Brother Martin Pulls Away from St. Paul in Louisiana
Brother Martin Pulls Away from St. Paul in Louisiana
Brother Martin and St Paul moved its game form Saturday afternoon to Friday night to avoid the severe weather forecast for Saturday, and in the end Brother Martin rode a stormy second half to the win.
The game kicked off under the lights at St Paul’s stadium.
St Paul started fast with a try within three minutes, finding gaps in the Brother Martin backline to go ahead 5-0. Brother Martin came charging back as senior loose forward Nate Malek broke a few tackles and then offloaded to lock Blake Cardova for the score. Cameron Coughlin made the conversion and Brother Martin took the lead, 7-5.
Br Martin was awarded a penalty in front of the St Paul posts and Coughlin hit the penalty kick to make it 10-5. But St. Paul wouldn't go away and a converted try put them ahead 12-10.
Brother Martin responded with Coughlin, the team captain, taking a quick tap and going over for the try. Branson Perez hit the conversion to put Brother Martin up 17-12. But right before halftime St. Paul broke through for another tri and converted tolead 19-17.
That, however, would be the final points scored by St. Paul in the game.
Brother Martin would get three tries from Perez; in addition Nathan Malek and Coughlin would score tries. Perez converted four of those and Brother Martin pulled away 50-19.
The result moves Brother Martin to 3-1 in the league.
