Hello, Happy New Year, and Welcome!... to the first week of the playoffs for the minor league levels of the UWFFL. Four qualifying teams in each of the four Division II Conferences will compete for championships as well as for the right to be promoted into the Premier League next fall. A pair of semifinal matches will be held each day both this weekend and next.
But first a little housekeeping. Last week's regular season game that we had an error with the uniform choice needs to be replayed today before the playoff participants will be decided in the Eastern Association.
St. John's is again wearing a black-over-yellow combo, while the Brooklyn Uni Watchers are eschewing their normal green pants for a seldom seen mono-white combo at home this week. If St. John's wins, they will claim the final playoff spot in the Eastern Association, while a Brooklyn Uni Watcher win would mean that the Swisshelm Express of Pittsburgh will grab the final spot.
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Now on to the post-season games...
Today we present the Pacific Coast Conference's two semifinal matches.
The top-seeded British Columbia Lumberjacks (10-1-2) will host the #4 seed Salt Lake City Spikes (8-4-1) and the #3 Calgary Alpines (10-2-1) will head up to Yellowknife to take on the second-seeded other team also called the Lumberjacks (11-2). Will both Lumberjack teams advance and will there be another Big Brown Axe face-off in the PCC title tilt in a couple weeks? Or will there be upsets on tap for either Salt Lake or Calgary? Only way to find out is by voting here and now!
The Spikes will be wearing their standard road fare, sand helmets, white jerseys and sand "britches", while the B.C. L-jacks will be in their usual Christmas-y red and green at home.
The Alpines, who have been known to prefer white at home now and again, get to remain in their standard duds on the road, pairing the white jerseys with their red pants, while the YKL L-jacks are wearing their "rosewood and cream" home uniform set.
So there's your two Div.II Conference Semifinals matches for today, tomorrow the Metro South Conference playoffs will take center stage.
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