The Rockford Rampage fell to the Baltimore Blast, 13-10, on Saturday night in the first-ever National Indoor Soccer League championship game at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore. Scoring goals for the Rampage were Gary Brooks, Jorge Valle, Geison Moura, Matthew Stewart and Fred DeGand. Baltimore won an indoor championship for the fifth time in the past seven years, having captured Major Indoor Soccer League championships in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

Jamar Beasley out with fractured patella
Our neighbors to the far northwest will be playing for a professional indoor soccer championship Saturday. The Rockford Rampage meet the host Baltimore Blast in the first-ever National Indoor Soccer League title match.
Crystal Lake resident Oscar Albuquerque is the team's founder and general manager.

There are a'plenty on the USA's roster for tonight's game in the nation's capital:

• Santino Quaranta plays for D.C. United and hails from Baltimore, Md.
• Kyle Martino is from up the BW Parkway in nearby Crofton, Md.
• Freddy Adu calls Potomac, Md., home when not in Europe and started his career at United
  
• Clarence Goodson is from the other side of the Potomac River, born and raised in Alexandria, Va.

J P Rodrigues was born in Tampa and has played much of his professional career in the Sunshine State, but he is currently looking forward to playing in the great white North this winter. He has signed with the Milwaukee Wave of the National Indoor Soccer League, with the season starting in November.

The Denver Dynamite has brought back three-time MISL champion Chris Handsor as player-coach and youth director for the new Dynamite Academy, to be operated in conjunction with the Highlands Ranch Community Association.

John Wells is stepping down as coach for personal reasons after staying with the organization through the summer as the coach of the Dynamite reserves and most of the preseason for the Dynamite.

Inside Minnesota Soccer talks with South African native, Jonathan Greenfield who plays central defense for the Minnesota Thunder. Greenfield tells us about his offseason with the Baltimore Blast of the National Indoor Soccer League and the exciting final which saw Greenfield finally win a championship after two other finals left him disappointed.

Congratulations go out to Minnesota Thunder's Jonathan Greenfield as his Baltimore Blast National Indoor Soccer League team as they defeated the Rockford Rampage, 13-10 on Saturday evening to win the league championship.

Greenfield is expected to report back to the Thunder within the next week.

Congratulations go out to Minnesota Thunder's Jonathan Greenfield and his Baltimore Blast National Indoor Soccer League team as they defeated the Rockford Rampage, 13-10 on Saturday evening to win the league championship.

Greenfield is expected to report back to the Thunder within the next week.

Inside Minnesota Soccer talks with South African native Jonathan Greenfield, who plays central defense for the Minnesota Thunder. Greenfield tells us about his offseason with the Baltimore Blast of the National Indoor Soccer League and the exciting final which saw Greenfield finally win a championship after two other finals left him disappointed.

The big one this weekend is the rematch between Houston and New York, which you can read about in today's USA TODAY or right here.
Houston just seems to go through this every year, and while it was a deflated locker room at RFK last weekend, no one's too concerned.

En un partido en el que pasó de todo, con horario inusual, con poca asistencia de la gente regiomontana y con La Raza aun jugando a medio gas, el equipo regio no pudo reponerse de una desventaja de varios puntos y terminó perdiendo 14-13 contra Blast de Baltimore.

Written by Tim Hayes

Former Minnesota Thunder player Marco Terminesi was named the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) player of the week after his nine-point performance this past Saturday evening. Terminesi scored 3 goals (including one 3-pointer) and had two assists in the Milwaukee Wave's 27-6 thrashing of the Philadelphia KiXX.