Monday, 15 June 2015

Tigers earn their stripes


Report by William Clark (Tigers)
 
Glasgow Tigers 60   V  Northumberland Lightning 16

 

Sunday 14th June 2015

The Tigers welcomed Northumberland to Lochinch and set to work quickly , when Linebacker Robert Poore recovered the ball for the Tigers and then Quarterback Darnell Starks hit Anthony Rice for the opening score. Mo Adams added the conversion run and an 8- 0 lead.
 

The Tigers increased that lead when Linebacker JJ Crawford added a safety mid way through the first quarter. Then the Lightning came back into the game and pinned Glasgow down on their own one yard line , and a bad snap hit the posts and Ben Harris recovered for the Northumberland touchdown score. The Tigers defence stopped the conversion.

The Tigers offense then stepped up a gear and Starks found Scott Vallance with a touchdown pass. A huge 60 yard punt return from Glasgows Robb Gould gave them a short field and this time Starks passed to Liam Baird for another score while Starks ran in the conversion.
 

As the quarter was just about to end another Starks pass found Robb Gould waiting in the end zone , while Mo Adams ran in the conversion.
 

The Tigers had a 32 – 6 halftime lead and increased that with the first play of the second half when David McLintock had an 86 yard kick off return for a touchdown .


To their credit the Lightning never gave up and had a safety when Ben Harris harrassed the Tigers QB in the endzone. A short Mo Adams run increased the Tigers lead to 44 - 8 as the third quarter ended.
 

The final quarter saw Starks connect again with Scott Vallance for another Tigers touchdown pass , while Liam Baird ran in the conversion.

Northumberland fought back and  Ross Conley scored on a long 58yard run , while Reece Salkeld added the Lightning conversion. A big Mo Adams run set up the Tigers final score of the day when Fearghus Maher bulldozed his way in for a 25 yard touchdown run. Tigers runningback Andy Reid added the conversion run to make it 60 – 16 for the Tigers.
 

 
The Tigers improve to 3 - 4 for the season and have a trip to Dundee next in two weeks time.    

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