NFL Schools Tournament
Saturday 25th March brought six school teams together in competition after many long months of practice, but for one of these teams it was to be the first step in hopefully a long journey leading eventually to the world American Flag Football schools finals in Mexico. The winners from Saturdays tournament will travel down to Birmingham to play the English Champions and from there to the European finals and finally to Mexico. The Bught Park Stadium, Inverness buzzed to rock anthems as the cheerleaders brought some brightness to an otherwise damp and dull overcast day. With the cheerleaders setting the stage, the players from all teams put on a spectacular show of diving catches and tackles along with some very skillful running plays, the games abounded with traditional football plays of long downfield passes and reverses but also many trick plays which left many spectators left wondering what had happened to the ball. The final brought together tournament favourites the Culloden Academy Cougars and the Glenurquhart High School Gladiators both teams arriving at the final unbeaten through the group stages. Culloden Academy have over the past three years always proved strong at American Football but in the last 2 years have gone unbeaten locally.
However it was the firm favourites, the Culloden Academy Cougars that continued to dominate by overpowering the Gladiators running out tournament victors by 29 points to 15. Culloden Academy will now represent the North of Scotland when they travel to Birmingham to take on the English Champions for a place in the European Finals on Saturday April 23rd. |
The
Gladiators have improved and matured considerably after their baptism
of fire when they took part last year in the Scottish Flag Football League.
