I can't confirm this but the announcer at the Trinity game gave the score as Male 28/ Ballard 14 in the third quarter.

It was 41-14 Male early in the 4th when we left.

When they annouced the score at Ballard 7 Male 6, the ohhhs and ahhhs were heard around Marshall Stadium. At that time I predicted Male 56 Ballard 7. I guess I won't be far off.

When they annouced the score at Ballard 7 Male 6, the ohhhs and ahhhs were heard around Marshall Stadium. At that time I predicted Male 56 Ballard 7. I guess I won't be far off.

 

Ballard started out with spunky defensive play and really bottled up Male's inside running game, but a couple of perfectly thrown 60+ yard TD passes to Josh Williams put Male up 21-7 in relatively short order.

 

Ballard's offensive series to end the first half left me dazed and confused. With about 1 minute left, Ballard had the ball at about midfield. They ran several handoffs up the middle (burning time and burning up the Ballard faithful in attendance). With about 7 seconds left and the ball around the Male 45, the Bruins overthrew a fade pass to a receiver in single coverage. One second on the clock in the 1st half. Ballard lines up with two receivers on the right and almost incredibly, Male isn't in a prevent defense. They have single coverage on the two wideouts, and the DBs are only about 2 yards off the line of scrimmage. The outside guy runs a streak route, then breaks open on a post pattern and catches a TD pass after time elapsed. Of course, the Ballard side went nuts because the score became 28-14 going into the locker room. The only thing I can figure is that Redman wanted to test his secondary (test failed). The most rudimentary prevent would have snuffed Ballard's scoring chances.

 

Beaumont appeared to hurt his left ankle early in the 3rd, but walked off the field with some help. He didn't return to the game before we left with about 10 minutes in the 4th. We were sitting on the Ballard side, so I couldn't see them working on him but I suspect he will be OK. Male has a week off coming up before travelling to Owensboro on the 22nd.