While he made more of an impression on me as a Defensive End prospect starting in the second quarter when he got his defensive reps, Schoening also did a tremendous job as the South Team’s starting Right Tackle on the Offensive Line. He used an obvious size and strength advantage to put the North Team’s Defensive Linemen on skates throughout the contest. He exploded out of his stance and showed off the flat back, chest up and violent hands that coaches around the country want their O-Line to play with.

Despite being the starter at Right Offensive Tackle (where he did a good job), Schoening came alive when he moved to his more natural, and projected, position of Defensive End. On his very first defensive play, which just so happened to be the first play of the second quarter, operating out of a stand up position, Schoening played the Jet Sweep like a player beyond his years and came up with a huge stop for the South. The Offensive Tackle had an impossible reach block to make based on Schoening’s alignment and the Cranford native beat him at the point of attack and defeated the block for no gain. That play would become the launching pad for one of the top 2029s in all of Union County, as on the first play of the second quarter, the big man would be credited with a Sack on a bad snap, resulting in an 18-yard loss. With no official stats kept I could be off, but I unofficially had Schoening with a share of three sacks in the game.