The best season in San Diego Strike Force history came to an end Sunday night at Oceanside\u2019s Frontwave Arena.<\/p>\n
The visiting Arizona Rattlers caught fire early in the second half and held on to beat the top-seeded Strike Force 43-37 in the Indoor Football League\u2019s Western Conference final. The Rattlers advance to the IFL National Championship, where they\u2019ll play the Green Bay Blizzard at a neutral-site game in Tucson, Ariz.<\/p>\n
San Diego led the Rattlers 17-16 midway through the third quarter when the visiting offense went to work. Arizona\u2019s Max Meylor found Trey Odoms-Dukes for a 28-yard touchdown and Ron Brown Jr. for a 29-yard score to put the Rattlers up by 13. Meylor punched in a four-yard rushing score with 5:19 remaining in the game to put the Rattlers up by 20 points, icing the game.<\/p>\n
San Diego was led by Nate Davis, who threw for 255 yards and four touchdowns but had one interception returned for a touchdown. Shane Hooks caught three touchdown passes and Dallas Daniels added a score to go with his 112-yard night.<\/p>\n
Sunday marked the end of a breakthrough season for San Diego\u2019s seven-year-old indoor football franchise.<\/p>\n
Taylor Genuser was named the IFL Coach of the Year after leading San Diego to a franchise-record 13-3 regular-season record and the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n
Center Jalen Booth and defensive lineman Adam Anderson were named first-team All-IFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best season in San Diego Strike Force history came to an end Sunday night at Oceanside\u2019s Frontwave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-428935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}