Senior White: Regardless of the final score the boys played hard and with a lot of heart for all four quarters, they never gave up! A big moral victory for this team. We can build off of this positive attitude this week in practice going into our final regular season game. In the opener Guilford kick off to Tri Town who then put together a long drive which ended in a touchdown, PAT was blocked. Then it look like momentum was swinging our way as Guilford took the kick off return and put together a nice drive as well but came up short on a fourth down gamble. Then Guilford's defense held Tri Town to a three and punt. Unfortunately for the offense we came up short again. This battle went late into the second quarter until some bad calls against us and costly turnovers just became too much for our defense to hold Tri Town offense down and they score twice in the second quarter but to the boys credit they blocked every extra point attempt tried. 0 - 18 at the half.
Now playing catch up in the second half Guilford abandon the run game and instead went to the air for most of the second half which prove costly for us on turnovers and gave Tri town excellent field position to score. At this point the game was pretty much out of reach for Guilford but they used this time to executed their passing game. Over all a very disappointing loss for the senior white team coming into this game we felt that we matched up quite well with Tri Town, but it wasn't meant to be this weekend.
JUNIOR DIVISION:
Junior Green: Guilford Junior Green brings another one home! In a 32-20 victory over a tough Tri-Town B team, the Green Machine continues to open up the offense scoring on the ground, in the air, and on special teams.
Tri-Town received the opening kick but with Mike Serra leading the defense, they were forced to turn the ball over on downs near midfield.
It looked like Guilford was going to follow suit with a 4th and 10 to go on the first drive but with no Hunter Martins to punt the Ball, Tyler Nelson was forced to the air and hit Pat Cantrell for a 23 yard gain to keep the drive moving forward. Two quick plays later and Paul Distasio scored his first of four touchdowns on the day with a 13 yard off tackle run to the right. Nelson scampered in untouched for the PAT with another perfectly executed bootleg and the 7-0 lead.
With help from Dave Laurie at inside Linebacker, Serra and the Green D shut Tri-Town down again giving the O another shot from midfield. After moving the ball steadily down the field, Green was faced with another 4th and long to go. This time Joey Nault came through tossing a halfback option pass for the first down. Not to be outdone however, Nelson put the next one up to Nick Miers who scored his first touchdown this year for a 13-0 lead.
Tri-Town battled hard on their next series and scored late in the second quarter. A well kicked PAT brought the score to 13-8… but not for long. The following kickoff made it to the Guilford 5 yard line where Distasio picked it up, raced across the field, and up the far sideline. With one defender left to beat, Serra made it simple with a second effort block to leave Distasio free to finish the 95 yard run untouched for his second TD and a 19-8 lead. Once again to the air, Nelson hit Nault in the corner of the end zone for the extra point bringing the Green total to 20 going in to the Half.
The second half was a struggle as both teams pounded out yards and traded possessions. Matt Brewer at DE was in the backfield so often you’d think he was playing for the other team. When he wasn’t out there, Carson Sperry shut down their outside running game. Distasio scored his third TD on a 33 yard toss to the right side behind the always reliable Dane Lawrence for a 26-8 lead. Tri-Town then capitalized on a rare fumble and scored soon after but the kick went wide leaving them with 14 to end the third quarter.
Tri-Town controlled the ball most of the fourth quarter but the Green D held when it counted and stopped them twice with 4th and goal to go. Distasio picked up his fourth TD with another off tackle run to the right, this time for 45 yards and 32 points. Tri-Town was able to score again late in the fourth quarter to close the gap to 32-20, but with only two minutes left in the game and a failed on-side kick, it just wasn’t enough to overcome the Green onslaught.
