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Voting has begun for the Fairfield County Player of the Year Award. You can meet the candidates and read all the rules here.

You can vote for multiple candidates, but you can only vote for one candidate per IP Address. So that means you can’t sit at a computer all day and vote for your favorite player.

BlueStreak Sports Training is the sponsor of the Fairfield County Player of the Year Award, and we hope you also choose to support the American Diabetes Association by making a donation on your candidate’s behalf (please note, a donation is not required if you want to cast a vote).

Hey it’s not too late to nominate a candidate for the Fairfield County Player of the Year Award. This is an individual award, not a team award (Staples fans, love your enthusiasm about the Staples Defense, but last I checked, that’s 11 helmets out there, so you’re just wasting nominations).

Before you nominate a player though, pay attention: The following players will be on the ballot, so there is no need for your nomination:

• Christon Gill, QB-DB, Bridgeport Central
• Mike Lefflbine, QB, Greenwich
• Turner Baty, QB, New Canaan
• Silas Redd, RB, King
• Kevin Pierre-Louis, RB-LB, King
• Tyler Matakevich, RB-LB, St. Joseph
• Tom Jordan, OL-DL, Ridgefield
• Matt Kelly, RB-DB, Staples

Now, if you still want to nominate a player for the ballot (a player needs a minimum of 10 nominations for consideration), then go to the Zoomerang survey.

Good luck – we will shut the ballot box at noon Monday, Dec. 7.

King running back and linebacker Kevin Pierre-Louis is the Fairfield County Player of the Week for Week 5.

Boston College-bound Pierre-Louis was a force on both sides of the ball for King in its 40-12 homecoming win over Kingswood-Oxford. Pierre-Louis carried the ball 9 times for 226 yards and scored four times, and had 20 tackles on defense.

Other nominees included:

James Barrett, DT, Greenwich: 12 tackles 1 sack, and 3 tackles for a loss.
Turner Baty, QB, New Canaan: 20-27-0-367 and 2 touchdowns, plus one rushing touchdown.
Matt Kelly, RB-DB-KR, Staples: 200 all-purpose yards and 3 touchdowns
Charlie Kunze, DL, Darien: 10 tackles and 4 sacks.
Willie Ouelette, WR, New Canaan: 6 catches for 113 yards.
Matt Reyes-Guerra-Dunn, WR, Wilton: 8 catches for 163 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Jackson Wilbur, QB, Wilton: 15-20-0-238 and 3 touchdowns.

Candidates for the Fairfield County Player of the Week award are nominated either direct from their coaches, by media recommendations or by fans of the FCIAC Football Blog on Facebook.

The Fairfield County Player of the Week Award is sponsored by BlueStreak Sports Training and supported by the FCIAC Football Blog.

So who ruled Week 5? We’re looking for your Fairfield County Player of the Week nominations, and you can submit yours if you are a Fan of the FCIAC Football Blog on Facebook. We’re taking nominations until 9 p.m. tonight, so log on and vote.

But please, if the player is not a lineman, give us a statistical reason why your nominee should be Player of the Week. “HE RAN SH!T” doesn’t tell the deciding members why someone should receive the award. Even if that’s the slang you kids today use, it doesn’t make sense, even if there was a comma missing between RAN and SH!T. We may think it meant that player ran LIKE sh!t, and that would not be a good thing.

So please, give us some stats…

By the way, I saw a few fantastic performances this weekend: New Canaan quarterback Turner Baty’s 20-for-27, 367-yard passing day at Seymour (plus great receiving performances by Willie Ouelette and Cody Newton), and the King dynamic duo of Kevin Pierre-Louis and Silas Redd, who both ran for more than 200 yards. Pierre-Louis was MVP of that game, according to MSG. But Redd was Homecoming King, so they both made out well.

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The first name that pops into people’s heads is “Silas Redd.” Kevin Pierre-Louis sometimes gets overshadowed bu Redd’s accomplishments, but those FAA coaches coming up with gameplans, and college recruiters, sure remember his name.

As a junior, in eight regular season games, Pierre-Louis rushed for 1,019 yards and 13 touchdowns, led king with 152 tackles and recovered two fumbles.

Pierre-Louis talked Saturday at the Wilton Jamboree about getting King back to a New England prep school championship game, and hopefully bringing a win back to the Stamford school.