PYROS V ROUGHRIDERS

The visitors were threatening again early in the second quarter when a Choat pass sent the ball bouncing off the fingers of Receiver, Ryan McCluskey, who was in the perfect position to run in another score for the Roughriders.

But Cally made no mistake on the next play when the Pyros were exposed again with another screen pass from Choat, with Ross Graham running the ball in for another six points for the men in blue.

The momentum then swung dramatically in favour of the home side on the resulting kick off, when Quarterback, Ben Alkureishi managed to shake off some poor talking to pull of a great return all the way over the goal line for a welcome six points for the Pyros, which was followed with a successful two point conversion catch from Tal Peer to bring the deficit to just four points.

The Roughriders now had a game on their hands as the Pyros were starting to play with more confidence and regained the momentum when Cally’s next drive stalled when Jay Mitchell got in front of a Choat pass.

Unfortunately the Pyros failed to take advantage of the turnover and were soon on the defensive again.

And they still had not learned the lessons from the previous scores when Cally hit them with another screen pass again, with Graham running his second touchdown of the day.

The Pyros offensive machine was starting to get in gear when a scramble by Alkureishi took the home side into the Roughriders redzone.

Then Euan Shearer punished a defensive lapse by the visitors, blasting through into the endzone, but the touchdown was chalked off for a penalty on the home side.

It was therefore a case of same again for the Pyros rusher on the next play as he burned the turf again, only this time the touchdown counted.

And when Peer brought in another second touchdown catch, it set things up for a lot of soul searching for the Roughriders during what was a welcome half time break.

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