Greene right at home on NHS field turf
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
Scoring Summary
N: Christian Hotaling 2 run (Josh Favaloro kick)
I: Phillip Anderson 6 run (kick failed)
I: Safety, punt snap went through the endzone.
I: Marcus Moss 16 pass from Scott Boettger (pass failed)
I: Safety, Norwich QB tackled in endzone.
Team Summary
N I
First downs 6 16
Rushes-yds 31-115 41-208
Comp-att-int 0-5-2 7-10-0
Passing yds 0 58
Fumbles-lost 1-0 3-1
Penalties-yds 12-102 7-50
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (N) Mackay Hotaling, 11-77; Christian Hotaling, 7-25; Paddy Law, 2-39; Alex Williams, 1-4; Tyler Hoffman, 1-3; Seth Thomsen, 1-(-2); Casey Edwards, 7- (-31). (I) Phillip Anderson, 22-123; Riley Lasda, 17-86; Scott Boettger, 1-(-1).
Passing: (N) Edwards, 0-5-2, 0 yds; (I) Boettger, 7-10-0, 58 yds, TD.
Receiving: (I) Joe House, 1-36; Lasda, 3-7; Anderson, 2-(-1); Moss, 1-16.
Deposit 55, Oxford 24
DEPOSIT – For the second week in the a row, Oxford did not have an answer on defense for the opponent’s passing game.
Deposit threw for six total touchdown passes, and racked up a 42-12 lead in the first half.
The Blackhawks (0-2) fumbled on their first two possessions, both of which ended with TD passes by Ben Thomas. Thomas threw three touchdown strikes to Darin Wignall, who added a TD run and a 31-yard fumble return for a score to end the first half.
“We shot ourselves in the foot the first two possessions, and we never recovered,” said Oxford coach Mike Chrystie. “We knew they wanted to get the ball to the Wignall kid, and we put in a new defense for that. We just got beat. We could not stop their passing game.”
Oxford quarterback John Wonka threw for a 176 yards and TD passes to Booker Davis and Jamie Smolcnop. Davis added a pair of short scoring runs in the second half finishing with 71 yards rushing on 17 carries.
“It was a disappointing game as a team,” Chrystie said. “We felt like this was a game we could have won, we just didn’t execute offensively or defensively.”
Score by quarters
Oxf. 6 6 6 6–24
Dep. 20 22 7 6–55
Scoring Summary
D: Brett Baker 15 pass from Ben Thomas (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 4 pass from Ben Thomas (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 56 pass from Ben Thomas (Anthony Cecere pass from Darin Wignall)
O: Jamie Smolcnop 12 pass from John Wonka (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 1 run (PAT failed)
D: Davidson Libke 1 pass from Darin Wignall run failed)
O: Booker Davis 32 pass from John Wonka (PAT failed)
D: Darin Wignall 31 fumble return (Libke pass from Wignall)
O: Davis 4 run (run failed)
D: Wignall 29 pass from Ben Thomas (PAT kick good)
O: Davis 3 run (kick failed)
D: Darin Wignall 32 pass from Derek Lenio (kick failed)
Team statistics
O D
First downs 11 14
Rushes-yds 31-111 26-160
Passing yds 176 275
Comp-att-int 9-19-2 13-22-0
Fumbles-lost 4-3 3-0
Penalties-yds 4-40 6-55
Individual statistics
Rushing: (O) Booker Davis, 17-71; John Wonka, 3-24; Dylan Cole, 6-14; Jeremy Nelson, 3-4; Brandon Shaw, 2-(-2). (D) Derek Wignall, 5-63; Evan Thomas, 6-49; Darin Wignall, 6-13; Brett Merrill, 5-26; Anthony Cecere, 3-5; Derek Lenio, 1-4.
Passing: (O) Wonka, 9-19-2, 176 yds. (D) Ben Thomas, 11-18-0, 241; Derek Lenio, 1-2-1, 33 yds; Darin Wignall, 1-2-0, 1 yd.
Receiving: (O) Jeremy Nelson, 2-70; Booker Davis, 4-54; Jamie Smolcnop, 3-52. (D) Darin Wignall, 8-176; Davidson Libke, 2-28; Derek Lenio, 1-6; Brett Baker, 1-15.
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
Scoring Summary
N: Christian Hotaling 2 run (Josh Favaloro kick)
I: Phillip Anderson 6 run (kick failed)
I: Safety, punt snap went through the endzone.
I: Marcus Moss 16 pass from Scott Boettger (pass failed)
I: Safety, Norwich QB tackled in endzone.
Team Summary
N I
First downs 6 16
Rushes-yds 31-115 41-208
Comp-att-int 0-5-2 7-10-0
Passing yds 0 58
Fumbles-lost 1-0 3-1
Penalties-yds 12-102 7-50
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (N) Mackay Hotaling, 11-77; Christian Hotaling, 7-25; Paddy Law, 2-39; Alex Williams, 1-4; Tyler Hoffman, 1-3; Seth Thomsen, 1-(-2); Casey Edwards, 7- (-31). (I) Phillip Anderson, 22-123; Riley Lasda, 17-86; Scott Boettger, 1-(-1).
Passing: (N) Edwards, 0-5-2, 0 yds; (I) Boettger, 7-10-0, 58 yds, TD.
Receiving: (I) Joe House, 1-36; Lasda, 3-7; Anderson, 2-(-1); Moss, 1-16.
Deposit 55, Oxford 24
DEPOSIT – For the second week in the a row, Oxford did not have an answer on defense for the opponent’s passing game.
Deposit threw for six total touchdown passes, and racked up a 42-12 lead in the first half.
The Blackhawks (0-2) fumbled on their first two possessions, both of which ended with TD passes by Ben Thomas. Thomas threw three touchdown strikes to Darin Wignall, who added a TD run and a 31-yard fumble return for a score to end the first half.
“We shot ourselves in the foot the first two possessions, and we never recovered,” said Oxford coach Mike Chrystie. “We knew they wanted to get the ball to the Wignall kid, and we put in a new defense for that. We just got beat. We could not stop their passing game.”
Oxford quarterback John Wonka threw for a 176 yards and TD passes to Booker Davis and Jamie Smolcnop. Davis added a pair of short scoring runs in the second half finishing with 71 yards rushing on 17 carries.
“It was a disappointing game as a team,” Chrystie said. “We felt like this was a game we could have won, we just didn’t execute offensively or defensively.”
Score by quarters
Oxf. 6 6 6 6–24
Dep. 20 22 7 6–55
Scoring Summary
D: Brett Baker 15 pass from Ben Thomas (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 4 pass from Ben Thomas (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 56 pass from Ben Thomas (Anthony Cecere pass from Darin Wignall)
O: Jamie Smolcnop 12 pass from John Wonka (pass failed)
D: Darin Wignall 1 run (PAT failed)
D: Davidson Libke 1 pass from Darin Wignall run failed)
O: Booker Davis 32 pass from John Wonka (PAT failed)
D: Darin Wignall 31 fumble return (Libke pass from Wignall)
O: Davis 4 run (run failed)
D: Wignall 29 pass from Ben Thomas (PAT kick good)
O: Davis 3 run (kick failed)
D: Darin Wignall 32 pass from Derek Lenio (kick failed)
Team statistics
O D
First downs 11 14
Rushes-yds 31-111 26-160
Passing yds 176 275
Comp-att-int 9-19-2 13-22-0
Fumbles-lost 4-3 3-0
Penalties-yds 4-40 6-55
Individual statistics
Rushing: (O) Booker Davis, 17-71; John Wonka, 3-24; Dylan Cole, 6-14; Jeremy Nelson, 3-4; Brandon Shaw, 2-(-2). (D) Derek Wignall, 5-63; Evan Thomas, 6-49; Darin Wignall, 6-13; Brett Merrill, 5-26; Anthony Cecere, 3-5; Derek Lenio, 1-4.
Passing: (O) Wonka, 9-19-2, 176 yds. (D) Ben Thomas, 11-18-0, 241; Derek Lenio, 1-2-1, 33 yds; Darin Wignall, 1-2-0, 1 yd.
Receiving: (O) Jeremy Nelson, 2-70; Booker Davis, 4-54; Jamie Smolcnop, 3-52. (D) Darin Wignall, 8-176; Davidson Libke, 2-28; Derek Lenio, 1-6; Brett Baker, 1-15.
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