Took my brother Paul and his wife Yoko along with Maureen, Jenna and Nephew Zachary to the Navy vs Maryland football game today.
It was a great back and forth game. Navy really outplayed Maryland and pretty much gave the game away with 2 fumbles inside the 5 yard line.
Here's the recap:
BALTIMORE -- Navy dominated the time of possession, outgained Maryland by nearly 200 yards and made 15 more first downs.
None of this lessened the enjoyment the Terrapins derived from their 17-14 victory Monday.
Kenny Tate stopped Ricky Dobbs at the goal line with 34 seconds left, and Maryland stunned their in-state rivals to break a seven-game losing streak that began last October.
"Perseverance. That's all we've been preaching all summer," Terrapins linebacker Alex Wujciak said. "We knew we were going to face adversity in a game like this, we knew there would be plays when they gained a lot of yards. We just had to overcome it."
The Midshipmen (0-1) held the ball for nearly 19 minutes longer than Maryland (1-0), amassed 485 yards and collected 26 first downs. But in a game influenced by untimely turnovers and huge penalties, the outcome was decided by a gritty goal-line stand.
Trailing 17-14 with a fourth down at the 1, Navy decided to go for the win. Dobbs took the snap, went to his left and was met by Tate, who would not relent to the momentum Dobbs brought to the line.
"We should have kicked the field goal to send it into overtime," coach Ken Niumatalolo said. "In hindsight, we should have just kicked the ball."
Earlier in the drive, Dobbs was stopped on a third-and-8. But Maryland's Adrian Moten was flagged for grabbing the facemask on the play, and the Midshipmen advanced until Tate's big play.
"I thought I was going to be able to get it outside," Dobbs said. "I felt 100 percent confident that we were going to be able to punch it in."
Coming off a 2-10 season, the Terrapins came in as underdogs against a Navy team that went 10-4 and beat Missouri in the Texas Bowl.
But Maryland raced to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and then held on behind a defense that repeatedly excelled after Navy got inside the 20.
The Midshipmen had a 7 1/2-minute edge in time of possession in the first half, yet trailed 14-7 after coming up empty on drives of 52, 63 and 66 yards.
In the second half, Dobbs lost a fumble at the Maryland 1 and was stuffed by Tate on the game's pivotal play.
"We had a lot of opportunities," Niumatalolo said. "We left 31 points on the field."
Dobbs ran for 63 yards and a touchdown, but the senior quarterback fumbled three times -- losing two of them at the Maryland 1.
"I take sole responsibility for the occurrences here today," Dobbs said. "I didn't get the job done."
Niumatalolo said, "He's human. He's done some great things for us and won a lot of games for us. We all make mistakes. I made one at the end of the game."
There were plenty by both teams.
"Both of us turned the ball over when we wouldn't want to," Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen said. "Last year, we probably wouldn't have won this game. We found a way to hang in there. Hopefully, this will build confidence and be a positive experience for them."
Maryland never trailed despite allowing the Midshipmen to amass 429 yards rushing.
"I can't remember a time when we rushed for 400 yards and lost," Niumatalolo said. "There's no consolation in moving the ball."
Navy didn't punt until early in the fourth quarter, and the short kick was returned 57 yards by Tony Logan to the Navy 16.
Maryland promptly fumbled the ball away on a missed exchange involving backup quarterback Danny O'Brien -- his only play of the game.
"We wanted to get Danny in the game," Friedgen said.
The Midshipmen pulled even at 14 with 1:52 left in the third quarter when Dobbs scored from the 1 on a drive that began with wide receiver Greg Jones running 53 yards on a reverse.
A crowd of 69,348 showed up for the second meeting between the teams since 1965. There's no telling when the next matchup between the two will be held.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Jimmy Buffett 2010
We invited Jamie and her friend Jackie along with us.We left Crofton around 11am an spent the day at the pool of the Quality Inn near the venue with a bunch of friends. Had lots of fun and meet some interesting people. A charter bus picked us all up around 6pm and drove us over to the show. Jamie and her friend sat on the lawn while Maureen and I had a couple nice pavilion seats. Show was great. Here is the Set List:
1 Nobody From Nowhere (with Sonny Landreth)
2 Piece Of Work (with Sonny Landreth)
3 Knees Of My Heart
4 Wings
5 It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
6 Bama Breeze (with Sonny Landreth)
7 Window On The World (with Sonny Landreth)
8 Volcano
9 Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
10 Where The Boat Leaves From
11 One Particular Harbour
12 Brown Eyed Girl
13 Brahma Fear (Jimmy acoustic)
14 Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw (Jimmy and Mac acoustic)
15 It's My Job (Jimmy and Mac acoustic)
16 Mexico
17 Creola (featuring Nadirah Shakoor)
18 Gypsies In The Palace (with the poem)
19 Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
20 Come Monday
21 Cheeseburger In Paradise
22 A Pirate Looks At Forty
23 Back Where I Come From (featuring Mac McAnally)
24 Woman Goin’ Crazy On Caroline Street
25 Southern Cross
26 Margaritaville (with the Lost Verse)
First Encore
Band Intros: Tina Gullickson, Nadirah Shakoor, Ralph MacDonald, Peter Mayer, Sonny Landreth, Doyle Grisham, Mac McAnally, Roger Guth, Jim Mayer, Robert Greenidge, Johnny Lovell, Michael Utley
27 Scarlet Begonias (with Sonny Landreth)
28 Fins
Second Encore
29 He Went To Paris
