After a poor start to the season, the Hawks had a big turnaround with their five game winning streak mid-season. Key among those wins was the convincing home win over the NSFC regular season champion Wraiths. The Murder Chickens emerged 27-16 winners in The Aviary, with Gosh Jarden's late touchdown reducing an eighteen point lead to something a little more respectable. Ultimately, it was that win, that separated the Hawks and the Liberty in the race for a playoff berth. Both teams ended the season with 8-6 records, and almost identical point differentials, but the conference record tiebreaker settled it, and Baltimore's home win over the Wraiths was something the Liberty could not match.
Perhaps even more crucially for the Hawks, it showed that they are still a solid matchup for the Wraiths. Their narrow defeat in opening week had many asking questions about whether the Hawks could challenge their Yellowknife rivals for NSFC dominance, but a convincing result in the return fixture seems to have changed the landscape of that discussion and sets up an interesting NSFC Championship Game in Yellowknife next week.
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Perhaps even more crucially for the Hawks, it showed that they are still a solid matchup for the Wraiths. Their narrow defeat in opening week had many asking questions about whether the Hawks could challenge their Yellowknife rivals for NSFC dominance, but a convincing result in the return fixture seems to have changed the landscape of that discussion and sets up an interesting NSFC Championship Game in Yellowknife next week.
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