BLOUNTVILLE – The West Greene Buffaloes made their first ever trip to West Ridge to take on the Wolves in gridiron action Friday night, but it proved to be a difficult journey as they fell 58-0.
The Wolves scored first on a 43-yard pass for Trey Fraizer to Jackson Price, the kick was good and score was 7-0 with 10:42 remaining in the first quarter. The Buff defense was stiff after that first scoring drive with the help of a couple good punts 41 and 44 yards respectively from Austin Franklin to pin the Wolves deep. Braden Mccamey had a couple of quarterback sacks and a fumble recovery to keep the Buffs close in early going.
In the second quarter the wheels fell off for the Buffaloes. Ethan Amyx found the endzone from 10 yards out and seconds later Isaac McGhee stepped in front of an Austin Brown pass and returned it 38 yards for the pick-six. The Buffs fumbled the ball away on the first play of the next drive and the Wolves took advantage with another scoring pass for Fraizer, this time to Kaleb Mabb.
The Wolves then tried the onsides kick and recovered. Then Fraizer and Mabb hooked up again and the Wolves had scored 28 points in a span of 2:11. The Wolves scored again as time expired in the first half when Jax Brown scored from two yards out, bringing the halftime score to 42-0
“The second quarter has killed us all season long, when you’re playing a pretty good team and a team that’s that much bigger than you, you have to play pretty dog-gone good football the whole game to give yourself a chance,” West Greene coach Evan Monroe said. “And you know we just didn’t, we had too many mental mistakes, too many mental busts, and when you do that against a good football team they’re going to take advantage of it.”
In the second half both teams turned it over to the inexperienced players to get them some gametime action. With a running clock the action slowed and saw the Wolves settle for a 34-yard field goal on their opening drive from Kendall Burton. The Wolves scored two more times to go on to win over the Buffs 58-0.
Shawn Bailey led West Greene on offense with 38 yards rushing in the second half. Braden McCamey had two sacks with two tackles for loss and a fumble recovery to lead the Buffs on defense. Fraizer had three touchdown passes for the Wolves.
“We have a lot to clean up this week. We have two big games coming up, now we need to get everybody healthy and go get after South Greene next week,” Monroe said.
