Hell of a game. Clifford is an animal, even while only playing at 50%. Hope he's ok after that last TD run, as well as #74. Another costly game for Cathedral as their starting safety #12 went out with a pretty gruesome lower leg injury. He's probably done for the year.
I'll say officiating was terrible, and actually in my opinion St. X get the short end of the stick. Some phantom PI's called on the Bombers and in my opinion the only PI that should have been called wasn't and that was the face guard on a Cathedral WR down near the goal line. Never seen so many offsetting penalties in my life.
Cathedral put themselves in a huge hole early, and without their two best offensive players I thought this had blowout written all over it. Cathedral responded nicely, albeit to some special team errors, but this was the first time Cathedral faced adversity all year.
Play of the game came on the high snap where the punter batted it out of the end zone for a safety. Very, very big heads up play by the punter. For the life of me, I can't figure out why Cathedral didn't kick a FG at the end of the half on the 5 yard. A 2 point deficit vs a 5 point deficit completely changed the landscape of the game.
I know X wasn't at full strength either, but really frustrating that Cathedral couldn't put their best lineup. X is always a huge measuring stick for Cathedral, and they've come up short so many times over the years. I know the series record is extremely lopsided but I hope X fans value this game as much as us Cathedral fans. Indy always gets the reputation of little brother, and rightfully so, to Ohio and especially Cincy but there are some good teams here in town.
Anyways, best of luck to the Bombers the rest the way. Despite what some of the critics say, that is a damn good football team.
