Passion Open Season With Win

Who loses, nowadays?

Your Pittsburgh Passion, fresh off an undefeated championship season in the NWFA, have decided to continue their winning ways in the highly competitive IWFL.

Pittsburgh opened its season against the Central PA Vipers, a former NWFA rival, and won in convincing fashion. The final score was 62-0.

Looks like that scrimmage, pictured above, paid off.

The Passion are 1-0, tying them for the top record in Tier 1 of the North Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.

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I'll update with stats from the game as soon as they're available.

Torina Henley Leads Passion Over Philly

Yes, I already told you that the Passion won. However, I figured I'd hit you up with some more cool facts about the game, as well as where your favorite players stand against the rest of the league.

Torina anchored the offense, rushing for 127 yards on 15 carries. She averaged 8.5 yards a touch, and scored twice on the ground. Her 834 rushing yards are good for 3rd in the league. PSaMP is hoping that Torina is able to muster 166 rushing yards in next week's game, in order to break the 1000-yard mark. She is also 3rd in the league in scoring, with her ridiculous 90 points accumulated.

Lisa Horton, Pittsburgh's star QB, completed 9 of 15 passes for 144 yards and a touchdown. Like Henley, she is 3rd in the league...but for passing (obviously). Her passer rating stands at 121.9, behind Allison Cahill's 134.8. Cahill has attempted 21 fewer passes, though.

Kara Prentice, who proved her worth as a more-than-capable backup QB throughout the season, completed one of her 3 pass attempts for 9 yards.

Olivia Griswold failed to lead the team in tackles. Her 5 tackles were 2nd to Ava Nickens and Michelle Brevard, who both had 7. Nickens also recorded 2 sacks.

I mistakenly wrote that the team finished undefeated. However, the team has one more game. The 7-0 record looks to be unchallenged, as the team plays the Central PA Vipers next weekend. Central PA is 1-6. PSaMP thinks an un-Passion-like performance can still be good enough to finish undefeated.

Central PA Vipers Stood No Chance Against Your 3-0 Pittsburgh Passion

This past weekend (Sorry that this is a little late. I'm consumed in finals week), your Pittsburgh Passion absolutely man-handled (woman-handled?) the Central PA Vipers, 52-0. Wilma Walton (above) led the game off for the Passion with a 49 yard touchdown, which was way too much for the Vipes to handle. Walton is 5th in the league with 208 yards receiving on the season.

PSaMP's favorite Passion player, Torina Henley, completed another game in which her yards per carry mark exceeded the previous game's total. She only rushed for 70 yards, but those yards were gained on only 4 carries! That's 17.3 yards per! She also scored a touchdown in every game, leading the Passion with 5 TDs. Her yards per carry average on the season stands at 11.2. Shelley Zoelle also amassed 70 yards on the ground on 7 carries. Still impressive, Shelley.

Lisa Horton finished 3 for 4 for 101 yards and a touchdown. Sticking to the game plan and keeping the ball on the ground, Horton gained 55 yards on 4 rushes, also adding a touchdown with her feet. Lisa is 3rd in the league in passing with 419 yards on the season. Her passer rating leads the league at an unheard-of 139.4.

Aside from Horton's league lead in passer rating, Pittsburgh punter Daniel Sepulvelda...I mean JoJo Warner, leads the league with her 39 yard average per punt. With Pittsburgh's unbelievable offense, Warner has only been called on to punt twice, but she's made those punts count. And hell yeah, I will celebrate any Pittsburgh player who leads the league in any stat.

Impressively, the Passion have scored 137 points trough 3 games, only allowing 21 points against. Their scoring marks are only bested by the 3-0 Chattanooga Locomotion, who have scored 160 points and only given up 7. In 3 games. Some of these stats are ridiculous!

Next week, the Passion host the Philadelphia Phoenix (1-2).