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Team Catalyst remains undefeated

The kids of indoor soccer took a break last week, making adult co-ed flag football the sport to watch at The Center. Three teams went into the week’s action undefeated; only one came out on top.

Team TBT suffered its first loss, falling to Rays Rambling 30-13. Rambling’s Ryan Moss threw for four touchdowns to Karri Stephens and James Roadman. On the other side of the field, Brandon Kull hit Matt Briley and Melissa Acevedo for scoring plays.

Cortez Deep Sea Fishing could not find its groove until late in the game against Sandbar. Looking for its first win, Sandbar scored early and narrowly managed to take the victory 20-13.

The speed of the Sandbar rusher put the pressure on Cortez’s QB Tuna McCracken. McCracken led his team down the field a couple of times, with the Sandbar defense denying them access to the endzone.

On the Sandbar offense, Anthony Mannino threw for two TDs and caught one for six points with Matt Manger at the QB for the play. Manger scored a touchdown of his own to help with his team’s victory.

Being forced to improvise the offense, Cortez Deep Sea Fishing showed their opponent why they cannot be underestimated. Fighting the clock, Cortez’s offense and defense fought hard in the second half of the game taking it down to the final seconds.

Despite the two scoring passes by McCracken to Blake Balais and Tyler Brewer, the missed flag pulls by the Cortez defense and inability to connect at critical moments led to the team’s first defeat.

Beach Bums came into week three looking for their first win, but We The Best Lending found their second win instead with a 30-0 pasting of the Bums.

Quarterback Chase Richardson threw for three touchdowns to Jonathan Soultatos and Dominick Otteni for WTBL. Soultatos added six more points with an interception that he took to the end zone.

Winning for the third week in a row, Jon Moss and the Catalyst crew kept the TMT team scoreless in last week’s game with a 20-0 victory. Throwing to Evelyn Long, Brent Moss and Jesse Skipper, Moss secured his team’s place at the top of the flag football rankings just short of mid-season.

Thursday night Catalyst matches up against Team We The Best Lending, who goes into week four with the same 2-1 record as TBT, Rays Ramblings and Cortez Deep Sea Fishing. TMT and Beach Bums are still in search of their first win.

Sun Scoreboard

Thursday, August 5

Adult Co-Ed Flag Football

TMT (0-3) 0

Catalyst (3-0) 20

 

Rays Ramblings (2-1) 30

TBT (2-1) 13

 

Sandbar (1-2) 20

Cortez Deep Sea Fishing (2-1) 13

 

Beach Bums (0-3) 0

We The Best Lending (2-1) 30

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