Scrimmage Watch… Wright Tech/SA finished

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Trumbull High School football players go through drills Tuesday morning at the school. Phil Noel/Staff photographer

Trumbull High School football players go through drills Tuesday morning at the school. Phil Noel/Staff photographer

On Saturday (barring any rainstorms from Tropical Storm Danny), every team in the state be strapped on their pads for the first round of full-on contact practices. Some will be holding joint practices, like Notre Dame-Fairfield and Law. Some will be holding scheduled scrimmages.

Here are a few of the local scrimmages listed on the CIAC’s website for the next week beginning Saturday. Feel free to add your own events, if they’re not here.

SATURDAY
East Haven at Derby/O’Brien Tech (10 a.m.)
New Fairfield at Ridgefield (noon)

SUNDAY

Staples, Seymour at Shelton (noon)

MONDAY
Bethel at Danbury, 3:30
Stratford at Trumbull, 3:45

TUESDAY
Immaculate at Westhill, 3
Law at Hamden 3:30
Wilbur Cross at Guilford, 3:30
Ansonia at Notre Dame-WH, 3:30

WEDNESDAY (this is the first big scrimmage day on the schedule)
Amity at Naugatuck, 3:30 (or is it Naugtuck at Amity? Conflicted schedule listed on CIAC).
Harding at Stamford, 3:30
Pomperaug at St. Joseph, 4
Weston at Wilton, 4
Fairfield Prep at Fairfield Warde, 4
Bunnell at Staples, 4
Barlow, Brookfield at Ridgefield, 5 p.m.
(and, of course), Masuk at Shelton, 6 p.m.

This Masuk-Shelton scrimmage is always a blast. It feature two of Greater Bridgeport’s two best programs and some of the region’s best players–not to mention some funny stuff, like Justin Conte and his did-he-or-didn’t-he? touchdown catch that I failed to catch on film last year. It’s also where coach John Murphy introduced me to what could have been his quarterback of the future, Wheldon Vaughn — a 6-3 sophomore.

Vaughn, however, moved to Virginia in the offseason and, of course, Masuk now has sophomore prodigy Casey Cochran joining the roster. We’ll get our first good look at the defending Class L champions in this scrimmage. Shelton is also supposed to be pretty decent behind Sr. RB Paul Piccirillo.

For tomorrow’s Connecticut Post Henry Chisholm will have a report on Ansonia, which is attempting to overcome the loss of 3/4ths of its starting lineup and the pain of last year’s Class S championship loss. We’ll have the link up here as soon as we get it tonight. Looks like I misspoke. Henry’s out at Ansonia gathering info, but no stories yet.

And finally, disappointing news out of Stamford today where the closing of Wright Tech has forced co-op partner Stamford Academy to disband its football team, according to fellow blogger Tim Parry.

Wright Tech/Stamford Academy, under the direction of Trevor Jones, was the founding member of the Constitution State Conference, a league that managed to level the playing field for teams like Bullard-Havens, and made football a possibility for schools like Platt Tech, Abbott Tech and Wilcox Tech. The CSC remains eight schools strong, with the addition of Abbott Tech of Danbury.

9 Responses

  1. MasukRules says:

    Shelton is not in Masuk’s league. The SCC is a falling conference when it comes to football. They won zero state championships in football last year. The proof is in the pudding.

  2. Nicky says:

    Ridgefield/New Fairfield scrimmage in Ridgefield has been changed to today (Friday) at 5p due to storm threat tomorrow.

  3. Dave k says:

    Masukrules
    The SWC is a two team league. After Bunnell and Masuk the rest of the teams are weak. Shelton killed Newtown a SWC state playoff team last year.

  4. MasukRules says:

    What about the Brookfield Bobcats who won a state championship last year? Who won a state championship last year from the SCC? No one! Is the SCC a zero team league?

  5. Truth says:

    MasukRules what about the New London transfers? How do real Masuk fans feel about that or is it all about winning. What does that say about your Head Coach? Is it True or Not?

  6. Dave k says:

    Staples,Seymour @ Shelton
    1 Staples – excellent skilled players QB and RB’s Excellent line play out played Shelton
    2 Shelton – deep in skilled positions; OL and DL need to improve; new offense (spread and wildcat) needs time to develop. played an entire scrimmage with out one toss pitch.
    3 Seymour- small line, not impressed with QB, out played by both Shelton and Staples

  7. Sheesh, Dave. Couldn’t you wait for my Shelton-Staples-Seymour posting? (LOL. Thanks for the quick hit).

  8. johnny ribbs says:

    Staples,Seymour @ Shelton (my take)
    1 Staples – QB’s didnt impress me at all. Big squad. Solid overall.
    2 Shelton – deep in skilled positions; QB looked great to me.
    3 Seymour- no argument they were outplayed by both squads. QB looked ok in the pass skeleton, Seymour got smacked around pretty good in the 7 on 7.

  9. Anonymous says:

    Look out for Hamden this year

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