Game Summary/Box Score
April 21, 2007 Missoula Phoenix at Great Falls Gladiators
MISSOULA 28 GREAT
FALLS 7
GREAT FALLS – What was billed as the AA “Game
of the Week” turned out to be the “disappointment of the week” for the host
Great Falls Gladiators as the Gladiators fell to the Missoula Phoenix for the 5th
consecutive time, this time by a 28-7 margin.
The Phoenix defense rose to the occasion, forcing 7 Gladiator turnovers
(3 fumbles, 4 interceptions) to spoil the Gladiators home celebration.
The Phoenix jumped out
quickly when Phoenix quarterback, Shane Jurasek hooked up with Nick Lumpkin for
a 60-yard bomb on the teams’ second play from scrimmage. After spending the rest of the 1st
quarter exchanging defensive shots and turnovers, the Phoenix pushed the lead
to 14-0 when Jurasek found his favorite receiver, going back to their days in
Helena together, Dave Garza, for a 7-yard score. Jurasek would pass for 135
yards and the two scores against the vaunted Gladiator defense, a defense that
performed very well, only yielding 133 total net yards on the day, however
wrere just not able to keep the visitors out of the end zone when set up in
good field position after any of the many offensive turnovers by the
Gladiators.
In fact, taking away the
60-yard Lumpkin pass, the Gladiators would hold the Phoenix to only 73 net
yards of offense on 41 offensive plays.
The Gladiators, however,
were hounded by their own mistakes with not only giving the ball away 7 times,
but shooting themselves in the foot to the tune of 10 penalties for 104 yards
lost.
Coming up big for the
Phoenix defense was Stephen Schreibeis, who recorded 8-1/2 tackles and one of
the interceptions, Bud Maynard (7 tackles, 1 sack), James Jacobson (6 tackles,
1 sack) and Brian Hughes accounted for 2 of the picks off Gladiator quarterback,
Brad Thurber, who had his worst outing as a quarterback, completing only 8 of
21 with the 4 picks.
The Gladiator defense, once
again, was very tough, limiting the high powered Phoenix offense to numerous “3
and outs”, however, were not able to continually keep the Phoenix out of the
end zone when set up off an offensive turnover. Mike Pease lead the defense with 7 tackles and Mike Rhode, the AA
sack leader from 2006, recorded 2 more in a losing cause.
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Missoula Phoenix |
14 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
28 |
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Great Falls Gladiators |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
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MISSOULA:
Nick Lumpkin 60-yard pass from Jurasek (Spencer kick) 14:25 |
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MISSOULA: G.Johnson 2-yard run (Spencer kick) 5:00 |
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GREAT FALLS: Hughes 2-yard run (Riggs kick) 2:00 |
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MISSOULA:
Jurasek 4-yard run (Spencer kick) 1:34 |
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MISSOULA |
GREAT FALLS |
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First
Downs |
9 |
11 |
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Rushes-Yds |
22 |
28 |
37 |
110 |
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Passing |
10--15--0 |
8--21--4 |
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Passing
Yds. |
135 |
81 |
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Sacked-Yds |
4 |
30 |
2 |
15 |
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Net
Passing Yds. |
105 |
66 |
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Total
Yds. |
133 |
176 |
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Punts
- Avg. |
4-47.3 |
4-36.0 |
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Penalties
-Yds |
6 |
40 |
10 |
104 |
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Fumbles
- Lost |
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
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Individual
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Rushing: |
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Player
-Team |
Tot.
Att. |
Tot.
Yds |
TD's |
2 pts. |
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Gavin
Johnson - Missoula |
14 |
26 |
1 |
0 |
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Sheldon
McCool - Missoula |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Shane
Jurasek - Missoula |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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Duane
Mihlader - Missoula |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Keith
Deboo - Great Falls |
14 |
63 |
0 |
0 |
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Brad
Thurber - Great Falls |
9 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
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John
Hughes - Great Falls |
5 |
19 |
1 |
0 |
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Yahreen
Collins - Great Falls |
9 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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Passing: |
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Player |
Comp. |
Att. |
Yds |
TD's |
Int. |
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Shane
Jurasek - Missoula |
10 |
15 |
135 |
2 |
0 |
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Brad
Thurber - Great Falls |
8 |
21 |
81 |
0 |
4 |
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Receiving: |
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Player |
Recepts. |
Yards |
Td's |
2 pts. |
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Nick
Lumpkin - Missoula |
1 |
60 |
1 |
0 |
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Dave
Garza - Missoula |
4 |
41 |
1 |
0 |
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Ja'Ton
Simpson - Missoula |
1 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
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Shane
Byers - Missoula |
1 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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Gavin
Johnson - Missoula |
2 |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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Clint
Colwell - Missoula |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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Jermaine
Saunders - Great Falls |
5 |
52 |
0 |
0 |
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Yahreen
Collins - Great Falls |
1 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
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Eddie
Torrance - Great Falls |
2 |
22 |
0 |
0 |
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Defense: |
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Player |
Tackles |
Sacks |
Intercepts |
TD's |
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Stephen Schreibeis
- Missoula |
8.5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Bud Maynard - Missoula |
7 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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James Jacobson
- Missoula |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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Nick
True - Missoula |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Kevin Bereta
- Missoula |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Jeff Hecht
- Missoula |
3.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Tony Sanderson
- Missoula |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Habib Kambou - Missoula |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Mike Hardenburgh
- Missoula |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
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Fred Russo
- Missoula |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Brian Hughes - Missoula |
3 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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Gary
Rogers - Missoula |
2.5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Stevo Alaniz
- Missoula |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Josh Cassan
- Missoula |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Zach Renner
- Missoula |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Taylor Crouch
- Missoula |
2 |
0 |
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