The Fishers Freight saw their push for an Indoor Football League Eastern Conference playoff spot stall Saturday night, falling 83-50 to the Green Bay Blizzard in the teams’ third and final regular-season meeting.
The high-scoring affair never tilted the Freight’s way after the opening minutes, as Green Bay pulled away behind a relentless rushing attack and a flawless night from kicker Andrew Mevis. The loss leaves Fishers with ground to make up as the postseason picture comes into focus.
Fishers got off to the start it wanted. On the game’s opening drive, Josiah King punched in the first touchdown, and Calum Sutherland’s extra point gave the Freight a 7-0 lead.
The advantage was short-lived. Green Bay answered on its first possession when Kairee Robinson ran it in from two yards out, and Mevis followed the touchdown with a successful two-point conversion to put the Blizzard ahead 9-7. After Fishers turned the ball over on downs late in the first quarter, Green Bay tacked on another score and a second Mevis deuce to lead 16-7.
The second quarter brought more of the same. A Fishers fumble — recovered by Green Bay and upheld after a challenge from Freight head coach Dixie Wooten — set up an Isaac Ross touchdown that pushed the lead to 25-7. Fishers fought back through CJ Windham, who hauled in a pass from Harper and took it to the house to make it 25-13, but Green Bay quarterback Liam Thompson kept the pressure on with a rushing score of his own.
Windham found the end zone again to trim the deficit to 32-21, and Sutherland tried an onside kick, but the Blizzard recovered and Robinson quickly added another rushing touchdown for a 39-21 lead. Jordan Davis answered with a 17-yard touchdown for the Freight, and Sutherland’s extra point and two-point conversion cut it to 39-30. Robinson struck once more with six seconds left in the half, sending Green Bay into the break ahead 46-30.
The third quarter opened with a dagger. Fred Flavors took the kickoff back for a touchdown, and the Blizzard rolled from there — Robinson scored again, Mevis kept converting, and Green Bay built a 62-30 cushion. King answered with a rushing touchdown and Dominic Roberto added another in the closing seconds of the period, with Isaiah Coulter hauling in a two-point conversion to make it 69-44.
Green Bay closed it out in the fourth behind Cole Stenstrom, who scored twice to stretch the lead to 83-44. Coulter caught a late touchdown for the Freight inside the final minute, but a pair of failed two-point tries — including a penalty-forced redo — left the final at 83-50. The win was Green Bay’s eighth and final home game of the regular season, capping an undefeated record at home.
The Freight are now 7-7 and will look to regroup quickly. Fishers travels to face Quad City on the road July 11 before wrapping up the regular season at home July 27 against the Orlando Pirates.