Football

Greene 24, Owego 14
GREENE – Looking at his schedule before the season started, Greene head coach Tim Paske hoped for a 5-2 mark over the first seven games. His Trojans have not only exceeded those expectations, they remain among the select few unbeaten teams left in Section IV after coming back to beat Owego Friday night.
“I wouldn’t have made up the schedule that we’ve played,” Paske said. In keeping its team’s perfect record intact, Greene has needed to beat larger schools Dryden, Oneonta, and the Indians over the last month. “To be where we are now, that tells you what kind of kids we have. They just have that will to win, and they keep fighting no matter what.”
Just like the Oneonta game, Greene found itself on the short side of the scoreboard at halftime. And just like that game against the ‘Jackets, the Trojans did not give up a point in the second half. In fact, Owego did not score a point over the final three quarters.
Owego took the early lead when a bad punt snap over Greene punter Isaiah Webb was recovered in the endzone by Indians’ Shawn Marshall.
Greene’s Keegan Cerwinski scored on a one-yard TD run to tie the game, but Owego moved ahead with 4;15 left in the first quarter on Matt Warchocki’s one-yard TD run.
Greene took command in the third on a 14-yard TD run by Dan Treadwell that knotted the game. Owego fumbled the ball away on the ensuing kickoff, and that led to Tim Gell’s tie-breaking 29-yard field goal.
The back-breaker for Owego, though, was senior Jeff Carlin’s improbable 49-yard TD scamper early in the fourth. Carlin ran the wrong play moving right for a toss play when he was supposed to take a pitch to the left from quarterback Joe Beckwith. Beckwith managed to find Carlin, who cut back to the middle and outside left. He made two Owego defenders miss near the line of scrimmage, then picked up a block from Cole Browning as he made his way down the left sideline into the endzone. “The way our offense works, there is supposed to be a cutback lane for the runner,” Paske said. “Joe kept his composure and pitched the ball the other way. Jeff juked a couple of guys out, and picked up the block from Cole. That touchdown was huge.”
Owego’s Dylan Angulas ripped off a 32-yard run to the Greene one with just over eight minutes left in the fourth. Angulas was severely hurt on the play, and the stigma of the injury surely remained with the Indians, who committed back-to-back penalties moving it back 10 yards. On the next play, Owego fumbled the ball allowing Webb to slide in for the recovery.
With seven minutes still to play, Greene was able to run out the clock converting a pair of third-and-shorts to extend the possession. “Owego is big and physical, and they hurt us on some formations,” Paske said. “We had a tough time matching up, and we needed to catch a break. We made our own breaks recovering a couple of fumbles.”
Carlin rushed for 115 yards and Cerwinski had 102 yards on the ground.
Score by quarters
Ow. 14 0 0 0-14
Gre. 7 0 10 7-24
Scoring Summary
O: Shawn Marshall fumble recovery in endzone (Devin Bensley pass from Nick Larrabee)
G: Keegan Cerwinski 1 run (Tim Gell kick)
O: Matt Warchocki 1 run (pass failed)
G: Dan Treadwell 14 run (Gell kick)
G: Gell 29 field goal
G: Jeff Carlin 49 run (Gell kick)
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (O) Dylan Angulas, 15-153; Derek Knapp, 12-37; Craig Luffman, 1-2; Matt Warchocki, 1-1; N. Larrabee, 1-(-4). (G) J. Carlin, 17-115; K. Cerwinski, 18-102; M. Beckwith, 5-43; D. Treadwell, 7-26; J. Beckwith, 4-21.
Passing: (O) Nick Larrabee 2-6-1, 40 yds; M. Warchocki, 0-1-0, 0 yds; (G) Joe Beckwith, 1-4-1, 4 yds; J. Carlin, 0-1-0 0 yds.
Receiving: (O) Shawn Marshall, 1-28; Devin Bensley, 1-12. (G) Cole Browning, 1-4.

Deposit-Hancock 22, Oxford 12
OXFORD – Deposit-Hancock took advantage of auspicious field position in the second quarter scoring on two short touchdown drives in dashing the Blackhawks’ playoff hopes Friday night on a dreary, wet night in Oxford.
With the game tied at 6-6 after a quarter, Eli Holton-Chandler scored the go-ahead TD on a three-yard TD run. The Eagles then picked off Oxford quarterback Jody Smith returning the ball inside the Oxford 15. Evan Thomas capped the drive with a two-yard run. D-H converted both of its two-point conversions, and the 22-6 lead proved enough.
“We had four turnovers in the game, and you can’t expect to win games when that happens,” said Oxford coach Ray Dayton. “At some point, you have to protect the football.”
Oxford’s defense blanked Deposit-Hancock over the final two quarters, and allowed just 98 total yards for the game. The only dent the Blackhawks made in the deficit was a 57-yard TD pass by Smith to Steve Simpson. “We would have liked to have played the game with a full deck,” Dayton said, who was short five players due to academic ineligibility. “Some kids didn’t take care of business academically, and that hurt the athletics department.”
Oxford (3-4) capped a scoring drive in the first quarter with a Paul Wonka two-yard run. Wonka had his sixth 100-yard rushing day finishing with 170 yards on 37 carries. D-H tied the game with the first of three straight TDs on Rocco Christian’s 51-yard scoring dash.
Score by quarters
D-H 6 16 0 0-22
Oxf. 6 0 0 6-12
Scoring Summary
O: Paul Wonka 2 run (kick failed)
DH: Rocco Christian 51 run (pass failed)
DH: Eli Holton-Chandler 3 run (Derek Lenio pass from Phillips)
DH: Evan Thomas 2 run (Baker run)
O: Steve Simpson 57 pass from Jody Smith (run failed)
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (D) Rocco Christian 7-75, Evan Thomas, 4-13; E. Holton-Chandler, 3-8; Brett Baker, 2-8; Tyler Phillips, 3-6; Marcus Shaver, 2-6; D. Lenio, 4-(-5). (O) Paul Wonka, 37-170; Shawn McKee, 2-0; Jody Smith, 3-(-11); A. Golden, 3-(-11).
Passing: (D) Lenio, 0-1-0, (O) Jody Smith, 3-10-3, 67 yds, TD; Wonka, 0-1-0, 0 yds.
Receiving: (O) Steve Simpson, 1-57; Andrew Golden, 2-10.

Sidney 14, UV-Edmeston 0
SIDNEY – UV-Edmeston coach Brian Banks said Sidney’s home field looked like a war zone, and that was before Friday’s game against the Warriors even started.
Trudging through ankle-deep mud, Sidney scored a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter – the latter a controversial fumble recovery – to keep its Class C playoff hopes alive.
Nate McDonald scored on a 26-yard run early in the second quarter, the only sustained drive for either team. Following an exchange of punts, the Warriors drove inside the Storm five-yard line, but stalled at the one. On the next play, UV-E quarterback Brandon Miles was sacked in the endzone for an apparent safety. Out of the muck, Sidney’s Brandon Walters pounced on a loose ball, and was awarded the touchdown 30 seconds before halftime.  Banks said Miles, disappointed about the sack, had put the ball down thinking the play was over.  “It was definitely a safety, but not a touchdown,” Banks said.
Identifying one’s own teammate was also a task as Miles threw an interception – one of four UV-E turnovers – but thought he had completed a pass to his own teammate. “He threw it right to the guy, and (Brandon) even raised his hands thinking he completed the pass,” Banks said.
Kody Homann had 53 yards rushing for UV-E in the loss, and UV-E finished with 119 yards rushing as a team. “Sidney is a good team and it was a tough day for everyone,” Banks said. “I thought we could have gotten to the outside with our running game, but we couldn’t use those plays because we had no footing.”
The Storm (1-6) finish division play next weekend when they face Chenango Forks.
Score by quarters
UVE    0  0  0  0—0
Sidn.   0  14 0  0—14
Scoring Summary
S:  Nate McDonald 26 run (run failed)
S:  Brandon Walters fumble recovery in endzone (McDonald run)
Individual Statistics
Rushing:  (UVE) Kody Homann, 11-53;  Brandon Miles, 6-43; Dylan Aikins, 10-31; Justin Hofer, 6-(-8). (S) Austin McCarroll, 4-21, Jon Wingate 8-49, Nate McDonald 20-49, Brandon Walters 11-56, Pat Vibbard 4-4, Cody Bourn, 7-32. Total: 54-213
Passing:  Brandon Miles, 0-3-1, 0 yds. (S) McDonald, 0-2-0, 0 yds.
Receiving:  none.

Bainbridge-Guilford 27, Delhi 6
DELHI – Corbin Palmer threw one TD and ran for another in the second quarter as the Bobcats secured a Class D playoff spot, while also ending Delhi’s recent dominance over the Bobcats.
B-G (5-1) returns to the playoffs after a one-year absence, and will host Seton Catholic Central Friday at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinals. “Seton’s quarterback scares me. He has a cannon for an arm,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly. “And they’ve developed a running game, so you have to defend the whole field.”
After a sluggish opening quarter, the Bobcats drove for the opening TD early in the second as Palmer called his own number on a three-yard QB sneak in which he went untouched. Late in the first half, Palmer hit Ryan Porter in stride on a 43-yard TD pass with 20 seconds left in the first half.
Billy Holden, who had 104 yards rushing, upped the lead to three scores with a 16-yard TD run, and the breaks continued to fall B-G’s way in the fourth. Palmer dropped the ball after getting hit on a roll-out. Porter scooped up the ball and ran it in from two yards for the 27-0 lead in the fourth.
“In the second half, we pretty much shut Delhi down, and we had some nice, long possessions,” Mattingly said. “Give Delhi’s players credit. They had some fight in them in the first half. I think we just wore them down driving up and down the field.”
Palmer threw for 79 yards on 5-of-11 passing.
Score by quarters
B-G 0 13 7 7–27
Delh. 0 0 0 6–6
Scoring Summary
BG: Palmer 3 run (kick failed)
BG: Ryan Porter 43 pass from Corbin Palmer (Zach Falciani kick)
BG: Billy Holden 16 run (Falciani kick)
BG: Porter 2 fumble return (Falciani kick)
D: Mike Newman 2 run (run failed)
Individual Statistics
Rushing: (BG) Holden, 22-104; Jake Mazzarella, 8-63; Tyler Ouimet, 2-2; Palmer, 1-3; Brandon Lamont, 2-4; Lucas Butcher, 1-5; Cole Webb, 1-3. (D) Brian Ingram, 14-51; Brandon Simonds, 9-25; Ryan Telian, 7-21; Noah Dedominicis, 4-58; Mike Newman, 2-3.
Passing: (BG) Palmer, 5-11-2, 79 yds, TD; Brandon Simonds, 0-7-0, 0 yds.
Receiving: (BG) Ryan Porter, 2-56; Billy Holden, 2-16; Austin Bauerle, 1-7.