ESL is very undisciplined and raw. While they can hang with anyone in terms of athleticism, they make many many dumb mistakes on offense and special teams including more penalities than I've ever heard any team make. Here is the quote from the St. Louis Dispatch article covering the game... "Unofficially the Flyers were hit with 21 penalties that ranged from hits to the head, crack-back blocks, running into the punter, blocks in the back, and — more often than any other — holding.
At one point, East St. Louis was called for five consecutive penalties in the second quarter and gave itself a first-and-38 at its own 17-yard line. The Flyers faced first-and-forever any number of times.
“There is no play call for stuff like that,” Sunkett said. “When you get yourself in those types of situations you can’t have a positive outcome and we didn’t have many positive outcomes in the first half.”
With that said, ESL may hold Bosco to fewer points than their average, but unless they clean things up on offense, they can't rely on their athleticism to make enough first downs with all the penalties they receive against a team like Bosco. With that said, I'd say Bosco by 14 points,(taking the over on that) but I'm definitely rooting for ESL.
