Carrickfergus Knights 18-7 DCU Saints
March 31st, 2008 | | Game Reports
(Photo by Jonathan Beattie)
The opening game of the season for the Knights and DCU was set up to be an exciting game. Both teams had large squads and the rain hadn’t appeared as promised.
Knights kicked off and when DCU stuttered on their opening drive the Knights were able to mix pass and run plays to score their first TD on a very well setup 5 yd TD run for #34 Callum Morrow who picked his run lanes extremely well for a rookie. The PAT was marginally wide.
DCU again struggled on offense and when punted against the wind found themselves defending in their own half. On the ensuing drive Knights passing game was very successful as the strode down to the DCU endzone. At the change of quarter QB Adam Devenney connected with #21 Ian McIlroy for a 3yd pass. Knights narrowly missed PAT.
The game became a defensive battle where DCU made some great stands against the excellent running game of #34 Callum Morrow. Knights secondary was extremely successful against DCU QB #12 Cormac Eklof and picked him off 5 times during the game. LB Mark Harris had a great game for the knights as did # 88 Carl Rushe and # 65 Eoin Fox for DCU.
The Knights lost QB Adam Devenney to injury and lost a little sharpness to their offense. DCU Dline including DE #30 Harmen Zweers then made some great plays to twart any further drives by Carrickfergus blocking a punt and taking possession at one stage. The knights running game aided by a strong Oline continued to make yards and only for a stubborn DCU defense would have put more scores on the board.
(Photo by Jonathan Beattie)
In the fourth quarter Knights RB Morrow put together some great running and DCU struggled to stop the team in yellow and black charging up for the close out score. The PAT was unsuccessful.
On the resulting kickoff Paddy Colman ran the ball back for a TD and kicker Shane Maguire converted the PAT. DCU Offense finally began to click late in the fourth quarter but by this time it was too little too late before the Knights finally ended the game by running out the clock by kneeling.
On the day, the Knights organization and experience was their overall strength over a revamped DCU team that included many rookies.
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