Nel­son Throws 3 TD’s and Runs for 2 More in Lions 17^th Cham­pi­onship Win

In the reg­u­lar sea­son finale, Galileo faced a Low­ell team that matched them score for score into the sec­ond quar­ter, even going as far as allow­ing the Car­di­nals a 22–21 lead. Then big plays from Galileo doom the Car­di­nals (Nelson’s TD run, Morgan’s 103 YDS pick-6) while the Lions’ defense woke up just in time to keep Low­ell out of the end zone until late in the fourth quar­ter. Kyle Nelson’s arms and legs did the most dam­age all game long, escap­ing the pass rush mul­ti­ple times to turn poten­tial sacks into yards and 1 touch­down.  The strength of his arm tal­lied 355 yards-throwing TD’s to Isaac Arm­strong, and Lala Haro. Senior run­ning back, Haro who was fill­ing in for the injured Ronzel Fox, has scored in back to back games. Galileo’s high octane offense will look for another 50-point game as Lowell’s Machine will con­tinue to keep rolling. Low­ell will be land­ing on Thurs­day, Novem­ber 21 for a 2pm “Rum­ble in the Jun­gle”. This time, the stakes are higher as it will be “win or go home”.

The 6–0 Galileo Lions will visit the Low­ell Car­di­nals on Fri­day, Novem­ber 15 with kick off at 2pm. Low­ell at 4–2 had secured a play­off spot as the #4 seed when Galileo beat Bal­boa last week. Iron­i­cally, the Lions and the Car­di­nals will play again next week in the #1 vs #4 play­off match regard­less of the out­come of this final reg­u­lar sea­son game. Galileo will look to be the ones doing the fly­ing to main­tain their 50-point aver­age while the Car­di­nals are look­ing for revenge for last season’s final 30-second heart­break­ing loss to the Lions. The frosh soph teams will con­clude their sea­son at Galileo on Thurs­day at 2pm.

The 5–0 Lions (8–1) will visit Bal­boa on Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 9^th with kick off at 2pm. The Bucs are com­ing off a tough loss to Low­ell which was a piv­otal game for the 4^th play­off seed. Galileo is com­ing off an emo­tional week­end which included the senior game vic­tory over Mar­shall and los­ing senior run­ning back, Ronzel Fox for the remain­der of the sea­son with a dis­lo­cated elbow. Fox left a senior sea­son legacy with 111 car­ries for 1337 yards and 21 touch­downs in 8 games. He also had 20 recep­tions for 277 years and 1 score. The Lions will be look­ing to prove that they can keep things rolling behind the arm of Kyle Nel­son but Bal­boa, a hard hit­ting and phys­i­cal team, have other ideas. The frosh soph team will host the first place, young Bucs on Fri­day at 2pm.

Galileo will host Mar­shall on Fri­day, Novem­ber 1 for it’s final home match of the reg­u­lar sea­son. Kick off time will be the usual 3pm prior to Day­light Sav­ing time change on Sat­ur­day. Mar­shall is win­less in league and this will be the Senior Game for the Lions. What does all this mean? It’s a sure thing to say that Galileo is the favorite but every­one knows that any­thing can hap­pen when two teams step onto the field. For cer­tain, tears will be shed as 26 senior Lions will bid farewell and show appre­ci­a­tion to their fam­i­lies for the years of sup­port dur­ing their time at Galileo. If noth­ing else, the 26-seniors is a school record of some sort.

The Galileo Lions will host the Wash­ing­ton Eagles on Fri­day, Octo­ber 25^th with kick off at 3pm. The first place Lions are look­ing to end a 10-year 7-year los­ing streak against the Eagles. The frosh soph team will travel to the Eagle’s Nest for a Thurs­day match, also kick­ing off at 3pm but rumor has it that the Eagles might for­feit due to an inci­dent from the pre­vi­ous match. The Young Lions, still look­ing for their first W of the sea­son, will have a great oppor­tu­nity to do so if the game remains on sched­ule. If not, it’s still a W by forfeit.