Posted Nov 7, 2006 Nashville lost its final matrix game to Life this past weekend. In a nutshell, Life was very well organized when it comes to attacking. They were not going to fight it out with you in the forwards. Their game is to get the ball and spin it out to the backs ASAP! Their backs are very skilled and fast and they made very few handling errors. If you don't put pressure on them, then they will run all day with plenty of support. That's it. We made too many handling errors and they ran thru our back defense. Back to work for the Spring 2007 season ... and go forward with plans to compete in the D1 CR3 play-offs. Fall matrix record, 1-1. Overall, 6-1.

Outlaws Win First Shootout
Nashville Outlaws 37 - Atlanta Renegades 33
Nashville, TN - Oct. 13, 2006

The Nashville Outlaws started the South matrix season off with a dramatic come-from-behind win on a sunny, breezy day against last year's Elite 8 finisher, the Atlanta Renegades, in Nashville Saturday. The Gades jumped out to a 26-7 halftime lead by capitalizing on Nashville's porous defense to slice though many holes and finish several decent movements.

But Nashville righted the ship after making a few replacements at the break which seemed to spark the Outlaws who scored in the first minute of the second stanza and proceeded to power back into the game with 27 unanswered points on top of more committed defense and great go-forward from the packled by Chris Ryan and Derek Wolfe, a recent back convert.

University of Tennessee grads David Ellis and Brett Jones came on and proved they belonged at the Men's DI level with solid defensive efforts coupled with shifty running to help the Nashville side take the lead. The Gades then
clawed back within one point in the final minutes before Nashville iced it at the whistle with a converted penalty kick.

Posted Oct 9rd, 2006
The NRFC traveled to Hunstville this past weekend. The boys played 2 games. The early game was against Columbus/Montgomery and it was mostly a sloppy affair. In the first half, we left many points on the board and looked generally unfocused. We matched there bruising style of smash and grind and knocked on a ton of loose ball. Second half seemed to have a little more organization and we put some phases together. We gave up no points and our defense was mostly good. Kevin Handerhan was the man-of-the-match for his continued hard work throughout as well as a nice long run for a try at the end. Final score, 38-0.

Second game was against Albright College and we were pretty organized as well. Everyone got some game time and we basically ran our pattern. Good showing by the collegiate side. We gave up 2 tries. Rob Haley was all over the place at center and scored a couple of tries. Pledger and Forbes put in the hardwork up front, Cayo had some strong runs and Chris G. was outstanding with his conversions going 7 for 8. Final score, 56-14.

Posted Oct 3rd, 2006
The NRFC played Memphis this past weekend. "A" side played 2 - 30 minute halves while the B side got one 30 minute run. Play was generally decent with our pattern and fitness improving for the most part. More work needs to be done heading into our Matrix schedule. Hopefully we can get some good game time competitio
the Huntsville tournament the Oct. 7 weekend.