North meets South Clash of the Titans

Clyde Valley Falcons and the Inverness Blitz met at the Beltane playing fields on Sunday . The game had been set as a crunch match between the top two old Pop Warner teams.

The stage was set, Perfect pitch, Perfect weather and two strong squads for a 9 man friendly when all of a sudden with 15 minutes to kick off the heavens opened up and a deluge came down on the Beltane field.

Inverness and the Falcons were forced to take cover until the rain passed over.

At kick off the Falcons won the toss and chose to take the ball Kyle and Macmillan were back as returnee’s and the combination worked well with Kyle returning the ball to the 40 yard line

The first quarter was defensive battle with the Falcons lead by Nichol holding firm

.In the second quarter the Wildcats went to the air only to be picked off by Nichol who with great blocking ran the ball back for the first TD .

The extra point was missed .With the Wildcats trying to get back on level terms Macmillan came on a Blitz round the outside to sack the QB and force a fumble

In the third quarter the Falcons picked up the pace a little bit and with Macmillan breaking a big run down the left it was a good call from coach Gillespie to run a bootleg right . Winter took the ball in untouched .again the extra point was missed.

The Wildcats just couldn’t get the ball down field enough as the defence of the Falcons were hitting in numbers. Sacks came from Weir, Harrison and McCrum .

The last score of the game was a dive up the middle from the two yard line after Winter had been stopped just short on a QB sneak .

This was done by Kyle who with his head down style of running couldn’t be stopped this brought the scoring to an end with the score being 18 v 0 .

MVP for the game were Jamie Weir and Alan Harrison. Coach Macmillan said “This was a big effort from the team as Inverness are a well drilled unit

“I would also like to express my thanks to the Wildcats and there coaching staff for travelling down and for the sportsman like mannor the game was played in .It was a game all about football and not all about flags and stoppages."

If anyone would lie to take up the game could they get in touch with Coach Macmillan on 07787785262

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