Chilterns Cheetahs 14 Ipswich Cardinals 31 (h/t 12-24)
Chiltern traveled to Ipswich Sunday with their play-off hopes firmly in their own hands, a win, keeps them in contention with one game to go, defeat, and their season is over. Sadly it was the latter, as they were soundly beaten by the better team on the day.
The day started badly enough with half the team arriving with less than an hour before kick-off after being held up in traffic on the way. So it was no surprise when Ipswich jumped in to an early 17-0 lead after touchdowns from Mark Wallace and Paul Borstel. Right at the end of the 1st Qtr. Sandy Francis kicked a career high 47yd field goal.
Chiltern got moving in the second Qtr. and quickly found the scoreboard with an 8yd Kris Stephens run & a 14yd Brendan Peek catch from Rob Suttling. Just when it looked like Chiltern were getting back in to the game, Ipswich replied to further stretch their lead when Paul Borstel added his second score of the day, Sandy Francis added the extra point to make it 24-12 at half time.
The third Qtr. was totally dominated by both teams defences, more so by Chiltern as an Ipswich player was tackled in his own end zone by Kris Stephens for a 2pt Safety. Chiltern couldn't capitalise on this and fell to the sucker punch late in the fourth Qtr. when Matt Donaldson caught a 15yd pass from Ian Girling, Sandy Francis added the extra point to round of the scoring. (14-31)