The Hillsborough Dukes traveled to Watchung Hills, Somerville and Delaware Valley on Sunday, September 15th. The Dukes’ competed in games across 4 levels starting at 8:30 in the morning competing in the 3rd games of their season.
Flag teams
The Flag Teams competed against Watchung Hills against the hosts and Maplewood/South Orange. The Red Flag team played against Watchung Hills “A” in the 1st half and MSO “B” in the 2nd half. The offense scored 7 times in the 2 games with Cole Hayden scoring 3 times, CJ Olney scoring twice and Jack Moran and Francesca Schiro finding the end zone once each. The defense held both teams scoreless and were led by JB McCrea, Jason Roser and Hayden.
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The Yellow Flag team played against MSO “A” and Watchung Hills “B”. The Dukes Yellow Flaggers competed hard against the older MSO “A” team and battled them for the whole half. In the 2nd half they were able to turn their fortunes around and score two touchdowns, one each by Anthony Sowinski and Adam Stewart. Quinn Hayden, Jack Geraci and Parker Taylor led the defense to a shutout in the 2nd half.
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Mitey Mites
The Dukes Mitey Mite was also in Watchung Hills to play the Watchung Hills “2” Mitey Mite team. The defense had a strong game hold their opponent to two 2nd quarter touchdowns and stopping both extra points. Notable on defense was the improved open field tackling and penetration at the line of scrimmage. The defense had key fumble recoveries by Luke Scott and Wade Liedl and strong performances by Michael Giuliano (who also helped win the field position battles with strong kick-offs), Nate Kepniss, Jeremy Martino and Stephen Dowe. The offense found the endzone 6 times with Michael Caporaso leading the way with 4 (one on a kickoff return). Martino also had long touchdown run while Dowe, Donoven Nicolas, Kyle Sellyei & Chris Spinelli added PAT’s.
Junior PeeWee
The Junior Pee Wee team was on the road in Somerville and moved their record to 2 & 1. Kyle Hudak had a 60 yard run for a touchdown, Rocco Viscel had two key receptions (one for 35 yards and one for a score), and James Mazuera scored on a short run. Those 19 points held up as the defense held the Rams to 13 points and secured the win with a goal line stand. Leo Schiro led the defense with a forced fumble, fumble recovery and tackle in the backfield and Nick Caparosso also made a key tackle behind the line of scrimmage.
PeeWee
The Pee Wee team also moved to 2 & 1 with a 38 to 6 victory at Delaware Valley.
Cheer
All of the football teams would like to thank the Dukes cheer squads for their support. The girls cheered on the teams and used this week as their initial live performance at Half Time for their Competition season which begins later in the year.
Schedule
The Dukes’ will return to action on Sunday, September 22nd. We will have our 2nd home date with Watchung Hills coming to the Hillsborough High School field for all 4 levels with the day beginning at 8:30am with the Flag teams.
