{"id":58250,"date":"2022-06-16T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/denver-rush-at-seattle-thunder-womens-football-showdown-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:30:00","slug":"denver-rush-at-seattle-thunder-womens-football-showdown-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/denver-rush-at-seattle-thunder-womens-football-showdown-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Rush at Seattle Thunder women’s football showdown in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kent-based Seattle Thunder will play the Denver Rush in an X League women’s football game at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n

The 7 on 7 full-contact tackle football game will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 25.<\/p>\n

This marks the debut season of the league. Mike Ditka, a member of the NFL Hall of Fame and former Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints coach, is backing the eight-team league.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $65 for field level, $45 for lower sideline, $35 for sideline, $30 for party zone, $25 for lower end zone and $15 for upper end zone. For tickets, go to accessoshowarecenter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Top players for the Thunder are expected to be quarterback KK Matheny and receiver Kiarra Williams, according to xleague.live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seattle has just one other game on the regular season schedule when it travels Aug. 6 to play at the Chicago Blitz. The Blitz opened the X League season with a 40-34 win against the Kansas City Force on June 10. The league schedules only one game per week.<\/p>\n

Two league playoff games are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 27 at the ShoWare Center. The winners will play for the title Sept. 1o at Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

In addition to Seattle, Denver, Kansas City and Chicago, the other teams in the league include the Los Angeles Black Storm, Austin Sound, Atlanta Empire and Mesa Red Devils.<\/p>\n

The ShoWare Center has offered women’s football games most years since the city-owned arena opened in 2009. It started with the Seattle Mist in the Lingerie Football League which later changed its name to the Legends Football League.<\/p>\n

The X League had planned to debut in 2020 but COVID-19 halted the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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