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Blast (1-1) at Monterrey La RaZa (2-1) Time: : 1 p.m. Video: : http://laraza.com.mx/live-video.html Outlook: : The Blast goes on the road for the first this season against La RaZa, which boasts the league's top two scorers in D Genoni Martinez (11 points) and former Blast F Carlos "Chile" Farias (nine points). A hat trick from Lucio Gonzaga, who earned league Player of the Month honors for November, helped lead the Blast to a 19-8 home win over Philadelphia on Nov. 21. Having not played in 22 days, the Blast will need to shake off the rust quickly and get a strong defensive effort led by G Sagu to hold off Monterrey, which is coming off a 15-4 win over Milwaukee on Dec. 6. - Glenn Graham

Led by three goals apiece from veteran Adauto Neto and rookie Lucas Roque, the Blast earned a 22-13 victory in Game 1 of the Major Indoor Soccer League semifinals Tuesday night against the host Chicago Soul. Game 2 of the series is scheduled for Saturday night at 1st Mariner Arena . If the Soul wins, a 15-minute mini-game will immediately follow to determine which team advances to the championship against the Milwaukee Wave or Missouri Comets. The Soul jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but the Blast fought back to take a 6-4 lead by the first-quarter break and never looked back.

The Major Indoor Soccer League named Blast forward Lucio Gonzaga the Offensive Player of the Month for November. Gonzaga led the Blast to a 19-8 win over the Philadelphia KiXX on Nov. 21, recording a hat trick, including a three-point goal. The Blast (1-1) travels to Monterrey on Sunday with game time set for 1 p.m. Indoor football: The Baltimore Mariners of the American Indoor Football Association re-signed offensive lineman Jeff Tyler ( Towson University), who played with the team last season.

The Blast completed its 2012-13 regular season with a fundamentally sound stamp of approval Saturday night against the two-time defending Major Indoor Soccer League champion Milwaukee Wave. In a showdown for first place, the Blast defended more closely, scored the bigger goals and blanked the Wave in the fourth quarter to come away with a 10-6 win in front of an announced 6,386 at 1st Mariner Arena . The Blast finishes with a 21-5 record and moves one game in front of the Wave, which falls to 18-4 with four games still to play before the regular season concludes next Sunday.

The Chicago Soul broke an 8-8 tie late in the fourth quarter and upset the visiting Blast, 13-8, on Friday night. Carlos Farias scored a 3-point goal at 12:49 to put Chicago up, then Matt Stewart put the game away at 14:51. Pat Healey had tied the score at 8 at 7:28 of the quarter. The Blast's only lead came when Adauto Neto, playing in his 100th game for the team, put Baltimore up 2-0 in the second quarter. The Blast (12-3) will play today at 5 p.m. at Milwaukee (10-2) in a showdown for first place.

The visiting Blast needed a five-goal fourth quarter to beat the Wichita Wings, 17-11, in a Major Indoor Soccer League game Friday night. Ptah Myers led the way with three goals as the Blast fought back from an 11-6 deficit. Myers scored two goals in the last quarter and J.T. Noone and Max Ferdinand also scored during Baltimore's five-minute five-goal run to end the game. The Blast got off to a slow start, as two goals by Freddy Moojen, who finished with a hat trick, contributed to a 7-0 Wings lead.

Today's Blast game Blast (1-1) at Monterrey La RaZa (2-1) Time: 1 p.m. Video: laraza.com.mx/live-video.html Outlook: The Blast goes on the road for the first time this season against La RaZa, which boasts the league's top two scorers in D Genoni Martinez (11 points) and former Blast F Carlos "Chile" Farias (nine points). A hat trick from Lucio Gonzaga, who earned league Player of the Month honors for November, helped lead the Blast to a 19-8 home win over Philadelphia on Nov. 21. Having not played in 22 days, the Blast will need to shake off the rust quickly and get a strong defensive effort led by G Sagu to hold off Monterrey, which is coming off a 15-4 win over Milwaukee on Dec. 6. Today's Blast game

Milwaukee Wave (7-2) at Blast (6-3) Time: Friday, 7:35 p.m. Site: 1st Mariner Arena Online: B2TV.com Outlook: The Blast is looking for a piece of first place in the Major Indoor Soocer League, meeting the first-place Wave for the third time in the past two weeks. The teams split the first two meetings earlier this month — the Wave coming away with a 15-12 win in Baltimore on Jan. 8 before the Blast avenged the loss the next day with a 12-6 win in Milwaukee.

The Blast re-signed 11 players from last year's squad, pending MISL approval, team president and general manager Kevin Healey announced Thursday. Returning this season are: forwards Machel Millwood, Adauto Neto, Lucio Gonzaga, Adriano Dos Santos and J.T. Noone; midfielder Max Ferdinand; and defenders Mike Lookingland, Pat Healey, Ptah Myers, Mike Deasel and Stephen DeRoux. Head coach Danny Kelly and assistant David Bascome will also return this season. "This group has a lot of offer," Kelly said in a news release.

Led by three goals apiece from veteran Adauto Neto and rookie Lucas Roque, the Blast earned a 22-13 victory in Game 1 of the Major Indoor Soccer League semifinals Tuesday night against the host Chicago Soul. Game 2 of the series is scheduled for Saturday night at 1st Mariner Arena . If the Soul wins, a 15-minute mini-game will immediately follow to determine which team advances to the championship against the Milwaukee Wave or Missouri Comets. The Soul jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but the Blast fought back to take a 6-4 lead by the first-quarter break and never looked back.

The Blast had a difficult time finishing off scoring chances for much of Saturday's game against the visiting Wichita Wings, enabling them to hang around long enough to make it appear that they might leave 1st Mariner Arena with a win. But Blast rookie forward Marco Mangione changed all that with one poised touch early in the fourth quarter. Shortly after the Wings tied the game with six straight points, Mangione skillfully chested a ball to his left foot and then perfectly placed a volley to the near post to give the home team the lead back.

The visiting Blast needed a five-goal fourth quarter to beat the Wichita Wings, 17-11, in a Major Indoor Soccer League game Friday night. Ptah Myers led the way with three goals as the Blast fought back from an 11-6 deficit. Myers scored two goals in the last quarter and J.T. Noone and Max Ferdinand also scored during Baltimore's five-minute five-goal run to end the game. The Blast got off to a slow start, as two goals by Freddy Moojen, who finished with a hat trick, contributed to a 7-0 Wings lead.

Blast @Silver Knights Friday, 7p.m. Josh Rife scored a power-play goal 40seconds into overtime to give the Milwaukee Wave a 10-8 victory over the visiting Blast in a first-place Major Indoor Soccer League showdown Saturday. The loss was the second straight for the Blast (12-4), which lost Friday night to the Soul, 13-8, in Chicago. The Wave improved to 11-2. Baltimore took a 4-0 lead on goals by Tony Donatelli and leading scorer Machel Millwood at 7:27 and 9:02 of the first quarter, but the Wave got on the board 21:43 into the game, then tied it less than two minutes later.

The Chicago Soul broke an 8-8 tie late in the fourth quarter and upset the visiting Blast, 13-8, on Friday night. Carlos Farias scored a 3-point goal at 12:49 to put Chicago up, then Matt Stewart put the game away at 14:51. Pat Healey had tied the score at 8 at 7:28 of the quarter. The Blast's only lead came when Adauto Neto, playing in his 100th game for the team, put Baltimore up 2-0 in the second quarter. The Blast (12-3) will play today at 5 p.m. at Milwaukee (10-2) in a showdown for first place.

Et cetera Blast routs Lancers, is 1st in MISL to 10 wins The first-place Blast opened 2013 with a convincing 17-4 win over the host Rochester Lancers on Tuesday to become the first Major Indoor Soccer League team to 10 wins this season. In a game that featured 19 penalty minutes, Blast rookie Lucas Roque led the way with two goals and goalkeeper William Vanzela made 14 saves in his league-leading sixth victory of the season. Marco Mangione opened the scoring midway through the first quarter, and Roque scored the next two, giving the Blast a 6-0 lead after one quarter.

The Blast is playing with an air of confidence that's easy to notice these days. There's nothing particularly brash about it, just a simple way of how the undefeated team is going about its business. It was clear to see against the Missouri Comets on Saturday night, how the home team made things look easy, scoring the game's first 15 points to methodically build an insurmountable lead. The Blast shared the ball, pounced on scoring chances, yielded little ground on defense in the important moments and proved far superior against another Major Indoor Soccer League opponent in a 15-9 win over the Comets in front of an announced 6,611 at 1st Mariner Arena . The win puts the Blast (9-0)

The Blast were playing their second game in just 24 hours Saturday night against Syracuse, and some heavy legs may have led to a sluggish start. After being held scoreless in the opening quarter, the Blast was able to rebound and pulled away from the Silver Knights for a 10-4 win before an announced 3,038 at 1st Mariner Arena . Baltimore also put together its best defensive effort of the early season and did not allow a goal in the second half....

A few early punches was all the Blast needed Friday night to take out the short-handed Chicago Soul. A dominating second quarter was plenty as the Blast won for the second straight time against the Soul, this time a 17-9 win in front of an announced crowd of 3,317 at 1st Mariner Arena . Pat Healey scored two goals, Adauto Neto and Lucio Gonzaga each contributed one goal and two assists, and seven different players scored for the home team....