Sunday, September 25, 2011
My take on what our local teams are doing after their fifth games of the year
Here’s my look at the local prep football teams after their Week 5 games… Jacobs: The Golden Eagles improved to 5-0 with a 28-20 Homecoming win over Cary-Grove for their first win over the Trojans since 2001. This is the first time in anyone’s memory that Jacobs has started this strongly. It is a whole new attitude at Jacobs with Bill Mitz now in his second year at the helm. Mitz brought a winning tradition from Stevenson High School and has changed the whole culture of what Jacobs football is. Friday night, Mitz even threw in some shotgun formations where he said after the game, he had never done in his coaching career before. Jason Judson threw for 137 yards including a game-altering 66-yard touchdown to Jake Gierlak nine seconds after …
Saturday, September 10, 2011
My take on what is happening with our local teams.
We are now at the 1/3 point of the 2011 prep football season, here’s my take on the events of Week 3…. Jacobs: The Golden Eagles finally put a full game together in pounding Grayslake North 62-21 to improve to 3-0 on the year. The first two weeks running backs Caz Zyks and Kyle Wright exchanged the lead role in rushing but Friday night, the two shared the lead with Zyks scoring twice while running for over 170 yards. Wright added three touchdowns of his own and ran for nearly 100 yards. It is becoming very obvious that this team is going to be hard to stop with Zyks and Wright in the backfield and with quarterback Jason Judson also playing well, a deep playoff run has a serious potential of happening. Next week, Jacobs travels to McHenry …
Sunday, September 4, 2011
My take on how the local teams are looking so far.
We are now two weeks into the 2011 high school football schedule, here’s my take on where our local teams stand. Jacobs: The Golden Eagles started slowly Friday night at Johnsburg but were able to come away with a 28-0 win over the Skyhawks. Johnsburg focused a lot of Caz Zyks and held Zyks to 95 yards on the ground but couldn’t slow down Kyle Wright, who had runs of 47 and 55 yards in the second quarter and finished the night with 143 yards. I was out in Johnsburg for this game and if Jacobs can ever play a complete game, they have a great opportunity to finish near the top or at the top of the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division. Even with losing two first-half fumbles, Jacobs had already racked up 328 yards of offense by halftime and …
