9:38 in 1st. After an opening kickoff return to Essex 15, then a couple holding calls later made it 3rd and 19, Essex had CB QB for a sack but he got away and tosses a TD pass.
Essex scores a TD but got called back for holding. On 3 and goal, Essex threw a pass to the back of the end zone that got picked off just under the 6 min mark.
4:07 min CB fumbles and Essex picks it up for a short TD run. Essex 8 CB 6
Essex drives all the way inside CB’s 5 and fumble with CB recovering it. . Couple CB plays later CB ball pops out and goes out the back of the end zone. Essex 10-6. All Essex points scored with their D on the field
Essex fumbles AGAIN around the 5 ish of CB. Essex can’t buy a TD tonight. If they’re not turning the ball over in CB red zone, flags killing them. Thank goodness for the Essex D.
Essex D hold CB. CB punts from end zone. Essex returns the punt around CBs 20-30 but ANOTHER flag brings it back. Essex is getting flagged mostly by the same ref on the same side of the field. Smh. Essex later scores it’s 1st offensive TD of the night. 16-6 Essex with 1:46 in 3rd
I would say if Essex was called for holding 10 times the same ref threw the flag on about 7 of them. Essex managed to overcome a few of them and probably had some pretty good offensive numbers.