Blazer Football had high hopes going into Friday nights game at Out-of-Door Academy, coming into the game with Out-of-Door coming off of back-to-back losses and the Blazers coming off of a hot win against Keswick Christian. Both teams' defenses held strong nearly the entire first quarter, but the Thunder were able to connect on a 24 yard pass in the last minute to go up 6-0. The Blazers would turn over the ball on an interception, giving the Thunder great field position and leading to a second touchdown to lead 12-0. But the Blazers would answer this score with a scoring drive of their own, rolling 66 yards on five plays, capped off by a 24 yard touchdown pass from
Tait Zeltwanger to
Noah Spenn in which Spenn would break a tackle and sprint to the corner of the end zone for the score, bring the score to 12-7 Thunder at the half. The third quarter was all Thunder as they came away with 22 unanswered points before the Blazers came away with a 7 play 80 yard scoring drive, with
Tait Zeltwanger hitting his brother
Cale Zeltwanger for a 6 yard Touchdown pass and the final score of the Blazers season.
The Blazers fell 13-47. The Blazers matched the Thunder in passing yards with 178, but couldn't stop the Thunder run game as they rattled of 242 yards in the game.
Tait Zeltwanger was 15/36 for 183 yards, 2 TDs and 3 INTs. Will Hughes ran the ball 7 times for 28 yards and Zeltwanger ran 6 times for 16 yards. Spenn led all receivers with 9 receptions for 106 yards and 1 TD.