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San Diego Surge defeat Dallas to become American Conference Champions

Saturday night at Marauder Stadium, the team that opposing coaches call, “too good,” never let off the accelerator as the San Diego Surge went on to defeat the visiting Dallas Diamonds 48-20 to win the Women’s Football Alliance American Conference Championship . 

As the representative of the American Conference, they'll now face the Boston Militia , the winner of the National Conference and last year’s National Champion, who on Saturday defeated the Indy Crash 46-18. The teams play Saturday, July 30th in Dallas, Texas for the National Title. 

Game recap from Marauder Stadium:

After receiving the opening kickoff, the Diamonds' offense sputtered and went a rather passive three and out. The Surge offense did only slightly better and in the end gave the ball back on downs at the Diamonds’ 38 yard line. 

On their next possession, the Diamonds’ offense started moving the ball and gained two-first downs, one off a run, the other off a short pass. Then, on what you’d have to consider a pivotal play, Surge LB Kalilah Lawson made an open field tackle on RB Tiffany Hill to prevent an obvious momentum changing score. Soon after, on fourth and 10, a high snap went over kicker Jessica Gerhart’s head for a loss of 22 yards and gave the Surge tremendous field position. 

After three plays netted a minus five yards, the Surge went for it on 4th and 15 from the Dallas 45 yard line. With a flick of her wrist, QB Melissa Gallegos got the ball to wideout Jessica Javelet on a slant pass and she was off to the races, down the right side for a score. Point after was good, Surge 7 Diamonds 0 .       

Being stopped twice more on downs, Dallas decided it was time to play field position. They had Gerhart, their punter, angle her punt to go out of bounds at or around the Surge 15. On the first play from scrimmage it was almost a repeat of the earlier touchdown, only this time Javelet traveled 85 yards down the left side. Kick after was good, Surge 14, Diamonds 0 to end the first quarter of play. 

After the Diamonds turned the ball over on downs, their defense stepped up their intensity and caused RB Deana Guidry to fumble the ball.

Autostraddle — This is a Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual “True Blood” Post

, Which was amazing last night, last week, and the week before that, let me ask you this — do you know what Comic-Con is? If so, skip the next 2 paragraphs. If not, read on.

I didn’t know what it was until I started this here website, so if over the last week or so you’ve been hearing a bit of chatter about this or that person relevant to your interests/pants saying/doing something neat/important at an event called “Comic-Con” and don’t know what it is, I’ll tell you: Comic-Con International is a four-day conference held annually in San Diego, founded as the “San Diego Comic Book Convention” in 1970. Originally,  Comic-Con showcased (yes this is a link to Wikipedia )  ”comic books, science fiction/fantasy and film/television and related popular arts” but has since expanded to include “a larger range of pop culture elements, such as horror, animation, anime, manga, toys, collectible card games, video games, webcomics, and fantasy novels.”

Events a fan might find at Comic-Con include panels, seminars, workshops, upcoming movie previews, “screening rooms devoted to Japanese animation,” awards ceremonies, costume contests and various screenings as well as an exhibition hall for movie studios, comic book dealers and so forth. There tends to be an undue emphasis on the cast of  Twilight

At Comic-Con, the cast were given multiple opportunities to field questions and subsequently answer these questions, often on videotape. In addition to sharing selections from some of these interviews, I will also share with you an “extended trailer” for Season Four, which contains spoilers I suppose, and the cast’s “It Gets Better” videos. I will share the extended trailer right now, and the “It Gets Better” videos (which are a tad strange) at the end of the post.