October 11, 2002

Tekes Fight ROTC but Lose 13-0
The Teke versus ROTC game took place on a day that was, to say the least, not terribly convenient for the ROTC team. The Ranger challenge sorely depleted their sidelines and left ROTC with approximately half of their team. The Tekes saw this depleted team and swooped in like a pack of dogs on a threelegged cat as the swarming Tekes began the game with fire in their eyes. ROTC received the first kickoff and the fired up and stingy Teke defense pushed ROTC back half a yard. ROTC punted the ball away to the Tekes. The Teke offense, which was not nearly as fired up as the defense, promptly handed the ball back to ROTC. On the next possession, the Teke run defense looked good, until Shurn Peters scored on a bootleg. Fadji Kumapley then added a 2-point conversion on a catch in the back of the end zone. The Teke offense once again went three-and-out giving the ball back to ROTC, and it was downhill from here. A pass from Shurn Peters to Michael Walker was tipped in the air by a Teke defender. The Tekes immediately got their hopes up thinking that they had an interception; however ROTC’s Greg Courmier was there to pick up the garbage. Courmier took off toward the ROTC end zone, but decided that he was going to start the celebration a little bit early, all but spiking the ball on the five-yard line. Courmier leisurely began to walk to the end zone and the Tekes, mind you…. The Tekes! Caught him from behind. However, this play did not leave ROTC completely out in the cold. They did have a first and goal on the Teke 10-yard line. However, as I said earlier, the Teke defense was fired up this game. The first play, Shurn Peters, under heavy pressure, missed a pitch. Next, Peters tried the play again and swept out on a bootleg that was snuffed out in a hurry by the Teke’s Justin Paris. After an incomplete pass, Ray Co sacked Shurn. The Tekes threw one incomplete pass and one complete pass before the half ended. The only problem was the Teke completion was to the wide-open ROTC defender Walker. At the half the Teke defense was still fired up. ROTC got the ball on the 21 and threw a beautiful pass that would have dug them out of this hole, but a holding call brought the play back for a loss. However, the next play Kumapley struck again with a bobbling catch, to bring ROTC back to the 21-yard line. ROTC tried to go back to their bread-and-butter, the sweep play, but that was stopped by the Teke’s Ray Co again. ROTC had a short punt and that was compounded when the ROTC special teams treated the Teke ballhandler like a disgruntled UPS deliveryman treats a fragile package. The Tekes’ Damien was mobbed, then swarmed, twisted, kicked and finally, thrown to the ground. This penalty brought the Tekes, once again, into striking range. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be as the Tekes miss the pitchman, and threw a pass to some guy in the parking lot. As well as the ROTC defense was doing against the Teke offense, the ROTC offense faired about as well against the Teke defense. After exchanging punts for a while, things started to get intersetingagain (what a surprise during a Teke game). First a lame-duck pass was caught by the Teke’s Brad Wise, then Mike Hitt went for two more deep passes to possibly tie the game up. The second of these passes was snatched up by the ROTC safety, who started running back with blockers. The ballcarrier cut across the field weaving through Teke defenders who all tried in vain to pull his flags, and right in front of Hitt who was too busy sulking to even attempt to pull the flags. Then the ballcarrier ran into a wall of Tekes looking to stop this return, sohe cut back across the field, right in front of Hitt again, who didn’t even bother to put his hands up. The ballcarrier cut off of Hitt and ran toward the end zone, sealing the scoring and the ROTC victory.