Turkey follow

Some thoughts from the Thanksgiving Day and Thanksgiving Day eve games before going off into the sectional final week.

North Plainfield looked like a team headed for a sectional title game -- not South Plainfield. The Tigers looked un-interested for most of their 39-6 loss to North Plainfield at Krausche Field Thursday. The Canucks played like a championship team from the time senior Devon Williams returned the game's opening kickoff 91 yards to set up a short touchdown pass from senior quarterback Bilal Jones to junior wideout Julian Frazier. North Plainfield junior tackle Ty Chandler, who had a 15-yard sack of Tiger quarterback Mike Burton, is going to be a somebody to watch next year.

Hopefully, South Plainfield gets very interested for its North 2 Group III title game with West Side next Sunday morning at Giants Stadium.

I was told by some North Plainfield fans that there was some vandalizing done around the high school by Tiger fans. My suggestion to South Plainfield: forget the gamesmanship and get into this series. North Plainfield holds a 6-0 lead since the series was restored in 2002.

Watchung Hills won its last three games to finish 5-5. The Warriors, who open with a night game against Plainfield next year (Sept. 12), had a great night running the ball against Ridge.


Heard some interesting scheduling news for 2008. One is that two holiday games will be moved into the regular season -- Montgomery-Hillsborough will be moved to the ninth week and Watchung Hills-Ridge will also be moved. Both of those games will be played Nov. 7.

Since there will be some adjustments in the Skyland Conference divisions next year -- Ridge will play Somerville; Somerville will also play Rahway and North Warren. Bernards will drop from the Skyland Raritan to the Skyland Valley while North Warren will move up to the Raritan.

I was 7-2 in the holiday games. I picked Ridge over Watchung Hills. Watchung Hills rolled. I picked South Plainfield to beat North Plainfield. North Plainfield rolled. That would be two terrible picks.

Also, I picked Delaware Valley to romp past South Hunterdon 28-0. Well, Del Val won, but the Eagles played a great game, falling 14-7.