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PRs are playoff bound, officially

June 15, 2010 at 7:44 am Leave a comment

It’s not often that a team posts a 2-4 record and qualifies for the playoffs, but if a team ever deserved that distinction it’s the 2010 Pocket Rockets. Two wins in two weeks propelled the once winless Pocket Rockets to the No. 3 seed in the D-1 Gold Playoff Bracket. No. 2 seed The U (4-2) awaits at 3 p.m. on June 27 at Belmont.

In the season finale, a showdown with The Renagades (sic) for the third and final playoff spot, the Pocket Rockets prevailed 38-32 thanks in large part to an outstanding defensive effort in the first half. For the second straight week, the PRs surrendered just 6 first-half points. First-half highlights included two red-zone interceptions… the first by Uncle Ron, who dashed nearly to the house. A quick TD later and the PRs went up 14-6. Minutes later as The Renagades (sic) tried to tie the game just before the half, D-man jumped in front of a gender-tossed ball and galloped to the endzone for a 20-6 halftime lead.

The PRs stretched the lead to 26-6 on the opening possession of the second half. The Renagades (sic), to their credit, wouldn’t give up and eventually cut the PR lead to 32-26 with about 4 minutes to go by effectively employing a running game (gasp!). On a critical PR possession and facing a 4th-down near midfield, Brian worked himself open in the middle and scampered into scoring territory. On third-and-goal, Mere made her patented zig-out move. Vegas threaded the needle in the corner and Mere tiptoed the line for the winning score. Game ball is shared by all for an outstanding effort.

One sad note… The Rock Jr. is officially missing and not likely to rejoin us. I must be at the ‘acceptance’ stage because I’m expecting my new baby to be delivered on Friday. I will take better care of this one. Promise.

News and notes

Here’s your World Cup update:

Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks these games are so boring spectators need something else to occupy their time. For my part, during USA-England, I read this article. I guess if I were at the game I’d be tooting an annoying horn… which is much less annoying than getting shot for watching the World Cup. Yipes. Even I don’t hate soccer that much.

Anyway, as you know, the game of the century ended in… say it with me… a tie! Oh, soccer.

Here are the highlights in case you fell asleep watching:

The Onion Sports Network also has some breaking soccer news.

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