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John E Doyle


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On Monday June 2nd, the Central Texas Public Safety Sports Organization was notified that the Division II title game will take place in Orlando, FL between Division II leader and host Orlando Guardians and your Central Texas Wolf Pack, on Sat., June 21st (time not yet announced)!  WE DID IT!!  Division II is teams ranked 1-3 (conversely Division I is teams ranked 4 and 5, whic is highest rank).  CTWP came in 2nd when Washington DC lost to Philly last weekend - and now Da 'Pack will try and exact revenge "in Hell" to a team it lost to by less than two scores from the 2007 regular-season bout!  I will keep you posted on the outcome - or you may go to www.npsfl.com for the latest info!  Wish us well!  GO 'PACK!!!!

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Saturday, May 17th, 2008.  "Big Game America!!"  The stake: winner may claim a spot in the NPSFL Division II title game!  The Bakersfield (CA) Falcons landed at Nelson Field to dual with the host Central Texas Wolf Pack, but Da 'Pack turned back the Birds of Prey with a 75-24 victory!  Yes, you read it right - but the Falcons did not go down without a first-quarter fight!

 

Though Da 'Pack received the opening kickoff, its first series became a blunder, culminating in an errant snap with the Falcons D recovering the loose ball in the end zone for the first score.  The two-point conversion failed.  Da 'Pack O got in the groove on its next series, as RB James Doyle (#4, AFD) reeled off two long gains, the last going for a 42-yard TD.  The extra point was missed, and the game was tied at 6.  Da 'Pack D stunted the Falcons on their next series, and Da 'Pack O took advantage, with Doyle again scoring from 4 yards out to give Da 'Pack a 12-6 lead.  But the Falcons took the ensuing kickoff with RB Jeff Packebush (#3) nearly taking it the distance, but ran out of steam enough where CB Lawuan "Cookie" Jackson (#14, TCFC) took him down just outside Da 'Pack 10.  Moments later the Falcons scored to knot the game again at 12.

 

Yet, Da 'Pack reeled off 42 unanswered to take a 54-12 halftime lead!  One of the Four Amigos (Doyle) was mentioned; QB James Ramon (#19, AFD) also had a rushing TD, and WR Shawndel Tucker (#1, TCSO) collected two TDs.  (Jermaine Gaspard (#21, TCSO) was present but did not play.)  Other offensive scorers were Tyson Poindexter (#18, AFD) and FB Amir Abdul-Kaliq (#34, APD).  Defensively DE Reshard Saulter (#66, Temple PD) amassed three sacks, and four collective interceptions were made by LBs Randy Hazelrig (#9, AFD) and Mike Monroe (#31, APD), and DBs Jackson and Bobby Higgins (#25, Helotes PD), with Higgins returning his for a TD!

 

Again among the crowd were Police Chief Art Acevedo and Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton!  Also retired AFD and NFL referee Ruben Fowler lent his support to Da 'Pack sideline!

 

Da 'Pack will await word from the league office of any post-season play, so stay tuned The Greatest Show on Turf II ain't done yet !!

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Thanks for the update John.

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John E Doyle


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K-9s.  Cats.  But the K-9s groaned from this 'backyard scrap,' as the Dallas/Fort Worth Panthers claimed a 41-18 victory over the host Central Texas Wolf Pack at Nelson Field.  Upon receiving the opening kickoff, the Panthers were on the scoreboard three plays later.  They went on to build a 20-0 lead midway thru the first quarter, until Da 'Pack finally had enough, and cut the lead by 14 when RB Jermaine Gaspard (#21, TCSO) scored on an 8-yard romp up the middle.  The second quarter saw both teams trade a TD apiece - with Gaspard scoring again on a swing pass from QB James Ramon (#19, AFD) - as the Panthers took a 26-12 halftime lead.  But just when Da 'Pack felt there was an opportunity to keep this game close, the Panthers oozed 15 more points by the end of the third quarter.  However Da 'Pack defense made some spectacular stands in the fourth, and late in that quarter safety Bobby Higgins (#22, Helotes PD, minus the Mohawk) took a punt return the distance for the final scoring.  The event marks the third straight time this season Da 'Pack scored on special teams!  Being at the Nelson drew a crowd almost similar to last year's home game vs. FDNY Bravest, and hopes of a full-capacity may be something to be desired for the last home game vs. the Bakersfield (CA) Falcons May 17th.  In between time, you are certainly welcome to travel with Da 'Pack to Houston (vs. the Gunners April 19th), then to Fort Worth (a rematch with the MetroStars April 26th).  Again, visit www.npsfl.com and click on the Central Texas Wolf Pack logo for more info.  "Come along, (our) friends, come along !"

-- Edited by John E Doyle at 23:01, 2008-04-06

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John E Doyle


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"WHAT A FEELIN'!!!!"


This time, the Central Texas Wolf Pack football team was the background choreography to the 2008 Irene Cara version of the "Flashdance" title track!  WE WON Y'ALL!!!!  The team traveled to Orange County, CA and avenged a two-year-old grudge with the Southern California Blue Knights, a 38-20 "Win initiation" for a team who have waited five years in its history to claim!


"(OH) WHAT A FEELIN'!!!!"  ("You sing that song Irene!!")  Playing on a mild but overcast day at Irvine High School, Da 'Pack took a 20-0 yes, that's right a 20-0 halftime lead.  But SoCal was minus its original QB that first half, as he came on in the second to help the Blue Knights to the scoreboard.  Yet, when SoCal did score, Da 'Pack countered!


The Three - no, Four Amigos led Da 'Pack offense, as Brett Favre-clone James Ramon (#19, AFD) tossed four TD passes vs. one pick.  Shawndel Tucker (#1, TCSO) and James Doyle (#4, AFD) caught two each.  Tuck also had a rushing TD, and Jermaine Gaspard (#21, TCSO) returned a second-half ensuing kickoff in climaxing Da 'Pack scoring.  The defense burned last game's "Tackling for Dummies" edition for this game, with new Mohawk twins Chris Jenkins (#8, CPFD) and Bobby Higgins (#22, Helotes PD) "puttin' on da hits!"  Organizer and head coach Ron Phillips (APD) finally got the Gatorade icebath, and APD Chief Art Acevedo was among the crowd and strolled Da 'Pack sideline, Jerry Jones style!


Da 'Pack hopes this jubilation will not be short-lived, as the elite divisional rival Dallas/Fort Worth Panthers come to Nelson Field Saturday, April 5th (kickoff at 3 pm).


"Come along, (our) friends, come along, get aboard and ride this (C-TX) train!"*  Follow Da 'Pack on the league website at www.npsfl.com (click on the Central Texas Wolf Pack logo).

* Excerpted from a church male chorus musical in Little Rock, AR.

-- Edited by John E Doyle at 12:08, 2008-04-01

-- Edited by John E Doyle at 12:13, 2008-04-01

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"It often has been said that football is a game of mistakes, and it doesn't take a genius to realize that the team that makes the most mistakes usually will lose."*


This citation summarize Opening Gameday for the Central Texas Wolf Pack 2008 season, as the team succumbed to a 39-point 2nd-half onslaught  from visiting and division rival Dallas/Fort Worth MetroStars en route to a 52-19 MetroStars victory at the Tony Burger Center Saturday.


In reality, it was D/FWs center-to-QB exchange vs. Da Packs edition of Tackling for Dummies.  Yet the MetroStars scored off two bad exchanges.


Albeit, the first half was tight.  The guests only took a 13-6 halftime lead, leading to a heightened presumption of a Pack 2nd-half rally.  But missed tackles and five interceptions, along with the late-noon breeze, blew those aspirations away.


Receiver Shawndel Tucker (#1, TCSO), one of the main events to Da Packs version of Greatest Show on Turf, was the lone TD provider (two receiving TDs and a kickoff return TD), and kicker Mike Pollard (#2, APD) converted one of three point-afters in Da Pack scoring.


After this letdown, Da Pack will look skyward as the team prepares in the next two weeks before a last-Saturday-of-the-month tilt with the Southern California Blue Knights, out in the sunny state of California.  (Retribution is in order from a 12-7 2005 squeaker at Kempel Field!)  Care to join us?!


Team website www.eteamz.active.com/centraltexaswolfpack.


 

* The Sports Xchange, Nov. 9, 2004, http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/teams/report/STL/7869467.


-- Edited by John E Doyle at 20:42, 2008-03-09

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