Monday, April 6, 2009

Game 7- Madrid Black Demons

This week we traveled to Madrid to face the Black Demons. This was a must win for our team in order to earn a spot in the playoffs. In this game I played running back and free safety. I started off a little slow but thanks to the offensive line and the rest of the blocking I was able to find the endzone four times. There was a scary moment when I got called for clipping in the last minutes of the fourth quarter which nullified a touchdown run by our quarterback but as the Demons were driving down the field to score during their last posession I intercepted a pass to seal the victory. This was also the first game that my mom and little brother got to see (they arrived in Madrid on Friday morning!). It was nice to have them in the stands to cheer me on again.Captains for the game: Javi, Myself, Ricardo and AntonioThe cheerleaders in full force. Vanessa, Iris, Jennie and they even recruited my mom!!!

Celebrating the victory, Lince style by sending the team members to run around the circle while everyone cheered them on for their part in the victory (Ricardo the QB is running here)Javi, Josue, Myself and Orlando

Look who showed up!!! I almost recruited my brother to play with our junior team.
Pablo and me
Lars Werner and me celebrating. I was following him into the end zone all day!
Dedicated this win to the fam!!!!


article from PrimerDown.com by Markus, translation by Jennie
Este sabado, en el Catizal (Las Rozas), Black Demons, el equipo revelación de la temporada, fue derrotado a domicilio por Sulime Linces, por un ajustado resultado de 21 a 24. Alejandro Garfio volvió a cargarse al equipo a la espalda, dando una exhibición de calidad y consiguiendo los cuatro touchdowns de su equipo. (This Saturday, in El Catizal stadium (Las Rozas), Black Demons, the much improved team was defeated at home by the Sulime Linces with a final score of 21-24. Alejandro Garfio continued to carry the team on his back, giving a quality performance and scoring four touchdowns for his team.)

Desde el primer momento se vió la gran igualdad entre ambos equipos lo que dejaba el partido muy abierto. (From the first moment there seemed to be equality between the two teams which left the game wide open.)
Black Demons se adelanto en el marcador, aunque los sevillanos remontaron, con Touchdowns de Alex Garfio, en un buen segundo cuarto, dejando el marcador al descanso en 6 a 12. A la vuelta del descanso, Linces se alejó en el marcador gracias a otro Touchdown (6-18) del crack del equipo sevillano, Alex Garfio. (Black Demos scored first, but the Sevillanos made a comeback with touchdowns from Alex Garfio in a great second quarter leaving the scoreboard at half-time to read 6-12. After halftime the Linces increased their lead thanks to another touchdown (6-18) by the star of the Sevillan team, Alex Garfio.)
En el último cuarto, Black Demons demostró porque es el equipo revelación de la temporada que ha hecho temblar a los más grandes y estuvo cerca de dar la vuelta al marcador gracias a la combinación de pasas y carreras de su ataque. La defensa del Guadalquivir aguantó la embestida, y Alex Garfio permitió con otro Touchdown que los sevillanos sigan soñando con los Playoffs. (In the last quarter, Black Demons demonstrated why they are the most improved team that has shaken the biggest teams in the league and were on the verge of changing the scoreboard thanks to a combination of passes and runs by their offense. The Linces's defense was able to stop them and Alex Garfio went on to score another touchdown so the Sevillanos can keep dreaming about the playoffs.)
Antonio Laguna, Head Coach de Linces opinó:”El partido hItalica sido muy igualado y ha podido caer del lado de cualquiera de los dos equipos. El gran trabajo de nuestra ofensiva, con una mencion especial al enorme esfuerzo realizado por nuestra linea de ataque, nos ha dado una importantísima victoria de cara a los Play Offs.” (Antonio Laguna, Head Coach of the Linces said: "The game was very equally matched and could have fallen to the favor of either team. The good work of our offense, with a special mention to the enourmous strength shown by our offensive line, gave us an extremely important victory in the face of the Playoffs.")

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