Our first scheduled home game, but second actual, was against Marple Newtown, who we played (and beat) in last year's abbreviated-season Central League Championship game.
Without our star running back, we were still able to beat the Tigers handily 42-7 in a somewhat dull game. We scored a little over a minute into the game on our first possession, and then allowed penalties and dumb plays to let Marple to take up most of the rest of the first quarter on a very long drive. We scored a couple more times, they scored once, and it was 19-7 at the half (extra points apparently aren't our strength this year...).
In the second half our defense clamped down, our offense was solid but not spectacular, playing mostly backups, and we got the win. I haven't seen the stats posted online yet, but our QB had another ~80 yard TD pass which was the biggest play of the game, and coming early in the second half, pretty much put the game away.
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| Drum Majors getting some last minute instruction (Grace at right) |
This was the first game this year that our band wore their full uniforms and I'd be lying if I didn't admit that it gave me a great deal of pride to see Grace in the Drum Majors' dress whites. Proud Papa.
From a football perspective, we are 3-0 overall and 2-0 in the Central League, with a combined score of 138-28. From a band parent's perspective, with 6 more TDs and 1 more safety, we have now played "Saints" a total of 22 times in 3 games (20 TDs and 2 safeties). Not bad by either measure...
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