Yard Dawgz Win on the Road, 51-33
Published on June 16, 2008 under arenafootball2 (af2)
Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz News Release
BOISE, ID - A sloppy first quarter in which the Burn totaled 8 yards of offense was the beginning of a another bad night at Qwest Arena for Boise as they dropped their fourth straight and fell to under 500 for the first time since week 2 with their 51-33 loss to the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgz (3-8).
Neither offense was sharp early on, but a special teams blunder in which the Yard Dawgz recovered a missed field goal on the Burn10 yard line, turned the momentum over to Oklahoma City. Dawgz QB Evan Gray took advantage of the Burn miscue and hit Freddie Rollins on a screen 16 yard pass for the games first TD and only points in the first 15 minutes of play.
Both teams picked it up in the second. Following a Yard Dawgz Field Goal by Ben Scott, Boise's Casey Allen recorded his 3rd rushing TD of the season from 3 yards out getting Boise on the board at 10-7. Rollins' second TD of the game, this time on a 1 yard run, put the Yard Dawgz up 17-7. Boise would score 14 unanswered for their first lead of the game. Royal Gill found Eric Allen in the end zone for a 6 yard score. Following a Demond Williams interception, Gill went back to the air connecting with Shadrach Okoebor on an 8 yard TD and the 21-17 lead. With 6 seconds left in the half, Gray found Schutt Offensive Player of the Game, WR Al Hunt, in the end zone giving the Yard Dawgz the lead at half 24-21.
Oklahoma City outscored Boise 21-0 in the 3rd. Hunt picked up where he left off in the second quarter catching a pair of Gray passes (7-24) for the 17 point lead 38-21. Gray capped off the 3rd quarter scoring on a 5 yard TD run and the 44-21 lead heading into the 4th quarter
Eric Allen scored a pair of 4th quarter TD's for Boise, making it 5 TD's in the past 2 games for the rookie out of Montana, but it was too little too late as Oklahoma City played role of spoiler knocking off the Burn (5-6) 51-33.
The Dawgz host the Bossier City Battlewings on Saturday, June 21st at 7:05 p.m. on Compassionate Care Hospice Field at Ford Center. All Yard Dawgz home games are broadcast live on KSBI-TV/DT.
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