ANNA MARIA – Under the lights of The Center field, the coin toss opened the winter flag football season last Thursday night on the Island. The big kids took to the gridiron with 11 adult co-ed flag football teams playing this season.
The first game started with a 47-6 Moss Builders blowout over the Slim’s Place squad. With Richard Fosmore returning to the field as the Slim’s Place quarterback after many years, his touchdown pass to Dave Kesten just was not a match for the talents of the Moss Builders team.
Offensively, Moss Builders used the arms of team captain Ryan Moss, throwing for four touchdowns, and James Roadman, who also completed four TD passes.
As the scoring targets, Evelyn Long, Zachary Long and Logan Heath all caught two touchdown throws. Roadman was hit by Moss for a six-point catch, as well as a point-after conversion for one point.
Heath and the Longs also helped add points to the scoreboard with post touchdown extra points. The win puts Moss Builders on top after week one play along with teams MI-Box, Floridian Mortgage, Moss Air and Ross Built Custom Homes.
MI-Box showed up to win over the Gulf Drive Café squad 25-12. Matthew Briley led his team to victory as the team captain and QB, throwing for two TDs and taking two to the endzone with rushing yardage.
On the other side of the football, Briley had three interceptions against the Gulf Drive quarterbacks. Christian Hampton had the hot hands for the MI-Box team, catching the two Briley TD passes.
Silas Banyas put statistics in the books with two sacks and a one-point conversion.
Gulf Drive Café’s Cody Allen shut down a MI-Box drive with an interception, picking off Briley. Never giving up, the Gulf Drive team scored 12 points with passes by Jeremy Rodriguez to Steven Pavina, and Pavina to Jaden Grant.
The result of game three was no surprise as team Floridian Mortgage handily won against Reel Coastal Properties. Scoring six points, new Reel Coastal team’s QB Sequiel Marintez threw to Roman Marintez for the team’s only score in the game.
Slicker’s Eatery could only find the endzone once in their match-up against Moss Air. With the final score 20-7, Dominick Otteni connected with Donte Filletti for six points and the one-point conversion to end the team’s scoring.
Chad Woods, Jesse Skipper and Jonathan Soultatos were hit by QB Jonathan Moss. Team captain Moss threw for two extra points, including one to Skipper to seal the win.
Closing out the night in the only nailbiter in week one, Ross Built defeated team Solid Rock Construction by two points. Solid Rock showed their promise this season with team captain Charles “Tuna” McCracken at the helm as the QB. Throwing for two TDs and rushing for 12-points, McCracken led his team to near-victory.
Connor Ludwig and Tyler Brewer caught the McCracken passes, but failed point-after attempts were the ultimate demise of the Solid Rock team.
Ross Built Custom Homes converted on all four extra point plays, while also scoring four touchdowns, with four successful passes by Miguel Rodriguez and Corey Vonborstel. Zaon Williams, Vonborstel and Rodriguez each had solid hands, receiving for 24 points.
Making the difference, Andrew Ross scored one point along with teammate Williams, while Rodriguez scored two additional points to put the first W in the books for their team this season.
SUN SCOREBOARD
JAN. 9
ADULT CO-ED FLAG FOOTBALL
Moss Builders 47
Slim’s Place 6
MI-Box 25
Gulf Drive Café 12
Floridian Mortgage 26
Reel Coastal Properties 6
Moss Air 20
Slicker’s Eatery 7
Ross Built Custom Homes 28
Solid Rock Construction 26
Coaster Continent – Bye Week
