“MORDOR!

True Mordor will not be denied! This match started poorly, as the home cooking from the hobbits in addition to ST 7 Deeproot made it imposing. A fumbled pickup, then the ref ejecting our DP on first foul resulted in the hobbits scoring a defensive TD. We received again this time, our tacklers could not slow down the stunty dodgers and they get a 1d block (for POW) on our ballcarrier and picked up the ball...lack of RRs hurt us as our 2d block on the halfling failed and it was 2-0. We received for a third time in the first half and finally, the number of halflings was starting to thin out. More and more were sent to the sidelines. We scored to make it 2-1, but 1 turn remained and a bad kick was followed by a successful TTM and it as 3-1 at the half.

The Corsairs felt some doubt, but the second half started with the hobbits even more short handed and a pickup and TTM resulted in the halfling deep in Corsair territory, but a blitz badly hurt him and very soon, there were no halfling left (just 3 big trees). It was 3-2 and only 3 trees and 2 halflings took the field to receive the kick...we quickly broke in and stole the ball and scored to make it 3-3...now it was only two trees and 1 halfling. Enough time remained and the halflings could not stop us as we rolled over them - plucked up the ball and scored at the final whistle for the 4-3 victory!

Points:
Corsairs: 7 (win) + 8 (TDs) + 10 (CAS) = 25 points
Hobbits: 1 (loss) + 6 (TDs) + 0 (CAS) = 7 points”