Can New Canaan Do It Again?
August 25, 2009 in FCIAC East, New Canaan, Video by timparry
Sure, why not, let’s try to do it again, New Canaan head coach Lou Marinelli said.
Seems to be an interesting similarity with this year’s team compared to the Rams team that won the FCIAC and CIAC Class MM championships, and was voted the number-one team in Connecticut in all polls.
It has to do with the number of players returning on both sides of the ball. We’re talking the same exact numbers, but who knows for sure if that’s going to mean anything until the games are played.
The conditioning week practice today was all business. No yelling, no fighting, just seemed to be business-as-usual. With the exception of an interruption from the media: High school sports Website CoachesAid.com has launched a Connecticut page, and content coordinator Bob Birge (an alum of the Connecticut Post) was on hand to interview quarterback Willie Ouellette and junior blue chip offensive lineman Conor Hanratty for a future article.
But the biggest news of the day was Marinelli’s cell phone. He got a call from one of last season’s captains, fullback-linebacker-punter Chris Sciarretta, who was excited to tell Marinelli how practice has gone so far for him as a walk-on at University of Utah.
And Marinelli was excited to hand me the phone, too.
Sciarretta told me practice there has been intense. First he lifts with the team, then it’s two-a-days. He doesn’t have a position yet with the Utes, and has been throwing himself on the field – anywhere – as often as he can to make an impression on the coaching staff.
Here’s Marinelli’s answer to the question, “How do you follow up a 13-0 season?”:
And some bonus footage that I never posted last season: Chris Sciarretta’s postgame comments after the Rams defeated Darien for the Class MM title:
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