Quick-strike Offense Lifts UV To First Win
Published: September 29th, 2014
By: Patrick Newell

NEW BERLIN – There are no-huddle offenses, and then there is the version that Unadilla Valley runs.

Running plays as if it was competing in a world-class 100-meter dash, the Storm hit Sidney with a barrage of offense in the second half that had the Sidney Warriors reeling Friday night as UV picked up its first victory of the season, 56-28.

The Storm scored 40 points in just over a 15-minute span of the second half that turned a nip-and-tuck contest into a laugher. Mason Fernette threw three TD passes and recovered a blocked punt in the endzone for another score, and Caleb Simons rushed for two fourth-quarter scores to lead the UV attack.

“We really needed this,” said Unadilla Valley second-year head coach Mark Segina.

The Storm had been knocking on the door of victory losing on the final offensive play against state-ranked Moravia, then it lost a late fourth-quarter lead to state-ranked Walton last week.

“Moravia, that’s a tough football team, and Walton is Walton,” Segina said. “I was looking at how those teams are doing and how we played against them, and I thought that we were a much better team than our record showed.”

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But as former NFL coach Bill Parcells once said, “you are what your record says you are,” and Unadilla Valley was a winless team that had lost 10 of 11 games since the start of the 2013 season.

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