From the category archives:
Someone reminded me that I never posted the link to the book we made for the football players and coaches at the end of the season. (I made one for Owen about his season as well, but it’s not “quite” done yet. I’ll post that when I get it printed.)
Here’s the link for the book. We had them printed at Shutterfly and they turned our really nicely.
I think this is my favorite photo of the whole season — the post-game
Haka. Can’t you just feel how happy & proud they all are?
Lions Blank Marsh Creek in Final Contest
The New Hope Solebury Junior PeeWee Gold Lions traveled to Marsh Creek last Saturday to take on the much improved Marsh Creek 5 Eagles in a Bux-Mont battle. The Eagles were coming off a 25-6 drubbing of Lenape Valley 6 and it was hungry for a big win at home to finish out their season. The Lions and their stout defense would have none of it. As has been the pattern over the past two weeks, the Lion’ combined stout defense with timely offense to secure a hard fought 6-0 victory.
The Lions defense finished the year allowing a miserly 43 points, propelling the team to a 6-4 record (statisticians are still checking on this but it appears that this is the first time a NH-S team has ever won six games). [click to continue…]
Jack (#24 Gold) drags defenders while he drives down the field.
The Lions stepped up in class on Friday night traveling to Penndel to play the Division II Wildcats. On a night when the Lions struggled to find their rhythm on offense, the vaunted Lions defense stepped up to deliver a 7-0 victory. It was the team’s third shutout of the season. Paul Keating’s Lions defense continues to impress giving up an average of less than one touchdown per game through the first nine games of the season.
It looked like a promising start for the Lions when Cam Tealer took the opening kickoff back to the Wildcat thirty on a brilliant zig-zagging run—unfortunately a penalty brought the play back and put the Lions in an early hole. After an unsuccessful offensive series, the Lions turned the ball over on downs at their own 15. [click to continue…]
(Owen is #53 in the gold, putting his shoulder
into that really really really big kid.)
I’m running around trying to get ready for Halloween. Owen’s team played well, but lost to Lenape Valley this morning.
A couple of people have said they can’t find the links to the photos, so below are links to the photos from all the Mitey Mite games I’ve attended this year.
Owen (Gold #53) had his toughest football game ever yesterday. Poor guy, he was playing center and they were lining up in both A gaps against him and he was trying to handle two huge guys on his own.
At one point, I saw him try to just run forward with his arms outstretched at his sides, to sort of clothesline them. Nothing else he was doing could stop those two guys. He just didn’t know how to stop two guys at once.
(Maybe when he’s older and a bit stronger, he’ll use Jack’s (#24 Gold) technique of grabbing the two guys at once and then smashing them into each other!)
Owen played linebacker on defense and [click to continue…]
Well, there was much that wasn’t pretty last night:
Amid all the ugliness, the one bright, shining light was the NHS Jr. PeeWee Gold team. To a man, the players stepped up to the challenges, found untapped reserves of physical and emotional strength, and showed everyone on the field how champions act.
Our players were verbally abused by a Lenape Valley coach and the referees stood by and did nothing; our players were tackled out of bounds, repeatedly held, and our QB and punter were illegally roughed up and the referees stood by and did nothing. Instead, the referees demonstrated their ineptitude by inventing penalties against us. According to the rules, IT IS THE REFEREE’S JOB to protect the children. Well, they failed big time.
Our golden boys didn’t fail. They rallied around each other, fought for every yard and tackle and made everyone who loves them proud.
(Photo 1: Jack #24 running it in for six points; Photo 2: This is one of my favorite photos all year…Jack’s done this a couple of times; he blitzes through the line and then just grabs two players at once and bashes them together.)
The Jr. PeeWee Gold gave it their all, but came up a little bit short. It was a exciting game to watch, and just one or two little mistakes sent the game in the wrong direction.
Photos from the game are here.
Here’s Kevin’s game wrap-up:
Pottstown Slips By Golden Boys
The Junior Pee Wee Gold Lions put a scare into the undefeated Pottstown Patriots before giving up two late touchdowns in a tough loss at CB West’s Memorial Field.
The big stage seamed to suit the Lions just fine as Tommy Lupo took the opening kickoff and rumbled twenty yards into enemy territory. With “Cool Hand” Mike Fitzgerald at the helm the Lions then drove the ball straight up the middle behind Tyler Brennan, Jake Harraka, Tommy Capriotti, Chris Braun, and Ryan Keating. The drive stalled deep in Patriot territory but the Lions had clearly sent their opponents a message—”hope you brought your lunch you’re in for a long day.”
It was time for the vaunted Lions D to take the field. Alec Coburn made two great stops [click to continue…]
New Hope-Solebury’s Jr. Pee Wee Gold team ran its winning streak to three games after dominating Pennridge, 19-0. The Lions have displayed offensive, defensive and special teams prowess in outscoring their opponents 64-6 during the winning streak.
The vaunted Lions offense struck early in the first quarter after the defense forced a quick three and out by the Pennridge offense. Seeting up the first score was a long rambling run by Lucas “L-Train” Lasher behind strong blocks [click to continue…]
It took a tough first quarter for the Lions to shake the rust off after a bye week, but they stormed back to beat a tough Horsham Hawks squad 19-6. The Golden Boys showed lots of heart, shaking off some early mistakes to play a nearly flawless second half to secure the victory.
After an early Lions turnover, the Hawks kept the ball for entire first quarter and punched the ball in for a score to start the second. But a stout Lions defense held to prevent the extra point and keep the score 6-0 Hawks.
Getting the ball back on offense, the Lions continued to sputter until a brilliant fake punt by Lucas Lasher gained twenty-five big yards and got the Lions within striking distance. Clearing the way for Lasher on the play was a brilliant block by Cameron Tealor that leveled the Hawk’s cornerback. The Lions pushed the ball down to the Hawks’ one before being pushed back to the ten yard line. From there the Lions found familiar magic [click to continue…]
The NHS Junior Pee Wee Gold Team posted its first shutout of the year defeating the Lansdale Cannoneers 26-0. It was truly a team victory with five separate Lions putting points on the board, and nine different players running the ball. Every Lion made the box score with either a carry or a tackle.
The Lions received the opening kickoff and the offensive line took charge right away with Tyler Brennan, Jake Harraka and Tommy Cappriotti opening a huge hole on the first play. Then Ryan Keating at offensive tackle and Jake Perkins at tight end led the way on three big Lions off-tackle running plays — the team’s signature 45 blast — for big yardage down to the Cannoneers’ thirty yard line. Max Adar and Matt Kilgariff took over as they sealed off the edge and helped quarterback Mike Fitzgerald sprint down to the Cannoneers two yard line. From there, Jack McKenna burst over the goal line for the game’s first score. (Kudos to Kilgariff who toughed it out all day on a bum ankle.)
After a booming kickoff from standout Colin Patrick, it was time for the Lion defense to take over. It quickly became clear that the Cannoneers were not going to go quietly when they completed a big pass over the middle, with only a tackle by Alec Coburn preventing a score. The momentum swung back to the Lions after Middle Linebacker McKenna was able to simultaneously tackle the Cannoneers’ tailback, strip him of the ball and recover the fumble.
The Lions then went on a long, gutty, if mistake-filled, drive that consumed nearly seven minutes. [click to continue…]
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