Chris Hines is the Fairfield County Player of the Week

Posted on 07 October 2008 by timparry

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Norwalk running back Chris Hines was voted BlueStreak Sports Training’s Fairfield County Player of the Week for his performance against Bridgeport Central.

Hines carried 42 times for 279 yards and four touchdowns in the Bears’ 39-26 win.

The co-runner-ups played against each other in Week Four: Bobby Wood, QB, New Fairfield (21-34-274 passing and 3 touchdowns, 9-85 rushing and 2 touchdowns) and Brandon Farrell, RB/DB, Bethel (15 carries 242 yards 3 TDs (66, 50, and 55 yards) 6 tackles, 1 sack).

Other nominees included: Vinnie Cannon, QB, Wilton; Mark Harrison, WR, Bunnell; Donnohue Lovelace, DT, St. Joseph; Mike McKnight, RB, Ridgefield; Kurt Nacewicz, WR, Newtown; Kevin Pierre-Louis, RB-LB, King, and Justin Warzhoa, QB, Greenwich.

Players are nominated both by football coaches representing teams in Fairfield County. A mimimum of five nominees from a weekly fan poll are also included on a ballot, and the Player of the Week is then selected by members of the Fairfield County sports media community.

The award is presented by the FCIAC Football Blog.

The following media members voted: The following media members voted: Bill Bloxsom (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), Zachary Eastright (WSTC-AM/WNLK-AM), Dan Farrand (News-Times), Scott Ferrari (Greenwich Citizen), Jason A. Intrieri (FCIAC Football Blog Live), John Nash (The Stamford Times), Ken Morse (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers), Matt Norlander (New Canaan News-Review), Mike Quick (MSG Plus), Dave Ruden (Stamford Advocate), Eliot Schickler (Westport News), Paul Silverfarb (Greenwich Post), Dave Stewart (New Canaan Advertiser), Michael Suppe (Hersam-Acorn Newspapers).

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. Rams Fan 2008 Says:
    October 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Good, let Hines get this award now. Because this week versus New Canaan Hines will be lucky to run for 20 yards behind that big for nothing Norwalk line. GO RAMS!!!!

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