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Week 1: South Carolina at Chesaepeake

A quality test right away – SCA is a returning playoff team with crazy talent at the skill positions, possibly the best offensive talent in the FOFL. Will be a tough one right out of the gate, and a divisional game right away at that.


Live Commentary

Opening drive looks sick – they just march on us. We make them settle for a FG, but it seemed really easy for them to score. We respond by pounding Harry Small at them, and head in for a pretty easy TD of our own. Hope you took the over.

A three and out? Wow. A Sedor pick in our territory? One play drive for the go-ahead TD for them? Oh, okay, got it. We respond with a solid drive again – our ground game is overpowering them in the early going, which does bode well. But again – the OVER is looking like the big winner here.

As the first quarter wraps up, Emmanuel White delivers with a pick, setting up a TD for us, to put us ahead 21-10 in the early 2nd quarter. We swap picks in CHE territory late in the quarter – the defenses don’t seem interested in playing fundamental football, rather just coming up with the big play, I guess.

Late second quarter, SCA is driving, and rookie CB White goes down with an injury. Oh, shit. We drive to the SCA 3 when we fumble, they tear off a long run before halftime, but it seems they run out of time to collect on it. So, a wash there.


In the second half, SCA drives to score a TD and get back within 8. We finish our first two possessions with missed FGs, and are far from putting these guys away in any event. Both teams are over 300 yards in total offense at this point, midway through the third quarter. Presumably, more fireworks to come.

After a SCA kick, we trade punts and get into the 4th quarter holding on to a 28-23 lead. Suddenly the defenses are playing well – we cannot run any more, and they bottle us up again to force a punt. We force them to punt as well, and the crazy momentum seems to have halted. A fumble by Sedor at midfield gives the Crossfire a great chance to push ahead, and they cash in a couple first downs. but we force a key 3rd and 11 from our 36 – HUGE play for the C-Dogs defense here. Quentin Gailey comes up with a monster pick, and gets us the ball back near midfield.

Rookie Jumbo Kinney has another good run (he has been effective today) and puts us into scoring position – a FG would give us an 8 point lead, a TD would make it a serious hurdle. We chew down the clock, and finish off the drive with a short TD pass to Kinney, and that ought to seal this one. The final thjreat from SCA results in another pick by Gailey, and we get the hard-earned win.


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Week 1, 2016

played in Chesapeake, PA

81 degrees, fair, 8 mph wind

South Carolina Crossfire	10	3	10	0	-	23
Chesapeake Chili Dogs	14	14	0	7	-	35

Scoring Summary

1Q: 07:09 SCA - Albert Clemons 38 field goal

1Q: 04:40 CHE - Harry Small 13 run (Cornell Rose extra point)

1Q: 02:25 SCA - Chris Sanders 23 pass from Dixon Zhao (Albert Clemons extra point)

1Q: 00:54 CHE - Kent Fields 16 pass from Brent Sedor (Cornell Rose extra point)

2Q: 13:42 CHE - George Ellis 2 pass from Brent Sedor (Cornell Rose extra point)

2Q: 06:27 CHE - Robert Cooper 16 pass from Brent Sedor (Cornell Rose extra point)

2Q: 01:28 SCA - Albert Clemons 28 field goal

3Q: 09:42 SCA - Bernie Tanner 9 pass from Dixon Zhao (Albert Clemons extra point)

3Q: 02:49 SCA - Albert Clemons 36 field goal

4Q: 02:13 CHE - Jumbo Kinney 1 pass from Brent Sedor (Cornell Rose extra point)

Team Statistics	SCA	CHE
Record	0-1	1-0
First Downs	21	20
- by Rushing	6	5
- by Passing	14	15
- by Penalty	1	0
Total Net Yards	425	404
- Offensive Plays	71	63
- Yards per Play	5.99	6.41
Net Rushing Yards	212	181
- Rushing Attempts	26	33
- Yards per Rush	8.15	5.48
Net Passing Yards	213	223
- Att./Comp./Intrcpt	42 - 21 - 4	28 - 17 - 2
- Gross Passing Yards	233	238
- Sacks/Yards Lost	3/20	2/15
- Yards per Pass Play	4.73	7.43
Fumbles/Lost	0/0	2/2
3rd Down Conversions	7/16	7/13
- Avg. YtG on 3rd Down	6.8	7.0
4th Down Conversions	0/0	0/0
Penalties/Yards	7/55	6/50
Punt Returns/Yards	1/0	2/11
Kick Returns/Yards	4/73	6/188
Interception Ret./Yards	2/30	4/19
2pt Conversions	0/0	0/0
Red Zone Visits	3	7
- Red Zone TDs/FGs	1/2	5/0
Avg. Drive Start	OWN 34	OWN 35
Time of Possession	31:26	28:34

Drive Charts

South Carolina Crossfire Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 15:00 7:56 OWN 20 15 59 Field Goal 1 4:34 1:33 OWN 32 3 1 Punt 1 2:25 0:16 OPP 23 1 23 Touchdown 1 0:49 0:27 OWN 20 2 -10 Interception 2 13:37 2:05 OWN 22 3 -2 Punt 2 10:00 0:08 OPP 16 1 0 Interception 2 6:19 1:05 OWN 27 3 1 Punt 2 4:15 2:54 OPP 48 10 37 Field Goal 2 0:33 0:33 OWN 3 1 84 Half 3 11:18 1:46 OWN 41 6 59 Touchdown 3 6:29 3:47 OWN 28 7 53 Field Goal 3 1:04 2:18 OWN 4 5 10 Punt 4 11:45 1:28 OWN 29 3 9 Punt 4 8:44 2:22 OPP 47 6 11 Interception 4 2:07 1:49 OWN 18 7 55 Interception

Chesapeake Chili Dogs Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 7:04 2:30 OWN 40 5 60 Touchdown 1 3:01 0:36 OWN 12 2 8 Interception 1 2:09 1:20 OWN 38 3 62 Touchdown 1 0:22 1:45 OPP 17 6 17 Touchdown 2 11:32 1:32 OWN 25 3 1 Interception 2 9:52 3:33 OWN 20 7 80 Touchdown 2 5:14 0:59 OWN 6 3 -2 Punt 2 1:21 0:48 OPP 42 3 39 Fumble 3 15:00 3:42 OWN 47 6 19 Missed FG 3 9:32 3:03 OWN 47 5 32 Missed FG 3 2:42 1:38 OWN 37 3 3 Punt 4 13:46 2:01 OWN 33 3 1 Punt 4 10:17 1:33 OWN 25 3 22 Fumble 4 6:22 4:15 OWN 41 9 59 Touchdown 4 0:18 0:18 OWN 20 2 -2 Game

Game MVP: Quentin Gailey, Chesapeake Chili Dogs

Anyway – it’s a solid win for us, one we needed at home in the division. We will have some adjustments to make, but overall we can be pleased with this one.

Looks like CB Emmanuel White is fine, but we will be without CB Herman Padgett for a few weeks.

Have to like the stat line for rookie RB Jumbo Kinney – 11 carries for 83 yards, plus the short game-sealing TD catch late.