North Sydney Bears secured a crucial 44-32 victory against the Illawarra Cutters, which has pushed them further towards the top eight. Cody Walker put in an unbelievable performance for the Bears, and was heavily assisted by his halves partner Darren Nicholls and hooker Paul Carter. The 14-try affair saw Craig Garvey and Peni Botiki score two tries each for the gallant Cutters, however it was not enough to match the attacking prowess possessed by the Bears. The Cutters went on the attack in the early stages of the match, but the Bears early goal line defence was nothing short of superb. Off the back of this defensive work, the Bears marched up field in the 10th minute and scored through Zane Musgrove thanks to some creative work out of …show more content…
That error did not cost them however, as Walker scored a try just three minutes later after winning the race to a long-range kick and simply planting the ball down. The Cutters dominated the following ten minutes, with Fraser Alcock being held up and Adam Clune building pressure through forced dropouts. Garvey eventually scored his second try in the 28th minute, again out of dummy half but this time he had more work to do. In the final four minutes of the half, the Bears scored two quick tries that really dented the Cutters confidence heading into halftime. The first was a Nathan Brown try off a Nicholls pass, and the second was a Schaumkel try which came after the siren, which made the halftime score 22-12. A bit of magic from the Bears halves in the opening minute of the second half led to a Nicholls try, which immediately increased their lead to 28-12. Cutters hit back in the 51st minute after Blake Wallace put a grubber in for Junior Vaivai who successfully got the ball down. The deficit was decreased to eight after Clune threw a lovley ball to Botiki, who powered through the defence to score his first
However, kicker Caleb Sturgis missed a 46-yard field goal towards the end of the first quarter.
However, it was all defense from there on out. Tony Gibson's dawgs forced seven tackles for losses, broke up six passes and recovered a fumble in the red
On second and goal, they tried hitting their running back in the flats on the right side of the field. Closing in with great pursuit, Dawson made an excellent open field tackle and forced a loss of one yard.
Pacific scored the first 20 points of the game with Summerfield and Williams connecting on a pair of touchdown passes and Beekman making a 34 and 22-yard field goal for a 20-0 lead. The Loggers got on the board late in the second quarter to cut the deficit to 20-7. Pacific came back with a 7 play, 44-yard drive by the Boxers that ended with Beekman making a 37-yard field goal – his third of the game – just before halftime for a 23-7 lead at the intermission.
Woodward had to know this game was all but over at the 5:38 mark of the 2nd quarter, so they decided to go for it on fourth down, needing fourteen-yards for the first down, deep in their own territory. The decision went from bad to worse when Reliford was called for intentional grounding, giving the ball to Belmont at the Bulldogs nine-yard line.
The second touchdown was a pass from WR Demarcus Ayers on a reverse to WR Chance Allen. The pass was Ayers second passing TD on the season that capped off a 7 play 75 yard drive that only took off 2 minutes and 7 seconds off the
Chapman, who does not have breakaway speed managed to pick up 19-yards on a very good call by the Newark Catholic play caller. The drive continued with a 11-yard completion from Chapman to Mason Peddicord 6-3 / 175, with 59.2 seconds left in the half.
A kick from Anderson started the game, not long after, QB Lucas Smith runs a 18yd touchdown, starting the game out with a 7-0 Turpin lead. The Redskins’ Kyle Blaha soon persevered through the unforgiving Turpin defense and ran a 2 yd touchdown, evening out the score out 7-7. “Our offense and defense did well, but there’s always room for improvement.” Coach Kenter explained after Turpin gave up 21 points in the first half. “But I think this was one of better games of the entire season, the team really brought it.” Second quarter brought both the Spartans and Redskins 2 new touchdowns each and an exciting 65 yard pass Turpin touchdown, Smith to Will Hausfeld. Halftime stopped the intense game at a suspenseful score of 21-21.
In the first half the Knights were fueled by a Matt Drew sneak from a yard away
The Vikings had the ball with 1:42 left and at their 39-yard line and helped with a pass interference penalty on Kam Chancellor, went into the Seahawks area. After eating up the clock for a certain win, Walsh missed the winning point
Unofficially the Eagles offense soared to 287 yards, while the Bison totaled just 62-yard. Grove City had completed 9 of 9 passes and total 35 plays ran. The Bison ran just 27 plays and went 1-5 through the air with one interception. As cliche as it is this game had been made this uneven because of the dominating performance by the Grove City offensive and defensive lines.. They were having a field day against their counter parts.
At this point, the wheels came off of the Panthers wagon and GSU scored 16 unanswered points. GSU got things going and the momentum changed in their favor. Kincade connected with Chad Williams on a 13 yard passed to make the score 16-7 with PAT by Jonathon Wallace with 2:42 in the first quarter. At this point, both teams were going back and forth. Several turnovers occurred. Until, Kincade and GSU got their groove on with an 11 yard run for pay dirt. Jonathon Wallace successfully completed the PAT to make the score 16-14 in favor of PVAMU at the 10:39 in the second quarter. GSU would score again before the half when PVAMU’s Lorin Winston couldn’t handle a high snap and push the ball out of the back of the end zone for a safety. That tied the score at 16-16 all with 2:00 minutes left in the half.
In the second quarter, Garoppolo had a great start to the quarter throwing a short pass to James White who ran 56 yards for a big time reception. That pass set up a 1 yard run by LeGarrette Blount for the touchdown.
Any hopes of a comeback by the Cougars were laid to a rest when Darren Davis picked off a Workman pass, with less than a minute remaining
Early in the fourth quarter, the Colts answered with a touchdown of their own, extending their lead to 20-9. Another field goal added to the Colts' lead 23-9. However, Miller scored another touchdown, making the score 23-16.