Warriors can’t overcome early runs by Coccetti

By the time the Warriors slowed down Valley View tailback Geno Coccetti on Friday night, there was too much damaged done to repair over the final two quarters.

Coccetti rushed for 150 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries in the first half, as Valley View beat WA 27-14 in a non-conference game. Coccetti carried eight more times in the second half after suffering a minor injury and finished with 189 yards. Coccetti scored on a 58-yard run on the sixth play of the game. After Wyoming Area tied the score on C.J.Warner’s 45-yard touchdown run, Coccetti scored again on a 27-yard run. He closed out the half with a 10-yard TD run to give Valley View a 20-7 lead.

Corey Passeri increased the advantage to 27-7 at 7:39 of the third quarter with a 5-yard run. Again, Coccetti was the difference maker with a 31-yard run to the Wyoming Area 7-yard line.

“We had far too many mistakes,” Wyoming Area first-year coach Randy Spencer said. “Basic fundamentals. Tackling, being in the proper leverage, being in the proper position whether it’s the counter play or pitch plays …”

In other words, the Warriors played like the inexperienced team that they are. And Valley View, which won just three games last year, played like a team that returned most of its starters.

Wyoming Area pulled within 27-14 on when sophomore quarterback Chris Murphy turned a 15-yard scramble into his first varsity touchdown at 4:15 of the third.

“It seems like times (there was) a lack of continuity on offense,” Spencer said. “You’d have a play, you’d have a mistake to match that play. You’d have a play, you’d have a mistake to match that play. The mistakes kind of compromised any kind of offensive flow.”

That was never more evident than in the fourth quarter when Wyoming Area had a first-and-10 from its 39. By fourth down, it was a fourth-and-43 because of three penalties.

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