Week 9 IFL Recap
April 18, 2011 - Indoor Football League (IFL) News Release
Richmond, VA: Week 9 for the Indoor Football League was full of strong competitions where League Leaders showed off the power of their defense to defeat the competition.
The Indoor Football League began Week 9 with the La Crosse Spartans stopping by the Sioux Falls Storm hoping to serve the Storm their first loss of the season. However, the Storm began dominating the entire game. In the first half, the Storm defense was able to hold the Spartans to just a field goal while the Storm offense was able to score 35 points. The Spartans went into halftime hoping to recuperate from the first half; however, the Storm came out strong in the second half as well scoring 21 points in the third and the fourth quarter and only allowing the Spartans to get a touchdown in the fourth quarter. The Spartans had very bright spots in their game: 156 Kickoff Return yards, 131 rushing yards; however, it was not enough to overcome the defense of the Storm, which stunted any Spartan progress. The Storm was able to close the game out with a score of 77-10.
The second game for this past week was between the Reading Express and Green Bay Blizzard. The first quarter started out slow with the Blizzard only scoring 6 points while the Express remained scoreless. Reading came back in the second quarter scoring 13 points while allowing the Blizzard to score 19 points. There was only a 77-yard difference between the two teams in total offense. There was a great discrepancy between the Kickoff yardages: the Reading Express gained 189 yards whereas the Green Bay Blizzard only earned 52 yards. Though the Express had great success, it came down to the defense. The Express was only able to get 2 sacks, but the Blizzard took one interception and 6 sacks. The dominance of the Blizzard defense allowed the Green Bay Blizzard to defeat the Reading Express, 62-19.
The Chicago Slaughter stopped by Lehigh Valley Steelhawks looking to begin their winning streak. From the start of the game, the Slaughter took charge of the game. In the first quarter, the Slaughter outscored the Steelhawks 21-7. Going into halftime the Slaughter had a 17 point advantage over the Steelhawks. The Steelhawks realized that they had to play hard in the second half in order to remain competitive in the game; therefore, they held the Slaughter to only one touchdown while gaining 13 points of their own, bringing the score to 38-27, Slaughter, going into the fourth quarter. With a chance to get back into the game for the Steelhawks, the Slaughter completely shut down the Steelhawks offense not allowing them to score at all and put up 2 touchdowns. The Chicago Slaughter ended up victorious over the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks, 52-27.
The Bloomington Extreme, looking to maintain their 2-game winning streak, hosted the Richmond Revolution Saturday evening. With the goal of getting the third win after the heart-breaking loss to the Green Bay Blizzard, the Extreme started off strong, not allowing Richmond to score at all in the first quarter and only 10 points in the second quarter while the Extreme scored 36 points by halftime. The Revolution attempted to come back in the third quarter only allowing the Extreme to get a field goal and scoring 16 of their own points. The fourth quarter proved to be a battle of the wills; however, ending the fourth quarter tied only proved beneficial to the Bloomington Extreme who won Saturday's game 53-40.
The Amarillo Venom visited the Wichita Wild on Saturday evening. Both teams played a really strong game; the greatest scoring difference was in the fourth quarter where the Wild scored 13 points while the Venom was scoreless. The two teams got 2 rushing touchdowns and Amarillo got 18 yards for total offense. For this game, as with the others, it came down to a strong defensive showing. The Venom was able to get 1 sack and 1 interception; however, the Wild got 3 sacks and 3 interceptions, which greatly hindered the Venom offense. The Wichita Wild defense was able to keep their offense on the field to win Saturday evening's game, 56-32.
The fourth Saturday evening game was between the Wenatchee Valley Venom and the newly named Seattle Timberwolves. After having a rough start to the season, the Timberwolves came out strong, outscoring the Venom 23-3 in the first half of the game. Though the Venom had 2 interceptions, a sack, and a 133 total yards of offense, it was no comparison for the Timberwolves defense and offense, with 1 interception, 4 sacks, 7 touchdowns and the victory of 51-12.
The next game for Saturday started out with an interesting start as the Nebraska Danger defense flexed their muscles forced a safety against the Allen Wranglers earning their team 2 points and the ball within the first seconds of the game. For the remainder of the game, the Danger dominated. Though the Wranglers' defense had a strong showing with 1 interception and 3 sacks, the offense of the Danger was still able to outscore the Wranglers 3 of the 4 quarters. By the close of the fourth quarter, the Nebraska Danger defeated the Allen Wranglers, 60-37.
The Arizona Adrenaline, hoping to change the course of their season, hosted the Tri-Cities Fever. The Tri-Cities Fever instantly came out playing hard outscoring the Adrenaline 22-7 in just the first quarter. By halftime, the Fever only allowed 25 points for the Adrenaline while the Fever scored 42 points. For the second half of the game, the Fever was able to maintain their dominance not allowing the Adrenaline to score in the third quarter and only 9 points in the fourth quarter while they scored 44 points in the second half. Unfortunately for the Arizona Adrenaline, they were not able to overcome their own errors and overcome the Tri-Cities Fever, which ended in a victory for the Fever, 90-31.
The final Saturday evening game was between the Omaha Beef and the West Texas Roughnecks. At the beginning of the game it appeared that the two teams were evenly matched because the Beef was only outscored 19-10 in the first quarter while both teams were scoreless in the second quarter. The defense of the Roughnecks helped prevent the Beef from scoring more than 6 points in the second half, while the Roughnecks were able to post up 20 points. Though the two teams played very strong games, only a 10 yard difference in total yardage, the West Texas Roughnecks defeated the Omaha Beef, 39-16.
The final game for Week 9 occurred on Sunday when the Wyoming Cavalry attempted to end the Colorado Ice's winning streak. The game started out promising for the Cavalry in the first quarter when they outscored the Ice 14-7; however, the Ice was able to come back in the second quarter scoring 16 additional points while only allowing the Cavalry to earn 9 points. The Cavalry came out determined in the second half again outscoring the Ice in the third quarter, and putting up a strong fight in the fourth quarter; however, the Ice outscored the Cavalry 29-21 in the fourth quarter, which led to a victory for the Colorado Ice, 59-54.
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