Destroyers v Solent

Hell Week part three saw the Destroyers travel to Solent for a game against the Redhawks who had already been denied into the playoffs.

Solent started the game on offense but on their first possession they fumbled the ball away which Portsmouth recovered. The Destroyers had their offense on the field and through their running plays, made it hastily downfield. #22 Chris Percival ran down the field, taking a Solent player out of the game as he did so.

QB #3 Ben Clift then missed the snap and was forced to run the ball and then handed it off to Ches who got through Solent’s defence and into the endzone for the first points of the game. Destroyers kicker #9 Glenn Burgess then added a one point conversion and the score was 7-0.

Unfortunately after his run, Clift was the victim of a late tackle as he went out of bounds and injured his elbow, he chose to leave the game to rest it for playoffs. When Solent’s offense were back on, they managed to get down to the 50yd line before #44 Matt Doherty added another interception to his Hell Week stats.

The game had so many interceptions and fumbles; it was hard to keep track of who was supposed to be on the field. Unable to get through Portsmouth’s defence, Solent were forced to punt the ball away on many occasions.

Portsmouth’s offensive line were working hard to keep a path clear for the Destroyers to run, but Portsmouth were riddled with penalties which meant that their efforts and first downs were wasted as they were also unable to get into the endzone and add to the scoreboard.

After half-time and a brief time to warm up, Portsmouth’s offense failed to convert on their downs  but the defence were proving themselves, sacking the QB and once again disallowing Solent to get through and forcing them to punt. More penalties were thrown on both teams, the biggest being a penalty on Portsmouth for ‘taunting’ which cost them 32 yards.

Portsmouth’s running  game was strong once more, racking up a total of 312 yards during the game, 104 of those coming from #8 Lewis Popely. But they could not make anything of these yards and the game ended with just the one score from Portsmouth.

However, although the score wasn’t large, it was still a win for Portsmouth as their defence had shut-out another team and they had won their third game of ‘Hell Week’ and guaranteed themselves a spot in the playoffs.

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