Chicago Bandits advance to AUSL championship series

The play-in game for the right to face the defending champion Utah Talons in the best-of-three AUSL championship series was a thriller, and after the longest game in AUSL history, the Chicago Bandits emerged with a 6-5, 11-inning victory over the Portland Cascade on Thursday night in College Station, Texas.

Trailing, 5-4, in the bottom of the 11th, the Bandits rallied with a game-tying double…