“Well, these were well matched teams, and the game was in the balance so many times.

First half started poorly for the care bears, who struggled to knock down any of the humans, the only injury being a self-inflicted BH from dodging... and along with that, they struggled to look after the ball carrier, rerolling a blitz to double-skulls to pretty much secure their fate in the first half. Fortunately, they were able to surprise the unsuspecting humans with a fast passing play with the AG4 beastmen to pull in a 2-turner to equalise the scores at half time.

The second half went a little better. Although the humans had little trouble scoring, we finally started to break armour (still not that much), and succeeded in attaining superiour numbers through crowd-pushes on unsuspecting blitzers. In the end it was a switch play that secured the TD, crossing the ball over to the lightly defended lower flank for a TD in turn 8.

Coming into overtime, we still (somehow) managed to have 11 players to field, but hadn't done any real damage, and the humans had a full team (plus 2 reserves) available ... and they were receiving. We managed to trap them in fairly well, and although the ball was well into our half of the pitch, we were able to secure it (sort-of), and push a hurried cage up the field, with a CW holding the ball. With the extra speed, their blitzers and catchers were able to get to the ball carrier, and took the ball in turn 7. Seeing that they only had one shot at it, they made a play which backfired in a way that no one expected. Mime II intercepted the pass that would have lost us the game, and then made a clumsy throw that by chance still got to Sweet Dreams, and what a touchdown it was.
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Good match, good coach, and I definitely look forward to a rematch.
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