Pingel and Blue Represent Rage at NIFL All-Star Game
Wide receiver Scott Pingel travels to third consecutive classic appearance
By: Mike McMurran
Sports Editor
Two Rage players will represent the team at the NIFL All-Star game to be played in Odessa, Texas the weekend of August 5-6th, 2005. Rage wide receiver Scott Pingel will be making his third straight All-Star appearance and entering the game with some impressive statistics for the year. Pingel finished 8th in scoring with 23 touchdowns, 14 XT-pts, good for 152 points over 14 games. A league leader in receptions, he hauled in 88 passes for 863 yards, an average of 61.6 yards per game.
On the defensive side, Big number 99, defensive end Bruce Blue ends his rookie season for the Rage with trip to the elite post-season contest. Blue wound up fourth on the NIFL list for Tackles for Loss with 16, and was a league leader with 37 unassisted and 43 assisted tackles on the year, good for 58.5 lost yards for the opposing team. Bruce was the Rage team leader in sacks, totalling 11 for 2005.
And for guiding his team to the best record in the Atlantic Conference, Rage Head Football Coach Mike Wyatt has been tabbed as a co-head football coach for the All-Star team. He will handle the sideline duties with Everett Hawks head coach Dan Maciejczak, whose team went undefeated in the 2005 regular season. Wyatt, the Atlantic Division Coach of the Year in 2004, says the selection is an honor and a good opportunity to “meet and get to know some of the other high caliber players from other teams, and see what makes them tick.”
