09/27/17
Corinne Schmidt
Director of Communications
Email: schmidcc@dukes.jmu.edu
Game Recaps
The Fresno Fuegos crushed the Harrisonburg Valley Bees, 186.42 to 107.98 in the 3rd week of play. The Fuegos practice hard all week for their upcoming game against the Bees since it was going to be a tough matchup going up against Matt Ryan, the Valley Bees quarterback, and Jerry Jones, their wide receiver, who lead their team. Tom Brady lead the Fuegos, with an impressive 50.72 points, just shy of what he earned last week but still beating Matt Ryan by 23.06 points. Brady threw 378 yards for five touchdowns, going for 25 of 35 in passing and adding 6 yards in rushing. Kareem Hunt, the Fuegos running back, contributed strongly by adding 29.30 points, rushing 172 yards for one touchdown and received 11 yards making up for C.J Anderson’s under performance this week. C.J Anderson had a hard game rushing only 36 yards, and receiving seven yards. This was wide receiver Odell Beckham’s first full game back without any injury issues and he caught nine of the 13 throws, giving him 72 yards, and two touchdowns. Beckham earned 28.90 points in this week’s showdown. Jordy Nelson came back from an injury in his quadricep and had 23.20 points, receiving 52 yards and having two touchdown passes. Nelson and Beckham completely outshines the Bee’s two other wide receivers, Julio Jones and DeAndre Hopkins. Jason Witten had a poor performance, having only 1.30 points from three rushing yards. The Fuegos scored the week’s highest total of points with the strong performances of Brady, Hunt, Beckham and Nelson.
Matchup Preview
- Coming into this week 4 matchup, the Fresno Fuegos are on a two game winning streak, and in second rank while the Honolulu Honey badgers are on a three game losing streak and are ranked 7th. The Honey Badgers are projected to win 125.50 – 121.23.
- Philip Rivers, the quarterback of the Honey Badgers had a tough last week throwing 3 interceptions and only completing 20 of 40 passes. He is anticipated to rebound and poses a big threat to the Fuegos.
- Rob Gronkowski, the Honey Badgers Tight End, had an impressive third week, catching eight of 10 target throws and scoring a touchdown. He ranks number one in the NFL for tight end.
- Melvin Gordon, running back for the Honey Badgers was limited last week due to a knee injury and this questions his ability to perform in the game this week.
- Zeke Elliot, running back for the Honey Badgers, played great last week having 18.40 points, he will put the Fuegos defense to the test.
- Tom Brady ranks number one in the NFL for quarterback right now, heading into week 4, while Philip Rivers, the Honey Badgers quarterback ranks 24th in the NFL.
- Kareem Hunt ranks number one in the NFL for running back right now, heading into week 4, while Melvin Gordon, the Honey Badgers running back ranks ninth.
- The Fuegos defense ranks 14, while the Honey badgers defense ranks 15. This gives a probability of a high scoring game.
Fresno Fuegos Season Notes
- Doug Martin is still out due to his suspension. This is his last game he is suspended before he returns in week 5.
- No Add/Drops
- No trade news
- Fresno county board of education member was accused of breaking the fundraising rules by using thousands of dollars raised through his school board campaign to get a bid for Fresno City council.
- Caruthers District Fair opens again for the 88th year starting this Wednesday afternoon. This is the largest and longest free gate fair in California. The theme for this year is “Barn in the USA”.
- Fresno Unified School district collected more then 1,000 boxes worth of donated items for students and staff of the Houston Independent School district. The donations were collected in less than two weeks and local companies, Pape and DTL transportation offered to ship the items to Houston for free.