As promised I went to the Kimberly vs Appleton North FB game at North and wanted to share some observations.
1st Qtr-A defensive oriented qtr with no scoring as Kimberly tried to run the ball but North's defense was swarming and they didn't have much success. There was a strange play-North appeared to have their QB score a TD on a read-option keeper but the referee inadvertently blew the whistle and the play was dead, negating the TD.
2nd qtr-Kimberly picked off a North pass deep in their territory and ran it back to the North 15 yard line (approximately) and scored from there. North put together a nice drive and scored. Just before the end of the 2nd qtr Danny Vandenboom finally made a couple of impressive throws and Kimberly scored after having 2 penalties and snapping the ball from inside their 20 and they scored with 46 seconds left to take a 21-14 lead at the half.
3rd qtr-reminded me of the first qtr where defense was name of the game and there was no scoring.
4th qtr-Kimberly continued to play great defense and took away all of North's favorite plays and offensively moved the ball on the ground. They took time off the clock on a couple drives and finished with TD's on both to win by the final score of 35-14
Random observations about Danny Vandenboom and Logan Bruss-
Kimberly must have thought they could run up the middle because they tried and tried and not much success. I didn't understand that because Logan plays right tackle and I felt they should have run his way more.
Finally in the 4th qtr Kimberly ran a counter-trey type play with Logan pulling from right to left and had decent success and a couple big plays-I believe North's defense was starting to tire.
With approximately 55 seconds left in the first half with Kimberly having I believe 2nd down and 26 on their own 15 yard line as I mentioned earlier Danny threw a great ball to his WR for a big gainer down to about the North 25 yard line. On the next play he threw a TB pass and Kimberly scored a TD in like 10-12 seconds-amazing.
Danny suffered his first INT of the season-not sure what he was looking at but he threw it right to a North defender (reminded me of a couple of Bart Houston's passes).
I believe Danny could have had better stats except Kimberly had 4 or 5 false start penalties and I counted 7 shot-gun snaps that were low, off target and even on the turf that he had to manage. He did a nice job of trying to run the play but with the bad snaps the timing was thrown off and Kimberly's offense struggled on those plays.
Some personal thoughts
I left what I thought was early enough (got to the field approximately 30 minutes ahead of kickoff), but both bleachers were packed and my son and I had to watch standing along the side-a tough vantage point to see the line play.
It's been a few years since I went to HS FB game and North had artificial turf on their field-is it the norm for HS's to have artificial turf?
I enjoyed the game, the weather was iffy during the day but it turned out to be a beautiful night for HS FB.
If I can I will try to get to another Kimberly game and hopefully give a more detailed report from a better vantage point.
1st Qtr-A defensive oriented qtr with no scoring as Kimberly tried to run the ball but North's defense was swarming and they didn't have much success. There was a strange play-North appeared to have their QB score a TD on a read-option keeper but the referee inadvertently blew the whistle and the play was dead, negating the TD.
2nd qtr-Kimberly picked off a North pass deep in their territory and ran it back to the North 15 yard line (approximately) and scored from there. North put together a nice drive and scored. Just before the end of the 2nd qtr Danny Vandenboom finally made a couple of impressive throws and Kimberly scored after having 2 penalties and snapping the ball from inside their 20 and they scored with 46 seconds left to take a 21-14 lead at the half.
3rd qtr-reminded me of the first qtr where defense was name of the game and there was no scoring.
4th qtr-Kimberly continued to play great defense and took away all of North's favorite plays and offensively moved the ball on the ground. They took time off the clock on a couple drives and finished with TD's on both to win by the final score of 35-14
Random observations about Danny Vandenboom and Logan Bruss-
Kimberly must have thought they could run up the middle because they tried and tried and not much success. I didn't understand that because Logan plays right tackle and I felt they should have run his way more.
Finally in the 4th qtr Kimberly ran a counter-trey type play with Logan pulling from right to left and had decent success and a couple big plays-I believe North's defense was starting to tire.
With approximately 55 seconds left in the first half with Kimberly having I believe 2nd down and 26 on their own 15 yard line as I mentioned earlier Danny threw a great ball to his WR for a big gainer down to about the North 25 yard line. On the next play he threw a TB pass and Kimberly scored a TD in like 10-12 seconds-amazing.
Danny suffered his first INT of the season-not sure what he was looking at but he threw it right to a North defender (reminded me of a couple of Bart Houston's passes).
I believe Danny could have had better stats except Kimberly had 4 or 5 false start penalties and I counted 7 shot-gun snaps that were low, off target and even on the turf that he had to manage. He did a nice job of trying to run the play but with the bad snaps the timing was thrown off and Kimberly's offense struggled on those plays.
Some personal thoughts
I left what I thought was early enough (got to the field approximately 30 minutes ahead of kickoff), but both bleachers were packed and my son and I had to watch standing along the side-a tough vantage point to see the line play.
It's been a few years since I went to HS FB game and North had artificial turf on their field-is it the norm for HS's to have artificial turf?
I enjoyed the game, the weather was iffy during the day but it turned out to be a beautiful night for HS FB.
If I can I will try to get to another Kimberly game and hopefully give a more detailed report from a better vantage point.
