It was the second straight week the Gators played a team with an identical winless record. It was also the sixth week it left the stadium disappointed as the team fell 32-20 to Mount Rainier on Saturday.

The rain poured throughout much of the night, which played a big part in the Decatur loss.

Early in the game the team realized it was difficult to punt after a snap bounced across the turf and off the arms of punter Jeff Allen. He was forced to dive on the ball at the Gators own 22 yard line.

It would be one of two punts attempted all night as both teams chose to go for it whenever they had a fourth down opportunity, regardless of their field position.

For many of the games this year, Decatur’s punting has helped their defense out by not putting them in tough situations as the offense has struggled. Without that, Mount Rainier capitalized on short fields.

Just moments later, Rams running back Colin Phan took the ball into the end zone from a few yards out for the first score. The Rams would add two more on a two point conversion to take an 8-0 lead with just under three minutes to play in the first quarter.

It was the beginning of a very long half for the Gators. It would take more than an hour-and-a-half to finish the first half.

A combination of penalties and referee stoppages seemed to irritate both sidelines.

Decatur coaches were particularly disappointed with the stoppages because it knocked their no-huddle offense out of sync.

Mount Rainier added two more touchdowns in the five minutes following its first touchdown.

The first was scored after an interception that slipped out of Decatur quarterback Josiah Talai’s hands. The second was scored after Decatur was stopped on fourth down. Both drives started in Gator territory.

The Rams led 20-0.

“We got stuck on our own side of the field and we couldn’t dig our way out,” Decatur head coach Levi Suiaunoa said. “We couldn’t throw the ball or punt because of the weather situation.”

Decatur’s next drive finally got into Rams’ territory, but stalled out at their 48 yard line.

It took Mount Rainier one play to score again as Frazier Alefaio took a carry right up the middle for a 52-yard touchdown.

Things nearly got more out of hand for the Gators when the team failed to recover a squib kick on the kickoff.

The Gators were able to keep the Rams from scoring on that drive despite the mistake.

The Gators turned in its best drive of the night on the legs of Christian Siva. Talai ran it in from 1-yard out to give the Gators their first touchdown of the night with 3:10 left in the half.

Deantre’ Scott caught the two-point conversion for the Gators to bring the Gators within three scores.

An onside kick attempt was recovered by Mount Rainier and, just 40 seconds after the Decatur touchdown, they scored their final touchdown of the night to bring the score to 32-8.

Decatur put together another quick offensive drive and score on a 1-yard, Siva run just before the half. The conversion failed and the Rams took a 32-14 lead into the half.

The Gators went on to shut out the Rams in the second half, but were unable to get anything going until the waning minutes of the fourth quarter.

With just under three minutes to go, they scored once more to bring the score to 32-20. It would hold the rest of the game.

”I don’t know what to say,” said Suiaunoa. “Congratulations? They did a great job out there. Coach (Tremain) Mack and his kids, I’m happy for them. I would have been even happier if it was our kids. But you gotta play the game.

The young man that’s playing quarterback for us, this is only his second game. He’s going to go through some growing pains. I’m proud of the way our kids fought. Am I happy with the results? No. But we’ll get one.”

Decatur (0-6, 0-2) will again look for their first win when they face Todd Beamer (4-2, 1-1) tonight at 7 p.m at Federal Way Memorial Stadium.