SaberCats fall to Rampage, 66-52
February 19, 2006 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I)
San Jose SaberCats News Release
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Feb. 19, 2006) - Rampage quarterback Chad Salisbury threw five touchdown passes and ran for another and the Grand Rapids Rampage posted their first ever win over the San Jose SaberCats with a 66-52 win in an Arena Football League game on Sunday.
Salisbury completed 17 of 29 attempts for 224 yards in the game and had a 1-yard scoring run midway through the fourth quarter to give Grand Rapids a 50-39 lead.
San Jose's Mark Grieb threw for 319 yards and five touchdowns completing 25 of 38 attempts. Three of Grieb's scoring passes were to Calvin Schexnayder, including a 10-yard strike with 19 seconds left in the first half to give the SaberCats a 26-22 lead.
However, on the ensuing kickoff, Timon Marshall went 58-yards for a score giving the lead back to the Rampage at the break.
Phil Glover scored on a 1-yard run on the SaberCats' opening second half possession to put San Jose back on top 32-29, but Marshall's 40-yard scoring catch and Salisbury's 1-yard plunge spanning the final two quarters put Grand Rapids on top for good.
San Jose rookie Marquis Floyd hauled in his first career touchdown pass, a 44-yard dart from Grieb to close the gap to 50-46, but Marshall scored again on a 29-yard catch and on kickoff, former SaberCat Kenny Solomon sealed the win.
Peter Martinez bounced his kickoff off the bottom iron of the rebound nets, the ball ricocheted to the 4-yard line where Solomon scooped it up and walked into the endzone for the third net recovery score in three weeks for the Rampage.
Floyd, who was named Ironman of the Game, scored his first career touchdown when he intercepted a Salisbury pass one yard deep in his own endzone and went the distance to give the SaberCats a 6-0 lead just three minutes into the game.
NOTES: The SaberCats won the opening coin toss for the fourth straight game...Rookie Marquis Floyd returned an interception 51-yards for a TD, the second longest return in team history...Marshall's kickoff return was the longest play in Grand Rapids history...San Jose has allowed two net recovery scores in four games this year...WR/LB James Roe returned to the lineup and had 8 catches for 113 yards but dropped a pass that would have been a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
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