Rita 35, Prospect 7 Half
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It was crazy how lopsided the brackets were. Rita pretty untested in the playoffs.
Beautiful team. Going to be a great one next week vs Wheaton North. Good night everybody!
Must be looks like no one will kickoff or punt to him. Had 2 DB's on him for a lot of the plays which opened up the other WR.
Game notes:
Hats off to the Prospect team, fans, students and excellent drumline. Dan DeBoeuf’s program will continue to be a force and a team to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.
The media coverage was thorough so I’m just here to add my take.
1) Matt Kingsbury. Period. What an evolution in his first full HS season at LB. After playing last year as a hand on the ground 3, 5 technique, I wondered how he would adapt to playing off the line. He has been all over the place the last 6-7 weeks playing with speed and violence. As a junior, definitely should be on any list of best returning LBs with WNs Dansdill, Batavia’s Jansey and Sadowsky
2) Big pick 6s by senior Jake Poselli and junior Johnny Schmitt. Poselli is a true leader and another that has evolved into a force on the edge throughout the season. Junior Pat Farrell on the other edge keeps getting better each week also.
3) KB. I knew he was returning. My source, my 7th grader. I could never get a straight answer from anyone in the know so I stopped asking. My 7th grader said KB was talking with a group of 7th and 8th graders at a game that he didn’t dress and told the kids that he was coming back to try and finish things here first. Who knew the best source for KB’s return status were 7th and 8th graders. But KB is playing everywhere, wild cat, flanked out, slot, RB and doing it at his extremely high standards, opening up a lot of space for the very capable senior WRs EJ Nwangwu and BJ Hall and the sophomore RBs Ethan Middleton and DJ Stewart.
4) Oline. Another great game. Seniors Logan Blake, Big Val Valen Erickson and junior Colin Gerger stood out.
Great game Mustangs and Knights. Onto DeKalb fam.
Hats off to the Prospect team, fans, students and excellent drumline. Dan DeBoeuf’s program will continue to be a force and a team to be reckoned with for the foreseeable future.
The media coverage was thorough so I’m just here to add my take.
1) Matt Kingsbury. Period. What an evolution in his first full HS season at LB. After playing last year as a hand on the ground 3, 5 technique, I wondered how he would adapt to playing off the line. He has been all over the place the last 6-7 weeks playing with speed and violence. As a junior, definitely should be on any list of best returning LBs with WNs Dansdill, Batavia’s Jansey and Sadowsky
2) Big pick 6s by senior Jake Poselli and junior Johnny Schmitt. Poselli is a true leader and another that has evolved into a force on the edge throughout the season. Junior Pat Farrell on the other edge keeps getting better each week also.
3) KB. I knew he was returning. My source, my 7th grader. I could never get a straight answer from anyone in the know so I stopped asking. My 7th grader said KB was talking with a group of 7th and 8th graders at a game that he didn’t dress and told the kids that he was coming back to try and finish things here first. Who knew the best source for KB’s return status were 7th and 8th graders. But KB is playing everywhere, wild cat, flanked out, slot, RB and doing it at his extremely high standards, opening up a lot of space for the very capable senior WRs EJ Nwangwu and BJ Hall and the sophomore RBs Ethan Middleton and DJ Stewart.
4) Oline. Another great game. Seniors Logan Blake, Big Val Valen Erickson and junior Colin Gerger stood out.
Great game Mustangs and Knights. Onto DeKalb fam.
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I was a renowned pizza delivery guy on the NW side. I will be in DeKalb in spirit. Hit em high
Hit em low
Go Rita Go!!
Hit em low
Go Rita Go!!
I just said WOW!!! And that was a blown call. That was a live ball.
That hit has to be on the highlight reel.
When I watch a game like this in person I get so focused I'm oblivious to very thing else. I was saying to myself why are they here yesterday. They’re out of the playoffs. Now I’m saying to myself DA! They were really into the game. Says a lot about the quality of the Kingsbury’s and those kids. Hopefully those friendships last a life time.
Former teammates sons excelling will be a great story for next season when Kingsbury and Novickas sons meet up week 1 when MC and SR play. I think Novickas had at least 13 sacks this season and will be a high D1 prospect in 22.
Yeah. That Novikas kid is phenomenal. Difficult seeing him in brown/yellow instead of red & blue. That 89 game vs MC where Kingsbury, Novickas, and Hamilton led SRs defense was the most physical HS game I’ve ever seen.
I’d pay up to low 3 figures for a decent copy of that game! Even though MC lost it was a great game. All I have access to is the 88 Semi. The yellow pants are strictly a secondary uniform MC brought back this season in keeping with retro trends but I have a feeling they will be wearing them week 1!
Yeah....Defensive battle the first 3 and a half quarters. Rita I think hit 2 FGs to go up 6-0...MC scored the go ahead TD late in the 4th to go ahead 7-6. SR ran all the way down the field and scored on a bootleg and got the 2 to go up 14-7...MC drove it down to the 30 but threw an incomplete pass in the Endzone to end it. Must have been 9K at Gately. It was #1 vs #2.
I was there and actually on the SR sideline for that game. It was intense for sure!!
Question for anyone who knows. The Kingsbury boys are the sons of which of the Kingsbury brother SR players from the 1970's/1980's? I played with Tommy in late 70's. He had both older and younger brothers.
Sons of Matt that started at LB 88 and 89 and went to Purdue. Great player
