February 26, 2014 - Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) Missouri Comets INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (February 26, 2014) - The Missouri Comets travel down I-70 tomorrow for the final match of the season against their cross-state rivals, the St. Louis Ambush. Kickoff at the Family Arena is scheduled for 7:35p.m. CT. This is the sixth match between these two teams, with the Comets holding a 5-0 series lead.

These two teams rekindled the Kansas City-St. Louis indoor soccer rivalry last November when the expansion Ambush hosted the Comets. Missouri's 28-7 victory on that set the tone for the season as the Comets have been one of the highest scoring teams all season. Against the Ambush, they are averaging nearly 24 points per game.

The Comets have won six of their past eight games, including two against St. Louis. They have outscored their competition 134-79 in that stretch. Lucas Rodriguez, current MISL Player of the Week, has surged through Missouri's recent swing of games. In those eight games, he has scored 25 points, including 7 goals. With the absence, due to injury, of team captain Vahid Assadpour, he has stepped up to fill the midfield void.

St. Louis will be closing out their 2013 home schedule on Thursday. As they celebrate the end of their return season to the MISL, they will honor the rich indoor soccer history of the city with a Retro night, very similar to the Comets annual tradition. As legends such as Mark Moser and Jeff Cacciatore watch on, the dangerous duo of Odaine Sinclair and Kory Dowell will be the ones helping the Ambush try and keep pace with the Comets on the scoreboard.

Game time is scheduled for 7:35p.m. CT and fans can watch online at CometsIndoorSoccer.com/Live-Feed. Missouri will close out the 2013-2014 Regular Season on Sunday against the Milwaukee Wave in a match that could ultimately decide the seeding for the 2014 MISL Playoffs.

Playoff Scenarios

Four teams make the MISL Playoffs and are seeded #1-4. The teams will face off with #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3. The teams will play a home-and-home series for the chance to advance to the MISL Championships. Should either of the series be tied after two games, a 15 minute "mini-game" will be played immediately after game two. The MISL Championship Series will be decided in the same manner.

The Comets currently hold the third seed, a spot that can be clinched with a win in either of the two remaining home games. Should the Comets lose to both St. Louis and Milwaukee, and Syracuse defeats Rochester on Sunday, then the Comets would be the fourth seed in the playoffs.

The Milwaukee Wave and Baltimore Blast are still fighting for position among the first and second seeds of the playoffs. Baltimore holds a .5 game lead on the number one seed currently, but Milwaukee owns the tiebreaker between the two with a better head-to-head record.

Baltimore has one game remaining against the Pennsylvania Roar on Sunday. Milwaukee plays St. Louis on Saturday and the Comets on Sunday. If Milwaukee wins both games or if Baltimore loses, then the Wave will be seeded first. If Baltimore wins and Milwaukee loses one of their two games, then the Blast will be the top seed.

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