Shelton running back Paul Piccirillo carries the ball during team practice in Shelton, Conn. on Wednesday Sept. 23, 2009.
Man, these last seven or so days felt like an eternity.
Can we start playing football again?
Why, yes. Yes we can.
Tonight as a matter of fact, we fully integrate ourselves into the 2009 season. Week 1 is in the books, plenty of intriguing results and news to chew on — Ansonia crushing Hillhouse, Wilbur Cross beating up on Xavier, St. Joseph’s Tyler Matakevich going buck-wild vs. Crosby of the NVL, Pomperaug looking like it invented football vs. Stratford, Brookfield going down to New Milford, Khairi Fortt going down vs. Ridgefield and deciding to skip this week’s Greenwich game, Norwalk’s Pete Tucci getting tossed against Greenwich, Oxford winning its first varsity game.
Beyond our fair region, lights Nonnewaug bowing out of varsity competition just days before it was supposed to play defending Class S champ Cromwell (now 2-0), East Haven football players getting the boot for the season, and then getting a reprieve from the school board.
Catch your breath now because it’s on to Week 2.
So let’s hop to it.
Lot’s going on tonight, and today if you happen to be in the New Haven area (my alma mater’s at Wilbur Cross). Not a ton of really great matchups, but a few intriguing ones.
Our featured game is, of course Cheshire at Shelton. Check out William S. Paxton’s feature on the Gaels here.
Dave Ruden has the skinny on “dueling” New Canaan quarterbacks, Willie Ouelette and Turner Baty.
We have comprehensive SCC/NVL and SWC notebooks. Plus all of the extra curricular stuff like scoring leaders, standings, games to watch, my Guide to the Games, and, of course, the updated Elite 8 rankings.
Peruse it all for yourself at any of our four papers’ High School Football pages. The Connecticut Post, The Advocate of Stamford, the Danbury News-Times and the Greenwich Time. You can find all kinds of stuff there, including Week 1 videos and previews, historical links, etc. etc. and find links to our live scoring update blog.
OF COURSE, we are taking your predictions here. So have at it in the space below.
Just remember: be nice… or, at least, reasonably civil. This is football, after all.
That’s all we ask.
Until tonight…
PS> Oh, before I forget. If you’re going out to a game, have a mobile phone and a Twitter account, send us your scoring updates! Just add #ctfb to your tweets and every Twittering football fan can see how your game is going. Your tweet will wind up in our live scoring blog. We’re happy to say Joe Palladino of the Waterbury Rep-Am has agreed to help further this fledgling cause along. So expect lots of NVL stuff from him and regular twitterers like NVLFOOTBALL and the rest of his crew. We also have our usual compliment of reporters who will be twittering away from their games.
That is all. Carry on.
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Another shut out for Hamden, still will be a good game. WH has a good defense. West haven is a good team. The issue with West Haven was that they were slowing down in the 2nd half of the Shelton game. They are really going to be pushed this week. Hamden is much bigger and more physical than Shelton
Cheshire and Wilbur Cross both win big, they both need to be in the elite 8. Notre Dame loses to Xavier, they need to drop out along with Shelton
Hand and Hillhouse both recover from loses last week with blow-outs
Comment by 44 backer — September 25th, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Great story on the potential qb controversy at New Canaan. Both kids seem to be handling it very well. I feel for the Ouelette kid because of how hard he worked to prove himself. Most likely, he will be seeing time at WR and on defense by the time the year is through. As long as he is on the field and making a contribution, I hope he makes the most of it.
Comment by TRG — September 25th, 2009 @ 9:37 am
Ansonia wins in a laugher. Highlight of the Game: At halftime, Crosby’s coach is presented with the 2009 Right Said Fred Award for last year’s best one hit wonder.
Cheshire knocks off Shelton, proving that it was not a one man team last year. Shelton’s coaching staff is later thrown out of Porky’s for threatening to kill everyone wearing a red shirt.
Oxford hangs tough with Masuk for the first half, but it’s pass defense is not enough to contain Casey Cochran for the whole game. Jack Cochran tells a reporter afer the game that it has been his lifelong dream (since this past January) to move to Monroe.
Speaking of Cochran, Fairfield Warde loses coach Dellavolpe for next week’s game after beating Wilcox Tech 76-4. Warde tried to not score by putting in their middle school team, who were acting as waterboys for the game, but they prove to be too deadly for Wilcox’s defense to handle.
New Canaan routs Trinity using the amiable Willie Ouelette in mop-up duty. Interesting sidenote, Willie had the highest GPA in his class going into this year, but Stephen Hawking moved into town just days before the semester started.
Bridgeport Central puts a hurting on Bassick behind Christon Gill, who runs for 4 TD’s and throws for 3 more in the first half, then calls play by play in the press box during the second half after cooking hot dogs at halftime. The kid does it all!!
Greenwich beats Stamford 35-12. Dave Ruden provides a minute by minute update of what Fortt is doing on the sideline during the game. “He just drank some Gatorade!! I’ll try to find out what flavor it was ASAP.”
West Haven shows that Hamden is not invincible, taking a 7-0 lead into the second quarter before Ed McCarthy pulls his starters. He had a lot of action on West Haven and could not afford a cover. The economy effects EVERYONE.
Watertown leads throughout the whole game, but Connor Shugrue breaks off a long TD run in the 4th quarter to secure Tom Lennon’s first W in Seymour. The Cats can’t lose twice in a row at home. The players give Lennon the ceremonial Gatorade bath, not to celebrate, but because he was drenched in sweat and needed to be cooled off.
Saturday’s upset special. Geremy Grate has 5 sacks as Platt Tech of the CSC upsets Branford in a non-league contest. This kid is a stud, playing in a league full of fillies.
Comment by Bay — September 25th, 2009 @ 11:35 am
Bay that was pretty entertaining
Comment by footballfan — September 25th, 2009 @ 1:41 pm
SJ on top of Wilton 21-6 at the half . tyler mat is having another hell of a game 2 TDs and over 100 Yds in 1st half alone. Joe Dellavecchia Jr. took a QB sneak 55 Yds for a TD untouched on a 4th and 2 . wow. Wilton score came on a 88 Yd kickoff return for a TD. SJ looks legit boys
Comment by flyingdutchmen — September 25th, 2009 @ 8:31 pm
Keep an eye on Sean McQuillan from the Glastonbury Tomahawks. This kids is really, really good. I went to the Southington – Glastonbury game last night and this kid is just a powerhouse. Great job Tomahawks — incredible comeback! Definitely the game of the week!!!
Comment by Lexi Phillips — September 26th, 2009 @ 8:36 am
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
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Comment by Bay — September 26th, 2009 @ 12:35 pm