VERMONT ICE STORM

EFL Scores: Montreal 23...Green Mountain Gladiators 0 This was Burlington's first HOME game and they pulled it out, they played at Leddy Park, with portable lights, and portable goal goals. They had 150 paid fans. I was there and I give them an A+ for organization work; they had ice, water, footballs, and a medical team at the game. This was all done with a few days. On the field, both teams dressed 35 players each and played a good game, however every QB thinks each pass play should be a 60 yd deep pattern. Montreal says they are two weeks away from being a full team, but they looked good. Green Mountain had good spirit, but shot themselves in the feet with five fumbles; they need work on blocking and tackling. They have a good D Line, a good QB, TE, and running back. I stopped and caught the closing minutes of the Vermont Ice Storm game, they won 31-6 over the Monadnock (NH) Marauders. They had 500 fans but they do running time and played the game in two hours...park league. Glens Falls 39...Long Island Seahawks 7 The local paper talked about a trick play, a double pass play, that opened up the game for Glens Falls...I guess nobody remembers the old Triple Cities Jets; they always opened their game with a double pass play. Plattsburgh 13...Albany 10 (overtime) This score is correct...Plattsburgh came ready to play and very coached,Albany took the game too lightly and were thinking about next week at Scranton. Plattsburgh tied the game with an 80 yd TD pass play late in the 4th quarer and they won in overtime...after time ran out. Albany had a foul on the last play of the overtime and Plattsburgh was given one more shot, Jim Tyler kicked a 35 yd field goal to win 13-10 in overtime plus. Orange Co 27...Scranton 19 Watertown 65...St. Lawrence 10 Receiver Ernie Wash broke the Red & Black receiving record... =================================================================== NAFL Scores: Northern Tier 23...Hudson Valley (Kingston) 16 The word on the streets is that the Giants are having interior troubles, it was not sure that this game would go off, no newspaper cover, we will see how things go next week...they have to travel to Allentown to play Milford Scorpions. Springfield 28...Milford 12 Both Springfield and Northern Tier are undefeated in the NAFL, later this season they will play each other. Pittsburg Colts 6...Lancaster Lighting 0 =================================================================== NYAFL scores: Rochester Rengedes 34...Johnstown 14 Montreal Titans 19...Monroe Co Sting 0 Buffalo 19...Utica 18 Baker and the Colonials are 0-3, Montreal & Syracuse are on top with 3-0 records. They play each other twice befoe the end of the season...8/9 at Syracuse and 9/20 at Montreal. =================================================================== Eastern League: Marlboro 26...Quincy 7 This is Marlboro's first win, they lost last week 14-6 to Charlestown Townies.

EFL Scores: Plattsburgh 13...St.Lawrence 7 Watertown 26...Montreal 0 Scranton 47...Green Mountain 0 Albany..bye Non-League Games: Springfield 21...Glens Falls 0 Orange Co. 34...Long Island Seahawks 6 Next Week: St.Lawrence at Watertown Plattsburgh at Albany Scranton at Orange Co. Montreal at Green Mountain (this is Burlington's first home game) Non-League game: Long Island at Glens Falls ============================================================ Other Games: Northern Tier 21...Lancaster 6 Hudson Valley...bye Vermont Ice Storm 70..Notre Dame Cobras 6 (this Notre Dame team is a NEFL class A team from Alfred, Maine and they are named after the Notre Dame Church which is near their field, the Brothers of Christian Instruction Field...they played Vermont two years ago and lost 70-8.) Next Week: Northern Tier Bruins at Hudson Valley Giants ============================================================ NYAFL Games: Montreal Titans 31...Johnstown 7 Syracuse Express 12...Utica 3 This League is upside down from last year, Johnstown was the #1 team after the regular season and they are now 0-2, Buffalo Gladiators won the League last year and several years before, they too are 0-2...Montreal Titans, Syracuse Express, and Monroe Co. Sting are 2-0...Glens Falls beat the Sting this year. Next Week: Johnstown at Rochester Renegbes Monroe Co. Sting at Montreal Utica at Buffalo

Season nears for 2nd semipro team By Mike Donoghue Free Press Staff Writer Vermont's newest semiprofessional football team, still without a home field, hits the road today for its first game in Maine. The Green Mountain Gladiators will meet the Southern Maine Raging Bulls in a Triple A Division preseason game at 4 p.m. in South Portland. "We are ready to go. The guys are sick of hitting each other," Green Mountain head coach Rod Owens said this week. "We will be competitive," Owens said about his 39-member team. "We continue to add people. The Gladiators begin their 10-game regular season July 19 on the road against the Scranton (Pa.) Eagles. Today's preseason game is the only tune-up for the Gladiators other than team scrimmages, Owens said. The biggest battle the green and gold might face this season is finding a permanent home field. The Gladiators have approached several high schools looking to rent their fields for five home games. No schools have pledged their home fields for the season. The proposal was a $20,000 to $35,000 compensation package that included $8,000 to $10,000 in cash and the rest in bartered services of marketing and fund-raising. Owens said the Gladiators have gone back to the high schools and offered a plan that could pave the way for one of them to have an artificial turf installed. Owens said if that fails, the Gladiators will try to lease several fields for one or two games each. The fields must have lights because all regular season games are played at 7:30 p.m. A team is born The Empire Football League during its 35th annual meeting granted admission to the Green Mountain Gladiators. The league includes the Lake City Stars of Plattsburgh, N.Y. The Gladiators had to attain a waiver from the Plattsburgh team because the 10-team league rules allows only one team within a 50-mile radius. Green Mountain and Lake City will be in the five-team North Division, along with the St. Lawrence Valley Trailblazers, the Montreal Condors and the Watertown Red and Black, the oldest semiprofessional team in the United States. The Gladiators are the second semiprofessional team in Vermont. The Vermont Ice Storm, which is beginning its third year, won the Double A championship in the New England Football League last year. Owens said Green Mountain has more than a dozen players with semiprofessional football experience. Several players have played for the Lake City Stars or the Vermont Ice Storm.

Scores for July 5th: Northern Tier 64...Hamilton 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Empire Football Leagues starts 2003 season: July 12th Capitland Thunder at Glens Falls Greenjackets (CSEA Night) 7/12 pre-season games: Vermont Ice Storm at Plattsburgh Green Mountain Gladitors at South Maine (Portland) Other Schedule Changes: 7/19 Springfield at Glens Falls 7/19 Long Island Seahawks at Orange Co 7/26 Long Island Seahawks at Glens Falls ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other 7/12 Games: CennPA at Pittsburgh Colts Milford Scorpions at Lancaster Springfield at Hudson Valley Giants Pittsburgh Predators at Northern Tier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NYAFL Opens 7/12: They have 8 teams playing a ten game schedule Johnstown at Syracuse Utica at Montreal Titans ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Eastern Football League Opens 7/12: They lost one team, the Metropolitan Lions, this was a new team from the Boston area. Their schedule is not clear at this moment, they have nine teams playing a ten(?) game schedule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NEFL: They do not open until 7/26.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GSFL: They have an open August 2nd...They have 10 teams , but play an eight game schedule, in August and September.

Glens Falls...31 Monroe Co Sting (NAFL) 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Vermont Ice Storm (NEFL) 48...Montreal Condors 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ New Jersey Wolves (GSFL) 24...Orange Co Bulldogs 15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Northern Tier Bruins (NAFL) 24...Watertown Red & Black 21 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hudson Valley Giants (NAFL) 15...Syracuse Express (NYAFL) 8 Springfiled (NAFL) 34...Glove Cities Colonials (Johnstown-NYAFL) 6 Hamilton, Canda (NAFL) 16...Rochester Renegedes (NYAFL) 0 Cenn PA (NAFL) 62...Lancaster Linghting (NAFL) 6