Friday Night Lights at Newbury Park HS

Friday, September 3, 2022

A huge Labor Day weekend of Pop Warner, high school, college and EuroBall football began with a short day before the game practice at Freedom Park for your Camarillo Stingers.

Stingers working on Kickoff coverage

Jacob "Wedge Buster" Contreras

Break Down and don't

overrun the kick returner

The Stingers practice only lasted about an hour tonight, in part due to the extreme heat. That gave us plenty of time to drive up to Newbury Park H.S. to see the Panthers (2-0) play the Crespi Celts (0-2).

Here come the Panthers

Jacob hustling down the field

to help deflate the Panther

The joys of life for a ten year old boy.

Let's get this party started!

Game #3 started with . . .

. . . a solid Crespi Kickoff Return

Ballboy Jacob sizing up

the Panther's #20

The roster lists #20 as one Corey Simon, Defensive End, 5-3, 135, Senior.

I let Jacob video tape the

Panther's first offensive play

I told him to watch for a deep fade route to the right for a TD, the same play that NPHS hit on their first play last week against El Camino Real HS for a TD.

Safe to say, Jacob got a tad excited with my phone's camera when my prediction became fact.

Crespi was stunned and reeling as they

trailed 28-0 at the end of the First Quarter

 

What a BEAUTIFUL night

for American football!

Our ball boy was busy tonight

with all of the scoring

At Half Time, the Panthers were in cruise mode for the second straight game leading 42-0.

Just as they did last week, the Panthers agreed to a running clock the entire Second Half and cleared their bench.

Final Score 

Newbury Park (3-0) 63 - Crespi (0-3) 6

Next Friday, the Panthers will host a tough St. Joseph HS Knights (2-0) team from Santa Maria.

On the same night, the Crespi Celts will attempt to somehow regroup at home against the Chaminade HS Eagles (3-0).

After the game, Jacob needed

some work on the stationary bike

to cool down

NPHS Freshman QB Brady Smigiel

was again OUTSTANDING!

Meanwhile, across the pond . . .

American Football International's

latest Power Rankings for the

European League of Football

This is the final weekend of the ELF's 2022 regular season, the circuit's second year of operation.

Our beloved Varese Skorpions

start up their various youth team's

Fall season practices this week