2007 Germantown

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Neshaminy 49 - Germantown 6

Tribe goes to 3-0; set for SOL play

On a cool, fall evening - one that was just perfect for a game of football - the outcome of this contest really wasn’t a surprise. For although the Bears of Germantown played hard until the final gun they were outmatched by a ‘Skins club that won going away, 49-6. Displaying an offense that was running on all eight cylinders, Langhorne pushed five scores across on the ground while going up top for the other two. And insuring that scrapbooks throughout the school district would be graced with clippings, 5 different Moleskinners were involved in the scoring.

The air attack featured Ian Capanna as he snagged two Justin Kinney spirals for scores. Plus both catches were syrupy sweet as Capanna showed his stuff by stretching for receptions that were just inches from being incomplete. Meanwhile, and not to be outdone, the ground gang of Jason Ulmer and Joe Stemme, with help from Quilan Arnold, earned their tickets to the prom, and TDs for the box score, the old fashioned way: Redskins power running!

Defense? Yes, we have that too. In fact, the 6 points scored by the Bears was the result of some nifty running by a deep man on one of the eight kickoffs that Germantown fielded. So don’t blame the “D” as they held the home team offense in check for the full four quarters.

So all in all, it was a good night for Neshaminy as they pocketed another W. Plus not only did the first team work out the last of their kinks but the understudies flexed their muscles too as the lead allowed Coach Schmidt to rest his starters. And now at 3-0, the team can focus on the meat of their season as Suburban One League conference play kicks off next week as the blue and red tangle with a strong Abington Ghosts group.

See you at the game.


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Neshaminy	21	14	07	07	49
Germantown	00	06	00	00	06

Photos courtesy of Jesse Garber

'Skins leave little doubt

By KEVIN COONEY
Bucks County Courier Times

For the few tenths of a second after the ball tipped off of Ian Capanna’s right hand and popped four feet up into the air, one thought crossed his mind.

Please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.

“You know that you are going to get hit,” said Capanna, a senior wide receiver for Neshaminy’s football team. “But if you are going to take the hit, you hope that it’s not too bad and you have to make sure that you’ve made the catch.”

Capanna made the catch and turned it into a touchdown. And right now, everything that the Redskins are touching is turning to gold.

The Redskins were dominant on both sides and rolled to a 49-6 win over Germantown of the Philadelphia Public League Friday night at Ben Johnston Memorial Stadium.

Three weeks into the season, the Redskins are perfect at 3-0 — earning two of their three victories on the road. When they head across the turnpike next Thursday to face preseason favorite Abington, they will do so as a relatively healthy team with a world of good feelings.

“That’s the biggest part of things for us,” Capanna said. “We saw last season what can happen when you suffer injuries in the preseason when Kitt [Anderson, the Redskins projected starting running back] went down. Now, we’re healthy and we have a good deal of momentum going in.”

For Redskins coach Mark Schmidt, the best news out of this game was the fact that it was over.

“Look, Germantown played us really tough,” Schmidt said. “They are a very physical football team. There were a few things we could keep working on, but we got the job done and now we go on and get ready on a short week.”

This one was never in much doubt right from the start. The Redskins scored on their first five possessions of the game and activated the running clock mercy rule on the second possession of the second half.

“This felt like a different type of game for us,” Capanna said. “Really, we wanted to come in here , take care of business and get out as healthy as possible."

September 15, 2007 7:12 AM