The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

INTER-island play began over the weekend at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex in week six of the Commonwealth American Football League.

The Orry J Sands Pros’ defence has yet to surrender a touchdown in two consecutive games, as they led the team to a 10-6 win over the Freeport Bulldogs on the road in Freeport, Grand Bahama.

The Bulldogs scored the first time they touched the ball on an 80-yard punt return for a touchdown to open scoring early in the first quarter. The Pros would turn the Bulldogs’ two-point conversion into a scoring opportunity of their own when Leon Davis caught an interception in the end-zone and returned it 103 yards for the score to make the score 6-2. Both offences struggled for most of the first half as the Bulldogs took the lead into the half.

Davis would catch his second interception of the game on the opening possession of the third and the Pros’ ground game would take control in the second half to pull ahead.

Jamal Coleby ended a long rushing drive with a 15-yard touchdown run and added a run for the two-point conversion and the 10-6 lead. The Pros improved to 4-1 while the Bulldogs fell to 1-1. They opened their season December 1 with a 20-2 win over the Hunter’s Falcons.

The CAFL returned to Grand Bahama last year after a six-year hiatus and now boasts three teams in the nation’s second city, including the Bulldogs, Falcons and Eight Mile Rock Crushers.

While the Bulldogs and Falcons are relatively new clubs, The Crushers history began in the early 1970s and made the New Providence and Grand Bahama football rivalry one of the most popular in Bahamian sports. The three Grand Bahama teams will complement the three teams in the capital - Pros, V8 Fusion Stingrays and Baoilco Jets.