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Written Saturday October 8th at 2:00 AM

The Dragons were on the ropes on Friday night in Birmingham on Seaholm’s homecoming, tied at 14-14 with ten seconds left in the game and likely would have seen it’s three game winning streak in serious jeopardy.

It’s defense had a ton of trouble stopping the pistol veer offense, especially the pitch option part of the veer offense.

But back to the ten seconds left, the Dragons burned their second timeout and out comes Seaholm’s kicker to try to win the game and send the Maple Forest, yes the very same Maple Forest that sung Christmas songs, the ICarly theme song, and danced the night way onto the field to celebrate with their team.

Then Jack Slayton came a calling to block the kick.

Slayton blocked the kick sending the Dragons fans, players, coaches, and cheerleaders into a frenzy as overtime was forced.

The Maples would then win the coin toss and go on defense while the Dragons chose the north end of the stadium, that’s where their fans were.

The Maple Forest went toward the action to cheer their team to counter act the Orion student section but what they saw on the first snap of overtime was Dylan Frank going by three defenders for a touchdown for the Dragons.

Seaholm would  have a chance to extend the game only to see the defensive front led by Sebastian Marku and Jordan Lewis shut down the pitch option and then on the next play seal it with a force fumble recovered by the defense as the players, coaches, fans, and cheerleaders stormed the field for a 21-14 Orion win in overtime despite the Maples scoreboard spelled the Dragons name wrong, they called them the DRAGNS.

The Dragons would control the game in the early stages of the second quarter as Max Horneffer scored from 15 yards out on a quarterback keeper for a 7-0 lead. After a stop by the Orion defense Horneffer struck again scoring from 35 yards out on the same play for a 14-0 Dragons lead.

The Maples would answer on a 43-yard pitch option touchdown from quarterback Andrew Wilt to Mitchell Schumaker and a 14-7 lead for Orion.

Seaholm would then answer again late in the fourth quarter as a questionable roughing the punter penalty on Johnny Haggitt would lead to a quarterback keeper from five yards out by Wilt to tie the score at 14-14.

There was a ton of stress for the Dragons on this Friday night but here they are sitting at 5-2 and getting ready for next week’s showdown with 5-2 Clarkston who were also victorious over West Bloomfield 42-21. The Wolves have owned the Dragons the past five seasons, something this group would like to change. Also, this is Orion’s homecoming game and a league title is also at stake as well. Next week has a lot writing on this one.