Penalties did us in.

Today, against the Danube Dragons we blew a 13 point lead and lost by 2 in the closing minutes.

We jumped out to a 13-0 start on the first two drives of the game, we knew it'd be a battle this week; the Dragons are traditionally a very strong running team. They fought hard for yards and we did our best to shut them down.

Then they completed two long pass plays, the only two real positive plays of the first half for the Dragons and we found ourselves down 13-15 at the half.

The second half started off well for both our offense and defense but a blocked punt for a touchdown changed the game outright and we had to play catchup for the rest of the night.

During the final two quarters the White hat lost control over the game. He made some bad calls mixed with some of our own stupid mistakes that really did us in. 3 & 16 and we get a sack, but a 15 yard unsportsmanlike keeps them alive and brings them close enough to kick a field goal after we stop them and again we fell behind.

The offense drove the field to retake the lead again with about 4 minutes to go, we just missed the two point conversion as Christian Steffani could not get his toes down in bounds with control of the ball.

...Then all hell broke loose (fitting; considering we are the Blue Devils), there was a backward pass that we recovered (I call it backward because BOTH line judges called it so, but the Whitehat overruled them and gave the Dragons a third down), then on the next play they tried another swing pass that was incomplete and we were called for a late hit 15 yard penalty (funny, being that the hit was before any whistle was blown). Charles Drake, our former NFL Corner, lost his cool because this was the second untimely and questionable 15 yard penalty and was ejected from the game for swearing. That put them close enough to try a long field goal that literally hit the post on its way in.

With two minutes remaining the Offense was not able to get the ball down the field to win it (we had lost two recievers and an offensive lineman due to ejection during the chaos of the fourth quarter). End result, we lose by two.

Sad way to end a game. More on the game later.