Wildcatters lose in a Shootout
April 18, 2010 - Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL)
Lafayette Wildcatters News Release
The Lafayette Wildcatters (0-2) lost in a shootout to the Albany Panthers (2-0) on Saturday night, April 17, 2010, by the score of 70-64.
The game was full of big plays, plenty of back and forth action, and had six lead changes. The Wildcatters opened the scoring with a Bo Bartik touchdown pass to Tony Burks the extra point was good and the Wildcatters lead 7-0. Sean Comisky added a point for the Wildcatters on the kickoff with a rouge to make the score 8-0. Albany would score the next eighteen points and then Andre Kelly sparked the Wildcatters with a kick off return for a touchdown.
The Panthers would score again to increase their lead to 26-15 and were looking for more points when Clarence Pendleton intercepted a Cecil Lester pass and returned it for a touchdown to pull the Wildcatters to 22-26. Late in the second quarter the Wildcatters took a 36-32 lead only to see the Panthers score right before the half to take a 40-36 advantage into the halftime break.
Bo Bartik who was only 7 of 17 for 100 yards in the first half, came out hot in the second half completing his first nine passes, three of them for touchdowns, helping the Wildcatters to a 55-40 lead. A 45-yard touchdown pass from Cecil Lester to John Harris with 2:52 left in the game pulled the Panthers to within 64-62. Then a defensive stand by the Panthers gave them the ball at the Wildcatters one yard line and Cecil Lester wasted little time putting the Panthers ahead with a one yard touchdown run. The two point conversion was good and the Panthers lead 70-64 with 45 seconds to go.
The Wildcatters would drive to the Panthers 15 yard line at the end of the game but three passes into the end zone were incomplete and the Panthers earned their second win of the season. Cecil Lester finished the night 21 of 41 for 412 yards and eight touchdowns.
Wildcatter Coach Skip Foster commented after the game, "They're the top team in this league. They are real talented and well coached. Albany is a great football team. We're going to have to work hard to get where they are. We had some positives that we can build on, but the bottom line is we lost the game."
The Wildcatters will be back in action next Saturday at the Columbus Lions (2-1) at 6:30 cdt, before coming home for their home opener on May 1st at the Cajundome versus the Louisiana Swashbucklers.
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