FYF COLTS

THE GALLERY OF CHAMPIONS - 2009 FYF COLTS

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The Colts finished their season undefeated (9-0) with an exciting win in the Instructional League Championship Game defeating the FYF Falcons 8-7 in triple overtime.

GO COLTS!

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PRE-GAME WARM UP

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PRE-GAME CEREMONIES

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FIRST HALF

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The Colts scored three times in the first quarter to take an early 3-0 lead, but the Falcons roared back with four touchdowns of thier own to take a 4-3 lead into the half.

HALFTIME - FALCONS 4, COLTS 3

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The Colts had never trailed at intermission, so the coach's and the players had a new challenge to overcome.

The cheerleaders clearly brought their A-game.

SECOND HALF - COLTS 5, FALCONS 5

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The Colts defense stiffened and held the prolific Falcon offense to one touchdown in the third quarter.

The Colts opened the third quarter needing two touchdowns to tie and three to win. When DaRonn J scored on the first play of the quarter things were looking up.

But, the Falcons defense dug in and held the Colts to one more Clay G quarterback sneak TD late in the quarter to send the game to overtime.

FIRST OVERTIME - COLTS 6, FALCONS 6

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The Falcons got the ball first and scored on a touchdown run by QB Jackson E. The play was set up by a pass completion from Jackson E to Nathaniel W.

The Colts were do or die on fourth down when DaRonn J came through again with the game tieing touchdown run forcing the second overtime.

SECOND OVERTIME - COLTS 7, FALCONS 7

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The Colts Mr. Reliable Justin L scored on a nifty run to give the Colts a 7-6 lead.

The Falcons socred to tie, but the play was called back on a holding penalty. Facing fourth and long, Falcons completed another pass to Nathaniel W for a touchdown that sent the game to the third overtime.

THIRD OVERTIME - COLTS 8, FALCONS 7

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The Falcons had the ball first and lost yards on first down thanks to another blow-up play by Garrett P. The Falcons gained a few of those yards back on second down, and then chose to try passes on third and fourth down.

On third down the Falcons' QB just missed his open receiver, but on fourth down DaRonn J was not fooled and he was there to defend the slightly underthrown ball.

The Colts had the ball with a final chance to win and DaRonn J came through with another TD run.

Bedlam ensued.

POST GAME

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In the end, the Colts ran 45 plays and gained 322 yards, scoring 8 touchdowns – not bad on a 40 yard field.

For the season, the Colts ran 287 plays and gained 3,632 yards. They averaged 403.5 yards per game and 12.6 yards per play. They scored 81 touchdowns averaging 9 TDs per game.

Their stingy defense only allowed 16 touchdowns or 1.7 per game. The Falcons scored 9 of those 16 touchdowns – two in the first game, a 4-2 Colts win, and 7 more in the championship tilt.

DaRonn J was the Colts' leading rusher with 1,148 total yards, averaging over 127 yards per game. Justin L turned in 1,043 yards, averaging 115 yards a game.

Lawson was second in solo tackles with 28, following teammate Wyatt M who stacked up 45 solos, or five per game

POST GAME TROPHY CEREMONY

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COLTS v. FALCONS TEASER

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Here are a few shots that sum up the triple overtime victory...The first shows the two offensive stars of the game for each team -- Jackson E for the Falcons and DaRonn J for the Colts. This is one of the very few pictures where Jackson is on the ground. In most, he's running for a touchdown.

The second shot is DaRonn's fourth down overtime touchdown to keep the Colts alive -- note the crowd reaction.

More (much more) later.

COLTS WIN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN TRIPLE OVERTIME

2009-11-01T05:39:00.001-08:00

In what had to be the best game of the weekend starting with high school games on Friday night and ending with the NFL, the FYF Colts and the FYF Falcons put on an amazing show yesterday at Liberty High School. It took three OTs to sort it out and it featured great plays by both teams.

When it was over the kids were no worse for the wear, but the parents and coaches (who are all parents of players as well) were exhilarated and exhausted.

More (actually, much more) later.

Where's the defibrillator?

PLAYOFF GAME: COLTS 10, RAVENS 0

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The FYF Colts defeated the Ravens to advance to the Instructional League Championship game. The Colts offense was good, but their defense was even better.

Garrett P did a great job of filling in at center for Casey B who was down for the count with the flu.

Everybody else played great too.

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FIRST HALF

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HALFTIME

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SECOND HALF

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POST GAME

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COLTS 11, EAGLES 0

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COLTS 6, SEAHAWKS 2: FIRST HALF

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This photo sums up the conditions for taking photos during the Seahawks game: dark and slightly out-of-focus. The first causes the second.

(As usual, click on an individual photo for a larger view.)

SEAHAWKS: SECOND HALF

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PICTURE OF THE DAY

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SEPT. 19: COLTS 7, REDSKINS 2

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Click on image for a better view. (Yes, the little white dot is the coin.)

REDSKINS: FIRST HALF

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REDSKINS: HALFTIME

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