Millburn Season Comes to a Close

The season comes to a final close and we will miss those seniors who move on.  The 2009 season is over and now whats left is highlights and memories.  Good Luck Seniors!

Press Clippings:

Star Ledger Pictures:  http://photos.nj.com/4504/gallery/millburn_vs_madison_football_11-26-09/index.html

Independent Press:  http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2009/11/madison_defeats_millburn_in_78.html

Millburn Patch:  http://millburn.patch.com/articles/miller-football-ends-on-sour-note

Captains Chosen

Congrats to this year's Millburn Varsity Football Captains:

AJ O'Leary
Lex Blum
Jake Riensenberg

Game set for Next SATURDAY

We HAVE a game - Next Saturday Nov. 14th - 1pm

At West Morris Mendham Minutemen

65 E. Main St

Mendham, NJ

The Minutemen have a 3-5 record - with wins over High Point, Montville & Morris Hills.  They lost to West Morris Wolfpack, Jefferson, Sparta, Parsippany Hills, Pope John & Randolph

Millburn WINS on Senior Night

Friday night's game was the quintessimal definition of "Defensive Battle."

The East Side Red Raiders defensive line was impressive, but our defense was even more so.  Nice to get a shut out and nice to see Robert DeCastro back in scoring position.

PRESS CLIPPINGS:

From the Alternative Press:  http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=7812&Millburn-Defeats-Newark-East-Side-6-0-on-Senior-Night

From Millburn Patch.com  - http://millburn.patch.com/articles/millburn-football-back-to-500  

From the Independent Press - http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2009/11/millburn_pitches_football_shut.html

From the Star Ledger http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/3448100161546288849/millburn-6-newark-east-side-0-high-school-football-scores-and-results/

The Recap is pretty easy

2nd Quarter

5:22 - Robert DeCastro 16 yd TD run - 2pt attempt failed -  East Side 0  - Millburn 6

Final Score

East Side 0  - Millburn 6

Congrats to All the Seniors!   We will surely miss you next year!

Millburn hoping to Bounce Back on Senior Night

We'll honor our seniors before TONIGHT's game - please be there by 5:30pm to show our seniors our support.

Alternative press article about senior night and last week:






For anyone interested, below is the text of the Senior Night Celebration-

MILLBURN SENIOR NIGHT

Welcome ladies & gentlemen.  Tonight the Millburn High School Football community and the Millburn 5th quarter club take great pleasure in honoring those members of the football team who are completing their final year in the Millburn Football Program.

These 12 young men and one young lady have been part of our program since the 4th grade.  They have had the honor of wearing Millburn Blue & White and they have shown themselves worthy of all honors we could bestow upon them, both on and off the fields.

It is with great pride and also some sadness that we take tonight to give thanks to these students and their families and to bid them thanks as well as our best wishes in all their future endeavors.  We know you will always serve Millburn proud as you have always made us proud as we watched you on the fields of football.

As befitting the gentlemen we know these young men to be, I am sure they will agree to honor ladies first:

Our team manager and Coach G’s right hand:
Miss Brooke Eisenberg represented by her mother Eve Eisenberg.
The Millburn Senior Football Players:
Represented by:

Nellie & Glen Bailey -         #56 Dylan Bailey
Ilene & Dan Blum         #55 Alex Blum & #57 Ryan Blum
MaryPat & Tom Colicchio        #15 Patrick Colicchio
Jane & Malcolm Collingwood    #26 James Collingwood
Lynn & Al DeCastro        #6 Robert DeCastro
Lisa & David Falcone,         #3 Vinnie Falcone
John & Rhonda O'Leary        #5 AJ O'Leary
Hema & Vijay Patel,         #66 Neal Patel
Pam & Harry Riesenberg,     #60 Jake Riesenberg
Nancy & Don Rubenstein        #24 Eric Rubenstein
Janice & Phil Sieg        #51 Bo Sieg

Ladies & Gentlemen, please rise and give a huge round of applause to the Millburn High Football Seniors!

Not so Happy Halloween for Millburn

Exhilaration last week, exasperation this week. Truly the toughest loss to take this year as the Millers lost in the closing seconds 16-15.

Millburn Patch article:
http://millburn.patch.com/articles/millburn-loses-on-last-minute-field-goal


For those who are interested the Full Recap:

1st Quarter
Belleville - 6:06 - Woodley run - kick failed Belleville 6 - Millburn 0

Millburn - 3:41 - Bednarski to Swanson toss - 23 yds - kick failed Belleville 6 - Millburn 6

2nd Quarter

Millburn - with 0 time left on the clock - Lex Blum 42 yd field goal - Belleville 6 - Millburn 9

3rd Quarter

Belleville - 5:36 - Herman run - 14 yds - Herman kick good - Belleville 13 - Millburn 9

4th Quarter

Millburn 3:28 - Bednarski to Swanson toss - 34 yds - kick failed - Belleville 13 - Millburn 15

Belleville 0:18 - Herman field goal - 14 yds Belleville 16 - Millburn 15

NJ.com's recap:
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/game/score/469284/

Nice Wrap-Up of last weekend's game

Take a look at the recap of last week's thrilling game - some nice comments from Mike Kinney of the Star Ledger:

Millburn shows poise in OT win over Shabazz

Incredible Comeback in the Pouring Rain

Nobody can ever doubt the HEART and DESIRE of this 2009 Millburn football team.

Tonight was truly an amazing comeback and an amazing effort. From our leaders AJ O'Leary, Lex Blum & Jake Riesenberg to every player on this team - the drive and determination they displayed tonight was something we are truly proud of. Today YOU - Millburn Football represented Millburn's Finest!

Congratulations on an incredible win!


PRESS NOW POSTED: http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=7421&Millburn-Football-Shines-in-the-Pouring-Rain;-Defeats-Shabazz-40-34

Millburn celebrates in the pouring rain - VICTORY!

EARLY PRESS RESULTS

From the Star Ledger:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/5891038030099944104/millburn-40-shabazz-34-high-school-football-scores-and-results/

Don't get too upset about their inconsistencies - they have AJ O'Leary at QB and Lex Blum did not get credit for the extra points (Don't Ask).  Its nice to see Max's name in the paper so much.  The correct box scores should be:

1st Quarter

MB- AJ O'Leary 3 yd run for TD.  Blum kick. 10:40 SBZ 0  - MB 7

SBZ - Fairley 40 yd run for TD - Fairley 2pt conversion 8:32  - SBZ 8 - MB 7

2nd Quarter

MB - Ricky Simon leaps for TD - kick failed 11:53   SBZ 8 - MB 13

SBZ - Lee 15 yd run for TD- kick failed 8:50 SBZ 14 - MB 13

End of First Half - SBZ 14 - MB 13

3rd Quarter

SBZ - 27 yd completed pass to Shareef - Hunter kick good -  6:26 - SBZ 21 - MB - 13

SBZ - Fairley run - Hunter kick good - 2:40 - SBZ 28 - MB 13

4th Quarter

MB - O'Leary 1 foot TD - Blum kick 10:33  SBZ 28 - MB 20

MB - Wasserman - 1 yd run - 2 point conversion complete to O'Leary - 45 seconds remaining SBZ 28 MB 28

Note - MB stopped late SBZ drive on the 14 yd line.

Overtime

MB -  Wasserman - 2 yd run - kick failed -MB 34 - SBZ 28

SBZ - Fairly 1 inch run - kick blocked by Ryan Blum -  MB 34 - SBZ - 34

SB - stopped by MB on 4 plays

MB - Wasserman - 3 yd run -

Final - Shabazz 34 - Millburn 40.

Blue OUT set for this FRIDAY Oct. 23rd

GET THE WORD OUT - THIS FRIDAY NIGHT GAME VS SHABAZZ - MHS Field 7:30pm


BLUE OUT AT MILLBURN FIELD !


WEAR BLUE AND SUPPORT MILLBURN SPIRIT! 

MOST unique opportunity

The alternate press (thanks to backing from John O'Leary) has posted our ENTIRE columbia game online.  


This is something you could never see even as recent as last year - not highlights but the ENTIRE game including halftime.


Click on the link below for the alternate press article with pics and the video.


VIDEO 
http://thealternativepress.com/video-vault2.asp?video=sports-10-9-09


Article
http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=6972&Millburn-Falls-to-Columbia-24-6

Upcoming Events reminder

The Bednarskis & Simons came up big for us this week.  The next team dinner will be this THURSDAY 7pm at the Bednarski house.  

While we are thanking people - hope you ALL picked up the AMAZING team Program - Nell Bailey & Melissa Simon did the graphics which saved us $2000 in graphic set-up costs.  

Jill Vaccaro was the inspiration behind all the add and Mary Pat Colicchio contributed efforts along with Maureen Bednarski.  

Now we just need fans in the stands to support us!

Columbia @ Millburn press clippings

http://millburn.patch.com/articles/millburn-falls-at-home-to-columbia
From Jose Ortiz of Millburn patch.com

From sidelinechatter.com:
http://www.sidelinechatter.com/sport1.htm




From the Star Ledger:

columbia-24-millburn-6-high-school-football-scores-and-results/

Millburn Football Coverage

Wish I had seen this article by Jose Ortiz of Millburnpatch.com before last night.  When you read it you'll see that there ARE people out there who know our team and give it coverage it deserves.

We'll keep supporting our boys - we need to turn things around this Friday!

Millburn Patch preview to weekend sports.

High Hopes for Lopes a HUGE success

High Hopes for Lopes was a HUGE success-

Well over 500 people attended  - all bringing their hope to John Lopes in terms of gifts, prayers and donations. The Lopes family was overwhelmed with the huge showing of support.

Coach Lopes, his family and most of those present were enormously impressed that our players came all the way to Staten Island to support their cause. Many people mentioned how great it was to see the players in their jerseys - a reminder to all of Coach Lopes father who coached football for 25 years.

The Millburn football community should be proud that their players once again showed character and integrity in their support of a cause so close to the hearts of our Coach Gene Lopes and his family.

Finally a thanks to John O'Leary for his support and enthusiasm in encouraging the boys to attend.

Millburn v West Essex

On-line news articles of last Friday's game v West Essex:


http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=6730&West-Essex-takes-Millburn-to-Task,-38-7

Not the best game for our boys.  Time to re-group and re-task to get ready to beat the Columbia Cougars.




The write-up of the game from the Star Ledger is here:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-8418105320082877780/west-essex-38-millburn-7-high-school-football-scores-and-results/

"GET UNITED" with Your Community

Join In for this special United Way Event
Saturday, October 10th,  7 pm - 11 pm  at the Sports Academy
For more info and registration, please go to www.unitedwayofmillburn.org


**Community Service Opportunity for our football players to help with the event.  Please contact Heidi Swanson, if you can help.

Millburn vs Nutley Game Pics & Press

Wow - quite a game RIGHT up until we hit the wall in the 4th.  Lets LEARN from this and go out with more wins.  

Peter Koppenaaal's latest photos are FANTASTIC - take a look at:
http://www.pkphoto.net/Sports/Football-Fall-2009/Millers-vs-Nutl/9767482_dpH7H#661992835_MEdiT


Our latest Alternatepress article is at:
http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=6526&Nutley-Outslugs-Millburn-38-6-in-Varsity-Football-

Millburn Game Excitement

Star Ledger's article is HERE:

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-414331114763980821/nutley-38-millburn-6-high-school-football-scores-and-results/

The video is a Nutley Highlight show - not the most comforting video to watch.

Millburn v Nutley - pre-game press

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/4860928715032079008/lead-essex-football-picks-for-friday-sept-25-high-school-football-news/

Take a look at the link above for the Star Ledger's FEATURE GAME write-up of the Millburn v Nutley match tomorrow.

Can't wait till Blum & the gang meet the Nutley boys! 

1pm Saturday -  

"The Park Oval" at Nutley High School

300 Franklin Ave

Nutley, NJ

Back to School Night Success!

A “Special Thanks” to all the Seniors who helped sell Football merchandise at Back to School Night.

Take a Bow! Those charming smiles and winning attitudes proved irresistible and helped make the total night sales a whopping $1300!
Maureen Bednarski

Millburn Football Players Perform Community Service

Dear Dr. Miron,

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Jennifer Langan and I am the Executive Director at the Neighborhood Nursery School in Millburn.  On Sunday, August 23rd more than 15 Millburn High School Football players once again participated in a community service project at the Neighborhood House Nursery School in Millburn.  Whether it was painting the inside of a classroom, weeding in the community garden, or washing the large play equipment and school chairs, the boys were conscientious and polite.  The community service initiative was a huge success.  This project was arranged by Heidi Swanson,from the Football Booster Club and Rose Twombly, Executive Director of the United Way of Millburn-Short Hills.  It was a pleasure working with such fine young men.  Please see the list below for the specific students that participated.

Millburn Football Players

Ryan Bednarski, Michael Brown, Luke DeCastro, Robert DeCastro, Pat Colicchio, Vinnie Falcone

Tommy Falcon, Jake Grzeszczak, Steven Montuoro, Mac Nouich, Neal Patel, Alex Schoen, AJ Simon

Ricky Simon, Stephen Stimmler, Tim Swanson, Ben Vaccaro

AND DR MIRON'S RESPONSE BELOW:

Jennifer
Thanks for sharing this with me.  I literally can't keep track of all the many great things our students are doing outside the classroom.  We measure success in so many ways; however the character these and other students show are what I feel most proud.  We can't teach how to be a responsible citizens; fortunately, our entire community helps foster such actions.  These football players certainly went above and beyond the normal hopes for community service.  Thanks for taking the time to share this with me.  
--Dr. Miron

Three Spots left - High Hopes for Lopes

Another update on the Fund Raiser. We have 3 spots remaining at the tables that have been pre-purchased. Let us know if you are able to attend.

The folks attending so far are: The O'Leary's
                                                            Bednarski's
                                                            DeCastro's
                                                            Fallcone's
                                                            Simon's
                                                            Ben Vaccaro
                                                            Chris Swanson
                                                            Horgan's
Thanks

Ed  Bednarski

Helping Athletes Beat the Heat

Big thanks out to Frosh parent Montuoro for the attached link regarding heat & exercise for kids.  Keep this in mind for next year - not such a hot summer this year as in the past.


Today Show:Helping young athletes beat the heat

DVDs for the Snyder Game

Gang - the full telecast of the TV-36 game Millburn vs Snyder can be purchased for $15. 
Please email heidi at heidi.swanson@us.ngrid.com with your quantities.

Once we get a full order Heidi will place an order.

Email ASAP

ALSO - High Hopes for Lopes - only 5 spots left on the O'Leary Table.  Get your reservations in ASAP.  Lots of the players are going which is fantastic!

Tuesday Night Game Films

A small crowd of us parents were treated tonight to a replay of Friday night's game, compliments of Coach Guarino & Coach Silvani. Wish we had more parents as the films were fun and Coach was able to give us a lot of pointers on the good plays they had.

Game time its tough to see what is going on on the line, but watching the films you get to really see the significant impact players such as Lex Blum, Jake Riesenberg and James Collingwood had on the game. All three had HUGE blocks on all the big offensive plays - on one play we really saw Jake pancake/flatten a defender.


As we said earlier, this team is truly a collection of young men interested in team success rather than individual success. Look at the fact that all five touchdowns were scored by five different players. The constant in all five TD plays - the big 5 lineman - Bailey, Blum, Blum, Bavosa & Riesenberg. We keep them healthy this team should go a LONG way!

BIG WIN for Millburn Football

Fans - we got off to a fantastic start last night thanks to a 35-0 thumping of Snyder.  Press articles include:

Millburn Patch.com:
http://millburn.patch.com/articles/millburn-blasts-snyder-in-home-opener

The Alternative Press.com
http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=6112&Millburn-Millers-Smother-Snyder-35-0

 

The Independent Press:

http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2009/09/millburn_earns_a_football_vict.html

Peter Koppenaal Photographs of Snyder Game

Team & Parents -  Peter Koppenaal braved last night's foul weather to take a TON of pictures which he generously placed on a website for your perusal.  Take a look by following the instructions below:




Here is a link to the photo gallery from last night: http://www.pkphoto.net/Sports/Football-Fall-2009/Millers-vs-Snyder/9601530_BrAHy

The password is "millers".  You can download or print any of these photos by following the instructions below. 


Instructions for viewing, printing, and downloading photos from my web site:


1) If you don't have the above link handy, the gallery is easy to navigate to:

• Enter pkphoto.net in any web browser, then click on Sports, and then Football - Fall 2009, and then Millers vs Snyder, or another gallery.
  

2) To view pictures:

• click on any thumbnail to open the picture.
  
• Use the Style button (near the top) to display the thumbnails in different page formats.
• If you're viewing Style, click on the picture displayed on the right side of the screen to open it full view.
• Use the Slideshow button to see a slideshow

3)To print a picture, you can purchase directly from my website, or download it for free, and print on your own:

• click on the the Buy button. The prices you'll see are my cost. There is a $4.95 shipping fee for each order, so order all the photos you want at one time.
  
• You can save photos to your computer (see below) and print on your own, or forward to family/friends.

4) To save any picture on your computer,  

• open it by clicking on its thumbnail, click on the picture displayed on the right side of the screen to open it full screen  
• choose a larger size If you want to download higher resolution pictures for printing (L, XL, XXL, XXXL, or "O" for original which is about 5-8 mb)  
• right click with your mouse to download it (choose "save image as"). You will be able to save the image at whatever size you were viewing it at when you right-clicked. 

This information is coutesy of Peter Koppenaal.  THANKS!!!

Pre-season Millburn football coverage

Check out the links below to see pre-season coverage from:

The Alternative Press.com
http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=6044


Millburn Patch.com
http://millburn.patch.com/articles/a-new-beginning-for-miller-football#photo-65362

The Independent Press -
Warning to Millburn Fans - This article is not too flattering for MB football...


http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2009/09/it_can_only_get_better_for_mil.html

Millburn Football Season Ready to begin

The first of hopefully many articles from our friends at the Alternative Press.com:
Millburn's Varsity Football Squad set to go against Snyder


http://thealternativepress.com/article.asp?news=5941&Millburn

Essex County Season Previews

Thanks to Harry -  Take a look at the pre-season previews from NJ.com

http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-4614210696328238430/football-essex-county-team-capsules/