Sunday, August 28, 2022
Before we get into what happened today in the European League of Football (ELF), let's go back to yesterday's results in the Gold Coast Youth Football League Freshmen level's American Division action.
WEEK #1
AMERICAN DIVISION RESULTS
Camarillo Stingers 28 - 805 Warhawks 6
LA City Ducks 22 - Fillmore Raiders 0
Santa Barbara Saints 44 - Oxnard Knights 0
AMERICAN DIVISION STANDINGS
Camarillo Stingers 1-0
LA City Ducks 1-0
Santa Barbara Saints 1-0
805 Warhawks 0-1
Fillmore Raiders 0-1
Oxnard Knights 0-1
WEEK #2
AMERICAN DIVISION GAMES
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Oxnard Knights (0-1) at Camarillo Stingers (1-0)
Santa Barbara Saints (1-0) at Fillmore Raiders (0-1)
805 Warhawks (0-1) at LA City Ducks (1-0)
After Saturday's two games,
there were only four games today
The Barcelona Dragons (8-2) at Vienna Vikings (9-1) game between two 2022 Conference Champions had playoff seeding implications.
The Tirol Raiders (7-3) at Frankfurt Galaxy (6-4) game had huge implications for the upcoming playoff's one Wild Card berth.
The Galaxy were the ELF Champions in the inaugural 2021 season and absolutely had to win to stay in the playoff hunt.
I woke up early, just in time for
the 6:00 am local time Kickoff
of the Dragons-Vikings contest
The Vikings won again
The Vikings (10-1) won both games against the Dragons by a combined total of 13 points.
The Dragons (8-3) will host the Northern Champion Hamburg Sea Devils (10-1) in next Saturday's regular season finale.
The Wroclaw Panthers (4-7) will travel to Austria to play the Vikings on Sunday.
OH BOY!
The defending champion Frankfurt Galaxy (7-4) proved their metal today in outlasting the Tirol Raiders (7-4) to throw the Wild Card discussion into a muddy mess as we enter the final game of the campaign.
Remember that yesterday, the Rhein Fire and the Berlin Thunder both won to also raise their records to 7-4.
Next week's games for these four clubs vying for the Wild Card berth are:
The Tirol Raiders (7-4) at the Berlin Thunder (7-4), the loser of this game is out of the playoffs. The Raiders won the first matchup between these two clubs 28-16. Thus, the Thunder need to beat the Raiders by 13 points or more to earn the tie breaker between these two clubs.
The Rhein Fire (7-4) travel to play the Leipzig Kings (3-8). If they win, the Fire have the tie breaker against the Galaxy should they win by virtue of beating them 29-26 and 23-21 in their two meetings this season.
The Stuttgart Surge (0-11) will try one last time for their first win of the season at the home grounds of the Frankfurt Galaxy (7-4). While the Galaxy have mathematically the easiest road to victory, they need to still hope that the Rhein Fire and the Tirol Raiders both lose to have a chance at the Wild Card as the Raiders beat the Galaxy 23-17 in their only meeting this year. We have already have mentioned that the Galaxy lost twice to the Rhein Fire.
Should make for some interesting season ending games to be sure!
Two teams playing out the string
The Sea Devils with a lackluster win
All of this weekend's ELF Results
As for me, I was deep into video study on HUDL trying to . . .
. . . evaluate possible Kickers/Punters
for our Brazilian National Team
There are some good ones with live legs playing in the Brazilian leagues as it turns out. This will be a tough choice, a nice problem for me to have in my roll as the Brazilian Team's Special Teams Coach.
Our team will be playing in the IFAF World Championship Qualifying Tournament in Mexico City next January.
The Onças will be competing with teams from Mexico, Panama and Chile for the right to represent the Americas in the IFADF World Championship Tournament in Germany next Summer.
American football continues to afford me fantastic opportunities!
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