It was all in a Days Work


On their first drive Kaneland turned the ball over on downs to the Elmwood Park Tigers on the Tigers 39 yard line and preceded to watch as the Tigers marched down field. This was not part of the script!

But the Knights finally held, when the Tigers came up short on 4th and seven at the Knights 28. Then once the Knights got the ball back it was lights out and the fun begun.

It took the Knights just 4 plays to begin the fun. A run by Kyle Schrader for 7, a pass to Ryan Schrader for 17, a pass to P.J. Fleck for 16 and that patented dash to the end zone for 32 yards and the Knights first TD by Kyle Schrader.

Next time the Knights got the ball it took just four plays again. This time they traveled 80 yards, capped by a 68 yard pass from Eric Delaney to Billy McKeown.

Next time the Knights moved the ball 56 yards on 6 plays. The finale of the drive was a pitch to Schrader who broke free for a 31 yard gallop. The blocking by the Knights was photo perfect as shown in the accompanying picture, from wide outs Fleck and McKeown to linemen #72 Bryan Stacker and #77 Keith Synder.

After the kickoff the Tigers threw three incomplete passes that took only 13 seconds and got them nothing but a 17 yard punt. From the EP 37 the Knights went to work again, this time taking 5 plays to score their 4th TD on a Delaney to Fleck slant pattern from 7 yards out.

But the Knights weren't done. With just one and a half minutes left in the half, the team in white got the ball again. And on their first play from their own 37 Delaney hit Fleck 15 yards down field. As shown in the accompanying picture, P.J. zipped right pass one tackler, zagged left pass another would be tackler and then out ran the rest, down the right sideline for a end zone celebration. P.J.'s second in a row.

Half - Knights 35 Elmwood Park zip.

After kicking off to the Tigers to start the half, the Knights where on the attack two minutes later. And guess what? Yup. Six plays and TD number six. This time it was Ryan Schrader who ran it in from 11 yards out. So with 7:04 remaining in the third quarter the running clock started.

From that point on the game slowed as the Knights focused on the shutout. Elmwood Park had a drive down to the Knights 6 yard line where they fumbled. However, the Knights with cleaner uniforms could not move the ball and had to punt. It only went 31 yards and EP got to start all over again this time from the Knights 37.

The Tigers moved to the Kaneland 15. That's where QB Mike Cibelli hit Joe Turko in the end zone to end Kaneland's hope of a shutout.

The Knights came right back and drove 55 yards in 11 plays to cap the day with one more TD with just 1:19 on the clock. The TD came compliments of senior reserve running back Jim Null who banged in from 2 yards out on a fourth down play.

Kaneland had 435 total yards, with a balanced attack of 206 yards on the ground and 229 in the air. The Kaneland defense held Elmwood Park to just 170 total yards.

Kyle Schrader hit the 100 mark again rushing with 106 yards on 11 carries, while Delaney was 10-13 passing for 229 yards. Fleck had 7 receptions for 139 yards and McKeown had the big one for 69 yards in his only snag.

It was all in a days work.

Kaneland    07 28 07 07 49
Elmwood Park 00 00 00 06 06

Kaneland's next game is against Herscher at home for Homecoming. Herscher and Kanland are both 7-0 and it will be a collision of two locomotives for the SPC White conference championship.

See Herscher Preview for more on that game.


The sophomore Knights won big downing Elmwood Park 43-14. Tim Morris scored three touchdowns for the Knights. Matt Shiff, Scott Pitstick and Andy Stombres also scored touchdowns.

Matt Nelson made all the extra point attempts except for Robert McGinnis's 2-point score.




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