Soul Set To Battle Cleveland Saturday In Allentown

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The Philadelphia Soul have just three games left in the regular season, beginning with a Saturday night match-up with the Cleveland Gladiators up in Allentown.

This is a home game for the Soul, but it's being played at the PPL Center because the Wells Fargo Center is tied up with preparations for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.

Philadelphia is 10-3 this season, a game out of first in the American Conference and coming off a bye week. In fact, the entire Arena Football League enjoyed a bye this past week.

"It was nice to get away," Soul head coach Clint Dolezel tells KYW Newsradio. "Everybody go back, see family a little bit, get rejuvenated for the push towards the playoffs. It's nice to have byes this late in the season. We've got another one in two weeks so that's even better. We're getting guys healthy and I think we're going to be completely healthy going into this game."

Listen to the entire interview with the Soul's Clint Dolezel:

Philadelphia and Cleveland are very familiar with each other. This will be their four meeting this season, with the Soul winning two of the first three.

"They definitely have changed some players up from the first game we played them where we put it on them pretty good (a 69-41 win in Week #1 on April 1st)," Dolezel says. "(Head coach Steve Thonn)'s made some good changes. His receivers are a little faster, a little better route runners. They've got a defense and a secondary that's playing really, really well and they have all year long, but their safety is playing at a high level. Quarterback is too, he's a runner, thrower. So they are definitely a different football team than we saw in Week #1 and they've improved, obviously, since they beat us the last time (63-49 on May 28th)."

The Gladiators are 7-6 on the season.

Philadelphia and Cleveland will kickoff at 6:00pm on Saturday.