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Post by fwp on May 28, 2009 18:02:27 GMT -5
www.houmatoday.com/article/20090528/SPORTS20/905289912/1032/SPORTS?Title=SIFL-finds-replacement-teamLAKE CHARLES -- The Southern Indoor Football League welcomed the North Texas Crunch as a replacement for the PASM Florida Kings on the 2009 inaugural season schedule, President Thom Hager announced today.
The Crunch are the defending champions of the Independent Indoor Football Association, a second-year league based in the Dallas area. Playing out of The Colony, Tex., the Crunch will play four road games beginning June 6 against the Austin Turfcats. Results and statistics will count in the regular season standings, but the Crunch will not be eligible for the playoffs.
North Texas will play the Houma Conquerors on June 27 in the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center.
Larry Hendrix, Jr. is the coach of owner of the Crunch and has been actively involved in minor league football. Last year, Hendrix arranged for IIFA teams to play in Dallas’ American Airlines Arena on the morning of Dallas Desperado Arena Football League games and also arranged for IIFA teams to participate in pre-season scrimmages with Intense Football League teams.
North Texas will maintain its status in the IIFA, which is rearranging its schedule to accommodate the Crunch’s SIFL participation.
The Kings’ one game, an 81-0 loss to the Louisiana Swashbucklers, will remain in the SIFL’s official records.
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