Johnstown Riverhawks

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Johnstown Riverhawks

Founded	1999
Arena	Cambria County War Memorial Arena
Based in	Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Colors	blue, black, silver
League	American Indoor Football Association
Head Coach	Brian Basile
President of Football Operations

The Johnstown Riverhawks are a professional indoor football team based out of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. They are a charter member of the American Indoor Football Association. They play their home games at Cambria County War Memorial Arena. They began play in 1999 as the Topeka Knights of the Indoor Football League. They missed the playoffs in their inaugural season, finishing third in the Northern Division at 6-6. During the second season, the team changed ownership and became the Topeka Kings. The team finished with a much better record, going 10-4 and winning the Western Conference, Southern Division championship. In the playoffs, they defeated the Black Hills Machine in the quarterfinal round before losing to the Bismarck Blaze in the semifinals. After the season, they moved to Knoxville, Tennessee became the Tennessee ThunderCats, and moved to the Indoor Professional Football League. They would impressively win the league championship in their first year. After the IPFL folded, the ThunderCats moved to the NIFL. During their tenure in the league, they had decent success in 2002, not-so decent success as the Tennessee Riverhawks in 2003, and in 2004, when they were the Greenville Riverhawks, their ownership folded after three games, they moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and they played their remaining games. Then, they were founded by Andrew Haines, owner of the American Indoor Football league the team was purchased by Brian Schwelling of Atlanta, Ga in February of 2005. Schwelling operated the team successfully until September of that same year when the team was sold to Michael Dawson. Schwelling was successful in bringing the Riverhawks to the semifinal game in the team's inaugural season.

On March 4, 2006, the Riverhawks won their first game of their second season on the road 21-14 against the Steubenville Stampede, which made AIFL history by becoming the lowest scoring game in the league's 2-year existence.

On Sunday, March 26, 2006, the Riverhawks lost the AIFL's very first overtime game 41-38 against the Reading Express at home.

[edit] Season-By-Season

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

Season	W	L	T	Finish	Playoff Results
Topeka Knights (IFL)
1999	6	6	0	3rd Northern	--
Topeka Knights/Kings (IFL)
2000	10	4	0	1st WC Southern	Won Quarterfinal (B.H. Machine) Lost Semifinal (Bismarck)
Tennessee ThunderCats (IPFL)
2001	11	4	0	2nd League	Won IPFL Championship (Omaha)
Tennessee ThunderCats (NIFL)
2002	10	4	0	2nd AC Northern	Won Round 1 (L.C. Land Sharks) Lost AC Quarterfinal (Ohio Valley)
Tennessee Riverhawks (NIFL)
2003	6	8	0	5th AC Eastern	--
Greenville Riverhawks (NIFL)
2004	0	4	0	5th AC Eastern	--
Johnstown Riverhawks (AIFL)
2005	6	4	0	3rd League	Lost League Semifinals (Richmond)
2006	8	5	0	5th Northern	--
Johnstown Riverhawks (AIFA)
*2007	3	4	0	T-4th Northern	--
Totals	63	46	0	(including playoffs)

* = Current Standing

[edit] 2007 Season Schedule

Date	Opponent	Home/Away	Result
February 2	Canton Legends	Home	Lost 46-60
February 9	Huntington Heroes	Home	Lost 24-35
February 23	Danville Demolition	Away	Won 39-16
March 4	Erie Freeze	Away	Won 44-42
March 17	Pittsburgh RiverRats	Home	Won 43-13
March 24	Huntington Heroes	Away	Lost 22-47
March 30	Pittsburgh RiverRats	Away	Lost 42-47
April 7	Reading Express	Home
April 14	Danville Demolition	Home
April 28	Erie Freeze	Home
May 5	Tallahassee Titans	Home
May 12	Reading Express	Away
May 18	Canton Legends	Away
May 25	Montgomery Bears	Away
June 1	Baltimore Blackbirds	Away