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The Acadiana Mudbugs are traveling back east down I-10 tonight for a rematch with the Louisiana Swashbucklers. The in-state rival game will take place at 6:30 tonight in the Lake Charles Civic Center.
The team will be departing from Baja Sports Grill at 1:30 p.m. Monday.
The Mudbugs received an unexpected week off last week after the Florida Kings were expelled from the Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL). A rescheduled game with the Kings replacement, the North Texas Crunch, will take place on Saturday, June 20. Tickets for that game will be honored at any home game.
Leading the team offensively has been Anthony Parks' 205 receiving yards and six touchdowns. Johnny Williams is trailing behind with 163 receiving yards and four touchdowns.
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On the defensive side, Kemmie Lewis leads with 18.5 tackles. Mitch Craft follows with 13.5 tackles. Rudy Johnson has recorded two sacks and Renaldo Delcambre has had a sack.
The Swashbucklers are led by a couple of former Cajuns in receivers Raymond Harris and Marcus Wilridge. Wilridge has five touchdowns.
The Bucs are currently tied with Austin atop the SIFL standings with a 4-1 record. Acadiana (3-1) is one-half game behind the leaders.
The Swashbucklers defeated the Florida Kings 81-0 in the first week, beat the Texas Pirates 50-14 in the second week, lost to the Austin Turfcats 56-53 in the third week, defeated the Acadiana Mudbugs 56-35 in the fourth week and beat the Houma Conquerors 48-16 in the fifth week.
After tonight's contest, the two teams will face off again five days later at Blackham Coliseum on Saturday, June 6.
Tickets for the four remaining home games can be purchased by calling 1-888-380-BUGS, or by visiting WOW on Bertrand and in River Ranch, Baja Sports Grill, Brewski's on Johnston, Pete's on Johnston, Planet Beach on Kaliste Saloom, Stan's Downtown or Reds.
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I always thought Lake Chuck was west of here.
Today is opposite day, didn't the 5 year olds tell you? :)
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With first place in the Southern Indoor Football League on the line, the Louisiana Swashbucklers proved they could go toe-to-toe for an entire fight, while the Acadiana Mudbugs struggled to get off the mat after taking the Swashbucklers’ best punch in a 56-35 Swashbucklers win Monday night.
The loss kno-cked the Mud-bugs (3-2) out of a three-way logjam atop the SIFL standings, while the Swashbuck-lers moved into first place at 5-1, just ahead of the 4-1 Austin Turfcats.
The Swashbucklers and Mudbugs will play again Saturday in Lafayette.
Both Mudbugs losses have come in Lake Charles, with identical final scores and a familiar pattern, the Swashbucklers blowing the game open in the second quarter.
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The Swashbucklers took control of Monday’s game by scoring 24 unanswered points in the first half, turning a 9-3 deficit into a 27-9 lead. The defense stopped the Mudbugs on three straight possessions, and the offense scored touchdowns on four straight second-quarter possessions, including touchdown receptions of 29 and 45 yards by Sammy Knight.
“I guess this is the norm for our games with them, us starting slow then taking a lead and holding on,” said Swashbucklers head coach Darnell Lee.
“I liked the game. We are not playing our best and did not execute well offensively in the second half, but in that second quarter we made some big plays. Brandon Thomas had another big interception, and our defense did what they do, shut people down. Offensively, (quarterback Alvin) Bartie started finding some open receivers.”
After completing just one of five passes for 9 yards in the first quarter, Bartie found his rhythm in the second, connecting on 8 of 13 attempts for 143 yards and three touchdowns. Kirt Duhon, making his first appearance of the season, added a 7-yard scoring run.
“I was just off target to start,” Bartie said. “But then I started seeing the open receivers. Both Marcus (Wilridge) and Sammy are brilliant. Sammy loves to go deep and we were able to hit a couple.”
Knight finished the game with five receptions for 123 yards and three touchdowns, while Wilridge added eight catches for 85 yards and two touchdowns.
Acadiana head coach John Fourcade said his team hasn’t learned how to bounce back from deficits.
“Our two losses have been to the Swashbucklers, and they are the only games we have been down,” he said.
“We keep having bad quarters. When we get behind, the team gets down. We need to learn to go toe-to-toe, tooth-and-nail with these guys. We need to score when they score, stop them when they stop us. We need to be the team creating the turnovers, but now we are the team making them. They have been together five or six years, we have been together five games, and it shows. We are going to bring in some fresh players for Saturday.”
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Houma will look to exact some revenge on Acadiana, currently in third place in the five-team league, tonight.
The Mudbugs won 31-23 on May 9 in Lafayette, though Houma led 16-13 at halftime.
"We played good defense against them the first time and were in it late," Thomas said. "That game got away from us. We had a chance to win. We didn't put enough points on the board, so hopefully we will this time, but if we continue to play well on defense, that will give us a chance to win."
The Mudbugs, coming off a tough 27-21 loss to the league leading Louisiana Swashbucklers (6-1), are led by quarterback Bo Bartik, who threw four touchdown passes in Acadiana's win over Houma on May 9, but was denied a potential game-winning quarterback sneak last week with under a minute to go.
Bartik has thrown 20 touchdowns and 12 interceptions this season and his favorite target is Johnnie Williams, who has 21 catches for 221 yards and five touchdowns.
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Sean Samuels came off the bench after starting quarterback Bo Bartik was injured and completed 9 of 13 passes for 113 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for another as the Mudbugs (5-3) won their second straight game.
Logan’s touchdowns came in the first quarter as the Mudbugs jumped out to a 14-0 lead.
Parks, who had missed the last two games due to injury, had eight catches for 91 yards.
Defensive back Kimmie Lewis registered his SIFL best 11th interception and also caught two passes for 27 yards and a fourth-quarter touchdown.
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John Bryant produced all the Crunch scoring with a pair of 21-yard field goals.
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The Texas Hurricanes along with the Bryan-College Station Convention and Visitors Bureau announced Tuesday that the Southern Indoor Football League team will now call Bryan-College Station home.
Houston businessman Terry Williams recently purchased the franchise and is moving the team to College Station. Terry believes Aggieland is the right community for his team and isn't wasting any time moving the team to the Brazos Valley.
The Texas Hurricanes' first home game will be Sunday, July 5th against the Acadiana Mudbugs
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at the Arctic Wolf Ice Center. Then they finish up the season playing the Austin Turfcats July 7th & 11th.
The 2010 season will see the Texas Hurricanes playing at the McFerrin Multi-Purpose Facility on the Texas A&M University campus.
The team has recently signed former Blinn Quarterback Michael Bishop.
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It is Friday evening in Blackham Coliseum. A group of men in their early to mid 20s mills about; a few are stretching, one is warming up with short sprints. These are clearly athletes, chiseled arms jutting from shirtless sleeves, confident in their physicality. Brilliant sunlight filters in through slits along the side of this has-been sports arena. A rickety fan whirs and rattles somewhere out of sight. Padded barricades define a space in the middle — 50 yards long, 25 yards wide — covered with ancient Astroturf, the unforgiving-to-the-body light green stuff that disappeared from most sports arenas more than a decade ago. The hash marks, yardage lines and numbers are faded. The exposed seams between sections of turf suggest it has been hastily laid out. This is a football field and these are professional football players. The Acadiana Mudbugs. Lots of guts, little glory.
In the middle of the field, kicker LJ Daughtry, sporting an LHS Mighty Lions Football T-shirt, warms up his leg, trying 30-yarders that sail toward an elevated net edged with vertical white stripes marking a 10-foot wide goal levitating over the north end zone. He hits some, he misses others. One kick flies high and thuds off an overhead light hanging from the rafters, sending a pair of pigeons scattering.
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This is do-it-yourself football in a do-it-yourself football league, the Southern Indoor Football League. Entrepreneurial owners throw together a team of young men with gridiron fantasies that just won’t go away. “It’s every big man’s dream to try to play somewhere else, try to make it to the next level,” admits cornerback Brandon Davis about his motivation for playing. The 5’10” 180-pounder played prep football at Comeaux High, but has no collegiate experience. “You get seen at this level, maybe you can get at the next level and eventually make it to where you need to be.
This is the inaugural season of the SIFL. It started off as six teams scattered across the Gulf Coast area from Austin to Pensacola; five teams now: Pensacola was punted from the league after repeatedly cancelling games because it couldn’t pony up for the travel costs for away games, which comes to about $5,000. Host teams pay for the visitor’s hotel rooms; travel teams use charter buses. The 12-game season kicked off April 18 and concludes with a championship game hosted by the team with the best record on July 25. Attendance at Mudbugs home games has been spotty this first year, reaching a plateau of about 1,500 for last week’s tilt against the Lake Charles Swashbucklers. For die-hard football fans, an arena season gets you from NFL withdrawal to NFL mini-camp, sort of a methadone for gridiron junkies, a little something to tide you over until your next fix.
“It’s a little unusual compared to playing 11 on 11,” says linebacker/running back Renaldo Delcambre, a former UL Ragin Cajun footballer, “but the concept is the same.”
Delcambre, like most of his teammates, played football at the collegiate level. Seven players on the Mudbugs’ roster are listed as former Cajuns. There’s a guy from McNeese, one from the Citadel, another from Duke. A game check is modest: it’ll cover groceries and utilities that week. All of the players have day jobs; Davis works offshore, Delcambre is a home-health worker. Outside in the parking area between the coliseum and 4-H livestock pens, it’s pick-up trucks instead of Escalades.
And arena ball is different from the NFL in other ways: It’s eight on eight and favors the passing game. Teams are allowed to maintain only 20 players on the active roster, meaning virtually everyone also plays special teams, and some play both offense and defense.
“Arena [football] is an offensive game,” says Davis. “We could stop them every now and then, but it’s an offensive game, and that’s what fans like to see: they like to see scoring.” And scoring they see; 56-35 is not an unusual score — so usual, in fact, that it was the final score for two consecutive games between the Mudbugs and the Swashbucklers, who won both.
Head Coach John Fourcade comprises exactly one third of the Mudbugs’ coaching staff. Now that he has arrived, players are tossing balls around and stretching with more purpose. Fourcade’s is a familiar name to many football fans in Louisiana. A replacement quarterback — a scab, as replacements were called by the union players on the picket line — for the New Orleans Saints during the NFL strike season of 1987, Fourcade made it onto the regular Saints roster and into Saints fans’ hearts and stayed with the team through the 1990 season. He still does color commentary for Saints games on New Orleans radio. This is his off-season job. When he arrives for practice today, he first grabs a broom, does a little tidying up, then gets a player to help him straighten up a section of Astroturf in the end zone. The field had to be rolled up last weekend to accommodate a dog show. Once practice is under way — a no-pads walk-through to avoid injury — Fourcade betrays the perfectionist. “Let’s do it again,” he barks, repeatedly, as the offense masters the timing, routes and blocking assignments on a pass play.
Lexie Iskander, the team’s sports writer/publicist/errand runner/go-to gal, hovers at the margins, on and off the phone with club owner Bentley Turner. A senior communications major at UL and sports writer for The Vermilion who also works in the sports department at KLFY TV10, Iskander is technically an intern, meaning she works without pay. But she works about 40 hours. “It just shows how much I love this team,” she says with a laugh. Iskander is cutting out to Walmart to pick up Super Glue because the person who applied the Velcro to the sponsor signs that will line the wall around the field tomorrow night put it on backwards. The signs don’t stick.
But Fourcade’s coaching apparently does. Saturday night in Blackham the Mudbugs will host the Houma Conquerers. It will be a close game for four quarters. But thanks to a last-second interception, the ’bugs will hold on for a thrilling 35-33 win, snapping a three-game losing streak and improving their record to 4-3.
The Acadiana Mudbugs have two remaining home games in Blackham Coliseum: Saturday, June 20, against the North Texas Crunch and Monday, June 29, versus the Austin Turfcats. Tickets are $10 in advance, available at WOW Cafe Wingery and Baja Sports Grill on Bertrand Drive, and at Red Lerille’s. Admission is $18 at the gate. Find out more by logging on to www.mudbugsfootball.com .
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In trying to find a picture of Kimmie Lewis as a MudBug I found this photo gallery from a game played in Blackham Coliseum.
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LAFAYETTE -- Renaldo Delcambre wasn’t through playing football after his career at the University of Louisiana ended following the 2007 season.
In fact, he looked high and low for a place to continue playing, finally joining a Lafayette-based indoor football squad this year.
“After my career at UL, I just decided to pursue and find any league that I could get into, whether it was CFL (Canadian Football League), semi-pro, whatever was available,” said the New Iberia native, who had tryouts with several teams last year then found a home this year with the Acadiana Mudbugs, the indoor football team based in Lafayette that opened play this year.
Delcambre’s route to the Mudbugs, who play in the six-team Southern Indoor Football League, was circuitous.
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“They talked to me at the end of November. They came and checked me out at one of the semi-pro games when I played for the (Lafayette) Bayou Bulls,” said Delcambre. “They liked what they saw and I joined the team and have been practicing with them.
“My hard work paid off and here I am.”
The former NISH and UL football player got his first start of the year Saturday night as the Mudbugs played the Texas Pirates and beat the Houston-based squad 38-12 to improve to 2-0 on the year. Delcambre recorded several tackles and assisted tackles in the game.
He didn’t see playing time in the Mudbugs first game of the year against Austin Turfcats on April 18.
“Since I finished playing at UL in 2007, I’ve been trying to get in where I could fit in,” said Delcambre, who expects to get his degree from UL in December. “I tried out for Edmonton (of the Canadian Football League), I tried out for arena teams and I tried out for semi-pro teams, which isn’t much of a tryout, for about a year before I got this opportunity.”
Delcambre has made the most of his chance.
“I didn’t play in the first game but they liked what they saw in practice and I started the second game,” said Delcambre. “After the first game, on the first day of the week for this game, I found out that I was going to start. One of our players went down and they had to bring in an extra lineman and I got my opportunity and I had to step up.”
Delcambre plays linebacker for the Mudbugs and has practiced at a running back.
“But I haven’t played at running back,” said Delcambre. “I don’t think that coach wants me to go out there and try to catch passes.”
He admits that going from 11-man football to eight-man indoor football has been an adjustment.
“The biggest thing has been getting adjusted to this as opposed to playing 11-on-11,” said Delcambre. “The game is a little quicker and a little unusual from playing 11-on-11.
“I’m getting the concept of it and as we get on week by week I’m gradually getting the hang of it.”
And Delcambre’s first start of the season Saturday night lived up to his expectations.
“It was everything I thought it would be and a little more,” he said. “ I was ready to get in and mix it up. We rotate in players every once in a while to keep everybody fresh and we did well tonight.”
Delcambre is happy to have a home this year with the Mudbugs and is using the experience as a chance to prepare and to audition for a spot on a team for the fall.
“I’m committed to the Mudbugs 100 percent,” said Delcambre. “I’m using this as a stepping stone. I hope to get a good evaluation from my coach and take it from there. But absolutely, I’m happy right here.”
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You should've just asked, I could've saved you the time of searching. Here's a couple..
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lsuconnman/3645900261/" title="Mudbugs-Crunch_SIFL by LSUConnMan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/3645900261_49455b5627_o.jpg" width="900" height="650" alt="Mudbugs-Crunch_SIFL" /></a>
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personally, I prefer pics of the acadiana spice..
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