Newberry at Brimley

Good tough-fought defensive game this week. Final score 0 – 0. There is no overtime at this age group. This was an away game at Brimley.

Ash-boy (#45) once again had the biggest kid (#58) on the other team right across from him for most of the game. He played well against the kid. He only let him through a couple of times. He plays Left Offensive Guard. He also starts on Left Defensive Tackle. He started out trying to just use his shoulder-pads and not use his hands on offense. He jammed his finger real bad playing football with some friends the day before the game and had his pinky taped to his index finger. He was afraid of it hurting. During an early Timeout I ran over to him and told him to deal with it and that he was going to have suck-it-up and play hard and steer this big guy around. I was proud to see him do that. He started pushing the kid around, opening holes, and keeping him out of the backfield. And if the kid did make it through Ash-boy usually steered him clear of the play long enough that the kid wasn’t a factor in the play.

Ash-boy was in on a few different tackles and big plays. He also sacked the QB once and made a fumble recovery by diving on the loose ball, after about 3 of our guys creamed the running-back in the backfield. One think he did wrong was he went off-sides once, jumping the gun on a two-snap.

They only made one pass play and we picked it off. At this young age they don’t do many pass plays, thus it is very unsuspecting and that is why it was so impressive that we intercepted. The corner saw the pass the whole way and stayed between the receiver and the ball. It was nice.

I know that there are some dirty plays by both teams in a game, but Brimley was dirty. I see this being a big rivalry between these two teams. We have one more game together and I can see both teams wanting to win it, thus making it another great game. There was only one Ref so he couldn’t catch everything. But he was also from Brimley. They face-masked quite a bit and it only got called once. Also this one kid was trying to hurt people. After the play was over, when he was getting up he punched our guys in the stomach twice.

We had a good shot at winning this game at the end of the first half. We were at 1st and goal but ran out of time. So close.

Our QB was doing a keeper play and was sweeping to the right side of the field. The Safety and a Linebacker sandwiched him, one from each side. He laid there crying for a few mins. It turned out that he got the wind knocked out of him. A scary moment. He was out for most of the second quarter.

We had a few things going against us. The Head Coach wasn’t there for the game. He had a prior engagement. The other coaches didn’t run the plays well and went on a two-count on every play. You have to switch this up or you become to predictable. We also had poor substitutions going on. The coaches would call a kid and tell him to go in for someone after the team was already in the huddle. This caused 2 penalties for too many kids on the field. You should have the kids ready on the previous pay before you want them to sub. We also got a penalty for one kid not having a mouth-piece in.


All in all this was a very good game.