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Week 15: Portland (9-4) at Chesapeake (11-2)

Tough game, but we are at home. I am risking re-injury to CB Emmanuel White to get him back out there, and have (perhaps unwisely) shuffled up the lineup a shade as well. But we will once again let Alex Gerhardt have the whole playbook, and we won’t be scaling back to try not to lose.

Portland ran through a tough spell without their starting QB, but he is back and they are still in line for a playoff spot themselves – so they need this game too.


We look fabulous on our opening drive, until sputtering and halting at their 1 yard line and settling for a chipshot FG. Our offense chugs through the first half looking good, but they also split through our defense pretty easily, and it’s only a 17-13 lead for us at the break.

After some punt-trading, in the late third quarter, a TD gives us an 11-point cushion. We put it away as both offenses eventually get run under by the “familiars” and we have the lead at that point – not a terribly impressive win, but we had a pretty good second half to get out ahead, at least.

Week 15, 2017 played in Chesapeake, PA 47 degrees, fair, calm

Portland Pisces	3	10	0	0	-	13
Chesapeake Chili Dogs	3	14	7	3	-	27

Scoring Summary

1Q: 07:27 CHE - Cornell Rose 19 field goal

1Q: 02:11 POR - Geoff Lockhart 28 field goal

2Q: 15:00 CHE - Quinn Vinatieri 25 run (Cornell Rose extra point)

2Q: 10:19 POR - Thomas Henson 2 run (Geoff Lockhart extra point)

2Q: 06:30 CHE - Burt Pearson 16 pass from Alex Gerhardt (Cornell Rose extra point)

2Q: 00:14 POR - Geoff Lockhart 21 field goal

3Q: 02:14 CHE - George Ellis 9 pass from Alex Gerhardt (Cornell Rose extra point)

4Q: 10:07 CHE - Cornell Rose 37 field goal

Team Statistics	POR	CHE
Record	9-5	12-2
First Downs	21	22
- by Rushing	5	7
- by Passing	14	12
- by Penalty	2	3
Total Net Yards	333	361
- Offensive Plays	72	58
- Yards per Play	4.63	6.22
Net Rushing Yards	83	167
- Rushing Attempts	21	28
- Yards per Rush	3.95	5.96
Net Passing Yards	250	194
- Att./Comp./Intrcpt	50 - 25 - 1	28 - 18 - 0
- Gross Passing Yards	254	204
- Sacks/Yards Lost	1/4	2/10
- Yards per Pass Play	4.90	6.47
Fumbles/Lost	0/0	1/0
3rd Down Conversions	4/16	4/12
- Avg. YtG on 3rd Down	8.6	6.8
4th Down Conversions	1/4	0/0
Penalties/Yards	3/20	5/45
Punt Returns/Yards	1/3	2/19
Kick Returns/Yards	5/96	4/94
Interception Ret./Yards	0/0	1/28
2pt Conversions	0/0	0/0
Red Zone Visits	3	5
- Red Zone TDs/FGs	1/2	2/2
Avg. Drive Start	OWN 27	OWN 36
Time of Possession	29:31	30:29

Drive Charts

Portland Pisces Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 15:00 1:52 OWN 39 3 -4 Punt 1 7:22 5:17 OWN 20 9 69 Field Goal 2 14:48 4:36 OWN 20 11 80 Touchdown 2 6:23 6:15 OWN 13 17 83 Field Goal 3 13:47 1:58 OWN 35 3 6 Punt 3 9:58 0:35 OWN 29 3 5 Punt 3 8:25 2:54 OWN 16 6 7 Punt 3 2:04 2:44 OWN 19 6 49 Downs 4 10:02 2:30 OWN 31 5 35 Punt 4 4:16 0:39 OWN 36 4 0 Interception 4 2:22 0:47 OWN 32 4 9 Downs 4 0:22 0:22 OWN 41 2 14 Game

Chesapeake Chili Dogs Quar Began Poss From Plays Yards Result 1 13:08 5:46 OWN 25 9 73 Field Goal 1 2:05 2:17 OWN 34 4 66 Touchdown 2 10:12 3:49 OWN 28 8 72 Touchdown 3 15:00 1:13 OWN 16 3 2 Punt 3 11:49 1:51 OWN 20 4 23 Punt 3 9:23 0:58 OWN 34 3 4 Punt 3 5:31 3:27 OPP 47 7 47 Touchdown 4 14:20 4:18 OWN 32 9 48 Field Goal 4 7:32 3:16 OWN 20 5 16 Punt 4 3:37 1:15 OPP 16 3 -2 Missed FG 4 1:35 1:13 OPP 41 3 7 Missed FG

Game MVP: Alex Gerhardt, Chesapeake Chili Dogs

Snappy box score

So, we stay a game ahead of South Carolina in the division, which is good. Next week we travel to play French, who have had a resurgence this year with a good young QB and the two all-too-familiar WRs who used to tear us up when playing for Dodge City. And we finish with South Carolina, regrettably – so they definitely get their chance to even things up and take the division, almost no matter what happens in week 16.