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Cincinnati Jungle Kats
Welcome back: Blowout win helps Steamwheelers return to playoffsBy Craig DeVrieze | Saturday, July 21, 2007
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Mothers tell their sons not to hit, but football mothers do make exceptions.
Watching her son, Jermaine Petty, play football for the first time in two years, Joyce Norris saw him deliver one of the
most crushing blows in Quad-City Steamwheelers’ memory.
“I said, ‘Oh my God,’ ” Norris
said of her reaction to her son’s game-turning, bone-crunching early-second-half sack of Cincinnati Jungle Kats quarterback
Scott Jefferies.
Coming clean on a rush after Jefferies had been flushed out of the pocket, Petty knocked the football
out of the quarterback’s hands, knocked the quarterback out of the game and turned what had been a typical arenafootball2
offensive shootout into an easy-does-it, 83-33 Steamwheelers rout.
The win booked the Steamwheelers (9-6) a certain
af2 playoff berth.
Now, to win the Midwest Division and ensure a first-round playoff home game, they have to beat Fort
Wayne on Thursday at the i wireless Center and hope for a Saturday loss at Mahoning Valley by Green Bay.
Green Bay
beat Louisville 74-48 on Friday, and owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Steamwheelers.
The Steamwheelers also
might claim a home game with a win and a couple of helpful results elsewhere, but Petty isn’t into all that playoff
math.
His goal is just to keep knocking down opponents and see what happens.
“I’m not big on clinching,”
he said of Friday’s achievement. “I’m big on winning out and going into the playoffs with a full head of
steam.”
A full head of steam is what the Q-C defensive end had worked up when the 6-foot-2, 220-pound Jefferies
— who had kept the 1-14 Kats in the contest by throwing for five first-half touchdowns — rolled left in his own
end zone and turned upfield on the second half’s fourth play.
“He decided to try and put a move
on me,” said Petty, who was coming unblocked.
It didn’t work.
“I felt it,” fellow Steamwheelers
lineman Kika Kaululaau said of the jarring sack that sent Jefferies to a local hospital for precautionary x-rays. “I
thought I was going to fall down. It stunned my vision.”
Kaululaau recovered in time to recover Jefferies fumble
at the 1, and when quarterback J.J. Raterink snuck it in on the next play, the rout was good and on.
With Jeffries
in, the teams traded first-half scores until Kris Peters’ 49-yard missed field goal return inside the final minute helped
Q-C stake a 43-33 lead at halftime.
A Cincinnati representative spoke to Jefferies as he waited to be x-rayed at Trinity
Trauma Center after the game and said the quarterback was expected to be OK.
Cincinnati wasn’t fine without him.
With backup Patrick Josten behind center, the Jungle Kats never sniffed the end zone again.
The Steamwheelers offense,
meanwhile, kept rolling, finishing with scores on all 10 of its possessions.
Raterink completed 21 of 28 throws for
224 yards and eight touchdowns, while Peters had four touchdown receptions in addition to his big return, and Jack Walker
Jr. had three TD catches as well as an interception return for a score.
Pleasant Valley High grad Tom Anthony joined
Peters and Walker in the elite 100-catch, 1,000-yard single-season club with a 10-catch, 104-yard, one touchdown night.
“Our
offense was clicking in the first and second half and the defense came out and terrorized them in the second half,”
Anthony said.
Kevin Adams Jr. contributed a game-high eight tackles to go with a highlight-film-caliber interception
and a pass break-up. And Walker had a fumble recovery in addition to his pick and score.
The undoubted defensive star,
though, was big hitter Petty had three sacks and forced both fumbles after coming out of the pregame tunnel and finding his
mother and father had traveled all the way from Inman, S.C., to see him play indoors for the first time.
“Mom
and Dad surprised me,” he said. “I had to really step my game up.”
That he did.
Former quarterback
Sean Ponder, back as Q-C head coach after a three-game league suspension, said he never has been hit as hard as Petty hit
Jefferies.
“And I had some bad offensive lines,” he said.
Craig DeVrieze can be contacted at (563)
333-2610 or cdevrieze@qctimes.com
Box Score
Box Score (Final)
Cinn. Jungle Kats vs Quad City Steamwheel (Jul 20, 2007 at Moline, IL)
Score by Quarters 1 2 3 4 Score
----------------- -- -- -- -- -----
Cinn. Jungle Kats... 7 26 0 0 - 33 Record: (1-14)
Quad City Steamwheel 13 30 12 28 - 83 Record: (9-6)
Scoring Summary:
1st 09:11 QCS - PETERS, Kris 11 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick failed), 7-32 5:49, CJK 0 - QCS 6
06:41 CJK - EDWARDS, LeJuan 27 yd pass from JEFFRIES, Scot (JOHNSON, Travis kick), 3-45 2:22, CJK 7 - QCS 6
02:45 QCS - PETERS, Kris 3 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 5-24 3:29, CJK 7 - QCS 13
2nd 13:32 CJK - GRAHAM, Derin 24 yd pass from JEFFRIES, Scot (JOHNSON, Travis kick failed), 5-40 3:59, CJK 13 - QCS 13
11:06 QCS - PETERS, Kris 10 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 3-39 2:15, CJK 13 - QCS 20
09:41 CJK - GRAHAM, Derin 45 yd pass from JEFFRIES, Scot (JOHNSON, Travis kick), 1-45 1:15, CJK 20 - QCS 20
04:44 QCS - WALKER Jr., Jac 11 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 6-30 4:40, CJK 20 - QCS 27
02:44 CJK - WASHINGTON, Des 21 yd pass from JEFFRIES, Scot (JOHNSON, Travis kick), 2-31 1:50, CJK 27 - QCS 27
01:34 QCS - PETERS, Kris 28 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 1-28 0:59, CJK 27 - QCS 34
00:39 QCS - PETERS, Kris 49 yd missed FG return (NAEHU, Kimo kick failed), , CJK 27 - QCS 40
00:17 CJK - BROCKMAN, Hassa 11 yd pass from JEFFRIES, Scot (JEFFRIES, Scot pass failed), 3-45 0:22, CJK 33 - QCS 40
00:00 QCS - NAEHU, Kimo 31 yd field goal, 2-11 0:10, CJK 33 - QCS 43
3rd 11:48 QCS - RATERINK, J.J. 1 yd run (NAEHU, Kimo kick failed), 1-1 0:06, CJK 33 - QCS 49
05:10 QCS - WALKER Jr., Jac 3 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (PIKE, Matt pass failed), 6-18 4:22, CJK 33 - QCS 55
4th 12:44 QCS - ANTHONY, Tom 30 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 1-30 1:05, CJK 33 - QCS 62
07:53 QCS - WALKER Jr., Jac 24 yd pass from RATERINK, J.J. (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 2-25 1:56, CJK 33 - QCS 69
06:24 QCS - WALKER Jr., Jac 17 yd interception return (NAEHU, Kimo kick), , CJK 33 - QCS 76
01:00 QCS - PETERS, Kris 18 yd pass from PIKE, Matt (NAEHU, Kimo kick), 3-24 2:08, CJK 33 - QCS 83
CJK QCS
FIRST DOWNS................... 19 18
RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............ 1-0 4-6
PASSING YDS (NET)............. 279 246
Passes Att-Comp-Int........... 42-23-2 31-23-0
TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS..... 46-279 36-252
Fumble Returns-Yards.......... 0-0 0-0
Kickoff Returns-Yards......... 4-53 5-98
Interception Returns-Yards.... 0-0 2-49
Fumbles-Lost.................. 3-2 0-0
Penalties-Yards............... 7-45 8-49
Possession Time............... 31:06 28:54
Third-Down Conversions........ 4 of 8 5 of 7
Fourth-Down Conversions....... 0 of 2 1 of 1
Red-Zone Scores-Chances....... 0-1 5-5
Sacks By: Number-Yards........ 1-2 3-24
RUSHING: Cinn. Jungle Kats-JOSTEN, Patrick 1-0. Quad City
Steamwheel-WALKER Jr., Jac 2-3; KERR, Nikolas 1-2; RATERINK, J.J. 1-1.
PASSING: Cinn. Jungle Kats-JOSTEN, Patrick 10-23-2-95; JEFFRIES, Scot
13-19-0-208; TEAM 0-0-0-minus 24. Quad City Steamwheel-RATERINK, J.J.
21-28-0-224; PIKE, Matt 2-3-0-24; TEAM 0-0-0-minus 2.
RECEIVING: Cinn. Jungle Kats-GRAHAM, Derin 9-139; EDWARDS, LeJuan 5-76;
BROCKMAN, Hassa 5-41; WASHINGTON, Des 4-47. Quad City Steamwheel-ANTHONY, Tom
10-104; PETERS, Kris 8-88; WALKER Jr., Jac 5-56.
INTERCEPTIONS: Cinn. Jungle Kats-None. Quad City Steamwheel-WALKER Jr.,
Jac 1-17; ADAMS, Kevin 1-32.
FUMBLES: Cinn. Jungle Kats-JEFFRIES, Scot 2-1; JOSTEN, Patrick 1-1. Quad
City Steamwheel-None.
Stadium: I Wireless Center Attendance: 3516
Kickoff time: 7:30 End of Game: 10:10 Total elapsed time: 2:40
Officials: Referee: Tony Canella; Umpire: Pat Bayers; Linesman: Donald Rager;
Line judge: Donald Shouse; Back judge: Larry Orrico; Scorer: Dave Beyer;
SCHUTT OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME: Tom Anthony (QCS)
ADT DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE GAME: Jermaine Petty (QCS)
U.S. ARMY IRONMAN OF THE GAME: Jack Walker, Jr. (QCS)
CUTTER'S CATCH: Raterink-Anthony; 30 yd TD; 12:44 4th qtr.
Cinn. Jungle Kats vs Quad City Steamwheel (Jul 20, 2007 at Moline, IL)
SACKS (UA-A): Cinn. Jungle Kats-NEELY, Jamar 1-0. Quad City
Steamwheel-PETTY, Jermaine 3-0.
TACKLES (UA-A): Cinn. Jungle Kats-MCCRAY, Demetri 5-0; WILLIAMS, Georg
5-0; WASHINGTON, Des 4-0; MAINOR, Keon 2-0; JOHNSON, Travis 2-0; JENKINS, Melvin
2-0; BROCKMAN, Hassa 1-1; EDWARDS, LeJuan 1-1; NEELY, Jamar 1-0; GRAHAM, Derin
1-0. Quad City Steamwheel-ADAMS, Kevin 7-2; DAVIS, Jordan 7-0; PETTY, Jermaine
3-0; STEPTER, Lavar 2-1; ANTHONY, Tom 1-0; WALKER Jr., Jac 1-0; MACREA, Jeff
0-1.
Game Starters:
Cinn. Jungle Kats
POS ## OFFENSE
QB 7 JEFFRIES, Scot
WR 4 GRAHAM, Derin
WR 8 BROCKMAN, Hassa
WR 2 EDWARDS, LeJuan
FB 17 PARRIS, Melvin
TE 65 DAVIS, Jarvis
C 70 JACKSON, Demetr
G 77 STRAUB, Frank
POS ## DEFENSE
DB 23 MCCRAY, Demetri
DB 3 WASHINGTON, Des
DB 5 MAINOR, Keon
LB 10 JENKINS, Melvin
LB 1 WILLIAMS, Georg
DE 34 NEELY, Jamar
NG 91 DAVIS, Dan
DE 96 HORTON, Timirr
Quad City Steamwheel
POS ## OFFENSE
QB 11 RATERINK, J.J.
WR 6 PETERS, Kris
WR 28 ANTHONY, Tom
WR 24 WALKER Jr., Jac
FB 16 KERR, Nikolas
TE 72 JAHNKE, Chris
C 91 MISIPEKA, Trevo
G 60 ENDEMANN, Andy
POS ## DEFENSE
DB 1 LEWIS, Sidney
DB 4 ADAMS, Kevin
DB 9 DAVIS, Jordan
LB 3 MACREA, Jeff
LB 5 STEPTER, Lavar
DT 12 BELL, Shonn
NG 78 KAULULAAU, Kika
DT 40 PETTY, Jermaine
Player participation:
Cinn. Jungle Kats: 15-JOSTEN, Patrick, 25-JOHNSON, Travis.
Quad City Steamwheel: 2-PIKE, Matt, 8-NAEHU, Kimo, 98-PAHUA, Ryan.
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