By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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WEST GREENWICH—There was something different about the Exeter-West Greenwich football team Saturday.
Maybe it was their new quarterback, junior Keleigh Greenhalgh, who came back from being academically ineligible to start the season. Maybe it was the return of linemen James and Andrew Read, playing in their first game of the season for the same reason. Maybe it was the emergence of a balanced offense.
No, wait, that’s not it. The biggest difference about Exeter-West Greenwich Saturday afternoon? They won.
Thanks in large part to a 161-yard day by junior Al Georgio, not to mention the 16 carry, 100-yard, three touchdown performance of senior Adam Sweeney, EWG posted its first victory of the season with a 30-6 dismantling of Scituate.
Saturday’s win was about much more than a simple ‘W’ for Exeter-West Greenwich. For the first time all season, the Knights looked like a football team, played like a football team and hit like a football team.
And it couldn’t have come at a better time. Exeter has a pair of league games coming up against winless opponents North Providence and PCD/Wheeler in the next three weeks. With Saturday’s victory over a proven competitor under their belts, the Knights may well be poised to make a run back into playoff contention.
“Well, it’s a big win for us,” EWG coach Mike Messier said. “How long we can ride this, it depends upon what type of team shows up next week and this is a big game for us in more ways than one. It puts us at 1-2 and it shows the rest of the league that, you know what? Maybe it was just a glitch that we had.”

For more, read the 10/15 edition of the Standard