Oh The Hilarity!

Antosh Grabs OT Winner for Team C

Matt Albert
TFL Illustrated

CHAMPAIGN--Team C wanted to get more people involved after last week's victory. They did that today, and it helped them defeat Team B 42-35 in double overtime. It was a game that many were looking forward to all week.

Team C (2-0) had five different players score touchdowns. Hilary Antosh scored both the first and the last in her only two catches of the ballgame. After the game, she kept commenting about how surprised she was that she would be left so wide open for both scores.

"I don't know what they were doing. I guess they lost interest in me. After I scored the last touchdown, all I could think about was how I had caught another one because I'm used to just catching one ball every century."

Starting quarterback Calvin Braker, who finished with 158 yards passing, was more than happy to see a wide open Antosh on the last play of the game in double overtime. "With Hilary, she's wide open a lot of the time. I think it's because they're keying in on everyone else and forgetting to pick her up. All I know is we'll definitely take it and keep looking to improve for next week."

Braker then immediately announced he would not be playing next week due to it being the fourth weekend in September.

For a while, it looked like Team B might have been able to pull off the upset. After trading scores with Team C all day, they finally broke through to take a 7 point lead with 5:08 left in the game on an 11 yard pass from Sean Cartner to Jon Huffman. However, Braker engineered a brilliant two minute drive and tied the game up with 0:19 left on an 11 yard pass to Andrew Imig.

Lost in the overzealous celebration after the game was the losing effort of Team B's (0-2) Jon Huffman. Huffman caught all 5 touchdowns and became the league scoring leader. Despite having such a great individual game, he was visibly distraught about losing and elected to take a vow of silence until next week's game.

However, it was a valiant effort by a depleted roster. They played the entire game without first string quarterback Ben Randecker because he missed the game due to family reasons. Had he played, Team B might very well have pulled it off. They will get a shot at revenge in week 5.

Quick Hits

The field was much drier this weekend, but the remains of the damage from tailgaters was still obvious. The commissioner may choose to move the games to a different field next week...Antosh is just the second trumpette to catch a touchdown pass this season (Allissa Carter was the first)...The five touchdowns by Huffman is the most scored by a player in a single game this season...Wade Seggerman caught an 8 yard touchdown pass and also had one interception...Attendance numbers continue to sputter with no tickets being sold in advance for this week's games...There were no photographers at the game due to a union strike...The best quote of the game came once again from Glenn Eikenberry. After Andrew Imig barely missed an interception for Team C, Eikenberry yelled at Imig to have a better nose for the ball. Imig immediately reminded him that they were on the same team. To which Eikenberry replied, "Oh? Good hustle, then."...Adrienne Bowman unfortunately saw both of her ACLs fall out of her legs during the opening kickoff. Luckily, there was a renowned surgeon standing by and he spoke about it after the game. "We just replaced her ACLs with PDAs, HMOs, FBIs, and other 3 letter combinations so she wouldn't be SOL for the game."

Scoring Summary
1st Half
18:05--Team C--Calvin "Circuit" Braker 1 yard pass to Hilary "Hilaria" Antosh. C leads 7-0.
14:20--Team B--Sean "Shopping" Cartner 7 yard pass to Jon "Puff and" Huffman. 7-7.
00:46--Team C--Braker 4 yard pass to Glenn "Playmate of the Year" Eikenberry. C leads 14-7.

2nd half
18:55--Team B--Cartner 8 yard pass to Huffman. 14-14.
15:27--Team C--Braker 8 yard pass to Wade "I do handstands better than Adrienne" Seggerman. C leads 21-14.
11:14--Team B--Cartner 2 yard pass to Huffman. 21-21.
05:08--Team B--Cartner 11 yard pass to Huffman. B leads 28-21.
00:19--Team C--Braker 11 yard pass to Andrew "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Imig. 28-28.

Overtime
1st--Team C--Braker 1 yard run. C leads 35-28.
1st--Team B--Cartner 8 yard pass to Huffman. 35-35.
2nd--Team C--Braker 4 yard pass to Antosh. 42-35.