Newfield spoils Greene’s home opener
Greene’s Keegan Waltz (#7) pumped up after scoring on a kickoff return to open up the second half. Waltz had two touchdowns in the 30-20 loss to Newfield. (Photo by Morgan Golliver)
GREENE – Some of the execution errors that plagued Greene’s football team in last week’s road loss leaked into its home-opener Thursday night.
A bad punt snap led to an early Newfield score, and sundry other miscues conspired against a consistent rhythm on offense as Newfield handed Greene its second straight loss, 30-20, in Section IV 8-man football action.
While more of the execution foibles fell on special teams play a week ago, all three phases – offense, defense, and special teams – had issues, said Greene coach Dave Gorton.
“Defensively, we tackled very poorly,” Gorton said. “We had people not filling assignments and trying to do things individually instead of as a team. We didn’t really get anything from our defense that we expected.”
While total yardage was not available at press time, Newfield running back, Malcolm Jenkins easily eclipsed the 100-yard rushing barrier.
Jenkins had a TD in the first half and added a long TD score midway through the fourth quarter that extended Newfield’s lead to 22-12.
With less than two minutes to play, Jenkins had another long run that set up teammate Warrior-Malachi Miner’s one-yard TD run.
“(Jenkins) is a tough kid that finished runs,” Gorton said. “He never went down after the first guy contacted him.”
Greene was forced to punt after gaining possession to start the game. Newfield, also with the Trojans moniker, set up shop on Greene’s side of the field following the special teams miscue.
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