Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd June – By Thomas Rowberry
Week 9 of the BAFA National Leagues saw 18 games take place across the weekend with the Tamworth Phoenix, Leicester Falcons, Aberdeen Roughnecks and Yorkshire Rams kicking off the weekend’s action on Saturday. In their previous encounter on opening day the Rams were on the end of a 42-point shutout against the Roughnecks, this week following a strong defensive performance they managed to return the favour (yes that scoreline is correct! Straight out of our football, that one!).
Sundays action saw a further three shutouts with the London Warriors, Solent Thrashers and Portsmouth Dreadnoughts all holding their opponents to zero points. In what is becoming a regular occurrence there were more blowouts than close games throughout the three tiers of the game with 12 games being decided by more than one score. We did however get a tie with the Ipswich Cardinals and Norwich Devils battling to a 31-31 deadlock in a thriller that saw the lead change multiple times in the 4th qtr.
RESULTS
Saturday 1st June
Prem North
Tamworth Phoenix 42 – Leicester Falcons 9
NFC 1 North
Aberdeen Roughnecks 0 – Yorkshire Rams 2
Sunday 2nd June
Prem South
Bristol Aztecs 36 – London Olympians 20
Farnham Knights 0 – London Warriors 70
NFC 1 North
East Kilbride Pirates 49 – Gateshead Senators 12
NFC 1 South
Shropshire Revolution 6 – Nottingham Caesars 20
Lancashire Wolverines 6 – Sandwell Steelers 59
SFC 1 Central
Hertfordshire Cheetahs 0 – Solent Thrashers 10
Portsmouth Dreadnoughts 41 – Berkshire Renegades 0
SFC 1 East
London Hornets 13 – Cambridgeshire Cats 20
NFC 2 North
Darlington Steam 8 – Inverclyde Goliaths 16
NFC 2 Central
Furness Phantoms 6 – Halton Spartans 41
Leeds Bobcats 44 – Morecambe Bay Storm 14
NFC 2 South
Staffordshire Surge 6 – Birmingham Bulls 34
SFC 2 East
Ipswich Cardinals 31 – Norwich Devils 31
SFC 2 South
Swindon Storm 28 – Jurassic Coast Raptors 3
SFC 2 West
South Wales Warriors 29 – Somerset Wyverns 6
Worcestershire Black Knights 6 – Cornish Sharks 20
