Bucs almost sweep the undefeated teams!

What an amazing night of football we had on Saturday! It started out at 3pm when the Bucs (with a struggling offense but solid D)faced off against the Steelers (solid offense and solid defense). It started fast for the Bucs as Connor took the opening handoff and went straight up the middle and ran the whole length of the field for a touchdown. The defense showed it was up to the test as I don't believe they even gave up a single first down the whole game. The second half was a coming out party for the offense as they scored their first long bomb touchdown of the season from the mis-judged arm of Jace. I've never seen someone so small throw the ball so far, it truly is a sight to behold. I will try and take some video of it sometime. It honestly looks like the ball is shooting out of the ground. (Sorry Jace, but it's true.)Then shortly after Jace went back to pass and dodged the blitz and ran the length of the field for the third TD of the day. Throw in 2 two point conversion passes and the final score was 22-0 BUCS!!!!! After a seemingly short 3 hour break, the Bucs Squared off against the league leading Giants. A team whose players really match the name of the team. I think their average player was at least a half a foot taller than our tallest player. Also important to note is that they only had, in 6 previous games given up 50 points.(that's less than 9 points a game on average) The Giants high octane offense took the field and expected to light up the night with fireworks for sure, but got sucker punched in the mouth. On the second play of the game Jace pic'd the quarterback's pass and ran it to within 5 yards of the touchdown. Two plays later Derek Ness caught his first touchdown pass of the year to give the Bucs the early and surprising lead, 6-0. After a great defensive hold, we got the ball back and a deep out and up to Connor Mills and we were up 12-0. You could sense the concern on the opposite side of the field. Unfortunately our defense fell down a bit before half and we allowed 2 late touchdowns and trailed 13-12 at half. We came out in the 2nd half and threw a long bomb to Cody Coates,(one of the most beautiful catches I have ever seen, pro or otherwise) who ran it in for the go ahead score to go up 19-13. After a few lucky plays by the Giants they were able to take the lead back and were up 26-19 with 30 seconds left in the game. We got the ball and the first play was a deep pass to Cody Coates and he almost broke it but was ruled out of bounds at midfield. We had one last play and were unable to convert for the touchdown but almost pulled off the greatest double upset ever in the history of flag football. I am so proud of the team and all the kids. I predict a big trophy in the near future. GO BUCS!!!!!