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Next Game
Opponent:
Stirling
Date:
TBD
Location:
Garscube

Standings
Team
 W L T
Stirling
6
0
0
Napier
4
3
0
Glasgow
3
4
0
Caledonian
3
4
0
Paisley
1
6
0

Training
Tues/Thurs 7-9.30pm
@ Garscube
Minibus leaves GUU at 6pm

Tigers Lose to Stirling

The top-of-the-table clash saw Stirling's explosive offense meet the monstrous Glasgow D in a battle to determine the favourites to win the Scottish Championship.
Stirling received the ball and quickly showed how they had put up nearly 150 points over the past 3 games, with end arounds and screen passes eating up the yardage. They soon found themselves inside the Tiger Redzone and converted with another screen pass. The 2PAT was good.
The Tiger offence struggled to find its rhythm, as it was missing the services of RBs Ronald Gaffin and Matt Burke, and were soon forced to punt the ball away.
The rest of the quarter was fairly uneventful, with both sides trading punts and making little headway into the opponent's territory. The Tiger D seemed to have shut down Stirling's high-powered O.
The 2nd quarter came alive when an excellent Grant McAuslan punt gave Stirling the ball on their own 2 yard line and 2 plays later Glasgow got some penetration through the middle and brought down the QB inside the endzone for a safety.
On the ensuing possession, Glasgow marched the ball down the field with an excellent combination of run and pass plays to set up 1st and 10 on the Stirling 12 yard line. Two run plays brought them to the 6 and they capped off a wonderful drive with a 6 yard TD pass from Grayson Lee to Jon Dixon. The 2PAT was no good.
The 2nd half started in the same vein as the first, with both defences dominating the play and trading punts. It was Stirling who broke the deadlock, however, with a superb deep pass splitting the Tiger defence at the end of the 3rd quarter.
The 4th quarter was punctuated by some highly controversial decisions resulting in turnovers, non-turnovers and ejections, the majority of which seemed to favour the Clansmen, but Glasgow fought hard and dug deep to keep the pressure on, but couldn't find that spark they needed to pull yet another victory out from the jaws of defeat.
The highly competitive Scottish Division looks as if it might go down to the wire, with the final game of the regular season seeing Stirling travel to Glasgow to complete their postponed Week 1 fixture. It could be a classic.

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