BAFL: Results

Good Morning Football Fans,

This is the start of a new week, but before we can start I have wrapped up the scores from last weeks BAFL games.

We are now at the business end of the season with teams looking for play off places or to just finish the season on a high.

First of all I'd like to congratulate Kevin Shelbourn, who today broke the Aztecs' all-time receiving record. Well done #11 Kevin!





BAFL Premier

The two games in the Premier division were won by the Jets and the Aztecs.

The Bristol Aztecs beat the Sussex Thunder by a touchdown. I've heard that the game could have gone either way, with the Thunder just missing out on their first win of the season.

The Aztecs finish the season with a 5-3 record, the same as the Jets. This leaves them in looking forward to a semi final game against the Farnham Fast Lane Knights.

The Thunder have had a tough season in the Premier and close loses like today would hard the most. The players and coaches must use this season as a learning curve. I'll try this week to get a short interview with Head Coach Roberson about this season. Expect that in the next week or two, as we let Coach Roberson reflex.

The other game in the BAFL Premier, saw the Knight face off against the Jets.

In another close game the Jets just nicked the result at home 12-7.

A victory for the Knights would not have changed their division standing but I'm saw they would have been looking for a victory before they travel across London to face the Blitz.

The Jets make it 5 wins in 2009 as they try to defend their national championship. Now the Jets can look forward to the semi final with Bristol.

Just for the record the two games between the Aztecs and Jets were as follows:

Bristol Aztecs 7 - 16 Coventry Cassidy Jets
Coventry Cassidy Jets 33 - 40 Bristol Aztecs

So expect a great game as both teams know that losing finishes the 2009 season for them.

BAFL 1

5 games took place in division 1 this weekend, from as north as Scotland and south as, well this week London I think.

In Dundee, the Rams visited the Hurricanes and in a close game the Rams just fell short. The Hurricanes won the game 14-6 leaving the Rams to travel home without the win.

The closest game of the weekend was in Gateshead. Where the Pirates lost their first game of the season 6-7. The nerves must have been fried on both benches as the game was won by a point.

In Peterborough the Saxons won only their second game of the season against the Ipswich Cardinals. The Cardinals are above the Saxons in the standings, so the victory would have been all the sweeter for the Saxons team.

The Cards have had a tough season and this defeat in their last game of the season will not sit well with the team. The team will now have the off season to focus and get ready for 2010.

The Tamworth Phoenix beat the Oxford Saints 32-0. Both teams were on 8-1 for the season and this game was for top spot in BAFL 1 South West Conference.

What a way to win the South West Conference. Before the game both teams would have wanted to set down a marker to the rest of the division. That marker was made by Phoenix, now they can go into the play offs full of confidences. The Saints will now look to to the play off and hope that they meet Tamworth in the play offs so they can get some revenge.

In the final game of the weekend, the London Cobras took a trip north to play the Cambridgeshire Cats. The Cobras were able to come home with a victory. The Cobras finished the season undefeated drawing only one game in 2009 and will surely go into the play offs as favorites.

The Cats had already earned their spot in the play offs, but would have been looking for finish the regular season on a high.

In the end the scoreline suggests that the Cobras finished the game comfortable winners 36-6.

BAFL 2

No fixtures took place this week.

Individual match reports are on there way and I will post them as soon as I have them. If you write the match reports for your team please send them and any other press leases to danielthenews@googlemail.com.

All pictures courtesy of the 'London Blitz'

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