Mayhem Run Wild On Silverbacks
May 3, 2010 - Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL)
Dayton Silverbacks News Release
The Miami Valley Silverbacks closed the first half of their 2010 season with a pair of promising efforts, first by ending a nearly two-year losing streak in Chicago and following that up by giving the undefeated Cincinnati Commandos their closest contest of the season to date.
Saturday night in Marion, the hope produced by those two games quickly faded as the Silverbacks surrendered a CIFL-record 184 rushing yards in a 64-39 loss to the Mayhem at Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Victor Tolbert, who had eight carries for 19 yards on the season coming into the game, led Marion with the first 100-yard rushing game in the CIFL this season, finishing with 11 carries for 109 yards and four touchdowns, adding three catches for 17 yards and two touchdowns.
"We weren't prepared for him to be running the ball," said Silverbacks head coach Brian Wells.
Tolbert accounted for all four Marion touchdowns in the first half, two rushing and two receiving, but the Silverbacks still kept themselves in the game when Derrick Moss returned a kick 35 yards for a touchdown in the final minute of the first half. Austin Goss followed with the Silverbacks first successful PAT kick this season to get Miami Valley to within 27-21 at halftime.
"We were down six at halftime" Wells said. "We came out in the second half, had a couple of turnovers, didn't capitalize on the field position offensively and defensively we couldn't stop anything."
Quarterback Josh Davis ran in a touchdown for Marion on the opening possession of the second half, and, after Ahmona Maxwell intercepted Kyenes Mincy at goal line, John Sims added a field goal to widen Marion's lead to 37-21 by the end of the third quarter.
The Silverbacks scored three times in the final quarter, on passes from Mincy to Daniel Stover and Aric Evans and a 12-yard run by Mincy, but could never stop the Mayhem to pull any closer.
The Mayhem's six second-half possessions resulted in five touchdowns and one field goal. The only time Marion, which averaged 29.5 points per game in its first four games, failed to score in the game was when it was had the ball at the Miami Valley 10-yard line as the first half ended.
Marion quarterback Josh Davis, the CIFL's leading rusher, aided Tolbert with six carries for 47 yards and a score, also completing 10 of 13 passes for 110 yards and two scores.
"When we would get pressure on him, he'd either evade it or take off," Wells said, "or, because we were in a zone, someone would sit down and he'd hit them."
Mincy was 7-of-18 passing for Miami Valley with 99 passing yards with four touchdowns and two interceptions. Mincy was also the Silverbacks leading rusher with five carries for 43 yards and a score.
Daniel Stover, ranked second in the league in receiving yards, had two catches for 30 yards and a touchdown.
Defensive back Chris Stanford led the defense with five tackles and a pass breakup, with Derrick Crawford and Cam'ron Wrencher each recording a sack.
The loss drops Miami Valley to 1-5, two-and-a-half games behind Marion (3-2) for third place and a game-and-a-half against next Sunday's opponent, Fort Wayne (2-3) for the CIFL's final playoff spot.
"It's a must win. If we lose this one, I'd say we're out of the playoffs," Wells said. "It's do or die for us. We have to win that game."
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