National exposure Ranked among the top 50 in the country !

Well fans your very own Nassau punisher are ranked Nationally for the 1st time
#46 nationally in the http://www.minorleaguefootballnews.com in the summer fall rankings ,and 16th in the semiprobcs.com ,November rankings all in all it's a
great honor to have your team mentioned with the elite of the country !!!!!!


and now to this weeks game and it was an ambush punishers vs the Brooklyn storm

punishers 54
storm 00

When your the better team you have to prove it from the first snap. After a 45 minute wait for officials to arrive the Punishers in there all black, showed the Storm they were not on the same level as them. The Punishers defense only allowed 2 first downs the entire game and they themselves outscored the Storm as they scored 3 touchdowns. Defensive end Shawn McLain had his second td on a scoop and score in the end zone after a caused fumble by Pop English, Pop English then had his own scoop and score after DE/OLB Brad McKoy caused havoc in the backfield and caused a fumble and then on the next drive FS/OLB Mitchell "All" Green intercepted a pass and returned it for the school at that point the officials had seen enough and said THATS THE GAME! Oh the Punishers offense did play as well but rarely saw the field as they continuosly had great field position because the Storm would not or could not punt. The turnovers by the Storm also left the Punishers in great field position. The combination of Quarterback Q and Mr. TD, Kelvin Lett, continue to throw up big numbers as Lett was hit on a 73 yard bomb for his 7th TD of the season. The big time star this week was TE Dennis Levinson who had 3 catches and a TD this week. "He has been begging me to get involved but we arent really a TE passing team, but this week he was open and Q found him. Maybe this will build Q confindence in him and down the stretch he will be more involved."said Coach Jim. Jerry Edwards scored two touchdowns as well but the field was horrible so he took himself out due to a sore hamstring. "I know Coach needs me more next week, no need me to risk possible injury on this bad field and my team got this one in the bag anyways." said rookie RB Jerry Edwards. Blocking machine Rason Burnett also got thrown a bone as Quarterback Q checked coach Jims play and allowed him to take the dive into the end zone!

Punishers are headed to Hudson Valley to face the 2nd place Hudson Valley Cowboys. This will be a showdown of the Cowboys explosive offense who have scored 207 points vs the Punishers defense who have only allowed 3 points against them. Though the score may say 17 14 points have been given up by special teams on a botched punt return and a kick off return for a touchdown. This should be showdown and at 1pm on Sunday in Poughkeepsie the loser of this game falls to third place. Punishers win this game they clinch first place and home field throughout the play offs. Punishers lose they fall to 3rd place and road warriors for the play offs! A lot on the line Punishers can win the Empire North title and Empire Conference crown all in one game. This one as they say is for all the marbles!



and as you can see from the score they have a lot of work to do , but the punishers defense pitched it's 8th shutout of the season and has given up 25 pts in the regular season and 54 pts total starting in march up to now ! coach Dave said "when we started this team in jan i felt we could do something great the way myself Jim and Marv set it up along with the pres. and shorter we set out to look for the best of the best and some off season pickups and free agent signings lead to not a good defense but great " i will take my guys against any team in the country ..... The hard work of the punisher players and coaches is really starting to pay off and the run for the ring starts in 3 weeks and a win in Hudson valley next week will give the punishers home field throughout the playoffs !!!!!!!!!!