Dukes and McGill Earn All-Arena Honors

August 11, 2011 - Arena Football League (AFL)
Tampa Bay Storm News Release


TAMPA BAY - The Tampa Bay Storm are pleased to announce that Cliff Dukes and Tim McGill have earned first-team All-Arena honors for the 2011 season. This is the third consecutive season McGill was named to the All-Arena team and second consecutive season for Dukes.

"This could not happen to two better players than Tim and Cliff," said head coach Dave Ewart. "They bring the same work ethic to the practice field every week as they bring to the games. These guys are the two best players in the league at what they do and I am thankful to be able to coach players like them."

For Dukes (6-foot-3, 280 lbs., Michigan State) this is his second honor this season by the AFL as he was named the Defensive Lineman of the Year yesterday. Last season he earned second-team All Arena honors after finishing tied third in the AFL with nine sacks. Over the course of the past two seasons Dukes has a league leading 21.5 sacks.

McGill (6-2, 345, Illinois) who was also a finalist for Defensive Lineman of the Year this season, earned All-Arena honors for the third consecutive season. In 2010 he earned first-team All-Arena honors and second-team in 2008. McGill was also a finalist for AFL Defensive Player of the year in 2008.

A disruptive force in the middle of the defensive line, McGill set a career high mark with 10 sacks this season while adding two forced fumbles and a blocked kick. He is the first player in AFL history from the nose guard position to record double digit sacks in a single-season. He has 14.5 sacks over the past two seasons, seventh most during that span.

Below are the First and Second All-Arena Team selections for the 2011 season:

FIRST TEAM ALL-ARENA

QB

Aaron Garcia

Jacksonville

FB

Derrick Ross

Dallas

WR

Tiger Jones

Dallas

WR

Rod Windsor

Arizona

WR

Jesse Schmidt

Iowa

C

Randy Degg

Jacksonville

OL

Richard Ranglin

Kansas City

OL

Adam Tadisch

Cleveland

DL

Tim McGill

Tampa Bay

DL

Antajj Hawthorne

Arizona

DL

Caesar Rayford

Utah

MLB

Cliff Dukes

Tampa Bay

JLB

Kelvin Morris

Chicago

DB

Rayshaun Kizer

Orlando

DB

Micheaux Robinson

Jacksonville

DB

Vic Hall

Chicago

K

Carlos Martinez

Georgia

ST

P.J. Berry

New Orleans

SECOND TEAM ALL-ARENA

QB

Nick Davila

Arizona

FB

Chad Cook

San Jose

WR

Maurice Purify

Georgia

WR

Donovan Morgan

Philadelphia

WR

Reggie Gray

Chicago

C

Brennan Carvalho

Arizona

OL

Mark Lewis

San Jose

OL

Devon Clark

Arizona

DL

Dusty Bear

Dallas

DL

Derrick Summers

Jacksonville

DL

Mike Lewis

Utah

MLB

Tim Cheatwood

Cleveland

JLB

Marlon Moye-Moore

Orlando

DB

Andre Jones

Milwaukee

DB

Virgil Gray

Arizona

DB

J.C. Neal

Tulsa

K

Fabrizio Scaccia

Arizona

ST

Virgil Gray

Arizona



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