Xpress Capture Sharks

The Xpress and Sharks played for the 2nd time in 2 weeks, both teams had something to prove, the Xpress wanted to prove that the team did not need a late game F.G. to beat the Sharks, and the Sharks wanted to prove that the Xpress late game heroics was a fluke. The Xpress made some position changes, starting back up Q.B. James Chism, taking T.E. K. Matlock and moving him to W.R. and starting Guy Smith at R.B. The mind set was to try and just start the offense early. Chism showed his game inexperience fumbling 2 snaps losing one of them, and showing more of his talent to run rather then displaying his arm. Guy Smith and Ron Hallum were effective running the ball but the offensive consistently made mistakes with penalty's. The game was tied 0-0 with the Xpress manageing to rack up more offensive yards then the Sharks. At the start of the 4Th quarter and the score still tied 0-0 the Xpress inserted Kevin Nelson back in at Q.B. and he took the Xpress down field on a 5 play 75 yard drive while completing 3-4 passes the last completion to Michael Cotton for the only Xpress T.D. with a Cadenas kick the Xpress were leading 7-0. On the in suing kickoff the Sharks got a excellent return that could have been a T.D. but kicker Cadenas made a game tackling T.D. save at the Xpress 45 yard line. The Sharks pounded the ball down to the 3 yard line and 1 play later the score was now 7-6, Coach Hambrick head coach of the Sharks decided to go for the win and opted to go for 2 and the Xpress defense stepped up and made the stop. The Sharks kicked-off to the Xpress and the Xpress took over at their own 42 yard line, the Xpress managed to have little success running the football late in the game and on 4 and 3 at the Sharks 36 yard line the Xpress were stopped 2 yards short of the first down marker. The Sharks took over at their own 35 yard line with 1:23 seconds left to go in the game, but on the second play of the series CB. Chris Hicks picked up a fumble returned 13 yards to the Sharks 22 yard line, and that sealed the game for the Xpress, and gave the Xpress the tie breaker over the Sharks.