By Kahlil Najar

PHILADELPHIA – The San Jose SaberCats (12-5) snapped their five-game winning streak as they lost to the Philadelphia Soul (9-8), 42-20.

San Jose Quarterback Nathan Stanely completed less than half his passes and threw for only 192 yards and only one touchdown. He also threw three interceptions that doomed the Cats.

The shining star offensively for the SaberCats was Odie Armstrong who had two touchdowns on only nine yards rushing. The receiving core was pretty active with over five players hauling in passes but only Dominique Curry was able to get a touchdown.

The Cats looked good out the gate as they were able to score a touchdown in the first and not allow a scoring touchdown by the Soul. However in the second, Philadelphia scored three unanswered touchdowns. Soul quaterback Dan Raudabaugh connected with Markee White and Derrick Ross for a pair of touchdowns and Derrick Ross contributed with a touchdown on the ground. San Jose answered back with 16 seconds left in the half on a 6-yard pass to Curry to make it a 21-13 lead at halftime for Philadelphia.

After the half, Armstrong scored for San Jose and made it only a one point lead for Philadelphia.

Unfortunately for the SaberCats the Soul would score another three unanswered times with touchdowns from Ross, White and Ross again. Ross finished the night with 5 touchdowns with three on the ground and two in the air.

San Jose now heads to the Iowa Barnstormers this Saturday to close out the season and get ready for the playoffs, game time 5:05 pm PST.