Second Half Sinks Tosa West Trojans at Greenfield

At the end of Friday night’s first half in Greenfield, the Wauwatosa West Trojans were leading by a score of 7-3. But this game finished in an eerily similar way as others this season, and Greenfield celebrated its homecoming with 28 unanswered second-half points to come out on top 31-7 in their Woodland Black conference game.

The game’s first drive featured Greenfield’s bruising running attack that took the ball inside the Trojan 5-yard line where they ran out of steam and gave the ball up on downs. On its first series of plays Tosa West (1-6 overall, 1-5 Woodland Black) connected on a short pass to Jameson Brock to get out from under the shadows of its own goal. That was followed by an electrifying 90-yard run by Reggie Cole into the Greenfield end zone. The PAT made it 7-0. The Hawks only scored once in the first half – a 45-yard, wind-assisted field goal that impressed the large crowd. 

The Tosa West defense made several gutsy plays in the first half even though there were major weight differentials in Greenfield’s favor: the Hawks had 17 players on their roster over 220 pounds, compared to two for the Trojans. For the quicker Trojans, senior Brion Felix made several outstanding defensive stops as did juniors Andre Santiago, Jon Doolen and Devine Burt, as well as sophomores Greg Lewis, Connor Young and Robert Henry Davis.

The Trojans started the second half with the ball near their 25 yard line and that’s when bad things started. First was a lost fumble — which gave Greenfield a short field to work — and the Hawks capitalized with a quarterback keeper to score and go up 10-7. Tosa looked ready to respond positively after the ensuing kickoff. Greg Lewis ran for a first down and Jared Morzinski hooked up with Sam Clough for a 40-yard pass play that brought the ball to Greenfield’s 5 yard line.  Then heartbreak, as a Trojan pass on first down was picked off by a Greenfield defender at the goal line and returned for a score, making it 17 to 7. 

Twice in their remaining possessions the Trojans made good offensive drives, only to lose the ball on downs and come away empty. Greenfield completed its scoring with two touchdowns following long, grinding run sequences conducted off the backsides of their jumbo interior linemen.

Next up for the Tosa West Trojan varsity is a home game against league-leading Greendale on Friday.