Railroaders fry Burghers, will play for second seed
Consider this returning the favor. The Whitehall varsity football team finished out the home portion of its 2010 Class D regular season schedule with a 48-7 victory over Warrensburg on…
Consider this returning the favor. The Whitehall varsity football team finished out the home portion of its 2010 Class D regular season schedule with a 48-7 victory over Warrensburg on…
For 24 minutes, the Whitehall Railroaders had upset on their minds.
The varsity football team battled to a 7-0 halftime deficit against the Cambridge Indians on Sept. 11, using a pressuring defense and two turnovers to stay within one touchdown heading into the second half.
The Railroaders looked to have the Indians held to a three-and-out to open the third quarter, as Cambridge faced a third-and-eight with freshman quarterback Billy Pine scrambling against the Whitehall pressure.
It was going to come down to execution Saturday and both head coaches knew it.
Both men, Granville’s Mario Torres and Greenwich’s Brandon Linnett, said so way back in August when the two teams met at Granville’s annual Coaching Connections football camp while preparing for the season.
Each coach said the team to execute, commit the fewest penalties and turnovers would win the game – and that is exactly what happened as the Granville Golden Horde fell 43-15 to the visiting Greenwich Witches.
“We got outplayed. We got outplayed in very aspect of the game,” Torres said afterwards. Granville’s offensive output was a miniature 141 yards and two touchdowns while the defense surrendered a combined 418 yards to the visiting Witches.
A few things occur to me after watching the Horde take out C-Town this weekend. One, having a kicker in high school is deadly. Mr. Hahn, it’s too bad he’s…