Rush Defeat SaberCats 55-39
April 10, 2005 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I)
San Jose SaberCats News Release
ROSEMONT, Ill. (April 10, 2005) - Raymond Philyaw threw six touchdown passes leading the Chicago Rush (6-4) to a 55-39 win over the San Jose SaberCats (6-4) in an Arena Football League game on Sunday.
The loss snapped San Jose's five-game winning streak.
Philyaw completed his first 17 attempts and finished the game 27-of-35 for 264 yards. His 8-yard scoring pass to Henry Douglas with 13 seconds left in the first half gave the Rush a 27-26 lead and Chicago would never trail after that.
San Jose grabbed an early lead when Mark Grieb connected with Rashied Davis on a 15-yard touchdown pass just under three minutes into the game. Kicker Dan Frantz missed the first of three PATs on the day leaving the SaberCats up 6-0.
Grieb connected two more times with Davis and once with Rodney Wright as the SaberCats scored on their first four possessions. They scored just two times in the second half and were held to their second lowest point total of the season.
Grieb threw six touchdown passes in the game leaving one shy of 400 for his career and completed 22-of-35 for 368 yards. James Roe caught six passes for 75 yards before leaving the game midway through the second quarter with a hamstring injury.
San Jose scored with 34 seconds left in the game on 24-yard Grieb to Wright play and had a chance to make it a one possession game, but Frantz missed the PAT and Chicago recovered the ensuing on-side kick.
Philyaw then tossed a 10-yard middle screen to lineman John Moyer to close out the scoring.
Wright was San Jose's leading receiver with seven catches for a game-high 112 yards and two scores. Jeremy McDaniel led the Rush with eight receptions for 106 yards and three touchdowns.
The win was the first for the Rush over San Jose and also gave head coach Mike Hohensee his first career victory over the SaberCats in his ninth try.
NOTES: C Dan Loney was inactive with a staph infection in his elbow missing his first game of the year and first since the 2003 season...Barry Wagner and Sebastian Barrie were the inactives...WR/LB Shalon Baker moved past Jerry Reese into fifth place on the club's all-time receiving yards list and reached 3,500 yard mark for his career...OL/DL Joe Jacobs had career sack No. 11.5 as a SaberCats moving him into a tie with Mike Ulufale for 2nd on the team's career chart... Mark Grieb completed 8 of his first 9 attempts and Raymond Philyaw completed his first 17 as the two QBs combined to complete 25 of their first 26 attempts.
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