Speechless.
Missed XP. Hard to tell if it was shanked or blocked - I say blocked.
We had this game in our hands. We were up by 2 TDs - twice! - in the 4th quarter. But our weary defensive front seven gave up 3 TDs and the game was tied. Delaware kicked it into another gear I didn't think they had. I think a full-strength Matt Purdy might have helped.
And in OT, in one of the most incredible drives *ever*, Borda was getting drilled every play and still standing after getting hit. He may have been concussed. And then Rath, who clearly said "Give the ball to me" after the timeout, went out there and got an incredible 4th down conversion, and took incredible punishment to convert the TD.
And then, sad to say, the blocked XP.
What can be said? I felt that Delaware was getting away with murder most of the game, though not in the biggest drives that counted. Missed holding, missed facemasks, incredible spots, the phantom fumble. Lehigh poured their blood out there trying to get this win. And they were good enough to get it. As tired as they were, they had it. THEY HAD IT.
Oh man. It's going to take me 2 weeks to get this out of my system. The last game in 2004, we lose a 1-point heartbreaker to James Madison, and now this. I hope we get another opportunity to play an A-10 team this year. I hope. We had them.
More tomorrow or (more likely) Monday.
Missed XP. Hard to tell if it was shanked or blocked - I say blocked.
We had this game in our hands. We were up by 2 TDs - twice! - in the 4th quarter. But our weary defensive front seven gave up 3 TDs and the game was tied. Delaware kicked it into another gear I didn't think they had. I think a full-strength Matt Purdy might have helped.
And in OT, in one of the most incredible drives *ever*, Borda was getting drilled every play and still standing after getting hit. He may have been concussed. And then Rath, who clearly said "Give the ball to me" after the timeout, went out there and got an incredible 4th down conversion, and took incredible punishment to convert the TD.
And then, sad to say, the blocked XP.
What can be said? I felt that Delaware was getting away with murder most of the game, though not in the biggest drives that counted. Missed holding, missed facemasks, incredible spots, the phantom fumble. Lehigh poured their blood out there trying to get this win. And they were good enough to get it. As tired as they were, they had it. THEY HAD IT.
Oh man. It's going to take me 2 weeks to get this out of my system. The last game in 2004, we lose a 1-point heartbreaker to James Madison, and now this. I hope we get another opportunity to play an A-10 team this year. I hope. We had them.
More tomorrow or (more likely) Monday.
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