Hurricane Heat Captures 27th Zion Bowl, Melting Kellie's Criminals 56-21 in Championship Game!

(Zion National Park, Utah) Showcasing an offensive dice toss that boggled the mind, Tim's Hurricane Heat rolled through the twenty-seventh Zion Bowl before blitzing Kellie's Criminals 56-21 in the championship game. The Heat's high-scoring offense and special teams launched Tim to his fifth ZFL championship, catapulting his Heat from 13th to 10th place in the all-time ZFL tournament standings. The powerful Heat captured their second Zion Bowl crown as their defense intercepted ten Criminal passes that set up Tim's powerful and fiery offense which then took over and converted four of those turnovers into TDs. The feast provided by ZFL fans and Zion National Park's natural beauty created a beautiful day in Oak Creek Canyon as the Zion Football League celebrated 27 years in southern Utah and the start of another great year!

Zion Bowl Notes

ZFL teams combined to block eight punts in the Zion Bowl tourney, including three that were returned for touchdowns...…Mike's Posse led the painful blocked punt parade with four in two games… The Heat bolted out to a 38-7 second quarter lead enroute to a 66-24 throttling of Shawn's Assies in semi-final action…After trailing 24-21 at the end of the third quarter against John's Nighthawks, Kellie's Criminals drove for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and captured a 35-24 semi-final victory…Doug's Parowan stunned Jim's Gold Miners with seven touchdowns in a 50-27 opening round romp…Tony Natalie's Air Nat has now appeared in back-to-back Zion Football League tournaments for the first time since the 1980's…