The Sutherland Seahawks defeated the North West Sydney Predators Colts team 54-0 in Newcastle on saturday.
The defense again shone brightly, two more return touchdowns, one interception return for 53 yards to cornerback Dylan Dinale and the second to Aaron O'Neill off a forced fumbled near the Predators goal line by linebacker Jackson Young.
The offense did not score on its opening drive, although the play of the game possibility occurred during that possession. QB Daniel Besz threw a rare interception but made up for it by chasing down the defender, forcing a fumble with a huge hit, then recovering the fumble to retain possession.
Touchdowns were shared across the offense. Haoping Tang scored on the ground and in the air whilst Besz scored on the ground as well as throwing a second touchdown to tight end Jake Wedesweiler and running back Corey Delvalle who scored his first 6 pointer.
The Seahawks will have 2 weeks off before taking on the Sydney University Cubs, another undefeated team so far in 2015.
The Sutherland Seahawks Colts team extended its early season success to two games with a tremendous defensive performance over the Wollongong Brumbies.
The Defense scored 20 points in the game, whilst the Offense made good of its 7 possessions to score 42 of its own. The 62-0 final score represents a club record for the Colts team in margin of victory.
The Brumbies were re-entering the Colts division after 2 years away. The 2011 and 2012 Champions brought multiple first year players into the game for their first outing and result was one-sided as could be expected. The Defense had 8 sacks altogether in the game, and 6 takeaways; both team records. The Defense also returned 3 takeways for touchdowns as well as closing the game out with a safety, 20 total defensive points was a club record.
Jackson Young had 4 sacks, which tied for a club record and 4 fumble recoveries; an outright club record. Two of his fumble recoveries were returned for touchdowns. The Seahawks are yet to give up a point in 2015 after conceding 10.9 points per game in 2014.
Qb Daniel Besz continued his great start to the year, throwing 4 touchdowns to go with his 5 in Week #1, putting him on course to attack the Colts club record of 26 for the year. Rookie Tight End Jake Wedesweiler caught 3 touchdown passes including a 65 yard reception to start the 2nd half.
Next week the Colts will play the North West Sydney Predators at Walters Park, Speers Point Newcastle. Kickoff will be 5pm.
SEAHAWKS 62, BRUMBIES 0
In Waco, Texas ex-Seahawks Blake and Sean Muir took the field at Lamar University in their home opener. The out of conference game vs the lowly rated Lamar was never supposed to be too difficult but the cardinals played well. The 66-31 final score was closer than many thought it would be.
Blake made his 26th career start, playing Left Guard. Sean played on PAT/Field Goal. The Bears are rated $6 in the Coaches Poll today and will have the week off before playing Rice at home in two weeks time.
The Sutherland Seahawks defeated the West Sydney Pirates team 40-0 in the opening game of the Gridiron NSW 2015 season.
QB Daniel Besz threw 3 touchdowns to Justin Whiting as well as running in another himself as the offense racked up 300 yards of offense as the game was shortened when the Pirates started to lose players to injury.
With so much attention from the Jarryd Hayne NFL story, Channel 10 even had a camera crew at the game, Head Coach Christos Lambropolous was interviewed prior to the game, while the game featured as a part of a news story on the evening news.
Defensively, the Pirates were limited to 41 total yards from scrimmage, Jarrad Atkins and Sasha Simic leading the team in tackles whilst Jackson Young and Austin Wilder combined for a tackle for loss creating a safety. Clay Hansell, meanwhile had the rare combination of recovering a fumble and having a pass break up on defense, and then having his first ever receiving touchdown for the offense.
The 28-0 half time scored was extended to 40-0; two of the team's youngest players Corey Delvalle and Nick Predkowski were excellent contributors for the offense. Predkowski catching an 18 yard PAT for 2 points after a penalty backed the offense up and Delvalle had 50 yards from scrimmage rushing and receiving.
Next week the Colts team will travel to Wollongong to play the Brumbies, 3pm at Corrimal.
SEAHAWKS 40, PIRATES 0.
In other news, the Seahawks Junior program was featured in a story also connected to the latest NFL news.
And last but not least; whilst the Seahawks Colts team was notching up the points, the Baylor Bears over SMU notched up 56-21 in its first game of the 2015 season. Ex-Seahawks Blake #73 (2009) and Sean Muir (2009-2011) were a part of a Baylor offense that had 723 yards from scrimmage and averaged over 10 yards per play. Full details here.
Spring is here and its football time in
Australia. This weekend marks the beginning of several important points of the
football calendar across the globe for the club.
Today is the first practice of the Seahawks
Junior Gridiron season for 2015.
Shortly afterwards, the Sutherland Seahawks
Colts team will open their 2015 season and Championship defense at David
Phillips field, Daceyville 11 am against the West Sydney Pirates.
This will be a replay of the 2014
Championship game, a game the Seahawks won 48-0.
The Colts team returns several keys starters who will be attempting to extent their careers to 3 straight GNSW championships including QB Daniel Besz, offensive linemen Mitch Wiseman and Bailey Cribb, receiver Clay Hansell and defenders Jackson Young and Alex Mellor.
