Slow Start Burns Fever
March 28, 2009 - arenafootball2 (af2)
Tri-Cities Fever News Release
Kennewick, WA- Tri-Cities (0-2) dropped their 2009 Home Opener to the Boise Burn (1-0) by the final score of 15-48.
Through the first quarter, the Burn took a comfortable lead of 9-0 with a 3-yard touchdown catch by WR Flowers and a 30-yard field goal by K Aguilar.
The Fever looked to climb back into the game with back to back scores; 20-yard field goal by K Braunstein (3-4 FG)and an 8-yard touchdown catch by WR McElrath (6 rec. for 46-yards; 1 TD) from QB Ayoob (19-43 for 164-yards; 1 TD) bringing the score to 9-16. The Burn quickly put a stop to that with a pair of interceptions and 20 unanswered points before half.
With 1.3 seconds left on the clock before half, Braunstein kicked a Fever Record 45-yard field goal.
The second half was a much lower scoring affair with one touchdown by Boise each quarter and one more field goal added by Braunstein to bring his total to three field goals.
On a high note, not only did Braunstein break the record for longest Fever field goal, he also left his mark with being the first kicker to kick multiple field goals in a game and set the Fever single season and Fever career marks with four in only two games.
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