Trinity blanked in opening loss

Knights lose QB in opening minutes; Offense stalls

Trinity Classical entered its game Friday night against Silver Valley with a game plan that was almost immediately blown up.

The Knights lost starting quarterback Phineas Yi early in the first quarter, and the reshuffled offense never got going in a 34-0 loss on Friday night at St. Francis High School.

After Yi went down

with an injury, the Knights moved Tyler Lee from tight end to under center, a move that deprived the offensive of a key offensive threat.

“We went to Tyler Lee, but he had a rough night because we were minus some weapons,” said coach Les Robinson. “We started the game down two offensive weapons and when (Yi) went down we only had Koby Schafer.”

Silver Valley jumped out to an early lead and never took the foot off the gas, leading 20-0 at the end of the first half.

The Trojans put two more touchdowns on the board in the second half, but Robinson is confident the poor results had more to do with his teams slow start than Silver Valley’s approach.

“It wasn’t them, it was us,” he said. “They were exactly who we thought they were. They weren’t overwhelming or anything. We just laid an egg plain and simple.”

The Knights will have two weeks to regroup, before hosting Century High on Sept. 9 at St. Francis High School.