There must be a bug going around because I was miserable all day Monday, fever, congestion, cough… Hence why very little has been up on this site recently, including the podcast, which I couldn’t even begin to record on Monday. I’m feeling better now (Tuesday afternoon) so hopefully the podcast will be up Wednesday morning.
In the meantime, here are the coaches and state media polls.
Media Poll
1. Ansonia (2-0) (17)……………612……….1
2. Bunnell (2-0) (1)………………554……….2
3. New London (2-0) (2)……….550……….4
4. New Canaan (2-0) (1)……….504……….5
5. Masuk (2-0)……………………446……….6
6. Seymour (2-0)………………..379………..7
7. Staples (2-0)…………………..360……….8
8. Shelton (2-0)…………………..315……….9
9. Berlin (2-0)…………………….214……….10
10. Greenwich (1-1)…………….213……….3
Others receiving votes: Darien (2-0), 200; Hillhouse (2-0), 154; Hamden (2-0), 150; Southington (1-1), 122; New Britain (2-0), 117; Windham (1-0), 113; Cromwell (2-0), 96; Crosby (2-0), 42; Windsor (2-0), 38; Glastonbury (2-0), 32; Wilbur Cross (2-0), 27; Law (2-0) and Tolland (1-0), 26; Fairfield Prep (1-0), 25; East Lyme (2-0), 18; Notre Dame-West Haven (0-1), 8; Montville (2-0) and St. Bernard/Norwich Tech (2-0), 7.
The following voted: Bob Barton, New Haven Register; Bill Bloxsom, Hersam-Acorn; Sean Patrick Bowley, Connecticut Post; Don Boyle, SportingNewsCT.com; Bryant Carpenter, Meriden-Record Journal; George DeMaio, WELI; Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Matt Doran, Norwalk Hour; Scott Ferrari, Greenwich Citizen; Noah Finz, WTNH-8; Brian Girasoli, Norwich Bulletin; Ned Griffen, The Day of New London; John Holt, WFSB-3; Mark Jaffee, Waterbury Republican-American; Ken Lipshez, The Herald of New Britain; Mike Madera, Elm City Newspapers; Joe Morelli, New Haven Register; Mike Pucci, New Haven Register; Dave Ruden, Stamford Advocate; Tom Yantz, Hartford Courant; Jimmy Zanor, Shore Line Newspapers.
Coaches’ Poll
1. Ansonia (10) 2-0……….374……….1
2. New London (2) 2-0…..324……….3
3. Bunnell 2-0………………306………4
4. New Canaan 2-0…………300……..5
5. Masuk 2-0…………………254……..6
6. Seymour (1) 2-0…………219………7
7. Staples 2-0……………….190………8
8. Berlin 2-0…………………166………NR
9. Shelton 2-0……………..159………10
10. Hillhouse 2-0………….154………NR
Dropped out: Greenwich (2), Southington (9).
Also receiving votes: Southington (1-1), 153; Darien (2-0), 125; Hamden (2-0), 118; New Britain (2-0), 100; Greenwich (1-1), 72; Windsor (2-0), 65; Cromwell (2-0), 51; Windham (1-0), 46; Wilbur Cross-New Haven (2-0), 41; Crosby-Waterbury (2-0), 31; Fairfield Prep (1-0), 24; Cheshire (1-1), 16; Amity-Woodbridge (1-1), 12; Tie, Rocky Hill (2-0) and Weaver-Hartford (1-1), 10; Xavier-Middletown (1-1), 9; Tie, Glastonbury (2-0) and Hand-Madison (0-2), 7.
The following coaches voted: Tom Brockett, Ansonia; Jim Buonocore, Ledyard; Dave Cadelina, Bridgeport Central; John DeCaprio, Notre Dame-West Haven; Chuck Drury, Pomperaug-Southbury; Steve Filippone, Hand-Madison; Tanner Grove, Montville; Jude Kelly, St. Paul-Bristol; Tim King, Valley Regional-Deep River; Bill Mella, Southington; John Murphy, Masuk-Monroe; Marce Petroccio, Staples-Westport; Bob Zito, Maloney-Meriden.
By the way, I am officially disowning the media poll this week.
Greenwich at No. 10 ahead of Darien is a joke. Berlin at No. 9 ahead of both those teams is even worse. Hillhouse getting snubbed from the whole thing is probably the worst of ‘em all.
I’m convinced this would have been much worse without me. I’m going to go back and erase all of my votes and see how this would have turned out. In the meantime: discuss.
SPB
Details of this result didn’t make our newspaper, understandably. I mean, I guess they don’t have mobile service in Vermont (kidding! It’s a beautiful town Rutland with plenty of amenities courtesy of the ski tourist trade up in Killington (formerly Sherburne).
Saturday is a commonly rough day for me. I usually like kick it late nite with fellow football reporters and chow down some Buffalo wings at Archie Moore’s (in either Fairfield or New Haven) after Friday’s games. (Where have you gone, fellow Syracuse alum Phil Soto-Ortiz?)
