Southwestern Pirates Beat Stuttgart Scorpions 48-7
The Southwestern University Pirates triumphed 48-7 over German Football League side the Stuttgart Scorpions on Sunday.
The highlight of an overseas spring tour from their home base in Georgetown, Texas to Germany with Global Football saw the Pirates take on a Scorpions team that has opened the new 2014 GFL season with three wins and currently tops the GFL South Division in a domestic league that is considered the most competitive on the continent.
The game was part of a unique ‘Super Global Sunday’ double-header as for the first time in 19 years of exporting American football around the world to 21 nations, Global Football had two teams playing simultaneously in two different European countries. While Southwestern met the Scorpions, in Vienna, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps faced the Austrian national team in the annual spectacle, the Turkish Airlines Charity Bowl.
The Pirates opened the scoring when Bryan Hicks went on a 36-yard touchdown run behind block of Will Irving and Laith Tucker tagged on the extra point. Hicks then went 31 yards through the air with a scoring pass to Hunter Hazen, capitalizing on an earlier fumble recovery by Taylor Fann.
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My alma mater's first win since 1950! We started playing football (NCAA Div. III) again in 2013 after a hiatus of 63 years, but went 0-10