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Scouting Report on Boston Pays Off for OMBAC (Storybook Ride All The Way)
12 May 2001 - Ft. Worth, TX - No one said it was going to be easy. The road to the championship never is. OMBAC found that out first hand today as Palmer College, the Midwest's #1 seed, scored three tries in the last 15 minutes of the match to win 44-19 and put an end to OMBAC's season. OMBAC started out strong in their opening round match against the Boston Irish Wolfhounds using the width of the field for a 19-0 lead after 20 minutes. The Wolfhounds had the first shot at points but a first minute penalty kick sailed wide of the mark. From the ensuing dropout OMBAC immediately went on the attack and after a couple of thrusts in the midfield to soften the defense, fullback Dick Diack got the ball on the outside and sprinted 60 meters with the game's first try. Five minutes later, OMBAC again spread the ball across the pitch and with the Boston defense in shambles, hooker Sean Donovan scurried around the weakside to dot down in the corner. Boston's offensive plan was to crash their forwards, hoist the high ball or use their outside center as a battering ram, and through the first 40-minutes, OMBAC's defense was unpenetrable. OMBAC scored their third try of the match midway through the opening half. Eight-man Nate Gallow fended off three Boston defenders to race in from 22 meters and after another Kyle Aspinall conversion, OMBAC found themselves comfortably in front 19-0. Boston's lone reply in the half was a penalty kick just before the break. Boston kept up their three-pronged attack in the second half and started to make inroads into OMBAC territory. A Wolfhound converted try in the 12th minute narrowed the gap to 19-10 but OMBAC regained a double-digit lead on an Aspinall penalty. Aspinall's second penalty of the afternoon made it a 15-point differential. Boston kept up the attack and finished with a converted try but OMBAC's IIs storybook ride continued with the 25-17 victory. "Our scouting report on Boston was spot-on," said OMBAC winger Jon Hinkin. "We knew it wasn't going wide so we concentrated on bottling them up. On the flip-side, we knew we could spread the field and it worked perfectly in the first half. We kind of got away from that in the second half but hey, we won, and live to see another day." OMBAC Lineup -15-Dickie Diack (replaced by Rolf Fraser) -14-Todd Lutinski -13-Pat O'Mahoney (replaced by Schmidt) -12-Doug Wilson -11-Jon Hinkin -10-Kyle Aspinall -9-Mark Easby -8-Nate Gallow -7-Jess Lawton -6-Clark Bernales -5-Chris Kaufmann (replaced by Bob Knoephel) -4-Rob Mandell -3-Brandon Brown -2-Sean Donovan -1-Troy Donahhue
Source: OMBACRugby.com
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