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Lightning Announce Season Opening Roster

March 29, 2007 - arenafootball2 (af2)
Stockton Lightning News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. - The Stockton Lightning of the arenafootball2 league have announced the season-opening roster for the 2007 af2 season, which begins Saturday, March 31.

Included are returners Kenyatte Morgan, David Lose', Stephen Bell, Lyndel Hawkins and James Newson. New to the roster is quarterback Derrick Crudup, assigned to the Lightning during the off-season after spending his 2006 af2 rookie campaign with the Spokane Shock and his college career with the Miami Hurricanes (NCAA).

A former teammate in Miami of Crudup, WR/LB Carl Walker will make his af2 debut this Saturday with the Lightning, along with former Arena Football League veteran Sale' Key, who spent last season with the Utah Blaze and was a member of the Memphis Xplorers in 2005, who won the ArenaCup title. DL Manase Hopoi joins the Lightning roster on the defensive front after a heralded college football career with the Washington Huskies (NCAA). Additionally, Sacramento products Mason Mitchell, Chris Stallworth, and Diamond Francies are scheduled to make their af2 debut with the Lightning.

# NAME POS. HT WT COLLEGE DOB EXP

1 Key, Sale' WR/LB 6'4 220 Idaho St 11/3/81 1

2 Newson, James WR/LB 6'1 215 Oregon St 12/21/79 1

3 Morgan, Kenyatte WR/DB 5'8 175 Montana St 7/3/77 3

4 Walker, Carl WR/LB 6'3 215 Miami-FL 10/1/81 0

5 Smith, Vernon WR/DB 6'1 175 Eastern Oregon 2/8/81 R

6 Huddleston, Jajuan FB/LB 6'3 260 Fresno St. 9/8/78 2

7 Crudup, Derrick QB 6'2 220 Miami (FL) 5/15/82 1

8 Cunningham, Clarence WR/DB 5'10 180 San Jose St. 1/21/83 R

11 Seaton, Travis DB 5'11 190 San Jose St 7/5/79 R

12 Gray, Evan QB 6'0 205 Missouri-Rolla 7/10/82 R

13 Francies, Diamond WR/DB 5'10 175 Humboldt St. 10/18/84 R

19 Walls, Alex K 6'0 215 Tennessee 4/22/80 3

20 Johnson, Ty WR/DB 6'0 210 None 7/17/80 2

21 Jones, B'Jay WR/DB 6'3 200 Langston 1/28/80 1

44 Bowers, Maurice OL/DL 6'1 295 Colgate 10/16/81 2

50 Tuialuuluu, Peter WR 6'3 200 Southern Oregon 9/19/83 R

58 Hunt, Jason FB/LB 6'2 250 Cincinnati 3/4/80 0

59 Ng, Michael OL/DL 6'2 254 UC Davis 10/22/84 R

75 Lose, David OL/DL 6'2 310 Oregon St 7/2/81 1

90 Hawkins, Lyndell FB/LB 6'0 298 Fresno St. 10/31/81 1

93 Hopoi, Manase DL 6'3 285 Washington 9/23/83 R

98 Bell, Stephen OL/DL 6'5 330 Temple 6/8/83 1

99 Bolden, Anthony OL/DL 6'3 315 Temple 5/15/81 1

REFUSED TO REPORT

NAME POS. HT WT COLLEGE DOB EXP

Hickey, Conor K 5'10 186 IT Tallaght (Ireland) 11/2/78 R

Surrell, Clyde WR/DB 5'9 190 Colorado 3/23/82 1

Young, Antwone DL 6'3 250 San Diego St 1/28/77 R

INJURED RESERVE

NAME POS. HT WT COLLEGE DOB EXP

17 Stallworth, Chris WR/LB 6'3 215 Utah St 4/1/82 1

58 Mitchell, Mason OL/DL 6'1 315 Sacramento St 11/17/81 R

Frierson, York DB 6'0 200 Brighman Young 4/26/78 2

Lambert, Cornelius OL/DL 6'2 280 San Jose St 3/29/83 R

Stockton opens the 2007 af2 season on Saturday, March 31 with a road matchup against the defending ArenaCup Champion Spokane Shock, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PT.

In their first season, the Lightning ranked third in af2 attendance with an average of 7,445 fans per home game. Season tickets for the 2007 Lightning regular season are on sale now. For more information on season tickets, merchandise, or other information, please call the Lightning at (209) 373-1500 or visit www.stocktonlightning.com.

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