Fresh off a dominating win to start the season, the
UMBC Bay Reptiles squared off to face back to back chaos dwarf teams. First up was the
Lost Swamp Underminerz
As the Bay Reptiles received the opening kick off, the Underminerz got off to a quick blitz, rushing the ball before the flat-footed reptiles could react. But they drove too greedily and too quickly, and a Bull Centaur slipped to the ground on his way to the ball. Quickly regrouping, Sophomore Saurus
Jourdan Grant and Krox
Jake Stout each scored a quick casualty, and the lizards recovered the ball.
After a little more back and forth on blocking, a hobgoblin was seriously injured, and newly dedicated fouler
Bryce Johnson removed a Bull Centaur with a foul, though they were ejected for their efforts. Down greatly in numbers, the chaos dwarves refused to stand back up to get hit again, and the lizards drove down the field with easy, handing the ball off to saurus
Max Curran for the touchdown.
Coming out of the half, the chaos dwarves were able to remove a few lizards with good hits, including a death to a skink, the numbers and strength advantage was just too much, and once more the ball was stolen. In a perplexing move, Curran was once again handed the ball for their second touchdown of the game. The MVP was handed to Stout for their early casualty getting the ball rolling.
On the heels of this victory, the NCBB felt it necessary to match the team up against their second Chaos Dwarf team in a row, against the
BGSU Falcons. The Bay Reptiles’ coach’s only comment on such a bash heavy early schedule for the team was just “we’ll play who we’re scheduled to play.”
The Falcons were the first team the Bay Reptiles fast in their inaugural season, where the teams settled for a bloody 2-2 tie. Since then BGSU has gone on a tear, losing only one game in their season in the Non-AQ before winning over Buboe State in the Killer Lite bowl.
So the Bay Reptiles knew they had their work cut out for them going in, especially considering the much more prestigious lizard school of Mary’s Land was only able to eek out a tie against BGSU earlier this season.
Rain poured on the muddy field as the chaos dwarves set up to receive the opening kickoff. While they got some good hits in, stunning a saurus and krox on the line, even with a chainsaw hired for the match, they could not immediately remove any lizards from the pitch. And the rain proved detrimental, as BGSU’s Bull Centaur fumbled the pick up multiple times, allowing
JC Harris to slip in and steal the ball. BGSU was able to briefly separate them from the ball again, and knock out saurus
Jairus Lyles, though the chainsaw removed himself with his own saw. A solid block removed a flamesmith, and Harris was able to scoop the ball up again on route to a score. While the chaos dwarves fared better at picking up the ball on the next kickoff, they were not able to make their way through the lizard defense before halftime.
Once again, as in the previous game, the Bay Reptiles found themselves unprepared on their receiving kickoff and the chaos dwarves blitzed into their backfield. But the ball was recovered safely, and the lizards used their superior speed to blaze by the BGSU players to the other side of the field. The chaos dwarves would not be able to catch up as UMBC scored a quick touchdown.
The next kickoff would see an end to the thus far relentless rain, and the chaos dwarves started out the drive strong, killing a skink. But even with the better start, they found themselves quickly running low on hobgoblins to screen the ball with, and the bull centaur carrying the ball was quickly surrounded by skinks. Soon the ball would be popped free, and Harris would cruise their way to a third touchdown of the game. For some reason Lyles was voted the game’s MVP, despite being knocked out quite early and never making it back to the pitch.
The atmosphere on UMBC campus has been electric following these huge wins, as the team prepares to finish out the out of conference games over the next two weeks. The team’s coach emphasized that while everyone is excited about the wins, and certainly hyped to face their neighboring lizards in 2 weeks, that they are being careful to lock in and not overlook a good Michigaunt team.
