Sunday June 23rd 2002 - BSFL fixture

Bournemouth Raiders 34 Brighton Tsunami 0

The Bournemouth Raiders carried on where they left off in their first game with a punishing ground attack against the tiring Tsunami (who were playing back to back games).

Brad Smith ran in a disputed TD from 25 yards to open the scoring for the Raiders, and put them 6-0 up. Despite the efforts of QB Chris Emery, and Richard Tongue the Tsunami couldn’t get things going against the swarming Raiders defense led by the front 4 of Lee Eatly, Kirk O’Field, Matt Hemsley and Tom Jenkins. Following a Matt Heasman interception, Mark Elliott scored his first TD of the season running in from 35 yards out, and Jon Wells grabbed the 2 PAT from Brad Smith as the Raiders went into the break 14-0 up.

WR Tim Smith catches a pass from Brad Smith and runs it in for a TD against the Brighton Tsunami

Brighton started the second half well driving deep into Raiders territory, but the Raiders defense held firm.

The Raiders continued where they left off in the first half with a further running TD from Mark Elliott from 5 yards out. Brad Smith connected on a slant to Tim Smith who ran in the TD from 50 yards out. Tim Smith caught the 2 PAT from Matt Heasman. The Raiders defense earnt their shut-out, and then Tim Smith threw TD to Richard Tollervey to round off the scoring on the last play

TEAM:

HEASMAN, ELLIOTT, SMITH.B, EATLY, WELLS, HEMSLEY, O'FIELD, JENKINS, TOLLERVEY, GILBERT, SMITH.T, GURREA, PFLANDER

STATS

PASSING

SMITH, BRAD 2-4-57-1-1
SMITH, TIM 1-1-29-0-1 TD

RUSHING

SMITH, BRAD 6-118-1
ELLIOTT 9-114-2
HEMSLEY 1-12

RECEIVING

SMITH, T 1-55-1
TOLLERVEY 1-29-1
WELLS 1-2

SACKS

GILBERT 1.0
HEMSLEY 1.0

WELLS 1-4
HEASMAN 1-0