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2013 FCIAC-SCC Challenge dates set

Friday, December 21, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The SCC has released the times and dates for next year’s SCC-FCIAC Challenge.

Adjust your Outlook Calendars or whatever accordingly.

The ‘Challenge’ games are the games born of the league arrangement and the 11-game CIAC schedule. There are 17 overall. Amity, Norwalk, Westhill and Branford are not involved.

The ‘bye week games’ are one schools sought to fill league bye dates. (The FCIAC’ ‘small’ schools get the byes over the next two years. The SCC Division II East and crossover teams). There are seven bye games between the two leagues.

So here we go…

WEEK 1 – Challenge Games


Wednesday, Sept. 11

  • Hillhouse at Darien, 3 p.m.
  • Fairfield Prep at Stamford, 6 p.m.
  • Cheshire at Ridgefield, 7 p.m.
  • Jonathan Law vs. Harding @Kennedy Stadium – 6 p.m.
  • Fairfield Warde at Foran – 7 p.m.
  • New Canaan at Daniel Hand – 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 12

  • Staples at Xavier- 6 p.m.
  • North Haven at Bridgeport Central – 6 p.m.
  • West Haven at Greenwich – 7 p.m.
  • Trumbull at Shelton – 7 p.m.
  • Danbury at Hamden – 7 p.m.
  • Wilton at Guilford – 7 p.m.
  • Bassick at East Haven – 7 p.m.
  • Fairfield Ludlowe at Lyman Hall – 7 p.m.
  • Wilbur Cross at Brien McMahon – 7 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 13

  • Trinity Catholic at Sheehan – 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 14

  • Notre Dame at St. Joseph – 1 p.m.

BYE WEEK GAMES

  • Fri., Sept. 20 – St. Joseph at Fairfield Prep – 6 p.m.
  • Fri., Sept. 27 – Branford at Wilton – 7 p.m.
  • Fri., Oct. 4 – Ridgefield at Notre Dame – 7 p.m.
  • Sat., Oct. 12 – Foran at Trinity Catholic – 1:30 p.m.
  • Fri., Nov. 1 – Sheehan at Fairfield Warde – 7 p.m.
  • Fri., Nov. 8 – East Haven at Fairifield Ludlowe – 7 p.m.
  • Fri., Nov. 15 – Darien at North Haven – 7 p.m.

Pick your 2012 regional all-star team

Thursday, December 20, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The 2012 season is over and while football teams from all over say goodbye to their seniors, welcome their freshmen and dive into the long offseason, there’s still one final bow to make in the 2011 season.

It’s time to recognize the best players in the region.

Who was the best of the best of the best?

There is a more involved system going on behind the scenes at Hearst Connecticut Newsgroup for an all-area team that will be unveiled around New Years week, but here’s a chance for players and fans to lobby for their top picks.

It’s going to require a lot of thought on your part. Picking these teams are tantamount to moving Chess pieces around a board. Typically, we have a bunch of deserving players and only a few spots. So we usually try to slot players into their secondary positions (OL vs. DL etc.) to truly get the best 22 (or so) players on the team.

FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.

Here are the categories:

We would like your TOP 2 in the following positions (TOP 5 on the offensive line). There can be NO repeat selections.

OFFENSE: QUARTERBACK, RECEIVER/END, RUNNING BACK, OFFENSIVE LINE (5), KICKER
DEFENSE: DEFENSIVE LINE, LINEBACKER, DEFENSIVE BACK, PUNTER
ALL-PURPOSE (This spot is reserved for men who excel in a variety of spots and don’t fit into any of the above categories).
PLAYER OF THE YEAR: You can pick anybody from above.

*Important*: You must list them like this:

QB: name, school; name, school…
RB: name, school; name, school…
WR: name, school; name, school…

Any comments you’d like to make MUST come after the selections.

In 2012 Connecticut Post, Stamford Advocate, Danbury NewsTimes and Greenwich Time coverage area includes:

All of the FCIAC, all of the SWC and the following schools from the SCC, NVL and CCC: Shelton, Law, Foran, Amity, Fairfield Prep, Ansonia, Seymour, Derby, Bullard-Havens, Platt Tech, Abbott Tech. (A few fringe teams are being discontinued from our coverage area because they never called our offices to report their games this season).

All other teams are ineligible. This is a regional awards list, so as much as many of you would love to chime in on your favorite players from around the state, please don’t.

Awright? Let’s go…

Coaching hot stove is a blazin: Hocter resignation makes 13 (updated)

Wednesday, December 19, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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Stamford coach Bryan Hocter celebrates with his team following a 2011 victory over New Canaan.

Back to business…

With doubt rising from his administration and maybe himself throughout a 2-8 season, Bryan Hocter resigned at Stamford Tuesday just a half hour before athletic director Jim Moriarty was scheduled to meet with two assistant principals.

The Black Knights went 7-2 in 2011, but finished this season by losing eight consecutive games after a 2-0 start.

Though Hocter didn’t think he was going to be fired at the meeting, it’s evident even he had begun to question his role in the program after 14 years, 11 as an assistant and three as head coach.

“They brought up some concerns they had. Halfway through the season I thought it was time to explore other options,” said Hocter, who works in family services at Stamford Courthouse. “I thought long and hard about it. It took a couple of weeks to come to a decision, going backward and forward with it. I just felt I had done all I could do for this program.

“Last year we were 7-2, we were getting new uniforms and I thought we were going to have a bunch of kids who were going to want to play football. The numbers we had were disappointing. If you can’t attract kids coming off that kind of a season, maybe you never will.”

Moriarty, who complained there hasn’t been ‘consistency’ in the program for at least 40 years, said he was hoping to get a younger coach to fill the vacancy. “A mover and shaker,” he said, “to take the program back to past glories.”

Hocter’s resignation is the second in Stamford after Trinity Catholic’s Peter Stokes resigned last week, and it’s the sixth local resignation this offseason, following John Murphy (Masuk), Dave Cadelina (Central), Chuck Lynch (New Milford) and Matt McCloskey (Ludlowe).

There are now 12 13 vacancies statewide (Rockville recently announced it has a vacancy):

  • Masuk
  • Central
  • Ludlowe
  • Stamford
  • Trinity Catholic
  • New Milford
  • Naugatuck
  • Maloney
  • Bacon Academy
  • St. Bernard/Norwich Tech
  • Fitch
  • Avon
  • Rockville

Obama responds to Newtown football coach’s message on a whiteboard

Sunday, December 16, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The message Newtown football coach Steve George and teacher Bob Pattison left on their classroom whiteboard Saturday night was simple and direct.

It could have been a message to George’s players in a Newtown locker room.

This one was for the President of the United States.

President Barack Obama was on his way to Newtown High School Sunday night to address a packed auditorium of families and community leaders gathered to mourn the shooting deaths of 20 children and six teachers at nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School.

It was a simple, thank you note.

And it got a simple, powerful, reply.

George, a Newtown graduate and the football coach since 2007, Tweeted a picture of it just an hour or so after the President left town. It was re-Tweeted several hundred times within a half hour.

George and Pattison wrote:

“Dear President Obama,

“The Newtown community is so thankful that you are coming to help us heal. In times of adversity it is reassuring to know that we have a strong leader to help us recover.

-Steve George, teacher/football coach
-Bobby Pattison, teacher

Obama’s reply:

You’re in our thoughts and prayers.
-Barack Obama

Obama met the families of the children and teachers killed in the Sandy Hook shooting and later addressed the auditorium with an 18-minute speech broadcast around the world.
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Pray For Newtown

Friday, December 14, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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I woke up Friday morning around 10 a.m., went to my computer and I had just written and was about to send a text message to Newtown coach Steve George, asking him who from his team we should consider for our all-star team, when Kory Brown of Brookfield rocked my Twitter feed with the awful news from Sandy Hook Elementary.

Nothing else to say, really. I feel like I’m in Newtown weekly during football season. Everyone there is part of our community. Our thoughts and prayers goes out to everyone there and especially the families affected by this terrible tragedy.

The 2012 CHSCA All-State Football Teams: OVERALL

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The Connecticut High School Coaches Association has unleashed its all-state teams for 2012. We’re publishing these in five installments, overall, and the individual classes.

These teams are voted by the members of the CHSCA.

Here are the four Class teams: CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S

The following is the All-State Team. The best of the best. Players who make this list are excluded from the individual class teams. Positions are arbitrary.

ALL-STATE OFFENSE

TIM BOYLE, QB, Xavier
BRENDAN BILCHECK, QB, Hand
QUINN FLEETING, QB, Windsor
BRANDAN BASIL, QB, North Branford
MAX SCHUMANN, OL, Xavier
KYLE VAUGHN, OL, Staples
ARKEEL NEWSOME, RB, Ansonia
COLIN MOORE, RB, Avon
HAROLD COOPER, RB, Hillhouse
ERVIN PHILLIPS, RB, West Haven
ANDREW ISAAC, TE, Manchester
ANDREW MATOS, WR, Ansonia
THOMAS MILONE, WR, Masuk
JAMES FRUSCIANTE, WR, Staples
RYHIEME MOORE, WR, Windsor

ALL-STATE DEFENSE

PETER GERSON, DL, Hand
JARED LEVI, DL, Staples
COLE ORMSBY, DL, Windsor
HECTOR RODRIGUEZ, DL, Berlin
MATT WALSH, LB, Hand
COLE HARRIS, LB, New Canaan
ANDRE ANDERSON, LB, Hillhouse
TAYLOR OLMSTEAD, DB, Greenwich
NICK KELLY, DB, Staples
JOEY PAPARELLI, DB, Norwich Free Academy
JOEY ZELKOWITZ, DB, Staples
KRIS LUSTER, DB, Xavier
NICK GAYNOR, DB, Northwest Catholic
GRADY LYNCH, DB, New Canaan
DAN HEBERT, DB, Newtown

PLAYER OF THE YEAR – Tim Boyle, Xavier
ASSISTANT COACH OF THE YEAR – Dave Mastroianni, Hand

2012 CHSCA All-State Team: CLASS LL

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The 2012 Class LL All-State football team, as voted on by the members of the Connecticut High School Coaches Association.

All-state is divided into five: the four playoffs classes plus an overall all-state team. Players who make the overall team do not make the Class teams. Click the links below for the other teams.

OVERALL | CLASS L | CLASS M | CLASS S

OFFENSE

OL – WILL PATRICK, Staples
OL – ALEX MAGEE, Greenwich
OL – SAM MURPHY, Ludlowe
OL — CHRIS SPEER, Staples
OL — CHRIS SIMMONS, Manchester
TE – JOE KELLY, Greenwich
WR – MIKE WILLIAMS, Trumbull
WR – SAM GRAVITTE, Ridgefield
RB — MARCUS OUTLOW, Norwich Free Academy
RB – KYLE JORDAN, McMahon
RB — DeANGELO BERRY, Xavier
RB — ERIC RYAN, Newington
RB — DAVELL COTTERELL, Westhill
QB – STEVE BARMORE, Southington
P/WR – JUSTIN DEVELLIS, Newtown

DEFENSE

DL – JOSH HILL, Glastonbury
DL – MATT HOUPERT, Hall
DL – EDDY WILLIAMS, West Haven
DL – TUZAR SKIPPER, Norwich Free Academy
DL – PIETER HOETS, Staples
LB – AUDLEY FLETCHER, Hartford Public
LB – BRAD HELMKAMP, Simsbury
LB – MAX TYLKI, Xavier
LB – RYAN KERIC, Trumbull
DB — BEN BEREY, Glastonbury
DB – ZACH MAXWELL, Southington
DB – SAM PASCALE, Cheshire
DB – AIDAN MAURO, Ridgefield
K – JESSE ADELBERG, Greenwich

Note: Davell Cotterell was added to the team Thursday afternoon.

2012 CHSCA All-State Team: CLASS L

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The 2012 Class L All-State football team, as voted on by the members of the Connecticut High School Coaches Association.

All-state is divided into five: the four playoffs classes plus an overall all-state team. Players who make the overall team do not make the Class teams. Click the links below for the other teams.

OVERALL | CLASS LL | CLASS M | CLASS S

OFFENSE

OL – MATT GILLESPIE, East Lyme
OL – CHRISTIAN OUTLAW, Middletown
OL – MATT MARCARELLI, North Haven
OL – MIKE LaSALA, Wilton
OL – ERLIN COLON, Platt
WR – KYLE ANDERSON, Hand
WR – ISIAH SWAIN, Middletown
WR – CALEB EWALD, Hand
RB – JUSTIN POTTS, Platt
RB — NICK LOMBARDO, Darien
RB/QB – JALON WHITE, North Haven
WR – ZATRELL LYONS, Platt Tech

DEFENSE

DL – CONNER BUCK, New Canaan
DL — ANDREW KLARMAN, Branford
DL – BRANDON MARQUIS, Farmington
DL – BRIAN MONACO, Masuk
DL — MATT D’ANDREA, Darien
LB – MIKE ROOT, New Canaan
LB – JIMMY MURPHY, Avon
LB – AKEEMO CHAMBERLIN, Middletown
LB – QUINCEY PECORA, North Haven
LB – PAT KIRKWOOD, Fitch
DB – DEVANTE DILLON, Windsor
DB – CASEY OULLETTE, New Canaan
DB — OTTO MARALLO, Middletown
DB — ALEX TUCCERO, Hand

2012 CHSCA All-State Team: CLASS M (updated)

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The 2012 Class M All-State football team, as voted on by the members of the Connecticut High School Coaches Association.

All-state is divided into five: the four playoffs classes plus an overall all-state team. Players who make the overall team do not make the Class teams. Click the links below for the other teams.

OVERALL | CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS S

OFFENSE

OL – BEN MORALES, Ledyard
OL – SEAN MERRILL, Sheehan
OL – KYLE WILSON, Ledyard
OL – CHRIS MEUCCI, Berlin
OL — JAKE BASILLICA, Montville
TE – TOMMY MEYERS, Coventry
WR – NICK WEISSAUER, Foran
WR – CALEB CAMACHO, New London
WR — JUSTIN SCHAFFER, Weston
WR – JAKE PELLETIER, St. Joseph
RB – JUSTIN GOMBOTZ, Berlin
RB — JOE PACHECO, New Fairfield
QB – JAKE KASUBA, Foran
QB – JORDAN VAZZANO, St. Joseph
ATH – MIKE NICOL, Wolcott

DEFENSE

DL — AUSTIN GOMAR, Weston
DL — DAVE WILCOX, Waterford
DL — DARICK ORANGE, Coventry/Windham Tech
LB — TERRELL FAIRWEATHER, Hillhouse
LB — JACQUIN RILEY, New London
LB — ISAIAH HOLLOWAY, Montville
LB — SEAN TYNAN, Ellington/Somers
LB — MIKE PULASKI, St. Joseph
DB — ALEX LOCKWOOD, Barlow
DB — JEVON MOORE, Hillhouse
DB — TYLER HASSETT, Weston
DB – NICK CLEMENS, Montville
PK — JOHN AMBROZAITIS, Gilbert/Northwestern

Note: Joe Pacheco was added to this all-state team.

The 2012 CHSCA All-State Team: CLASS S

Thursday, December 13, 2012 by:Sean Patrick Bowley
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The 2012 Class S All-State football team, as voted on by the members of the Connecticut High School Coaches Association.

All-state is divided into five: the four playoffs classes plus an overall all-state team. Players who make the overall team do not make the Class teams. Click the links below for the other teams.

OVERALL | CLASS LL | CLASS L | CLASS M

OFFENSE

OL — IAN AUGUR, Coginchaug
OL — MARK WILDMAN, Housatonic/Wamogo
OL — DAVE GRAUER, Killingly
OL — ISAIAH BROOKS, Bloomfield
TE — TOM SEAVER, Rocky Hill
WR — JOE DELUCIA, North Branford
WR — CHRIS VANKAMERIK, Oxford
WR — ANTHONY SCIRPO, Woodland
WR — NORVELL STEWART, Bloomfield
RB — CHRIS YOUNG, Rocky Hill
RB — DERRICK VILLARD, Cromwell
RB — TYLER STUCKEY, Killingly
WB — TANNER KINGSLEY, Woodland

DEFENSE

DL — JERMAINE FRAIZER, Griswold
DL — DERRICK HAWKINS, Bloomfield
DL — DAN BONNEY, Seymour
DL – DONNERY EVANS, Hyde
DE — RILEY KINEHAN, Trinity Catholic
LB — CODY ZARO, Trinity Catholic
LB — MIKE JONES, Capital Prep/Classical Magnet/Achieve
LB — DEVON STEWART, Northwest Catholic
LB — BRENNAN DIAZ, Oxford
LB — GARY FALANGA, North Branford
DB — RYAN O’CONNOR, Ansonia
DB – ANDREW JENKELUNAS, Rocky Hill
DB – DILLON McMAHON, Derby
DB – JAI’QUAN McKNIGHT, Ansonia

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