The Alaska Wild ended an 18-game losing streak going back to 2008 with a 48-39 win over the Kent Predators in a professional Indoor Football League game Monday night in Anchorage.
Kent dropped to 0-2 in the Pacific North Division. The Predators make their home debut against the Fairbanks Grizzlies (2-0) at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the ShoWare Center.
Kent quarterback Charles McCullum threw five touchdown passes and ran for another score. Kent receivers Andre Jordan and Travis Poole had two touchdown catches apiece.
The Predators led 6-3 before Alaska rattled off 20 consecutive second-quarter points via a Donald Carrie touchdown pass, an Andrew Carich run, and an interception return for a score of a McCullum pass to go up 23-6.
Kent cut the lead to 23-18 at halftime on McCullum touchdown passes to Jordan and Poole.
In the second half, the Predators failed to regain the momentum they were building in the first half.
The penalties that haunted Kent in its first game against the Billings Outlaws were an issue once more and gave the Predators a disadvantage in field position and sustaining drives.
Alaska had an 0-14 record last year in the IFL.
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