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Murcia Cobras was defeated this Sunday (49-26) in his visit to the league champion, but without a doubt the upward image of this renewed team was consolidated, and today he has presented his credentials to be a very important rival to take into account in the last phase of the league.
With a short roster, reduced by some important injuries and with several starters who could not move to Badalona, ​​they maintained their options until beyond the third quarter, although Dracs did not give in at any time and was little by little, and fourth to fourth extending his advantage.
Cobras played well, shining especially his two American imports, Alex Holmes and Adam Salvadori, but made some mistakes, especially in special teams, which prevented him from having real options at the end of the game.
The match for Cobras did not start badly, which managed to stop the attack of Dracs in his first possession with solvency, but the first of those failures that condition a game, and that we could already see in the first day against Black Demons, would not take long to appear .
After an unsuccessful Cobras offensive drive a bad snap on the punt allowed Dracs to block the punt, and start his offensive drive at Cobras' 11-yard line.
A situation of field in which Dracs does not usually fail, and that served to raise the first points to the marker after the pass to a Javier Fernandez that was alone in the center of the field after an error in the coverage of the Murcian secondary.
The next offensive Cobras drive would not be much more fruitful, in a first quarter in which our offense did not get hurt just the defensive Murcia, and after a good punt return Dracs, they began new series in midfield .
Three plays were enough for the Badalona to return to step on the end zone, this time with a great pass from Hunter Correll to receiver Taylor Ekstrom.
The game started to get uphill with 14-0, but in the next drive Adam Salvadori began to hit the rival defense with his runs, in plays designed especially for him, but also in broken pass plays in which he was very superior to the second defensive line of Dracs.
The fruit of the good work of a sustained drive, the national receiver Francisco Javier Martinez got his fourth touchdown of the season.
From here, duel of blows, first Dracs managed to score again in a drive in which he managed to solve some compromised situation of third down (Guillem Garcia) but in the following kickoff Alex Holmes made one of the most spectacular actions of the game when returning 60 yards and place the 21-14 on the scoreboard.
It seemed that we had entered into an exchange of blows, in which each offensive possession ended in scoring.
Faithful to that script, Dracs managed to step on the scoring area again, this time through his runner Edu Morlans, enlisted as receiver.
(28-14).
Cobras returned to attack, with just two minutes on the scoreboard, and returned to move chains.
Cobras came through again from a magnificent career of Adam Salvadori up to the 12-yard line by Dracs, but the referees sanctioned a holding by catcher Pablo Serrano that thwarted Cobras' hopes of going just one touchdown below.
With the beginning of the second part, and Cobras received the ball.
Again, a long drive, sustained, the best we've seen Cobras this season, and ended with a career touchdown by Adam Salvadori, who at that time was playing at an exceptional level.
However, the conversion of the extra point, blocked, was not successful.
The score was currently 28-20.
Probably one of the most difficult moments for Dracs so far this season as his defense did not seem to be able to stop a Salvadori who completed passes, and did a lot of damage with his careers.
However, from this point, the physical bellows of Cobras would begin to go out, and is that the roster this season is short, and shorter has been for this game.
The pressure of the defensive line was beginning to fade, and Hunter Correll found himself increasingly calm in his pocket.
Dracs' attack continued his tonic, and he counted his drives by annotations.
Now Raul Cernuda receiver.
(35-20).
The defensive ones would have again protagonism in the two following series.
Cobras could not leave his own terrain, and Dracs' attack was intercepted in the zone network by Alex Holmes, in defensive tasks.
Cobras did not want to say goodbye to the game, just at the beginning of the fourth quarter, but there was already little gas in the tank.
Dracs stopped again Cobras deep in his field and the next drive of the Badalona began already in Murcia territory.
Qb Hunter Correll race touchdown that showed in the second part that he is also skillful running.
There would still be time for two more annotations.
In a fourth quarter in which it was noted in both teams that the physical demand of the match was taking its toll.
He hit Dracs again after intercepting Cobras at his 20-yard line (Taylor Ekstrom) and finally, to close the game, Alex Holmes would.
The subsequent conversion of two points would be stopped by the silver defensive.
In short, hard touch test for our first team.
The defeat is bad news in the face of qualifying for the playoffs, but the sensations have been quite good in the face of a momentous game as is the next week against Black Demons at José Barnés.
Source: Murcia Cobras
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