
W: Mike Williams 7 pass from Matt Murray (pass failed)
G: Kinne 3 pass from Gorton (Dan Carlin run).
Football Summary
W G
First downs 15 17
Total net yards 301 293
Rushes-yards 23-24 44-194
Passing yards 277 99
Comp-Att-Int 19-39-1 11-17-2
Punts-avg. 4-29.3 3-32
Fumbles-lost 4-1 4-1
Penalties-yards 6-55 5-35
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (W) Dylan Kay 11-18; Williams 3-5; Sibley 1-1 TD; Matt Murray 8-0. (G) Hickey 19-88 2TD; Whittaker 13-71 TD; Carlin 9-44; Tyler Beckwith 1-3; Brian Day 1-(-3); Gorton 1-(-9).
Passing: (W) Matt Murray 19-39-1 277 yds 3TDs, I (G): Gorton 8-10-0 78 yds. 2 TDs, INT; Whittaker 3-7-1 21 yds.
Receiving: (W) Costello 5-119 TD; Gnall 7-87 TD; Mark Murray 2-33; Josh Quinn 2-32; Williams 2-8 TD; Kay 1-(-2). (G) Whittaker 2-35; Day 1-10; Carlin 5-23; Kinne 3-31 2 TDs.
Sidney 32, B-G 26
SIDNEY – On the verge of getting knocked out, Sidney made one big defensive stand, and then executed a furious second-half rally to defeat the Bobcats in a nail-biting non-league matchup Friday night.
Sophomore quarterback Dylan Umbra’s 14-yard TD run with under 20 seconds to play completed an 18-point comeback for the Warriors.
Prior to Sidney’s salvo, B-G was moving for its fifth score of the game to build on a 26-8 lead. Situated at Sidney’s 10 on third-and-one, the Warriors’ defense stuffed B-G on successive run plays to stop the momentum. “That was the turning point – a game changer,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly of the failed red zone effort. “If we score there, I think we would have put the game away. The momentum swung, and they marched down and scored.”
Umbra threw for 71 yards, but did most of his damage on run plays up the middle. With B-G’s starting nose guard Ethan Mazzeralla out of the lineup due to injury, Sidney exploited his absence. Umbra had a 30-yard TD run to cut the score to 28-16, and Jon Mercurio’s three-yard TD jaunt closed the game to four.
B-G established its big lead utilizing the big play. J.J. Banta took a short pass 72 yards for six points in the first quarter. Dustin Ross added an explosive 87-yard TD run to go with a nine-yard run, and fullback Brad Hurlburt upped the lead to 18 points on a 12-yard run.
“They just wore us down in the second half,” Mattingly said. “Give Sidney credit. They made plays that they had to make, and they converted some big third-down plays.”
Ross rushed for 155 yards to lead B-G, his fourth straight 100-yard game. Quarterback Justin Pepper three for 144 yards, all on completions to Banta.
Score by quarters
Sid. 8 0 8 16–32
B-G 6 14 6 0–26
Scoring Summary
First quarter
B-G: Justin Pepper 72 pass to James Banta (kick) failed)
S: Mike Guerriere 13 run (Umbra run)
Second quarter
B-G: Dustin Ross 9 run (Pepper pass to Banta)
B-G: Ross 87 run (kick failed)
Third quarter
B-G: Brad Hurlburt 12 run (kick failed)
S: Dylan Umbra 30 run (Jon Mercurio run)
Fourth quarter
S: Mercurio 3 run (Mercurio run)
S: Umbra 14 run (Umbra run)
Team Summary
Sid. B-G
First downs 21 9
Rushes-yards 50-274 27-241
Passing yards 71 144
Comp-Att-Int 7-16-0 3-11-0
Punts-avg. 3-41 5-33
Fumbles-lost 5-3 3-0
Penalties-yards 4-30 4-16
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (S) Mike Guerriere 14-70; Dylan Umbra 18-101; Aaron Wood 11-65; Jon Mercurio 7-38. (BG) Dustin Ross 12-155 2TD; Brad Hurlburt 6-50; Justin Pepper 8-29; Shane Cornish 1-7.
Passing: (S) Dylan Umbra 7-16 71. (BG): Justin Pepper 3-11 144 TD.
Receiving: (S) Aaron Wood 3-46; Mike Guerriere 3-21; Alex Heil 1-4. (BG): James Banta 3-144.
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