Indians Third Win

Our fourth game went much better than the third game. We played at home for the second straight week, against the Kuopio Steelers. We started the game off strong offensively, easily driving down and scoring on our first possession. The touchdown was a great catch by fellow American Matt Shepherd, he was pretty far out of bounds, but luckily for us our side judges were 14 years old and from Kouvola. Unfortunately, the Steelers reciprocated that and knotted the game 7-7.
Our offense moved the ball effectively all game, but we struggled inside our opponents 30 yard line. We scored once in the second quarter to move to 14-7 on a nice pass from Nesi Carpelan to Jani Heinisalo (Picture right), his first of two touchdowns on the game. After the first drive defensively we decided to switch to a 4-4 defense rather than our normal 3-4. Essentially we added a defensive lineman since the Steelers really only ran the ball in an option attack all game.

This new defense did very well, and we didn’t allow the Steelers to score again. I came in on offense a good amount mostly as a running back in the I formation. Thanks to some great blocking by our offensive like and fullback Ville Lindsten. I carried the ball 12 times for 113 yards, unfortunately none of them landed me in the endzone. I also added 6 solo and 4 assisted tackle on the defensive side of the ball.
I also did a few plays as a wildcat quarterback, and on one roll out pass I saw an open receiver about 10 yards in front of me. The ball was complete and it seemed like a great gain. Unfortunately, the player I threw it to was none other than Perttu Kontkanen, our right tackle. For those of you not familiar with the rules, that is not exactly street legal.
As time winded down in the 4th quarter the Steelers continued to try to run the ball, and did so with a little bit of success. When they did try to throw, they showed that they were unable to do so. We made them pay with great interceptions by Tatu Niemi, and Jarno Uitto. Perttu was given our team MVP of the game, and Jani was given the game MVP. That is it for this week, we now enter our midsummer bye week sitting in 2nd place at 3-1.