Visited with former Franklin High head coach Joe Goerge, now the head coach at Jonathan Dayton High in Springfield, Thursday afternoon at Meisel Park in Springfield.
Dayton is in its third year of resurrecting its football program with Goerge the spearhead of the operation. Goerge is being assisted by longtime Franklin assistant Bobby Martin and Goerge's sons Mike and Jason. It was good to see those guys.
Dayton scrimmaged South Hunterdon and both sides have reason to believe that this year will bring improvement. Dayton was 0-10 last year and South was 1-9, beating Dayton in a consolation game in West Amwell.
Both Goerge and South Hunterdon head coach Jim Meert -- the former Hunterdon Central head coach -- have experienced winning sectional championships at Giants Stadium. Now they are in charge of two of the smaller schools that play football in the state.
South Hunterdon has several players that any Skyland Conference team would like to have -- senior fullback/linebacker Kyle Hart, junior quarterback/defensive back Brian Snell and senior wide receiver/defensive back Ryan Marriott.
I'm going to have something further on coach Goerge's life these days in Sunday's newspaper.
Piscataway head coach Dan Higgins said he was impressed with both Don Bosco and Immaculata in the quad scrimmage at Brick Memorial earlier this week.
"Bosco really came to play," Higgins said. "I'd like to play them later in the season. We had been in pads for five days, but they look like they were in playoff mode already. They really seemed to be up to play us."
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