Pekin Dragons JFL

Football, football, football! 🏈🏈🏈

PCHS Dragons are up, 12U JFL Dragons on deck! 🐲🐲🐲🐉🐉🐉

Get fired up this weekend as Pekin Football is alive and well! 🔥🔥🔥

Tonight we have the Pekin Community High School District 303 Varsity Dragons ready to roll vs. Lincoln Way West in a first round home game. Get tix here: https://gofan.co/event/2119714?schoolId=IHSA 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Tomorrow Pekin Dragons JFL 12U will go to work against a familiar foe vs. Dunlap. This is for the JFLOCI League Championship, the final leg of 12U's . The game will take place at IVC HS in Chillicothe, IL Nov. 2nd. 🏆🏆🏆

GOOD LUCK AND GO DRAGONS!

After an incredible back and forth game, ending with a stout defensive series resulting in a red zone interception by Pekin's defense, 12U is victorious! 20-16 Final over Peoria Notre Dame. They advance to the 12U JFLOCI Championship on November 2nd. The game will be played at 5pm at IVC HS in Chillicothe, IL.

With a chance to win it until the very end, 8U Black was defeated by Dunlap 18-12. Congrats on a great season and good luck in the 3rd place game on Nov. 2nd at IVC Highschool in Chillicothe, IL.

Pekin 8U Black takes Dunlap into the half 12-12.

Update:

9U took a tough loss against Dunlap 38-0. They will play for 3rd place during JFLOCI Championship Weekend Nov 2nd at IVC Highschool in Chillicothe, IL.

8U Black is currently all tied up with Dunlap 12-12 midway through the 2nd quarter. If they win, they play for the league Championship Nov 2nd at IVC Highschool in Chillicothe, IL.

Thank you to our official GOLD EXCLUSIVE PLAYOFF SPONSORS and congrats again to all of our 2024 JFLOCI PLAYOFF QUALIFIERS! As a reminder we do have 3 teams still in the hunt for a title.

9U vs Dunlap 10/26 10:30AM
8U BLACK vs Dunlap 10/26 NOON
12U vs Notre Dame 10/27 1PM

Best of luck to our 12U Dragons! They will go to battle with Notre Dame this Sunday!

Best of luck to our 8U Black Dragons! They will face off with Dunlap 8U this Saturday!

Best of luck to our 9U Dragons! They will take on Dunlap 9U Gold on Saturday!

EXCITING PLAYOFF FOOTBALL!!!

A historic season for Pekin JFL. 4 Teams entered post season play. 8U Black, 9U, 12U and 14U.

3 Pekin JFL teams remain after the first round of JFLOCI playoffs. 8U BLACK, 9U AND 12U will play this weekend for a chance to appear in the JFLOCI Championship game.

Have a great practice and best of luck to the remaining teams this weekend.

Pekin 14U trails the #1 seed Morton 6-8 at the half.

Congrats to 12U players and coaches on their round 1 playoff win! Good luck to 14U, game should be underway now.

Looking for a way to remember this season for years to come? Maybe it was your first year? Last year? Best season ever? No matter the reason, we have THE ULTIMATE KEEPSAKE! Purchase your athlete's helmet and you can keep the memory of this season alive forever! We'll even take payment and store the helmet in secret for you to come back and pickup if you'd like to surprise your player later!

We weren't sure what to say, how to say it or when. However, we need to give recognition where due.

The following took place during our 1:45pm 10U game between Pekin 10U Black and Canton:

Late in the 4th quarter after an incredible back and forth game with about 20-30 seconds left on the clock, a Pekin player took a hit and went down. Simultaneously another Pekin player was injured as well. After some evaluation it became immediately clear that we had one player concussed, who was also complaining of neck pain.

As we continued to evaluate, the decision was quickly made to call for EMT/Ambulance services as a precaution.

In the passing minutes the minds of everyone on the Pekin sideline and in the crowd shifted. No longer were we concerned with winning the game, we just wanted to make sure our athlete, teammate, friend and child was okay.

The discussion began once the athlete was stabilized and emergency services were en route as to what to do with the time remaining in the game.

Both teams understood the seriousness of the situation and we mutually agreed to end the game, calling for the scoreboard to be shut off.

In that moment the game no longer mattered, it didn't make sense to continue playing while a child lay there awaiting medical attention. Canton could have asked for the game to be continued, they had possession with a 5 point deficit in the redzone, they had a chance to win. Neither team had the season they had hoped for and a win on this day would have meant alot.

However, out of respect and sportsmanship they elected to allow the contest to end. In that moment they ensured we could all focus on the young man who was injured.

The update came in and he is doing okay and no spine or neck injuries were incurred. He did sustain a concussion, but the doctors did not classify it as serious after further testing. We are truly thankful that this was not more serious. Our thoughts are with the young athlete hoping for a speedy recovery.

Our thanks go out to the Canton coaches and players for a hard fought game and the class shown by them to recognize, that in the moment, there was something more important to be dealt with than the result of the game.

We'd also like to thank the first responders, the onsite medical professionals who came onto the field to lend a hand and to everyone who had the young athlete in their thoughts and prayers as we awaited the news that he would be okay.

Congrats to 8U Black and 9U on their first round playoff wins! Best of luck to all teams playing today and tomorrow!

Make sure to come out to the 8U and 10U games THIS SATURDAY and get some great food while you're at it!

Thank you to Monari's Chili Dogs and Sno Bros for coming back out to the fields!

A BIG thank you to Decent Designs LLC✨ for our new Dragons hats!

Come down to the building during practice and check them out! They're only $28!

We have a limited quantity so don't miss out!

Post season schedule was released around midnight.

We'll make another post later but for those that just can't wait.... go take a look!

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That was a great 3 days of tournament play!

Congratulations to all of our teams on a great season. We hope to see many of you back next year for flag and tackle.

We can't wait to celebrate your season with you at the flag banquet on Monday!

It was a great night to start our end of season flag tournament! 🏈

Thanks for coming out and supporting! Congrats to the teams who won. We will see everyone back out tomorrow at 5pm for the next round!

All flag tournament games are scheduled to begin at 5️⃣🅿️Ⓜ️ due to loss of daylight. We are aware that there may be some inconsistencies on times displayed in various information sources.

Please see schedules below.

Please be mindful and respectful of our neighbors on and around Koch St. near the complex.

We've been made aware that a child was hit by a car driven by someone who was possibly spectating one of our games. Luckily it sounds like there weren't any serious injuries.

Regardless of who the driver was or why they were in the area, it's a great reminder to everyone that there are people and children who live in the area around our fields. Please keep them in mind when coming to and from games as well as when looking for parking.

Home games for 12U and 14U on the slate for today!

12U will play at 1pm and 14U at 3pm.

Please join us as we recognize our 8th graders as they will be moving on to high school next season.

Thanks for all the wonderful memories over the last several years, we can't wait to see where your journeys will take you!