A second half explosion of offence led the Prince George Kodiaks to a 33-13 win over the Langley Rams at a wet Masich Place Stadium.
“It’s a big win, Langley’s a real good program,” said Head Coach Jamie Boreham.
“It’s nice to knock off a good team, that’s our first big win, I think, we’ve ever had against a top program. We did some good stuff, guys executed some game plan, a little disappointed in how we finished the fourth quarter, but we found good things in offence, defence and specials, we’re happy with this one for sure.”
After a delayed start due to a thunderstorm in the area, the first half saw little offence from both squads.
The only points in the first half came off the foot of Brady Harper, who split the uprights from 37 and 32 yards out.
The Kodiaks offence found their rhythm in the second half, with Sawyer Thiessen finding three different receivers for touchdowns in the half.
“First half, offence came out a little flat just kept on misfiring here and there and little mistakes,” Thiessen said.
“Defence held us in it and gave us an opportunity in the second half to take control and we did.”
The first major was set up by a big catch by Carson Briere to bring the Kodiaks offence into the redzone. Thiessen found Ben Fehr in the endzone for an 8-yard touchdown.
The momentum kept going for the Kodiaks as Thiessen found Quinn Neukomm in the endzone for a 19-yard touchdown.
In the fourth quarter, Thiessen found Matthew Sturgess for a 15-yard score.
“It starts upfront, o-line played amazing today, giving me time and being able to make my reads,” Thiessen said.
“Receivers made some awesome catches just kind of tossing it up to them, it’s fun to play football when you got guys firing around.”
“We didn’t make adjustments, we had things we thought were there, we liked the looks we were getting, we missed on some and we had some dropped passes, missing by a couple yards,” Boreham said.
“We kind of reminded people about what our jobs and responsibilities are, and on any given play ‘I got to do my responsibility.’ We found some grooves, we found some consistency, it felt good.”
Points didn’t just come from the Kodiaks offence, Dillon Piddocke made an excellent play on a Tristan Clarke pass for a big pick six.
“The coverage we were running there was nobody in the flats there, Charles, he did a great job making sure everything was secured up top,” Piddocke said.
“I saw that play probably three times before, I knew they were going to come to it, I was just waiting on it.”
The Rams didn’t go down without a fight, driving down the field for a pair of late rushing touchdowns.
With the win, the Kodiaks improve to 2-2 on the season, and are one of three teams with that record.
The BCFC standings are here.
The Kodiaks travel to Kamloops for the second time this season on Saturday to take on the winless Broncos.
The full Kodiaks schedule is here.
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