Greene wins with ball control

Evening Sun Report

Football

Greene 28, Whitney Point 6

GREENE – Greene used ball possession as its best defensive weapon controlling the clock and turning back Whitney Point in a non-league contest that was closer than the final score indicates.

Corey Breck threw for 66 yards and a 12-yard TD pass to John Carlin, and closed the scoring in the fourth quarter scampering 25 yards. “This was another physical game for us,” said Greene coach Tim Paske. “They (Whitney Point) never gave up, and even though the score doesn’t seem close, we couldn’t pull away when we wanted to.”

Greene had a cozy 22-0 lead at halftime, a first half not that dissimilar to last week’s two-TD lead over Oxford. Keith Savory’s one-yard scoring run in the first put Greene on the board, and one minute after Breck’s TD pass to Carlin, sophomore Nate Whittaker returned an interception 28 yards for a score.

Whitney Point averted the shutout on Mike McCrone’s 34-yard scoring run on a reverse play. “We established the ground game today with Savory and Corey had a nice all-around game; he stepped up and made plays,” Paske said. “We made a few other good plays, but shot ourselves in the foot with penalties, and turnovers. We need to iron those things out before we start division play.”

Savory finished with 105 yards on 21 carries, and the 2-0 start is the first in Paske’s four-year coaching tenure.

Football Summary

G WP

First downs 14 7

Rushes-yds 44-206 25-174

Passing yds 67 45

Return yds 66 48

Comp-att-int 7-14-1 3-11-2

Punts 3-33 4-2

Fumbles-lost 2-2 1-1

Penalties 6-45 3-25

Individual Statistics

Rushing: (G) Savory, 21-105; Whittaker, 9-34; David Micha, 3-17; Bennett, 4-9; C. Engler, 1-11; c. Breck, 3-22; J. Wentlent, 1-1; Yeager, 1-5. (WP) S. Badger, 5-6; #34, 2-7; Mussafin, 6-29; N. Manwaring, 9-98; M. McCrone, 1-34; Stahl, 2-(-10).

Passing: (G) Breck, 7-14-1, 66 yds, TD; (WP) Stahl, 3-11-2, 45 yds

Receiving: (G) J. Carlin, 4-45; J. VanWert, 2-10; N. Whittaker, 1-12. (WP) Manwaring, 1-35; McCrone, 1-5; #82, 1-5.

Score by quarters

WPt 0 0 6 0–6

Gre. 6 16 0 6–-28

Scoring summary

G: Savory 1 run (run failed), 2:34

G: Carlin 12 pass from Breck (Breck run), 9:45

G: Whittaker 28 interception return (Breck pass to Micha), 8:41.

WP: McCrone 34 run (kick failed), 4:36.

G: Breck 25 run (kick failed)

B-G 19, Unadilla Valley-Edmeston 0

BAINBRIDGE – B-G overcame five turnovers with a handful of big plays, and its stifling defense limited the Storm to 93 total yards in posting a second straight shutout.

“Our defense was unbelievable tonight,” said B-G coach Tim Mattingly, noting the play of senior captain Willie McGinnis who led the Bobcats’ charge. “Our kids were just all over them – especially in the second half.”

When it wasn’t turning the ball over, the Bobcats’ offense was quite effective. Chris McGinnis scrambled on a bootleg and hit Chad Cornish on a 50-yard TD pass in the first quarter. Cornish made it a two-TD lead in the third quarter scampering 70 yards to paydirt on a sweep, and Willie McGinnis dashed 25 yards for six points in the fourth.