Junior Knights

Youth Football

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Game Day: The Junior Knights draw players from Rockaway Borough, Wharton and Mine Hill. The program competes in the Morris County Youth Football League on the varsity, junior varsity and peewee levels while also playing a super peewee, clinic, pre-clinic and a flag football schedule.
 
'Knights in Training' youth football in July
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    ROCKAWAY - Morris Hills varsity football coach Mike Sabo will hold his annual "Knights in Training" football camp for boys in kindergarten through 9th grade at the high school from Monday, July 11, through Thursday, July 14, 2011.
    The K-5 group will meet from 9 a.m. until noon each day and the 6-9 group will have its camp from 1-4 p.m.
    The camp is geared to future Morris Hills football players - specifically those players already enrolled in the Junior Knights or Rockaway Township Rockets youth football programs - but is open to all who wish to attend.
    For more information - including a registration form and fee structure - please contact Sabo by phone at 973-229-0157 or by e-mail at msabo1122@optonline.net.
MH grid coach Sabo sets first punt-pass-kick clinic
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    ROCKAWAY - Morris Hills High School football coach Mike Sabo will conduct his first punt-pass-kick clinic at Gifford Field up on the hill behind the school on Saturday, August 20, 2011, starting at 10 a.m.
    The clinic is open to all 6th-, 7th- and 8th-grade players who participate in the Junior Knights and Rockaway Township Rockets youth football programs and will be run by Sabo and his varsity football staff.
    There is no charge for the program and there is no pre-registration required ... just show up, sign up and you're good to go.
    Questions? Contact Sabo at msabo1122@optonline.net.

Knights stop 2-pt. PAT run

to hold off Dover, 19-18
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      ROCKAWAY - The Junior Knights PeeWees stopped a two-point conversion run with 1:40 to play to finish with a 19-18 victory over the Dover Tigers in a Morris County Youth Football night game played at Hamilton Field in Dover on Saturday, Sept. 18.
      Dover trailed 19-12 in the final two minutes of play when the Tigers scored on an 18-yard halfback-option play on a 4th-and-10 situation to pull to within a point.
      The Junior Knights left side of the defensive line - led by Dajon Chappel and Nick Walls - swarmed over the Tiger running back when Dover tried a sweep for the two-point coversion and the lead.
      The Junior Knights took the ensuing kickoff and, with Dover out of timeouts, were able to pick up one first down and run out the game clock for the one-point victory, their second in as many outings this season.
      Dover scored first in the game but Chappel got the Knights even with a 32-yard touchdown run. After Dover scored again, Daymon Fleming took a shotgun snap from Thomas Stoback and scored on a 55-yard quarterback draw to send the teams into the halftime break tied at 12-12.
     The Junior Knights went ahead for good with seven minutes to play when Derrien Coley scored on a 1-yard run and Chappell added the one-point conversion on a run.
      Offensive linemen Zack Carroll, Matt Lindstedt, Jordan Almindinger, Joseph Vicente and Stoback drew the coaching staff's praise for their blocking. Kurt Nees, C.J. Scott, Walls, Joe Schiele, Chappel, Walls and Fleming had solid defensive efforts - especially in the second half - according to the Junior Knight coaches.
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Chappel TD gives Knights opening-day win
     ROCKAWAY - Dajon Chappel scored the only touchdown of the game when the Junior Knights opened their Morris County Youth Football League season with a 7-0 victory over Boonton-Mountain Lakes at the Robert Street Field in Wharton on Sunday, Sept. 12.
     Joseph Vicente had an interception and Nick Walls recovered a fumble to lead a defense that also included Kevin Brennan, Jay Wilfong, Derrien Coley, Daymon Fleming and Chappel that held Boonton-Mountain Lakes scoreless.